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Transport cuts on the way

Transport cuts on the way

Talking to a well informed source at the Rail awards last night, I learnt that the Department for Transport has ...
Bonkers Boris over the top - but fights for Crossrail

Bonkers Boris over the top – but fights for Crossrail

I was at the opening of the exhibition at the London Transport Museum of the effects of the Blitz on ...
Bike thief nabbed....almost

Bike thief nabbed….almost

I  always wondered why, given the high rate of bike theft in London, I had never actually seen one in ...
Hammond bottles it

Hammond bottles it

Apparently, Philip Hammond is set to ignore the advice of a team of experts and refuse to lower the drink ...
Runaway train could have been disaster

Runaway train could have been disaster

Usually, I am one to play down incidents on the railways,  since the media so often does the opposite.  But ...
Barclays taking over cycling

Barclays taking over cycling

I may have missed something while on holiday. A press release has just landed in my inbox with Kulveer Ranger ...
Oh please, not Boris bike

Oh please, not Boris bike

The new London hire bikes seem to be a hit with initial users, and it is important that the scheme ...
Bikes and rail OK in Italy

Bikes and rail OK in Italy

I am now back after our epic ride to Bologna, and the train journeys further into Italy - to Terontola ...
Cycling in Italy

Cycling in Italy

In response to a couple of comments on my previous blog, I have now reached Bologna, my destination, after 950 ...
Cycling to Italy

Cycling to Italy

Its taken me more than two weeks to blog on my mega cycle ride we have reached Italy after cycling ...
Road death news attracts little attention

Road death news attracts little attention

Maybe it was because we were all watching the World Cup, but the reduction in road deaths to 2,222 last ...
Bristol slowly becoming cycling city

Bristol slowly becoming cycling city

I have just spent a couple of days in Bristol with the Cycling England board to see how they are ...
Bleak times ahead on the rails

Bleak times ahead on the rails

The kernel of a Con-Dem policy on railways is beginning to emerge with various announcements by the transport secretary Philip ...
Come ride with me Phil

Come ride with me Phil

Oh dear. The already low expectations of our new transport secretary sank further yesterday when, in an interview with the ...
Hammond to end non existent "war on motorist"

Hammond to end non existent “war on motorist”

Two blogs in a day is rather more than my usual quota, but reports of Philip Hammond's first encounter with ...
Its the other Hammond!

Its the other Hammond!

Well, Mystic Wolmar got the surname of the new Transport Secretary right, as he is indeed called Hammond, but it ...
The PPP is the scandal no one noticed

The PPP is the scandal no one noticed

One could hardly write the script as fiction. On the very day that Gordon Brown is teetering on the edge ...
Election in the balance

Election in the balance

Normally I would never make a predition on the day of an event, as it means I could be proved ...
Victim of the car hire scam

Victim of the car hire scam

I have been stung by the car hire rip off. I hired a car in Italy for two weeks from ...
Aviation heading for broke

Aviation heading for broke

Here's a thought - Ryanair and Easyjet might be the only surviving major British operators if this no-fly situation continues [I know ...
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