This paper proposes that while many plans and
solutions to the transport problems of the 21st Century
have been mooted, very few have succeeded in
significantly improving the situation within Europe. It
is suggested that many schemes face problems at the
project implementation stage due to adverse public
and/or political reaction. This paper incorporates a
series of vignettes, several of which are based on indepth
interviews with practitioners directly involved
in the implementation of 'radical'transport schemes
from around the world in an attempt to draw lessons as
to how they overcame this, not least in terms of how
the implementation of alternative strategies by
European policy-makers could be shaped and adopted
world-wide
