Active travel: solutions for changing cities
Over the last decade promoting active travel has moved from the fringes of urban transport policy to a much more central role in the planning of cities and their transport networks. This is because the promotion of active travel, and the creation of places and streetscapes where people want to walk and cycle, is such […]
Time is right for fresh thinking on future of urban rail
The recent meltdowns on Northern and Thameslink not only left many passengers besides themselves with frustration about not being able to get to work on time – or at all – it also led to a firestorm of criticism and condemnation from politicians and media alike. With the immediate shock of that first Monday morning […]
In the silence of my lonely room
In his latest article for Passenger Transport Magazine, Jonathan Bray asks as the government wants to tackle loneliness, is this the opportunity for public transport to be part of the solution to another problem?
Here's tae us: Wha's like us?
In his latest article for Passenger Transport Magazine, Jonathan Bray says Scotland’s railway has become a symbol of the nation’s ambition and bigger thinking but it’s time that bus policy caught up.
West Midlands reaps the devolution dividend
In his latest article for Passenger Transport Magazine, Jonathan Bray explains how with a new ‘metro mayor’, growing commuter rail use, light rail expansion projects, HS2, the West Midlands is a region that is going places.
Is it time to embrace our inner hipster?
In his latest article for Passenger Transport Magazine, Jonathan Bray asks should urban transport policy begin to reflect the ‘new economy’, with interesting places accessible by active travel and mass transit?
Growing urban transport agenda gives UTG plenty to chew on
The Urban Transport Group is capitalising on the heightened interest in city-region transport challenges. Andrew Forster, Editor of Local Transport Today, went to meet its director, Jonathan Bray, and chair, Tobyn Hughes. Read the full interview here.
Solvitur ambulando
Was great to have the opportunity to be one of the sponsors of the full to capacity Living Streets Walking Summit at the Guildhall in the City of London – and to chair one of the sessions – on Saturday. Here’s what I took from it on what’s next for walking 1. Better places for […]
My night at NEF – CAVs, data, carbon and the future of transport
Took part in a Chatham House roundtable at the New Economics Foundation last night which, mostly ended up exploring the fault lines between a vision of the future of transport centered on moving as rapidly as possible to the vast majority of journeys being made by electric, shared and autonomous cars – and those who […]
Time for transport policy to get in touch with its inner hipster?
Something is happening to our bland, branded up high streets in the same way that something fundamental is happening to our urban economies. The hipsters have arrived. Sure, Greggs and Virgin Money and all the other high street chains have most of the prime spots locked up but springing up everywhere, and at quite a […]