Rob Lane promoted curbing car use in favour of integrated public transport and prioritising pedestrian safety. He lectured in transportation studies and co-wrote Analytical Transport Planning. He served as chief traffic and communications engineer for Camden, introducing bus lanes and the Green Cross Code. He became director of highways and transport at the Greater London Council and later founded Rob Lane Associates, advising on urban transport, traffic schemes and social infrastructure. He held academic roles including honorary professor at the University of Westminster and helped promote the congestion charge, the Oyster card and other transport innovations.
In the 1970s and 80s, when it was possible to envisage curbing car use in favour of integrated public transport in Britain's towns and cities, my father, Rob Lane, who has died aged 84, was a leading exponent of prioritising public services and pedestrian safety over the car. As a lecturer in transportation studies at the Polytechnic of Central London in the 1960s he wrote
By the time the book was published in 1971, Rob had been appointed chief traffic and communications engineer for the London Borough of Camden, where he helped introduce bus lanes and promoted the Green Cross Code. In this role he met Ken Livingstone, a Labour party activist in the borough, who shared Rob's progressive views on public transport, and when Livingstone became head of the
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