Dear Keith, I wish you lots of luck in your endeavour to sort out Britain’s railways. There will be many ...

There is something extraordinary happening out there in relation to driverless cars. But it is not quite what you think ...

This has been the railway’s annus horribilis. Nothing may have burnt down but almost everything else that could have gone ...

Sometimes good results come out of bad decisions. When the now departed Jo ‘Hydrogen’ Johnson announced a review of Network ...

The City of London has become by far the most radical local authority in Britain. It closed Bank, one of ...

The defenestration of Sir Terry Morgan, the chairman of HS2, has been as painfully slow as progress on the scheme ...

The doubling of rail passengers since the mid 1990s has been unprecedented and, in many respects, inexplicable. No coherent theory ...

By Robert Wright This book celebrates a triumph. The UK’s vast Crossrail project, managed by Transport for London, the mayor’s ...

The writer Nicholas Faith, who has died aged 85, was a gentleman mischief-maker. Courteous to a fault, he pursued those ...

Public transport is the great unifier, bringing us together by making travel cheap and easy. However, it can also expose ...

One of the big promises of rail privatisation was that there would be significant private investment to take the load ...

There’s been a lot of fuss about the delay and the extra cost of Crossrail in recent weeks but overall ...

It is a shame that Crossrail did not make its deadline of December 9th, but quite frankly, it was never ...

The privatisation of the railways had nothing to do with trying to make them better. It was driven by the ...

It’s only taken a couple of decades or so but UK’s first tram train has become a reality. Well, there ...

Here we go yet again. The Guardian today reports that Addison Lee ‘aims to deploy driverless cars on London’s streets’ ...

A couple of years ago I wrote a short book entitled ‘Are Trams Socialist?’. Spoiler alert, but the answer was ...

There are countless articles in both the general and specialist media which start off something like ‘driverless cars are coming’ ...

So the review is going to be a ‘root and branch’ examination of the state of the railways and what ...

Anna Turley’s recent LabourList article about automation rightly extols the virtues of new technology while warning of its potential to cause “mass misery ...