As planners seek to reinvent city centres to make them more people-friendly, is the motoring media too close to the car industry to envisage a future with fewer cars?
Category: Sustainability
From the world of transportation and beyond
A hard habit to break
For my MA in International Journalism for Media Professionals I produced a radio package exploring the practical and psychological ties that bind us to our cars. Listen to it here …
Moving arguments – why it’s time to break the spell
Bickering about road building and fretting about electric vehicles is failing to address our real problem. We need to fall out of love with the car.
Electric Vehicles: Not Just for Cities
First posted on Global Mobility Matters in March 2019. How one Scottish village illustrates the viability of electric mobility beyond the urban sprawl.
Volkswagen – The Reinvented Eco-Warrior
After more than three years of soul searching, strategising, cost-cutting and bare-knuckle engineering, the dieselgate bad boy has reinvented itself as a new-age eco-warrior on
Perpetual Motion
Imagine a city where nobody drives. All vehicles inside a defined metropolitan area run autonomously. Those vehicles are all shapes and sizes, from nippy little
Elaine Catton 