Street Fight: why we should fight the good fight for happy, healthy and beautiful places

But I nevertheless think that it’s correct and the best route to more homes, a more productive economy and happier and healthier places and people, in London and across the country. [...] They give the population at large immense liberty to move around the country, the countryside and the suburbs with comfort, ease and relative safety. [...] Cars particularly destroy the liberty of the child and the teenager to move safely around. [...] Many a time we were forced to abandon our ‘transport’ on hearing the shout from some unfriendly individual, ‘Whip behind, guv’nor’, at which the driver would flip his whip to get rid of us, his unwanted cargo.’ This was the perennial London experience until the 1960s when all of the city could be a playground and a place to move around safely and readily on foot. [...] This is why I remain very confident that the logic, and the joy, of villages, towns and cities with more choice about how we get about will win in the end.