The axe is poised over our railways
The latest round of cuts to train services announced earlier this week have raised fears among passenger groups that the ...
Congestion charge success silences critics
Armageddon never happened last week. The apparent success of the congestion charge in reducing traffic in central London left a ...
Rail 455: How can the beast created in Network Rail be tamed?
The SRA specifies what needs to be done and the contractors do the work, so, asks CHRISTIAN WOLMAR, is the ...
Take Ken’s £5 decongestant medicine and be glad today. It’s London’s last hope
Life in London will never be the same again. The imposition of the congestion charge takes away the fundamental right ...
Reasons to be cheerful about the congestion charge
The fuss over London's congestion charge is a storm in a teacup, whipped up by a hostile press, says Christian ...
Transport crisis resurfaces
We are in the midst of our annual transport crisis. About every twelve months, the media suddenly discovers that we ...
Rail 454: Bowker is in a jam as he fails to outwit Whitehall warriors
Richard Bowker has shown his political inexperience by allowing himself to be outmanoeuvred by the politicians over the SRA cuts ...
Labour must do more than just tinker with council tax
It is remarkable that it has taken Labour five years to begin to address some of the iniquities of the ...
When the buck stops nowhere
It would be easy to dismiss Saturday's accident at Chancery Lane as just a random mishap on an overstretched system ...
Rail 453: Another brick dislodged from privatisation’s wobbly edifice
No matter how much ministers and Network Rail try to play it down, the decision to take back the Reading ...
Armageddon approaches
Ken Livingstone’s task in selling the congestion charge to the London public makes Herod’s propaganda efforts on culling the first ...
Breaking the silence will halt child abuse
It is all too easy to believe that there is a paedophile on every street. The lengthy series of arrests ...
Rail 452: Cowardice and lack of vision stifle hope for the railways
With the railway facing a period of almost unprecedented uncertainty as it enters 2003, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR calls on the industry ...
Rail 451: After the honeymoon, Bowker must make the marriage work
The Strategic Rail Authority chairman has had an impressive first year, but as the time comes for decisions rather than ...
A hundred declared
I have been failing at cricket for 35 years. There is no game that measures failure as harshly as cricket ...
Trains in sidings embarrass rail bosses
Over the coming months, the benighted commuters who travel into London’s Victoria station on SouthCentral’s services will be delighted at ...
Rail 450: RAIB must have free hand in rail crash investigations
The derailments at Aldwarke Junction and Ealing have again highlighted major safety concerns on the railway. The Government’s announcement of ...
Let’s get things moving
IT'S six months since Alistair Darling landed the Government's least popular top job: Transport Secretary. The post is disliked by ...
The truth about PFI schemes
The vote against the Private Finance Initiative at the recent Labour party conference is testimony to a wider unease about ...
Rail 449: Who’ll dare tell the emperor that he’s wearing no clothes?
Richard Bowker has done a sterling job in pulling the Strategic Rail Authority together, but he remains rooted in the ...
