Public Finance
Greening’s dilemma over HS2
Justine Greening, the new transport secretary, faces a daunting learning curve on the complexities of the rail industry as she ...
Is there really a financial crisis on the railways?
Almost unnoticed, the railways are enjoying an investment boom. Major projects, such as Crossrail, Thameslink and the East London ...
Lord Adonis interview: the line manager
A crisis is creeping up on the tracks. The railways are facing their most difficult year since privatisation in the ...
Fares rises show lack of clear strategy on railways
Every January, the new year opens with bad news about the railways. The rise in fares which are imposed ...
Crossrail project full of doubts with recession looming
Nearly a year ago, in what was intended to be a pre-election flourish, Gordon Brown announced the definitive go-ahead for ...
Blood on the tracks
The long slow death of Metronet had an air of inevitability ever since the arbiter, Chris Bolt, announced late last ...
Running on empty?
It may seem unbelievable to many commuters in the south east but it was transport that won the Olympics for ...
Costing the earth
The climate on climate change is changing. At last year’s Labour Party conference, there was still a debate about how ...
Trouble ahead on the rails?
On the face of it, the railways are the least of the problems facing the new transport secretary, Douglas Alexander ...
Darling facing a rough year
In the dog days of the Christmas and New Year break, journalists scrabbling for a story suddenly hit upon transport ...
Ready for anything: a capital response
The tributes to the public services have been universal and well deserved. Everyone who had anything to do with the ...
Project management at Heathrow Terminal 5
The roof on the main building of Heathrow’s Terminal 5 was completed last month. Given that at 400 by 150 ...
Is road pricing feasible?
It is two years since London’s congestion scheme was launched by mayor Ken Livingstone to a fanfare of opprobrium from ...
Livingstone tries to sort out TfL’s financial difficulties
The sharp rises on some fares announced recently for London Transport come as no surprise. The finances of Transport for ...
Much work to be done on transport
If there was an area of policy that the government could opt out of, there is no doubt that Labour ...
Blood on the tracks
2004 will go down as the year when the government was longer able to ignore the crisis on the railways ...
Down the tube – the biggest PPP
As Saddam Hussein might say, the Public Private Partnership for the London Underground is the mother of all Private Finance ...
The road less travelled
Congestion charging has suddenly become a mainstream political issue. Before Ken Livingstone’s successful introduction of the charge in London in ...
Will the tube get back on track?
The lengthy closure of London Underground’s Central Line is a serious breakdown of a major public service which raises a ...
Nowhere to hide
Transport is probably the policy area least suited to Parliamentary democracy. The pain is all short term, the gain long ...