Christian Wolmar

Here's an easy to win bet - I wager there will be no mention of transport policies in today's Great Election Debate, with the possible exception of, sigh, high speed rail. Any takers? So far, as ever, the election hustings have offered little of interest to transport policy geeks. Labour's one new initiative is to offer not for profit organisations the opportunity to bid for franchises. Well, I suspect that will ...

 Along with tower blocks and shopping precincts, one way systems were a product of the 1960s ethos that failed to put people first. They were designed to speed up traffic but left devastated communities and irate drivers in their wake. It was an era when the motorist was king and no one had thought of the consequences of the uncontrolled growth of car use in urban areas not designed to ...

I have always been rather stumped by the suburban question. When I have been on phone-ins about transport policy, the inevitable point comes up that it is all very well to advocate better public transport but it is impossible to provide it without requiring massive subsidy and therefore it is inevitable that people will jump in their cars.  I have always suspected that there is a good rebuttal to this bit ...

Bob Crow's performance on the steps of the High Court after losing the court case over the legality of the strike suggest that he does not have the interests of his members or the industry at heart. For him to say that there has been 'accident after accident' on the railways is quite simply a disgrace. Ill-informed members of the public may well take him at face value, and worry ...