Looks interesting. Some councils still appear to be very short term, because of politics?
Depends on what constitutes "short term".
In 2006, Atkins began work on a report on the proposed Callington Road Link, formerly part of the Bristol and North Somerset Railway. In July 2009,
the report was produced, looking at every use of the route to reduce traffic, except rail. It used a 2006 baseline and traffic forecasts for 2031. The report was quickly shelved, with engineering difficulties being cited as the main reason. This infuriated a local pressure group who wanted it built, and delighted me, who had just bought a house within earshot.
8 years later in 2017, just after I had sold that house, the proposal reappeared in a draft
LEP» Transport Vision Study for 2036, leaked to the
Bristol Post.
The engineering problems - it's in a cutting and has narrow bridges that haven't widened noticeably in recent years - are still there, and in any case it will increase road traffic. It will be unpopular to an almost MetroBust scale, and the money isn't there right now, so it will probably get kicked into the long grass. It will then be only one more "resurrect / postpone" cycle away from 2031.
Now that is long term planning - why make a rushed decision when you can spend 25 years in not coming to a conclusion?