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Where is the National Roads Strategy?
We have strategies for buses, bikes and trains. But what about where most journeys happen; roads?
Bus Back Better: Mission Impossible or Never say never?
BSIP guidance is sweeping and ambitious. But it's also hyper-centralised and silent on the funding
a boring (Company) post
Elon Musk claims to have unveiled the future of public transport. But it’s a car tunnel.
We’ve always had road pricing. Why are we abolishing it?
Turnpikes and fuel tax mean that we’ve always charged for use of roads. We mustn’t stop now.
What next for the PLCs?
What does the future hold for the transport PLCs in the new world?
These are the best Transport films ever made
The best films (involving transport) ever made
Active travel
The Government's cycling strategy is ambitious, visionary, detailed, intelligent… and largely unfunded
Sir Michael Holden on the Williams Review
Now we finally know what the Williams Shapps Plan says, I get together with Sir MIchael Holden to discuss it
Will the guiding mind be New Network Rail?
Have you ever used a hedge trimmer to make jam? No? So don’t put Network Rail in charge of train fares.
The “Guiding mind”
The "Guiding Mind" is meant to ensure that train companies focus on the customer. But will the "Guiding Mind" itself be focused on the customer?
The Class 800 debacle
Railway customers had a bad week. It wasn’t just Hitachi: it was also down to historic systems, processes and culture - and these things can be changed
The future’s bright, the future’s red
Smart Cities have put transport on the front-line of the next decade's cultural clash with China
Rail: What happens in a world without business travel?
Train companies are facing a financial crisis. New solutions to fares and pricing are essential to fill the hole left by business travellers.
What does Boris want?
London has a London Plan. So why doesn’t Britain have a Britain Plan?
Irish Border difficult? Just wait for the Scottish border!
Scottish independence would make the Scottish <> English border almost unworkable
“Hey google, Who’s In Charge?”
Google has become the digital front door to public transport. Time to take back control
Train fares don’t make sense. Now’s the time to fix them
The Covid crisis creates an opportunity to reform fares while demand is suppressed. The Williams Review must grab this opportunity