February 2008
Porsche scores an own goal
Ken Livingstone could not have wished for better publicity than Porsche’s threat to take legal action over the increases to ...
Rail 585: Rolling stock strategy is playing at capitalism, again
The rolling stock plan slipped out by the Department for Transport without any briefing or press conference at the end ...
Department for Transport is modally agnostic
Listening to the speaker from the Department for Transport, Jacqui Wilkinson, at the Greater London Assembly's Driving Change conference on ...
Canny Ken’s congestion charge move puts Johnson on the spot
At last, the mayoral election is hotting up around genuine issues that affect Londoners rather than the antics of the ...
Congestion dilemma
I’ve been asked to sum up ideas at a conference on congestion and I realise just what a difficult issue ...
Rail 584: St Pancras spoilt by security Taliban
Having travelled through St Pancras International several times since its opening November, I realise that the fulsome praise given to ...
Think before you strike, Bob
Here we go again. The unions’ sabres are rattling and Londoners are yet again facing the prospect of days of ...
Transport still not high enough on mayoral agenda
The Mayor’s announcements of a set of cycling superhighways and the £25 congestion charge for ‘gas guzzlers’ have, at last, ...
Fire and Steam Review by Andrew Adonis
A new age of the train The story of Britain's railways is one of chaotic genius in the Victorian era ...