Policy-makers have preferred to focus on public transport, with substantial investment going into the rail network in particular. If a government that “governs least governs best,” then policy stability should be applauded, not derided as gridlock.

Armed with a double first, he then proceeded to Harvard for a year, before completing a PhD back at Cambridge. This title looks at the timeless problems faced in transport, from traffic jams in Rome to Victorian road rage. I drove the road for several years in the early days and got so sick of it that I relocated to a sunny USA suburb.

I am not one for politi­cians, but the Padarath in­ci­dent made me see that Trinidad is bur­geon­ing and there is now room for all sorts, in­clud­ing the fringe lit­er­ary com­mu­ni­ty. Our mission is to improve understanding of the fundamental institutions of a free society by analysing and expounding the role of the markets in solving economic and social problems. The best they can do is to point out that ‘demand for using roads clearly isn’t infinite everywhere’, which is nothing more than a truism, and does not confront the reality of ever greater traffic flow on widened or new roads where demand, while not infinite, keeps up with supply. I was considering summarising points where I think you are wrong and Kwarteng and Dupont are right, but I think because of the extent of your poor views it’s more appropriate to generalise.

What I read was something that might have appeared in the Daily Mail - a series of glib and mostly unsupported opinions. e., one standard deviation below and above its mean value for continuous variables and between 0 and 1 for divided government).There is something heroic about writing something as bad, ill-informed and lazy as this, even more heroic to get it published.

But while flying cars may be out of reach for the moment, there are plenty of other ‘solutions’ for Kwarteng and Dupont to get excited about. I bought this book hoping for an informed look at our transportation system and a proposal for a sustainable future. ever since the government took control of transport, the great paradigm changes [the railways, jet engines, et cetera] seem to have disappeared altogether.With little on its legislative plate, surely Congress should not be blamed for producing meager results. Today, the future seems to belong to China with its ever growing High Speed Rail networks or Dubai and its titanic new five runway airport.