Transport Times
Lists my columns and other articles in Transport Times.
Car free day should be taken seriously
The Department for Transport has always been rather half hearted about car-free day, now renamed ‘In town, without my car!’ ...
The world is getting to be a safer place
Watching the A380 glide down onto Heathrow’s runway for the first time, the fellow hack standing next to me could ...
PPP lesson for new boy Alexander
One hopes that Douglas Alexander, the new man at the Department for Transport, is looking closely at events on the ...
Dunstable, a small town tragedy or how not to do things
When the National Audit Office’s report on something bizarrely named ‘the A5 queue relocation scheme’ plopped into my inbox, I ...
CTRL’s engineering success blighted by financial failures
The project to build the Channel Tunnel Rail Link has enjoyed mixed fortunes and could be termed as either a ...
Own up Tony – you don’t give a stuff about the environment
The Labour government’s record on mitigating the environmental damage caused by transport has been lamentable and is getting worse. That ...
DfT should carry can on security
There is a big kerfuffle in London over the staffing of stations, with the Evening Standard attacking the train companies ...
Heathrow alternation plan is not cricket
Beware the press release slipped out on a Friday. The Department for Transport is often guilty of this attempt to ...
Deregulation means trains will be only for the well off, subsidies slashed so savers suffer
The pressure is on for the Department for Transport to cut the subsidy going to the railways. It amounts to ...
Breaking the cycle of decline
We hear little of some of the buzzwords of Labour’s early period in government such as integrated transport and ‘joined ...
Who will come up with a new model for transport funding?
Business models follow fashions as much as those on the catwalk. The prevailing business model adopted over the past two ...
Government should learn the London lesson
he new London transport commissioner, Peter Hendy, will soon have a new string to his bow - running part of ...
London integration marred by Oyster short-sightedness
The term ‘integrated transport’ has gone out of fashion largely because ministers realised that it did not mean much in ...
It works in Germany – so why not here?
I have seen the future. And it is German. The TollCollect system of making lorries pay for using the German ...
CBI shows its true colours
I love the CBI for the nakedness of its self-interested lobbying which occasionally lapses into sheer hypocrisy. Whenever the CBI ...
Why is there no time for time changes
One of the things that always made me dubious about Tony Blair’s pro-European credentials was his total failure to consider ...
Demonstration towns show the way to more cycling
London has suddenly become a cycling city. As the recently issued statistics show, in the space of just five years, ...
The Tories can change their spots
The Tories' transport policy has not exactly has not exactly set the world alight in recent years. Indeed, it seems ...
The Government begins to take notice of the bus industry
The penny has begun to drop over buses. The recent statistics on public transport reported in the last issue of ...
Women in transport
One of the little considered aspects of public transport provision is gender. It is conventional wisdom within the industry that ...
