Robin;
Thanks for the article. I find the language and the balance of ideas very accessible.

There was one phrase I stumbled on and I felt could be rethought, which was when you described needing a 'Complete Restucturing of the (UK) transp. sector', which is not to say that I essentially disagree with the statement, but it's the kind of language that makes too many listeners' 'Eyes Glaze Over', particularly I fear, those in policy-making positions who listen to every proposal with a running Cost Estimate filter over it. Maybe that's not really your intended audience, but if it were, I would propose that the opening to a summary paragraph gets extra attention, and needs to use somewhat more lubricating language. For all that, it wasn't a big deal, just a thought.. (in the vein of, 'There are several more things I would like to say on the topic of brevity..')

Bob Shaw's shorthand (above) can be tricky to translate, but it's worth trying if you want to tune in with a very revolutionary mind that's playing with possibilities that others too quickly dismiss. His structures and constructions are very much in the spirit of 'Complete restructuring' of transportation, trying as Sherlock Holmes advised, 'To Eliminate the impossible to arrive at the truth.' Some are not workable in and of themselves, they are just routes out to various fields of thought that very likely have some gems in them, very much in terms of 'Established Technologies that we know work', but might be liberally re-worked or re-apportioned to make them useful steps out of today's conundrum.

Best,
Bob Fiske