July 2008

The Australian addiction to the car has very deep roots. I am reading an absolutely fabulous novel about Melbourne between ...

After the spartan and drab train between Sydney and Newcastle, which technically is a local Sydney service, I took the ...

The Association of Train Operating Companies celebrated the opening of a new station in London, Mitcham Eastfields by issuing a ...

Just a quick few thoughts about Australian trains. Most of the rail industry is , of course, geared towards freight ...

Fire & Steam: a new history of the railways in Britain, Christian Wolmar. Atlantic Books, London (2007). 384pp., £19.99, ISBN: ...

Nothing is stranger than arriving in Australia after 20 hours in an aeroplane. It was already dark, a whole day ...

Subsidies to the transport sector are remarkably scattered randomly across income groups and, worse, overall are firmly regressive. With the ...

I am off to Australia on July 18th for two weeks to give three talks on how to increase cycling ...

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the contrast between the way that the railways are viewed here and in Europe ...

I spent a hectic weekend going to Chamonix and back by train to join in the celebrations of the 100 ...

The next few months are going to be a nerve-wracking time for rail operators and their parent companies. With the ...

The difficulty with statistics is highlighted by the announcement of a significant fall in the number of road deaths in ...

Andrew Hosken, Ken, the Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone, Arcadia Books, £15 99, 435 pp. In losing the recent ...