The railways’ fear of central planning distorting market forces is to blame for the National Audit Office’s trenchant criticism of the SRA on rolling stock policy, contends Christian Wolmar.
There has always been something of a paradox over the word ‘strategic’ in the title of the Strategic Rail Authority. Strategic implies planning, taking a long view [...]
Archive of February, 2004
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The Government’s latest rail review is Treasury-inspired, and vague in both scope and aims. CHRISTIAN WOLMAR gives the Transport Secretary two cheers for recognising there’s a problem, but wonders how such confusion can lead to a better railway.
Trying to read the runes of the statement by Transport Secretary Alistair Darling announcing a rail review would [...]
Remember all that fuss last year about the Congestion charge? London was going to grind to a halt, children would be left on street corners to make their own way to school and the public transport system was going to seize up.
It was all bunkum, as I predicted in an article on this page exactly [...]
It seems like such a simple idea: provide all public transport users with information encompassing all the possible modes of transport. That is the aim of Transport Direct, which was supposed to be a one stop shop enabling the public to plan almost any journey directly and quickly within the UK. It was to be [...]
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