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Rail fares are out of control
Rail fares have got out of control. Year after year since 2004 they have risen by more than the rate ...
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Blood, Iron and Gold reviewed by Christopher Sylvester
RAILWAYS, declares Christian Wolmar in this illuminating study, "were the most important invention of the second millennium, transporting the Industrial ...
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Gridlocked nation
One thing is sure as we approach the big Bank Holiday weekend. Today, tomorrow and especially during the weekend, thousands ...
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Should speed limits be reduced? Yes!
Speed kills. It is as simple as that. For every 1 mph increase in speed, the number of accidents rise ...
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Time to rein in water companies
As the threat of standpipes appearing on our street corners becomes ever greater, the water companies are laughing all the ...
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We have to make sure the system stays open
This was the event that transport managers have been dreading since 9/11, or indeed since the IRA attacks which started ...
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Second anniversary of the congestion charge
Yesterday was the second anniversary of the introduction of the congestion charge in London and most predictions about it have ...
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Train fares are unjustified
Today’s above inflation fare rises for rail passengers are not the only bit of bad news on the horizon. Rail ...
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Level crossings are a danger to safety
Yet again, a weak point in the railways has been exposed in a terrible accident. In the 1990s, there was ...
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Leave ‘They think it’s all over’ alone!
They think it's all over is much more than just another vehicle for rude jokes about private parts and flatulence ...
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Public opinion favours renationalisation
It is not surprising that polls show that most people would like the railways to be renationalised. The privatisation of ...
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British Airways needs to wise up
After this week’s dreadful events at Heathrow, British Airways risks the same fate Marks & Spencers and losing its reputation ...
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Government blows its chance to sort out the railways
When Alistair Darling announced his rail review in January, long suffering rail passengers hoped that after years of chaos, the ...
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Daft train must be derailed
One of the rail industry's biggest moguls, Sir James Sherwood the head of Sea Containers, reckons he has found an ...
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Finger points to both the Tories and Labour
The twin crises of the railways were cruelly exposed yesterday. Not only is the number of delays at a record ...
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Why are our streets riddled with holes?
Holes in the road. Don't we all just hate them. And they seem to be ever more and more of ...
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Charging motorists for road use is the way forward
This week will see the announcement of the government’s congestion-busting strategy. But far a multi billion programme of major road ...
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Why we are stuck in transport dark ages?
Slowly, indeed about as fast as the traffic flows in our towns and cities, the government’s appalling record on transport ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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