Roads, Runways and Resistance : From the Newbury Bypass to Extinction Rebellion / Steve Melia.
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TextPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2021Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 178680798X
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- 388.0941 23
- HE243 .M45 2021
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Timeline of Events -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Biggest Road-Building Programme Since the Romans (1989-92) -- 2. Direct Action, Arrests and Unexplained Violence -- 3. The Newbury Bypass, Reclaim the Streets and 'Swampy' -- 4. The Biggest Hit on the Road Programme Since the Romans Left (1992-7) -- 5. Integrated Transport, the New Labour Ideal (1997-2000) -- 6. The Fuel Protests and their Aftermath -- 7. How Road Pricing Came to London -- and Nowhere Else -- 8. Airport Expansion and Climate Change
9. The Campaign Against a Heathrow Third Runway -- 10. High-Speed Rail -- 11. HS2 -- 12. Return to Road-building and Airport Expansion (2010-17) -- 13. The Climate Rebellion Begins -- 14. The Climate Emergency Changes the Transport World -- 15. Protest and the Limits to Growth of Transport -- and Other Things -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index
Chronicling 30 years of public protest, government U-turns and environmental destruction, this is the story of Britain's transport policy.
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