A long journey to and from work will make you fat, stressed and unhappy.
The trends are already going in the right direction. Driverless cars could take them even further.
It is not just northern councils that want the flexibility to improve infrastructure.
Voters in provincial England are the critical battlefield between the Tories and Labour, and we must be imaginative and bold to earn their loyalty.
We need devolution for England’s counties as well as its cities – and that can’t simply be imposed from the centre.
It’s a question that Parliamentarians will have wrestle with for the next five years and beyond.
They seem to be more back in vogue with all political parties than at any time since the 1970s.
The Government has eased parking restrictions – Labour threaten to put this into reverse.
It does nothing to reduce carbon emissions, increases the cost of living, keeps people in developing countries in poverty, and has a negative effect on the state finances.
You don’t have to go to France to see what a renationalised railway system would be like for the travelling public: look no further than our own East Coast service.
The result of safety improvements is not only fewer disasters, but also weirder disasters.
The challenge for a future Mayor is to make London less expensive and the most practical way that a Mayor can achieve this is by cutting fares.
The self-imposed constraint of tradition stands little chance before the turbo-charged power of rampant individualism. And yet, in respect to cars, there is hope for a third way.
How the Chancellor used Manchester as his starting-point of his Northern Powerhouse plan for urban revival and election success.
If the Government rejects Heathrow, MPs throughout the UK will castigate Cameron for pandering to metropolitan sensibilities, rather than listening to the nation at large.