Gridlock Nation

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The only reason road-building has ceased to become ‘dynamic’ was through a combination of the growing public apathy towards, and distaste for, ever more roads, and an appreciation of the problem of induced demand. Exhibit 1 being the M25 where the advice was that 4 lanes in each direction were needed from day one. Thoroughly enjoyable and thought provoking - let's do something about transport in the UK and the rest of the world! Gridlock Nation looks at the timeless problems faced in transport, from traffic jams in Rome to Victorian road rage.

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The Great Society Congress under Lyndon Johnson, for example, enacted landmark health care, environment, civil rights, transportation, and education statutes (to name a few). We can evaluate Congress’s performance only if we have some idea of the size of the underlying policy agenda.If a government that “governs least governs best,” then policy stability should be applauded, not derided as gridlock. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. I got some of that yearn­ing to be amongst peo­ple who love books and ideas out in this col­umn over the last two decades, but what I've al­ways want­ed to be is a nov­el­ist which is al­most the op­po­site of jour­nal­ism. About four years later they realise that building roads is very expensive and actually leads to more traffic. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).