October 2008

The shortlist for the new Southern franchise, which includes Gatwick Express, has been issued featuring the usual suspects including Stagecoach ...

I committed the sin of flying on Ryanair last week to go to Italy and back, eschewing the long overnight ...

A memo from an unknown civil servant in the Department for Transport’s Rail Group has inadvertently found its way into ...

Sometimes, you just could not make it up. First item on the Radio 4 9pm news was Ed Milliband's announcement ...

I have been meaning to write a substantial piece linking the banking collapse with rail privatisation for some time and ...

Transport secretaries are like shooting stars, flaring briefly in the sky and disappearing forever. Occasionally they leave behind a legacy, ...

The railways are seen as a green form of travel but their claim to sustainability has been coming under greater ...

There is no doubt that we are heading for a recession and that will undoubtedly impact on the railways. At ...

The new rail minister is Lord Adonis which is much better news than the appointment of his boss, Geoff Hoon ...

Oh woe, oh despair. The prospect of Geoff Hoon as transport secretary makes me long for the exciting days of ...

The struggles in Manchester over the congestion charge plan highlight the difficulties faced by politicians when trying to convince people ...

Interesting evidence emerging about the cost of Boris Johnson's promise to scrap bendy buses is set to put the mayor ...

The recent research in Bristol confirming the fact that living in a busy road is less pleasant than in a ...