Confessions of a Network Rail Public Member
I confess I’m one of the 100 plus members of Network Rail. Technically, between us, we own the railway infrastructure. Though we are not personally liable for it! Broadly speaking we have the power to sack the Board of Network Rail – but they can also sack us! When Network Rail was first created I […]
Beneath the city streets – a visit to Down Street tube station/bunker
Prior to the last quarterly Director Generals meeting our hosts Transport for London kindly arranged for a visit to the disused Down Street tube station on the Piccadilly Line in Mayfair. Subsequently it acted as Command Centre bunker for the rail network in WW2 and was also used by Churchill and his war cabinet. Here […]
Putting a TIGER in the tank
The US isn’t famous for its public transport provision especially after the motor industry did its level best to eliminate some of the excellent mass transit systems that American cities used to enjoy. A Los Angeles streetcar – operation ended in 1963[/caption] But despite the tragic destruction of the trolleys and streetcar lines that used […]
If Dehli can do it…
The world’s largest CNG bus service When you step out into the chaos of a central Delhi street – with its dilapidated looking buses, battered taxis and auto-rickshaws fighting for space, it is hard to believe that Delhi has carried out one of the largest experiments in the greening of urban transport anywhere in the […]
Climate Culture
Took in a session by the Cape Farewell project at the Latitude festival in the Summer. Cape Farewell is taking a different tack on climate change – infiltrating climate change into the culture and the arts through taking artists of all stripes to the arctic on sailing ships. And then letting them respond to that […]