Oct 28, 20202 min readWelsh Government Set to Nationalise an English Train Service. October 2020In a bold move the Welsh Government has announced that it will nationalise the rail services under its franchise agreement. Ministers...
Oct 25, 20202 min readAre Electric Buses a Success? October 2020In 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...
Oct 18, 20202 min readDemand Responsive Transport (DRT). October 2020In February 2020 the Department for Transport published an update of its document ‘A Better Deal for Bus Users’. It included a section on...
Oct 11, 20202 min readThe Electric Car Panacea. October 2020The promotion of electric cars as the panacea of all our transport ills gathers momentum. True, they can help in reducing but not...
Oct 7, 20202 min readSmart Villages & Rural Public Transport. October 2020The Smart Villages concept is catching on. Smart Villages are defined as communities in rural areas that use innovative solutions to...
Sep 28, 20202 min readSchools are Back. September 2020Any 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...
Aug 28, 20202 min readA Well Deserved Honour for Professor John Whitelegg. August 2020The Foundation for Integrated Transport has appointed Professor John Whitelegg as one of its first two Senior Fellows. John and I are...
Aug 24, 20202 min readWhat Boris Didn’t Tell Herefordshire. August 2020On the 11 August Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Hereford’s new Super Surgery. The state-of-the-art surgery brings together many...
Aug 14, 20202 min readCovid & Lockdown Drive a Big hole Through Herefordshire’s LTP Public Transport Strategy. August 2020Such a core network is based on services that operate between the market towns, larger villages and Hereford on a regular pattern during...
May 23, 20202 min readWhen the Train Becomes a Bus. May 2020There are some strange events taking place during this unprecedented time of lockdown. A significant one is the fact that our railways...