Transport Times
Lists my columns and other articles in Transport Times.
Snow story no story
It was predictable that the transport industry would be the Aunt Sally for the media during the recent ridiculously-termed ‘snow ...
Trouble ahead for operators
Christian Wolmar The railways are going to be in the news this year. That’s not just because of their awful ...
Swiss show the way in integrated transport
When asked about the best place for public transport, transport commentators invariably suggest it is the major cities of Switzerland, ...
Complacency mars the road safety record
One of the rare targets on transport which the government seems to have met unequivocally. Is the reduction in deaths ...
Traffic kills the community spirit
The recent research in Bristol confirming the fact that living in a busy road is less pleasant than in a ...
Branch line economics pretty ropey
I love branch lines. Never does human technology blend in better with the natural environment than on a forgotten bit ...
Transport subsidies fail the poorest
Subsidies to the transport sector are remarkably scattered randomly across income groups and, worse, overall are firmly regressive. With the ...
Environment off the political agenda as fuel prices rise
The speed with which environmental issues have been wiped off the political agenda in the face of the rising fuel ...
Advice to Boris
It took an unlikely series of events to make Boris Johnson become mayor since a year ago he was not ...
Welsh hospitals free parking policy illogicals
A few weeks ago, my partner Deborah had to drive at short notice from London to the hospital in Bangor ...
Looking for Labour’s transport policy
Detecting a coherent pattern in the current government’s transport policy is rather like trying to find a free parking space ...
Transport still not high enough on mayoral agenda
The Mayor’s announcements of a set of cycling superhighways and the £25 congestion charge for ‘gas guzzlers’ have, at last, ...
Network Rail overruns highlight underlying flaws
It would be easy to dismiss the rail chaos caused by the engineering overrun at Rugby in the post Xmas ...
Low tech trams could be solution to urban chaos
The transport sector faces a greater threat from action to tackle climate change than any other industry. The whole notion ...
Two cheers for the new high speed line
It is impossible not to be extremely excited about the opening of the high speed line between St Pancras and ...
PPP is Brown’s biggest mistake – so far
Now that Big Gordon is assured of the Premiership, unless he falls under that proverbial bus, it is worth reflecting ...
Technology could make or break the railway
Traditionally, railway mangers have always had an uneasy relationship with new technology. Because the rail network is so extensive and, ...
White Paper repeats history
Governments have always failed the railways. The recent White Paper on the railways is just the latest example in a ...
Rosco row unhappy legacy from Alexander
Ruth Kelly will not thank her two predecessors, Douglas Alexander and Alistair Darling, for dumping her with the enquiry currently ...
White Paper offers no strategy
To call the White Paper on railways disappointing would be rather like saying that the Hatfield train crash was a ...
