“It seems to us that the restraint is bound to fall primarily on the use of the private car for travelling to work, and this has vitally important implications for public transport.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“There is in fact scope for several quite different arrangements whereby pedestrian and vehicle movements can be separated” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“It seems to us that the restraint is bound to fall primarily on the use of the private car for travelling to work, and this has vitally important implications for public transport.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“There is in fact scope for several quite different arrangements whereby pedestrian and vehicle movements can be separated” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“Erection of garages is now in progress, and is likely to go on until there is provision for at least one car per family… ownership is showing itself in a marked increase of traffic within the area” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“Erection of garages is now in progress, and is likely to go on until there is provision for at least one car per family… ownership is showing itself in a marked increase of traffic within the area” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“We estimate that 115 acres, or 48% of the central area would need to be redeveloped to achieve this plan. This includes land for roads and parking garages” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“We have called this technique ‘environmental management’. It should be distinguished from ‘traffic management’, which is solely concerned with the movement of vehicles” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“We have called this technique ‘environmental management’. It should be distinguished from ‘traffic management’, which is solely concerned with the movement of vehicles” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“We estimate that 115 acres, or 48% of the central area would need to be redeveloped to achieve this plan. This includes land for roads and parking garages” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“We think this is a case where the advantage lies in placing the road in a cutting with pedestrian links across it, with retaining walls suitably designed to reduce the noise’ trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“We then examined the central area in more detail, with the object of determining the broad nature and scale of the changes required…’ trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“The primary network comprises about 70 miles of road, about three quarters of which would be new roads mostly of motorway standards“ trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“Out of 67,000 daily shopping journeys into the central area from outside, we assumed that 64%, or 43,000 would eventually be made by car” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“The study showed that great variations exist in the carrying capacities of the existing roads.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“We then examined the central area in more detail, with the object of determining the broad nature and scale of the changes required” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“we examined the whole city in order to determine the possible arrangement of the city into groups of environmental areas” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“The primary network comprises about 70 miles of road, about three quarters of which would be new roads mostly of motorway standards” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“we examined the whole city in order to determine the possible arrangement of the city into groups of environmental areas” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“But it is abundantly clear that the scale of the primary network is markedly influenced by the extent to which private cars are used for the journey to work.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“The estimated daily total number of journeys arising under these conditions would be slightly over 1,000,000” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“The outline of our calculations will have made it clear that work journeys by car accounted for the greater part of the traffic volumes that would arise” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“This theoretical network takes no account, of course, of local environments, existing development, or physical features, nor does it take account of any through traffic” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“This theoretical network takes no account, of course, of local environments, existing development, or physical features, nor does it take account of any through traffic” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“The outline of our calculations will have made it clear that work journeys by car accounted for the greater part of the traffic volumes that would arise” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“The estimated daily total number of journeys arising under these conditions would be slightly over 1,000,000” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“These journeys were by far the most difficult to analyse because of their great variety, and the dearth of information about the generation of this class of traffic” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“These journeys were by far the most difficult to analyse because of their great variety, and the dearth of information about the generation of this class of traffic” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“On the basis of these assumptions we estimated the number of daily shopping journeys to the central area at 67,000 of which 64% would be by car and the remainder by public transport” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“On the basis of these assumptions we estimated the number of daily shopping journeys to the central area at 67,000 of which 64% would be by car and the remainder by public transport” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“Car ownership in Leeds is at present slightly below the national average, but we assumed it would reach the future national figure of 400 cars per 1,000 population in the year 2010.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“Car ownership in Leeds is at present slightly below the national average, but we assumed it would reach the future national figure of 400 cars per 1,000 population in the year 2010.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“To ascertain the direction and volume of the three main kinds of movement we employed the same ‘gravity model’ technique that we used for Newbury.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“Between 1969 and 2001 3,532 people died during the troubles. During the same period 7291 died on the roads.” sluggerotoole.com/2025/02/04/r...

“The main feature of the land use pattern of Leeds… is the close proximity of the principal industrial areas to the central business area.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“to assess the number and character of the vehicular movements, to indicate the scale and pattern of alternative distributory road networks, to indicate the impact of increased traffic…”

“Following on from our study of Newbury we turned our attention to a much larger town, selecting Leeds with a population of about half a million” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

And the 1969 Buchanan Report about Traffic in Towns that foretold what we all experience day to day. Now available online for free via @trafficintowns.bsky.social at trafficintowns.uk

When were these prescient words published? 25th November 1963. - We've known what to do and what not to do for decades.

“The great danger for the future would seem to lie in the temptation to seek a middle course by trying to cope with a steadily increasing volume of traffic by means of minor alterations, resulting in the end in the worst of both worlds” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“The answer to this question is that if the by-passes could be built now they would certainly bring a measure of relief. But it would only be a temporary relief” #TrafficInTowns trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

@trafficintowns.bsky.social I did my PhD in land use transport modelling and now work in academia. A couple of years ago I discovered that Colin Buchanan's grandson was one of my students. He's about to graduate with a 1st and is working/ studying urban and transportation eng. Small world.

“we think the establishment of purely ‘out-of-town’ centres in the American style is a potential development that requires careful watching…both for the harm… and for the acute risk” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“we think the establishment of purely ‘out-of-town’ centres in the American style is a potential development that requires careful watching…both for the harm… and for the acute risk” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“if comprehensive redevelopment can be organised and financed on a sufficient scale, then the highest standards of environment can be combined with a very high level of accessibility.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“The environmental conditions are thereby improved, and the concentration of much of the car parking into a multi-storey garage improves accessibility for the business area” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“The environmental conditions are thereby improved, and the concentration of much of the car parking into a multi-storey garage improves accessibility for the business area” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“If this ownership level increases as expected… the number of parking spaces required is likely to be between 4,000 and 5,000… 2,000 spaces would be needed for long-term parkers” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“the disagreeable conflict between pedestrians and vehicles, and most streets are used as car parks… vehicles parked in all odd corners. The market square functions… as an open street market & trunk road.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

“These conditions led us at once to the conclusion that for the main streets the choice was limited either to having no traffic in them at all, or a very limited amount under strict control” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...