I thought I’d post this link up as an example of what it takes to get a major transport scheme funded. This project for a new road bridge in Sunderland has made the shortlist of schemes that the DfT will fund.
http://www.newsunderlandbridge.com/
The thing that strikes me about this is thye level of sophistication and marketing behind the project. Can you imagine any UK local authority ever attempting anything similar for a cycling scheme?
by my reckoning we all have 2 years to get something similar sorted out for our own pet infrastructure schemes that we want to see happen. At some point towards the end of this parliament the purse strings are going to open and every highway authority in the country will be blowing the dust off its bypass projects shelved since the 1970’s, handing them to a web designer and applying the greenwash.