Rail 486: Bowker’s next stage on journey to a new BR?
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 on the European constitution. My political antenna suggests that this represents the end of Blair’s ...
Rail 485: Orwell’s spectre stalks railway as history is rewritten
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 had: further developments on the rail review, with much contradictory speculation about vertical integration; the ...
Let’s not forget the buses!
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 of the Labour government, ministers exhorted us to use our cars less and to get ...
