The first in my new blog reflecting matters mostly other than transport - though I will occasionally lapse into rail ...

HS2 is the biggest infrastructure project ever to be built in this country. It is, too, controversial given the huge ...

I do occasional talks for Speakers for Schools, a charity set up by Robert Peston eight years ago to enable ...

There are many ways to kill off projects and the Department for Transport is proving particularly adept at finding new ...

It seems that the HS2 gravy train is impossible to stop however much its finances go off the rails. Or ...

The publication of the Rail Enhancement Pipeline attracted little media coverage which is generally focussed on the big projects, such ...

Sorry reader, it is difficult to avoid Brexit at the moment. I’ve just spent three days at the European Transport ...

At one of the numerous Labour party conference fringe meetings on transport, a junior shadow transport minister said ‘Rail renationalisation ...

Well dear reader, you deserve a break. So do I. We’ve all been inundated with Brexit,  Leavers, Remainers, Boris Johnson ...

Getting cars off the road and passengers into public transport is the simpler aspect of making transport more sustainable. Freight ...

It had to happen. The biggest infrastructure project the UK has ever seen was never going to be nodded through ...

Franchising is dead. Long live franchising! That seems to be the message from the unexpected announcement of the new deal ...

It is excellent news that the HS2 scheme is finally being subjected to a thorough analysis, including an examination of ...

The new transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has asked officials to ensure their briefings to him are no longer than two ...

London bus passengers lives are being put at risk, because Transport for London had refused to change its “punishing” shift ...

Now comes the hard bit. Does Keith Williams know what he is doing? I am not asking that in a ...

Things are getting better. No, really, they are. The railways have largely been out of the news lately, apart from ...

Electric cars are not a new invention. When I was growing up in west London in the 1960s, Harrods delivered ...

We are prisoners of history but we don’t have to be. When writing my various books on the history of ...

I rarely find the time to do blogs but watching Boris Johnson’s performances on the media yesterday cannot go by ...