| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
Chronicling 30 years of public protest, government U-turns and environmental destruction, this is the story of Britain's transport policy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Transportation and state -- Great Britain.
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Transportation and state. |
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Great Britain. |
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Transportation -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.
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Transportation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Melia, Steve. Roads, Runways and Resistance. London : Pluto Press, ©2021 9780745340579 |
| ISBN |
9781786807984 (electronic book) |
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178680798X (electronic book) |
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9781786807991 (electronic book) |
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1786807998 (electronic book) |
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9781786808004 (Kindle ebook) |
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1786808005 |
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0745340598 |
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9780745340593 |
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9780745340579 |
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0745340571 |
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