Christian Says
Feb 6th 2014
Feb 6th 2014
Tube strike is a lesson in transport economics
The chaos on the roads in London was worse than I have seen in many years. The hold-ups were much longer than anything I had seen in previous Tube strikes and there was pretty much gridlock not only in central London but even in outer areas such as Finsbury Park.
TfL said that over a third (37-8 per cent) of the normal total of Tube journeys took place, rather surprisingly high and which suggests most people still tried to get to work which may explain the level of chaos. It is surprising that more companies did not say - work at ...
Rail 740: HS2 is the wrong scheme in wrong place
This will be a make or break year for HS2. If there is good progress in the committee stage of the Bill and no unpleasant surprises for its promoters, the odds will be stacked in favour of the scheme. If, on the other hand, there are further mishaps like the despatch of tens of thousands of letters to householders warning mistakenly that their homes will have to be compulsorily purchased ...Sides becoming more entrenched over HS2
The only strange aspect of the growing controversy over HS2 is that it has taken so long to come to the boil. The scheme is suffering from the way it was conceived. In reality the debate that is happening now should have taken place four years ago when Lord Adonis commissioned HS2 Ltd to produce a report into the idea. That was the key error. It looked as if the ...February 27th, 2014
How paedophiles tried to take over the Left
Looking back from 2014, it seems extraordinary that an organisation with a name like the Paedophile Information Exchange was taken so seriously for a time in the 1970s that it was able to present itself as a legitimate pressure group. Yet the continuing row involving Harriet Harman, Patricia Hewitt, Jack Dromey and the Daily Mail reminds us that this was indeed the case.
While superficially it may seem that there were ...
December 27th, 2013
How to take the longest journey in the world
There are lots of choices to make before taking the Transsiberian, the world’s longest railway which stretches 5750 miles between Moscow and Vladivostok on the Pacific Ocean. There are in fact several routes as there is a line down through Mongolia down to Beijing and another line, the Baikal Amur Mainline, that goes north of Lake Baikal over the permafrost of northern Siberia.
Then there is the decision over which way ...
