Moving on

摘要

At the time, cynics dismissed it as the latest in an endless succession of consultations, reports, five or ten-year plans and other such wheel-spinning from a government that had given up on transport policy as too sensitive and difficult. But when Gordon Brown, then the prime minister-in-waiting, asked Sir Rod Edding-ton, a former boss of British Airways, to write a review of Britain's clogged transport network, he gave him unusually hard-nosed instructions to concentrate solely on transport's economic impact.