Christian Says

Christian Says

Why are roads favoured by the right and trains by socialists?

Why are roads favoured by the right and trains by socialists?

An article on an American website asked a question which has long intrigued me: why does the Right favour roads ...
Dutch thoughts part three

Dutch thoughts part three

Staying in a small town 10 kms from Groningen, I borrowed my host's bike and rode in to town to ...
Dutch trip thoughts part one

Dutch trip thoughts part one

I am in Holland for a ten day speaking tour to local groups of the Anglo-Dutch friendship society and I ...
The madness of micromanagement

The madness of micromanagement

One of the great ironies of rail privatisation is that the rail industry is under far stricter control from outside ...
Porsche scores an own goal

Porsche scores an own goal

Ken Livingstone could not have wished for better publicity than Porsche’s threat to take legal action over the increases to ...
Department for Transport is modally agnostic

Department for Transport is modally agnostic

Listening to the speaker from the Department for Transport, Jacqui Wilkinson, at the Greater London Assembly's Driving Change conference on ...
Congestion dilemma

Congestion dilemma

I’ve been asked to sum up ideas at a conference on congestion and I realise just what a difficult issue ...
Cycling boost still not enough

Cycling boost still not enough

The news that Cycling England, on whose board I sit, will receive £140m over the next three years to boost ...
Cheap car disaster

Cheap car disaster

The launch of the new cheap car, costing just $2,500, by the Indian firm Tata poses one of those awful ...
Irrational attacks on cyclists

Irrational attacks on cyclists

What is it about cyclists that attracts such incoherent rage from a normally relatively sane person? Matthew Parris wrote an ...
Blog fuel protests failure

Blog fuel protests failure

Whatever happened to the fuel protests? Or rather didn’t. What a wonderful damp squib they were, attracting fewer people than ...
Bali bull

Bali bull

The climate change discussions in Bali are clearly a stitch up. There is a pattern to this – the Europeans ...
Big projects are not British

Big projects are not British

I was at the launch of Nicholas Faith’s book on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link(which we are now supposed to ...
What is this obsession with air transport?

What is this obsession with air transport?

The consultation paper on Heathrow which is due to be published later today is predictably pro expansion. Already, Ruth Kelly ...
hydrogen fuel confusion

hydrogen fuel confusion

I have just received a big press release from Ken Livingstone on hydrogen fuel buses which are going to save ...
Lies and damn statistics

Lies and damn statistics

The regular complaints from business organisations like the CBI and the British Chambers of Commerce about the weakness of the ...
Ruth Kelly misses the point

Ruth Kelly misses the point

The response published yesterday by the Department to the Stern and Eddington reports was hyped up by the Financial Times ...
It seems so easy abroad

It seems so easy abroad

When I was in Paris last week, I picked up the freesheet paper on the Metro and buried in the ...
Public transport disarray means long drive

Public transport disarray means long drive

My partner Deborah and I are going to Wales this weekend from London and I really really really tried to ...
End of the road for national pricing?

End of the road for national pricing?

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that plans for a national road charging scheme are being quietly buried or 'back burnered' ...
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