Showing posts with label railways. Show all posts
Showing posts with label railways. Show all posts
Friday, 30 November 2018

Trains are not the solution to any of the UK's transport problems, they are the problem.

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I've felt for some while that we have our transport planning, infrastructure, investment and systems all, as my mum would put it, kecky-...
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Tuesday, 24 July 2018

It's time to stop obsessing about trains - they aren't the infrastructure solution we need

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Let's imagine for a minute that I'm going to give you several billion pounds for the purpose of making the North of England's in...
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Saturday, 18 February 2017

Things are seldom as simple as they seem...

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I'm discussing Council budgets and we get to the matter of shared services and specifically sharing back office functions (things lik...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2015

Driverless vehicles make railways (and our fast cars) obsolete

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Every time such things as the "Northern Powerhouse" are mentioned the punditry, politicians and media immediately start agitat...
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Saturday, 18 July 2015

If we're to serve tomorrow's economy we need to invest more in roads and less in rail

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Since 2001 rail travel in the UK has increased by over 50% (and has more than doubled since rail privatisation in the 1990s). I'...
Saturday, 27 June 2015

Roads are much more important than railways - public investment should reflect this fact. It doesn't.

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A bit of Britain's most important transport network No matter how desperate the banana republic, the international airport is alwa...
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Wednesday, 3 December 2014

The evidence suggests new roads won't generate more journeys.

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**** It has been a commonplace view - supported in the past with some evidence - that building new roads didn't work as a strategy to ...
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Wednesday, 31 July 2013

More panic in Leeds...

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**** Last year (according to the figures in Wikipedia at least) over 25 million people trooped through Leeds station on their way to work...
Wednesday, 13 February 2013

Potholes...

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**** Every Councillor needs to be on top of the pothole issue and pointing out how the council needs to act and act now to do something (s...
Thursday, 31 January 2013

Writing elsewhere...on the waste of cash that is HS2

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**** Over at the Culture Vultures you can read me ripping into High Speed Two: Let’s put is more simply still – if the government put ...
Saturday, 24 November 2012

High Speed 2 would damage the regeneration of Bradford

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**** Not me saying this (although I agree with the argument) but a former boss of the Strategic Rail Authority: “On regeneration, ...
Friday, 23 September 2011

Is there actually a business case for HS2 - or is it just anecdote?

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**** From the select committee enquiry into the proposed high speed railway to Birmingham comes this gem from Sir Brian Briscoe, the boss...
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Sunday, 13 June 2010

Differential pricing keeps overall prices lower - so smile as you stand in the theme park queue!

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**** The use of differential pricing by businesses is not a new practice – from the inception of travel there were different classes with t...
Thursday, 27 May 2010

Time to put the trains sets away boys!

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*** The other day, some of Bradford’s finest – including the wonderful John Pennington and Andrew Mason – presented a plan to link the two s...
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Thursday, 11 March 2010

Build better roads and urban systems...inter city high speed trains are rubbish

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The Government - applying it's usual strategy of stealing any Tory policy that's been announced, changing it slightly and spending ...
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