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Transport News
- Tea and toilets for railway stations
- National Express wants taxpayers’ cash to keep running East Coast trains
- Disabled pay more for transport than able-bodied passengers
- Underground, underfunded, overrated - does London really have the 8th best infrastructure in the world?
- Theresa Villiers; On the wrong side of the third runway
- Network Rail on track for funds challenge
- Deflation may cause rail cuts
- Rail firm to accept fall in ticket prices
- East London Line extension to continue to Clapham Junction
- UK rail fares higher than Europe
- Spanish HST create modal shift from air
- Deflation may cause rail cuts
Research and Reports
- For those interested in this sort of thing the DfT has produced the responses responses to the Consultation on Delivering a Sustainable Transport System
- Passenger Focus Report on Rail
- Passenger Focus reveal the findings of their report into rail ticketing. Are fares too high? is the pricing structure confusing? If you don't already know these answers the report will reveal all.
- CBI "Time to change gear" report
- The CBI have produced a report into Britain's transport networks. The report rates aspects of Britain's network and sets out a five point plan to ensure that the network is protected.
- "On the move" Centre for Cities report on integrated transport
- The Centre for Cities think tank has produced a report on integrated transport in cities.
- Tory Rail Strategy
- Remember the disaster of RailTrack? Well the Tories are back again with a "new" strategy for rail; some longer trains and a rail management structure that is answerable to the clients.
- "Towards Better Transport" from Policy Exchange
- David Cameron's favourite think tank highlights the need for new schemes of financing transport infrastructure, has a good section on the rationale behind congestion charging if nothing else. From 2008.
Links to external sites
- Commission for Integrated Transport, independent body advising the Government on integrated transport.
- Passenger Focus, the UK's rail and, thanks to Labour, bus passenger champions
- European Federation for Transport and the Environment
- Campaign for Better Transport, transport campaigning group
- Transport Briefing, transport news site.