The public wants a safe, regulated taxi service and the industry wants to provide it.
Over the past few months, I have been drawing up a plan for how SCT can transition. Now we need to pull the pieces together.
The Smarter Cambridge Transport response to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Independent Economic Review's interim report.
How can anything work in Cambridgeshire when five bodies have responsibilities and receive funding for transport?
Public education is needed to give cycling and walking a more positive image.
Smarter Cambridge Transport is the initiative of an impartial group of local people, all volunteers, developing and promoting a modern vision for integrated transport in Cambridge and the surrounding region. Our immediate focus is on ensuring that the Greater Cambridge City Deal money is spent in the best possible way.
The public wants a safe, regulated taxi service and the industry wants to provide it.
Trying to figure out why transport economics so often fails to feed good policies to politicians...
How did our local politicians allow us to be steamrollered into accepting this scale of growth?
There is one last chance to make this space right. People need to lobby Brookgate now.
Those over retirement age are entitled to a free bus pass; what would it cost to extend this to everyone?
The whole service provision needs redesigning – as is happening now in Dublin.
Ideas for reducing congestion and pollution in urban areas, developed in the context of the Greater Cambridge area, typical of many UK towns and cities.
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