December 2007
Irrational attacks on cyclists
What is it about cyclists that attracts such incoherent rage from a normally relatively sane person? Matthew Parris wrote an ...
The great rail rip off
Passengers struggling on to the railways for the Christmas break are being hit by a double whammy that's not at ...
Rail 581: Ministers fail to understand real value of the railways
The year 2007 should have gone down in history as epoch making, a break with the past offering a new ...
Blog fuel protests failure
Whatever happened to the fuel protests? Or rather didn’t. What a wonderful damp squib they were, attracting fewer people than ...
Bali bull
The climate change discussions in Bali are clearly a stitch up. There is a pattern to this – the Europeans ...
Rail 580: Barriers could prove counterproductive
Passing through Surbiton station during the evening peak the other day, I was surprised to find the barriers open and ...
Low tech trams could be solution to urban chaos
The transport sector faces a greater threat from action to tackle climate change than any other industry. The whole notion ...
Big projects are not British
I was at the launch of Nicholas Faith’s book on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link(which we are now supposed to ...