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Letter to The Times: rail fares need sorting
Sir, Clare Foges is right to highlight how trains could make a far bigger contribution to the net zero target ...
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Railcard scam is nothing short of theft by the state
Last week, buying a ticket for my first rail journey in six months, I said to the kindly ticket clerk, ...
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Letter to The Times: Lack of resilience of today’s railway
Sir. The collapse of the train services out of King’s Cross and Paddington after the announcement that the Hitachi trains ...
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Treasury needs lesson in GCSE economics
Every year, rail fares go up and every year, the proposed increase in fuel duty is shelved. This year was ...
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Times review of Cathedrals of Steam
Review by Richard Godwin London has 14 railway termini, more than any other city in the world. It has no ...
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The privatisation that never was
Let’s stop pretending that the railways were ever really privatised. When they were broken up into two main parts, the ...
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Letter to The Times: Cut the bureaucracy, open the lines now
Sir, The process for reopening railway lines as currently set up is cumbersome and slow. It will take at least ...
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By acquiescing to impossible rules, the railways are killing themselves
By trying to do the impossible, the railways are on a suicide mission. Trying to enforce social distancing while running ...
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Letter to The Times: HS2 is the wrong scheme
I detect that, like me and indeed Boris Johnson, Danny Finkelstein instinctively wants to support HS2, but once he looked ...
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Letter to The Times: HS2 review must look at fundamental questions
It is excellent news that the HS2 scheme is finally being subjected to a thorough analysis, including an examination of ...
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Letter to The Times: Extinction Rebellion demonstrates the benefits of pedestrianisation
There has been much debate about the rights and wrongs of the Extinction Rebellion demonstrations but Londoners seem united on ...
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My (short) letter to The Times on franchising
The row over pension funding highlights the impossibility of transferring real risks to the private sector. For its shareholders’ benefit, ...
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Letter to The Times on Driverless cars
It is unclear where the push for driverless cars (News, Feb 6) is coming from. There is no public desire: ...
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Terry Morgan is not the problem for HS2
The defenestration of Sir Terry Morgan, the chairman of HS2, has been as painfully slow as progress on the scheme ...
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Letter to The Times: Fix potholes but don’t build new roads
It is excellent that The Times is highlighting the nation’s difficulties with transport as it is a neglected area of policy. Fundamental ...
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Times letter: Heathrow decision inevitable following Brexit
Sir, Bad government begets bad government. Ironically it was David Cameron’s fatal decision to hold a referendum that has now ...
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Nationalise the Thameslink Southern franchise!
Everyone hates Govia, the train company responsible for the strike-ridden Southern rail services. Passengers are at their wits’ end because ...
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Rail companies need stiffer penalties
The cattle have started mooing. The least surprising statistic of the year is the revelation by Transport Focus yesterday that ...
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Ski safari delights
It’s at dawn when I most appreciate this ski safari in the Dolomites. First, there is the pink sunrise through ...
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New trains now, not HS3 in the vague future
It will take more than the promise of a few faster trains in some distant decade to satisfy my friends ...
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