Christian Says
Apr 6th 2014
Apr 6th 2014
Cost of new bus threatens London services
The huge extra cost to Londoners of the ‘new bus for London’ is posing a threat to bus services. The WolmarforLondon campaign has discovered that the cost has reached nearly £7m annually and is set to rise as more buses come on stream. These extra operating costs do not take account of the higher capital cost of the buses, reckoned to be around £50,000 for each bus, compared with ‘off the peg’ models already available.
The Wolmarforlondon campaign has been informed that so far there are 115 of these new buses which were supposed to be London’s new Routemaster’ being used ...
Rail 744: Rolling stock chaos highlights DfT ineptitude
It is not often that the railways are mentioned at Prime Minister’s Questions but on March 5th they came up from an unexpected source, the veteran Labour MP Jack Straw who has rarely expressed any previous interest in the industry. Mr Straw asked about the proposed transfer of nine diesel multiple units from TransPennine Express to Chiltern which would represent a loss of an eighth of TPE’s rolling stock and ...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 ...April 10th, 2014
What is the point of HS2?
Mohammed Salique owns a Restaurant called Diwana in Drummond Street, which runs west from the side of Euston station. Diwana, which opened in 1970, claims that it was the first restaurant in Britain to serve South Indian vegetarian food. It wasn’t the first Asian food outlet in the street: Ambala, now a chain of shops selling Indian sweets, opened in 1965, catering to the immigrants from India and Bangladesh (then ...
March 11th, 2014
Bob Crow obituary
Bob Crow, the leader of the RMT (the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers), who has died of a suspected heart attack at the age of 52, managed to popularise the cause of trade unions at a time of declining membership and increasing hostility. He was often the face of trade unionism in the media, and had a higher profile than leaders of much larger unions.
This was achieved ...
