March 2012
Boris driverless trains are no such thing
This week has seen the Mayor once again pushing one of his big ideas for re-election: driverless Tubes, bringing with ...
Rail 693 Time for some good news on railways
While at the opening of the new inspirational King’s Cross station entrance, I mused about the image of the railway ...
Airport muddle highlights transport policy chaos
The coalition seems to be on a kamikaze course when it comes to transport. Actually, that’s a tad unfair to ...
Hello third runway, goodbye Ms Greening
The revival of interest in government circles on a third runway at Heathrow is fraught with difficulties for the Coalition ...
Cameron on road to nowhere
We have been here before. Lots of times. The idea of trying to turn the roads into some form of ...
Rail 692: Command paper as bland as MacDonalds
I had expected better. Justine Greening, the transport secretary, is clearly a sharp cookie and has picked up her brief ...
Armed cops mistake
It's bad enough having armed cops in Parliament, airports and outside embassies (and the US ambassador's residence in Regent's Park ...
Rail 691: Politicians fail to understand risk of risk
We need to talk about risk. That’s because the assessment and allocation of risk informs virtually every decision made in ...
Alliances: integration or dismemberment?
‘The Times they are a’changin’, but no one quite knows how. The ‘Command Paper’ which was supposed to set out ...