
Are Electric Buses a Success? October 2020
In terms of reducing emissions the answer is yes. There is no doubt that the quick phasing out of the diesel engine bus is an essential...
Demand Responsive Transport (DRT). October 2020
In February 2020 the Department for Transport published an update of its document ‘A Better Deal for Bus Users’. It included a section on...
The Electric Car Panacea. October 2020
The promotion of electric cars as the panacea of all our transport ills gathers momentum. True, they can help in reducing but not...
Smart Villages & Rural Public Transport. October 2020
The Smart Villages concept is catching on. Smart Villages are defined as communities in rural areas that use innovative solutions to...
Schools are Back. September 2020
Any one trying to get out of or into Hereford on the Ledbury Road between 15.15 and 16.00 cannot be but amazed and annoyed at the...
A Well Deserved Honour for Professor John Whitelegg. August 2020
The Foundation for Integrated Transport has appointed Professor John Whitelegg as one of its first two Senior Fellows. John and I are...
What Boris Didn’t Tell Herefordshire. August 2020
On the 11 August Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Hereford’s new Super Surgery. The state-of-the-art surgery brings together many...
Covid & Lockdown Drive a Big hole Through Herefordshire’s LTP Public Transport Strategy. August 2020
Such a core network is based on services that operate between the market towns, larger villages and Hereford on a regular pattern during...
When the Train Becomes a Bus. May 2020
There are some strange events taking place during this unprecedented time of lockdown. A significant one is the fact that our railways...









