Public Inquiry Week 4 – detailed analysis of GCP plan exposes false claims

Backing up claims made by CPPF, CBAG and others, Transport Planner Edward Leigh produced the evidence to demonstrate the GCP's failure to consider a demonstrably viable alternative on-road scheme. "It hasn't accepted that a compromise solution might actually be better, more in the public interest than the scheme it is proposing," he said. Also appearing as an expert witness, Steve Johnstone of Lawrence Walker Ltd pointed out that the GCP hace used pre-Covid traffic data in its modelling, when it is in fact clear that the situation has changed significantly since then. He also said that he "always worried about schemes that rely on large land value uplift in the cost–benefit ratio" and that there was not "any certainty that people will actually use the buses."