April 2005
Rail 512: Yes, minister: Integrate to ease Kent planning ‘blight’
The uncertainty over the future shape of services south-east of London underlines the need for more long-term, strategic planning on ...
Project management at Heathrow Terminal 5
The roof on the main building of Heathrow’s Terminal 5 was completed last month. Given that at 400 by 150 ...
Let’s stop pretending
(This is a copy of the speech given to the Railway Studies Association on March 9 2005.) I have thought ...
Rail 511: The great unmentionable of the general election
For the political parties during the election campaign, the railway will be like the war when Fawlty Towers was entertaining ...
Tube PPP contracts have little to show
The managerial upheavals at Metronet are symptomatic of much wider problems with the controversial Public Private Partnership to refurbish the ...
The groundbreaking Saudi rail-link
The railways are a 19th century invention that are finding a new lease of life in the 21st century with ...
A read need for subsidised housing
It has become conventional wisdom that not enough housing is being built and that much more will be needed to ...
Cycling is a no-brainer for the Government
For much of the past decade I have sat on various government boards aimed at promoting cycling. And I must ...
Election manifestos fail to address transport issues
The most depressing aspect of transport policy is that most of the solutions are known but that politicans will not ...