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Book SynopsisChronicling 30 years of public protest, government U-turns and environmental destruction, this is the story of Britain's transport policy
Trade Review'Insightful and full of wonderful colour and incident - this is probably the best dissection of an 'environmental' movement that I have read'
-- Charles Secrett, former head of Friends of the Earth England
'As a movement for social change it is important that we understand our own history. This is a compelling read.'
-- Gail Bradbrook, Co-Founder of Extinction Rebellion
'Entertainingly lifts the lid on the real-world to-ing and fro-ing of policy making in what is often a hotly - and sometimes a bitterly - contested environment'
-- Steve Gooding, Director of the RAC Foundation
'I couldn't put it down until I'd read it right to the end. And even then I wanted more. It's fascinating, important, and very well-informed'
-- Professor Phil Goodwin, Emeritus Professor of Transport Policy at UCL
Table of ContentsPreface
Timeline of Events
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
1. The Biggest Road-Building Programme Since the Romans (1989–92)
2. Direct Action, Arrests and Unexplained Violence
3. The Newbury Bypass, Reclaim the Streets and ‘Swampy’
4. The Biggest Hit on the Road Programme Since the Romans Left (1992–7)
5. Integrated Transport, the New Labour Ideal (1997–2000)
6. The Fuel Protests and their Aftermath
7. How Road Pricing Came to London – and Nowhere Else
8. Airport Expansion and Climate Change
9. The Campaign Against a Heathrow Third Runway
10. High-Speed Rail: False Starts and Big Decisions
11. HS2: ‘On Time and On Budget’
12. Return to Road-building and Airport Expansion (2010–17)
13. The Climate Rebellion Begins
14. The Climate Emergency Changes the Transport World
15. Protest and the Limits to Growth of Transport – and Other Things
Afterword
Notes
Index
