Box ticking

Until recently, domestic news was all about the inevitability of painful cuts. As often stated here, traffic system reform offers vast scope for kind cuts. These days, domestic news is all about the need for growth. Leaving aside the Transition movement, which questions consumer-led growth, Equality Streets (also as often stated here) provides vast scope for growth, e.g. in reworking streetscapes and roads to express a social rather than a traffic engineering context. Of course Equality Streets ticks environmental and Transition boxes too, because as it cuts accidents and journey times, it cuts fuel use and emissions.