A chastened Richard Bowker has undergone a change of heart as remarkable as the Prime Minister’s on the EU constitution referendum, contends CHRISTIAN WOLMAR. But in fact the SRA’s proposals for ‘Bowker Rail’ are interesting and workable.
Spring is clearly the time for U-turns. First we had Tony Blair’s seismic change of direction over a referendum [...]
Archive of April, 2004
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It’s more like 1984 than 2004 as senior railway figures criticise a structure that only months ago they were defending. CHRISTIAN WOLMAR wonders what’s changed.
Sometimes events unfold so thick and fast in the rail industry that it is impossible to draw together the threads in a single fortnightly column.
Over the past two weeks we have [...]
There are few good news stories in the world of local authorities. We are all too used to hearing of social services tragedies like Victoria Climbié or housing disasters like the demolition of estates barely a few years old.
But Transport for London has a very interesting tale to tell about buses. In the early days [...]
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