The commission's stark message that action to restrain traffic is urgently required contrasts with the tone of the government's discussion paper on transport policy published on August 21st.
This document, which outlines the issues to be addressed in a white paper on transport next year, is little more than a regurgitation of questions that have been asked many times during the past few years.
The first outcome of this agreement is likely to be new powers for local councils, to be announced in next year's white paper on transport, allowing them to earmark the proceeds of road-pricing schemes for local transport.
The government will unveil its own preferred strategy in a transport white paper, due out this spring.
And he said there was "clear tension" between the findings of the Competition Commission and government policy as set out in the 2003 Air Transport White Paper.
Two small teams of civil servants are burrowing away in Whitehall preparing for the transport white paper which the government has promised to publish early next year.
The paper aimed to improve public transport by better co-ordination, backed by investment.
The government is promising yet another white paper early next year on an integrated transport policy while it thinks what to do.
Also known as loggers, lumberjacks typically harvest, cut and transport timber to be processed into lumber, paper and other wood products.
Mr Prescott's integrated transport strategy, set out in a white paper last year, was hailed as the most fundamental shift in policy for a generation.
The white paper's determination to change travel patterns in favour of public transport is being down-played.
The Evening Standard, London's only evening paper, has been waging a sustained campaign against the government's transport and health policies.
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