Treat pedestrians as adults

摘要

You're never short of strategic overview with this government. There is always a plethora of blue sky thinking and new initiatives to be announced and re-announced by every government department and the good old Department for Transport is no exception. Remember those old archive favourites such as John Prescott's pledge that if he failed to cut traffic on our roads in five years you could assume he had failed Then there was that plan to increase rail passenger traffic by 50% and rail freight by 80%. But at least there was a vision, however flawed. For all its faults the original Ten Year Plan for Transport was at least an attempt to map out where investment was needed and quantify the amount. Now the Department has produced the second iteration of the plan entitled The Future of Transport which extends it to 2014-15.