It is only a few months away from the launch of the London cycle hire scheme, provided there are no delays - there is still no precise date, but only ’summer 2010′. I am desperate for the scheme to work, but I have severe doubts about it. Will the bikes be used, will they soon [...]
Archive of ‘Christian Says’ Articles
The confusion over franchising policy could not be better highlighted by the mixed messages coming from ministers. On the one hand we have quite explicit threats suggesting that the government could take back the First Capital Connect franchise because of months of dire performance on the Thameslink line - why did they ever change the [...]
The rejection on Friday by an indpendent adjudicator of £327m claims by Tube Lines against Transport for London may well spell the end of the scandalous PPP contract. Tube Lines had argued that TfL was responsible for cost overruns on the delayed Northern and Jubilee contracts because of changes in scope but the adjudicator, in [...]
Jan
18
Pyle of poo
I’ve been in trouble with the law. Well, with a very special constable who apparently has the name Pyle, according to his name tag. I was happily walking - or proceeding as SPC Pyle would have put in his notebook - down Lisle Street, round the back of London’s Chinatown, when this young officer, who [...]
The Railway Eye blog reports that the Railway Forum has quietly been put to death, even though its website makes no mention of this. Indeed, it still has the smiley face of its director general - a grand title for an organisation with a staff of fewer than half a dozen - Paul Martin stressing [...]
Just been to a briefing with a very tired looking Richard Brown, the head of Eurostar, and Chris Garnett (the former boss of GNER, not Network Rail as reported in the Guardian) who is conducting, along with a French colleague, the enquiry into what happened. He is hoping to publish the report by the end [...]