I was Press Gazette's Transport Journalist of the Year, 2018. I'm also an historian – my most recent books include 'Roads Were Not Built for Cars' and 'Bike Boom', both published by Island Press, Washington, D.C.
The ruling Tory party is famously and fatally riven with splits: the latest is a little disguised attack on the U.K. government’s transport policy from a recent former minister, Jesse Norman .Norman was transport minister in 2023, serving under the current transport secretary, Mark Harper .
“What is sinister, and what we shouldn’t tolerate,” he continued, citing no real-world examples, “is the idea that local councils can decide how often you go to the shops and that they can ration who uses the roads and when, and that they police it all with CCTV.”, published on May 9, Norman criticizes those who spread such conspiracy theories, writing that “leaders at all levels address often ungrounded public worries about such things as 15-minute cities and the so-called ‘war on drivers’.
This “unwillingness” is “inexplicable,” says the Member of Parliament for Hereford and South Herefordshire, who resigned as a transport minister in November last year. , Norman writes that “we need a significantly more serious, vigorous, joined-up and long-term strategy” for cycling.
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