Devolution and Sustainable Transport

A New Deal for Transport?: The UK's Struggle with the Sustainable Transport Agenda

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 30-50

  Smyth, Austin ^a,b,c  

^a National Institute for Transport and Logistics   (Ireland)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Transport Research Institute Northern Ireland Centre   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Devolution; Governments; Policy formulation; Political structure; Sustainable transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889274102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470773734.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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3. Western Mail (2000) 6 May. In Scotland, devolution was supported by 74.3 per cent of those voting in the referendum, while in Wales the proportion voting 'yes' was only 50.3 per cent.
4. The Northern Ireland Assembly was suspended for over 100 days during the first half of 2000. It was suspended again indefinitely on 14 October 2002 amidst allegations of bad faith by Unionists against Republicans and vice versa.
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