Christian Says

So we have Crossrail at last. It may be somewhat the wrong scheme, not going to the right places - ...

Transport affects virtually everyone every day yet never figures in elections. Even the amazingly contentious issue of rail privatisation barely ...

I can't resist another quick 'I told you so'. Alistair Darling was a terrible Transport Secretary and I always thought ...

Normally, I wince when people say 'you have to take the politics out' of a particular issue. Political debate and ...

I have to travel to San Francisco for a family funeral. I am going for what is an extended weekend ...

It's been a month since I blogged, but what with the holidays and absolutely frantic work thereafter, I thought I ...

Good piece in The Guardian today about the government’s policy on the environment. Ashley Seager points out just how slowly ...

In all the rush created by the rail announcements and the Metronet collapse, I have had little time to write ...

I have been extremely busy with Metronet collapse and other writing, so have failed to blog for a few days ...

It is not often that journalists can claim that they were 100 per cent right, but the imminent collapse of ...

I have just spent a couple of days in Aylesbury, one of the Cycling Demonstration Towns sponsored by Cycling England ...

Great article by Carole Sarler in today’s Observer. People in her street in Haringey are being consulted over how to ...

‘Britain under siege’ suggests the tabloids after three bomb incidents over the space of 72 hours. A Labour baroness, on ...

The replacement of the highly competent Douglas Alexander with Ruth Kelly who seems to have feet of clay and has ...

Went on an early morning demonstration organisation by the 4x4 alliance, an excellent group of people campaigning against the growing ...

I did a whole series of radio and TV interviews today to mark National Bike Week. Cycling England, on whose ...

Possibly the most difficult task of a journalist is to dig behind the self-interested positions of both sides in an ...

Just received the press release from the Office of Rail Regulation about the safety statistics which are generally all improving ...

I have just come back from St Petersburg where I gave a lecture and made it into a week's holiday ...

Why is it that the railways attract so much criticism? There was an extraordinary article in the Mail on Sunday ...