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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 ...
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 ...
Gridlocked nation
One thing is sure as we approach the big Bank Holiday weekend. Today, tomorrow and especially during the weekend, thousands ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Public opinion favours renationalisation
It is not surprising that polls show that most people would like the railways to be renationalised. The privatisation of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
