Category: transport

Look Around

There are plenty of real problems with aircraft emissions. But thousands of people are obsessed instead with a fairy tale.

Pollution, as scandals on both sides of the Atlantic show, is a physical manifestation of corruption.

Is the killing of trees the link between this great rail disaster and 2014’s floods?

Is the government preparing to dispose of our forests and other public land?

Lobbying results in old and dirty technologies being maintained long beyond their useful life.

The justifications for airport expansion turn out to be bogus.

A new road-building programme will drain money from essential services.

Why is Top Gear, alone among BBC programmes, allowed to keep breaking editorial guidelines?

We can now see what the impact of has been of the police decision to turn off Oxfordshire’s speed cameras.

Here’s what we could gain by reducing the speed limit.

Government ministers have declared an end to hostilities that never begun.

The Conservative war on road safety has begun

Before the UK commissions a high speed rail network, we should ask ourselves some big questions.

Has our society become too complex to sustain?

I meet the mayor of London and have a good old ding-dong

As BA reports massive losses, isn’t it time to scrap the airport expansion programme?

Pay drivers to scrap their cars? We might as well burn ten-pound notes in power stations.

In the fifth and final interview in the first series of fierce encounters with policy makers, I give the chief executive of easyJet the third degree.

How did Marxist class warriors end up fighting for the bosses’ right to fly?

Dr Beeching helped turn the country I’ve come to love into an outpost of empire. Now his legacy can be reversed.