Christian Says

One of the most curious aspects of the Autumn Statement was the fact that of the promised rail improvements, the ...
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The 'research' carried out to justify opposition to Westminster's new night time parking restrictions has got me so enraged that ...
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Justine Greening's attempt to soften the impact of the rail fares rise by reducing it to 1 per cent above ...
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After hearing of the terrible death of a second person at Bow within a few weeks on the cycle superhighway, ...
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Don't you just love to hate Westminster Council?  Britain's richest council which gave us the Lady Porter gerrymandering scandal has ...
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The conventional wisdom on Philip Hammond was the overused political cliche that he was a "safe pair of hands". The ...
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It was always likely that Philip Hammond, clearly seen as a Tory rising star, would get the first big job ...
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A few weeks ago I wrote in my Rail column (https://www.christianwolmar.co.uk/2011/08/rail-676-dishonest-arguments-by-both-pro-and-anti-hs2/)  about the dishonest arguments being pushed by both sides ...
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The Department for Transport has been leaking suggestions that a high speed rail link between Heathrow and Gatwick would improve ...
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I'm back in America for a book promotion tour and yet again I am appalled at the inefficiency of Amtrak ...
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Chiltern is launching its new 'Mainline' service between London and the West Midlands, with loco hauled stock, a simplified fare ...
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Boris Johnson has announced plans to extend the cycle hire scheme westwards as well as eastwards, and confirmed that Barclays ...
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There are good reasons and bad reasons to oppose - or indeed support - HS2. The report by the right ...
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I was at Fort William station with a couple of hours to spare on saturday after doing the 3 peaks ...
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There was an inadvertently hilarious piece in the Daily Mail - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2002906/Ever-dreamt-world-traffic-wardens.html - yesterday on the story of Aberystwyth which, ...
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TfL's claim that the traffic in the abolished western part of the congestion zone has not gone up as fast ...
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I blogged about the McNulty report yesterday for TSSA - http://www.tssajournal.com/blogs/christian-wolmar/dream-radical-approach-railways - and will be writing about it in my ...
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I have been on TV and radio on the story of the SWT ticket office clerk, Ian Faletto, who reportedly ...
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Memo to train companies: I have had several recent dealings to put my children on the car insurance with Direct ...
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I had tea at the much touted Midland hotel in St Pancras, now sadly renamed as the St Pancras Renaissance ...
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