Christian Says
Christian Says
Letter from India
In the hotel in Goa where I have just spent two weeks, the local newspaper was delivered every morning to ...
Bad time for new line
There is much talk of a north - south high speed rail link. The idea was mentioned rather half heartedly ...
Tories learning to oppose at last
Ever since Labour was elected in 1997, the Tories have been crap at opposition. They just did not understand what ...
Public Private Partnerships are too clever by half
Public Private Partnerships have been taken further forward in the UK than anywhere else, partly because of our highly developed ...
The climate change imperative
The BBC did something very naughty the other day. On October 27, which happened to be the warmest late October ...
Labour puts transport into the “too hard” basket
What a dispiriting experience the Labour party conference is. It wasn't just that octanegerian long time Labour stalwart, Walter Wolfgang, ...
How will the government respond to increasing oil prices?
So far, there has been remarkably little fuss about the amazing hike in oil prices which have now hit the ...
A sense of perspective is needed after London bombings
There are several articles about the bombings which I have written for various publications already on the site but there ...
No heroes and lots of villains in the Railtrack case
There are going to be no heroes in the Railtrack shareholders’ case which opened on June 27 and lots of ...
Are CTRL domestic trains justified?
The confirmation of the order for £250m of high speed trains for domestic services from Kent along the Channel Tunnel ...
A trip to Germany
I have just spent a week in Germany travelling round the whole country by train. And they were impressive. There ...
Election manifestos fail to address transport issues
The most depressing aspect of transport policy is that most of the solutions are known but that politicans will not ...
Crazy calculations from the Government
I have always been a sceptic as far as conspiracy theories go. Mostly things go wrong because of cock ups ...
4×4 vehicles are just plain daft
There is a war rumbling on the city streets, between 4 x4 owners and the rest of us. Driving a ...
What effect will home-working have on the railways?
Travel is still soaring. More people are using the trains, there is no let up on the roads and even ...
Livingstone dared and won on the congestion charge
I have been doing a piece of research on congestion charging which has involved looking back at the history of ...
Whistleblower on the railways
So the BBC has uncovered appalling breaches of safety in its investigative programme, Whistleblower. Sure, some of what it showed ...
Renationalisation debate should be heard
A really good opportunity for a proper debate about rail renationalisation was lost at the recent Labour party conference. The ...
Pendolinos and Voyagers may prove to be one of privatisation’s disasters
I happened to jump on a Pendolino train at Watford the other day and what a ghastly experience it was ...
Government sets eyes on transport’s future
The Future of Transport paper produced by the government in July is a timid document which does not really address ...
