Steve Melia is Senior Lecturer in Transport and Planning at the University of the West of England. He is the author of Urban Transport Without the Hot Air(UIT Cambridge, 2015). He has advised government departments and several local authorities on urban transport planning and has given evidence in public inquiries on road schemes and plans to build new towns.

Preface

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