Buses, cars, vans and trucks have been stuck in a chaotic mess in London during the last two days. At surface level this seems to be due to an inch or so of snow and temperatures dropping just below freezing for a few hours – and a failure by our traffic managers to cope with […]
Although the title and content of Local Transport Today (LTT) might suggest that its greatest role might be as the featured anorak mag on Have I Got News for you, it is a twice monthly bible and font of wisdom for the top, and most influential transport professionals in Britain.
And, as such, it is likely that […]
Whatever you think about man-made climate change and worldwide plans to cut personal mobility and spend trillions on addressing the global warming ‘problem’, there is no doubt that we are reaching a critical and potentially dangerous turning point. The point is this. After some resistance an inquiry is now looming to investigate a momentous leak […]
Plans to increase tax on fuel and energy supplies in the name of tackling climate change are being greeted with increasing scepticism and hostility as the ongoing financial crisis sharpens views on what people are prepared to do to ‘save the planet’ from climate change. Now, the BBC says that the UK government has is […]
As the late great Douglas Adams revealed in one of the finest books about transport, travel and everything ever, namely; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy, the answer to the question; what is the meaning of life? Is 42. (As the BBC explain here) And, lest you have forgotten the stern warning that our Prime […]