Christian Says
Christian Says
Swine flu set to rescue railways?
The train operators seem to be sinking into the mire rapidly. Recent reports suggest that Arriva CrossCountry is suffering from ...
Cycling deaths highlight inadequate response
Two women cyclists have been killed by lorries on London's streets over the past few days, highlighting the inadequacy of ...
What do they do with our money?
Given that we are now throwing piles of money at the banks, and not really knowing what we are getting ...
Stop the railway police!
There seems to be renewed efforts by train operators to prevent trainspotters - or indeed anyone else - from taking ...
Car addiction starts young
I gave a talk at the Jewish Free School today, which used to be in Camden but is now in ...
Bus pass dilemma
I had occasion to take two buses in Lincoln the other day, a rare foray on out of London services ...
Toilet tales attract more attention than trains
I might have to consider giving up writing about trains. I penned a piece for the Guardian about the fact ...
Railways in the news
There’s no shortage of things happening on the railways. If it is not snow on the tracks, it’s high fares, ...
The National Express conundrum
National Express is in far deeper trouble with its East Coast franchise than even I thought. Sources within the industry ...
Hitachi deal raises too many questions
The attempt to spin the Hitachi train deal as a British-led consortium clearly backfired given this morning's press coverage. As ...
Tories try to have it all ways
It’s taken a long time but at last the Tories have produced a document setting out their rail policy. Chris ...
Robson missing from the dock
As the bankers squirm during today's session with the Treasury Select Committee, one man should count himself lucky that he ...
No Windmill spirit
It was hardly surprising that there were transport problems today, given the amount of snow that has fallen. But it ...
The begging bowl beckons
There is a massive game of poker going on between the train operators and the government and so far neither ...
Heathrow madness
The decision to go ahead with the third runway at Heathrow makes no sense on any criterion. The business case ...
Letter from India: Is the slow way necessarily the wrong way?
The most remarkable aspect of my trip to India is not that the country has been transformed by massive economic ...
Two weeks is a short time on the railways
I've been away in India for the past two weeks, where news of Britain is rare and newspapers rarer. And ...
Saving capitalism will not save the planet
The government’s response to the credit crunch crisis is taking it into strange places and forcing ministers to ...
Geoff Hoon loves travel
Went to ministerial drinks last night. Totally new Department press team who asked me things like had I ever ...
Road pricing is dead
The overwhelming vote against a Manchester congestion charge shows that local democracy is not the best of determining complex ...