CAR OWNERSHIP FORECASTING: PULL THE LADDER UP, OR CLIMB BACK DOWN?

The Department of Transport's car ownership forecasts play an extremely influential role in shaping Britain's transport system. They are the principal determinant of the national traffic forecasts which in turn form the principal plank in the Department's case for building more roads. The arguments for aiding and abetting the growth of car ownership are morally and politically seductive, but they lead to a dirty, dangerous, socially-polarised, fume-filled greenhouse