What Dr Beeching taught us about Predict and Provide

He wasn't just a bad guy who cut back the railways

Over the Christmas break, I had a chance to review some old reports, and often marvel at the lessons that we learned in them, and how we have failed to apply them. First amongst them is of course the one report that no self-respecting professional has not read: Traffic in Towns, or the Buchanan Report – is approaching 60 years old. A much younger report…