Bold move from Prime Minister Boris Johnson to appoint London's former cycling commissioner as transport advisor to the British government.
I don’t believe that the answer to London's transport problems is a vast slew of new railways or transport links. I think the answer is cycling actually.In 2018 Gilligan wrote a report for the National Infrastructure Commission on the potential for cycling in Oxford, Cambridge and Milton Keynes.
Appointing Gilligan as a transport advisor is a bold move by the new prime minister but, given the intertwined history of the two, not an unexpected one. However, it remains to be seen what any advisors or ministers can do to effect change given that Brexit will take up the whole bandwidth of government, possibly for many years. The proof would be in the pudding, and that pudding is the Spending Review, probably due out in Spring 2020, if this Brexit-or-bust administration lasts that long.
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