Housing barrier to euro
The announcement on the Euro has highlighted two related aspects of housing policy that are rarely brought to the public’s ...
Darling’s slow train finally goes off the rails
Alistair Darling, the transport secretary, is the colourless Blairite who was appointed by the Prime Minister to try to make ...
Rail 463: Figures expose fragility of Network Rail Experiment
These are bad times for the railway and they're going to get worse before they get better, warns Christian Wolmar ...
53 not (yet) out
I have realised that this is not just about cricket. It's about life itself. My middle aged quest for a ...
Rail 462: Private sector investment proves to be a mirage
While superficially the new franchise deal for SouthCentral looks as if a lot of private money has been attracted into ...
How Britain could be gridlocked
Every day, we are always on the brink of transport gridlock. As congestion gets worse and the trains more overcrowded, ...
Rail 461: Short sight at the SRA must not wreck the CTRL
With the National Audit Office again turning its attention to the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Christian Wolmar calls for a ...
Rail 460: National Railcard would sugar pill of commuter fare rises
The SRA could sweeten the unpalatable medicine of steep fare rises for politically influential commuters in the South East by ...
Rail 459: Macho rhetoric of the SRA is alienating railway industry
The row over the exclusion of First Group from the new Greater Anglia franchise will be just the first of ...
Will the tube get back on track?
The lengthy closure of London Underground’s Central Line is a serious breakdown of a major public service which raises a ...
Sustainable communities
Remember the expressions ‘joined up government’ and ‘integrated transport’ which were used so much in the early days of New ...
Rail 458: Franchising needs new model as it nears end of the catwalk
The franchising system has effectively collapsed, contends CHRISTIAN WOLMAR, and now SRA Chairman Richard Bowker will have to respond to ...
What is the Private Finance Initiative really about?
The ostensible reasons for the PFI programme are well known. It is supposed to reduce the cost of big projects ...
Aviation security, is it much tighter?
The outbreak of war in the Middle East will undoubtedly lead to an immediate reduction in the numbers of people ...
Rail 457: SRA must work out the REAL cost and benefits of branches
Forty years after Beeching and 20 since Serpell, the spectre of branch line cuts is once again stalking the railway ...
The charge that will get us out of a jam
Suddenly, everyone seems to be in favour of the congestion charge. Motorists have been paying a fiver for the right ...
Central Line crash: The truth
An Evening Standard investigation into the Central line derailment, which shut the line six weeks ago, today pinpoints the cause ...
Rail 456: History repeats itself on Tube and the politicians don’t care
The damage inflicted by privatisation on the surface railway is being replicated on the London Underground whose Managing Director, Paul ...
Off the Rails
Mrs Thatcher stumbled on privatisation as a way of boosting the government's coffers which happened also to encapsulate the Conservative ...
Man v machine
I am an optimist. I have to be to believe that my middle aged quest for a maiden century is ...
