Christian Wolmar

I was at Fort William station with a couple of hours to spare on saturday after doing the 3 peaks walk and decided to wander into town. Amazingly, in such a small town, there is a pedestrian underpass - complete with busker, a rather upmarket one who was selling his own CDs and sang elegantly - between the station and the steps. This is to get under a dual carriageway ...

There was an inadvertently hilarious piece in the Daily Mail - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2002906/Ever-dreamt-world-traffic-wardens.html - yesterday on the story of Aberystwyth which, through an oversight between the county council and the police has been left with no traffic wardens. The reporter, the paper's science editor, Michael Hanlon wrote in the introduction that 'since the beginning of this month, a bureaucratic mix-up involving police and council has meant that the three ...

The authors and contributors to the McNulty review have been coming out of the woodwork, angered by the version of the report that has been published.  Several people have contacted me and have been remarkably critical of the way that the process was hijacked by the Department for Transport which ultimately stifled debate and ensured that the report’s conclusions contradicted its findings. The production of the report was a fraught ...

TfL's claim that the traffic in the abolished western part of the congestion zone has not gone up as fast as expected is a clear manipulation of figures. In fact traffic has gone up by 8 per cent, a significant amount, especially as presumably not everyone has yet found out that the charging zone has been abolished.Saying something is lower than expected is dishonest PR. You don't get football managers ...