British roads are under-supplied and irrationally priced. Estimates of the rate of economic return to investment are high. There is no mechanism for consumer protection and current attempts to record and publish the level of service are inadequate. This will persist until there is fundamental...

The 1997 government announced policies and changes in administration, but the statistics show that little else was achieved. Road-traffic growth was temporarily tamed by an increase in the price of fuel, which integrated policies on transport, environment, and land-use. This was not sustained,...