The last few weeks and months have some of the gloomiest economic news, certainly since the 1970s and probably in my whole lifetime. I suppose that, for someone of my age and background, this is all a much bigger shock than all those crises in years gone by. In those days, the unions met Harold [...]

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I thought it might be a useful exercise to place on record in this blog the questions which I addressed for Channel 4 television in their recent Dispactches programme about the first year of the London mayor, Boris Johnson. I must emphasise that, since I am not a registered elector in London, I have no [...]

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The whole debate about Open Access operation, which has been simmering away quietly virtually since the passage of the 1993 Railways Act, has been reignited in recent weeks by Department for Transport’s failed attempt to stop the grant of train paths to a new open access operator, Grand Northern, and by Virgin’s aborted attempt to [...]

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VOLUMES of road traffic fell during the fourth quarter of last year on most vehicle types and on almost all road types, according to the latest survey undertaken by the Department for Transport. The quarterly index for the September-December quarter for all motor vehicles dropped by 1.4% compared with the same quarter in 2007, taken [...]

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BUS and light rail passenger journeys fell during the autumn in all areas of the country, though they remained ahead of the numbers for the same quarter in 2007, according to the latest figures published by the Department for Transport. Analysis shows that, in the October to December quarter, bus and light rail patronage was [...]

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