Better Transport

1 May: Boris Johnson may be celebrating a year in office but are Londoners celebrating too?

30 April: The recession is no excuse for service cuts and higher fares - let's tell the Government to get its act together.

30 April: I've just come back from facilitating a meeting between campaigners from Camp Bling and the heads of Southend Council. The group is celebrating - because they've stopped a £25 million road scheme.

24 April: Ever since the concept of eco-towns was first announced by the Government, we’ve been concerned that they would become car-dependent commuter towns. We’ve just responded to the draft planning policy guidance which would do little to encourage or enable people to use their cars less.

22 April: The 2009 Budget may have been hyped as the greenest ever, but it was nothing like the kickstart we had hoped for.

22 April: Today we are celebrating the launch of the new statutory bus passenger watchdog that we campaigned for.

19 April: Yesterday, the Rail Minister told me he’d love for train fares to be cheaper.

16 April: The Government is betting that electric vehicles are the solution to transport's rising carbon footprint. I'm not so sure: where's all the electricty coming from, and will the National Grid be able to cope?

9 April: I just finished telling the Government how I thought it should help local councils to create good transport plans.

10 April: Keep your eyes peeled for an unusual train sighting. Rail Minister Lord Adonis is about to begin a six-day train trip around the country to see the railways at first hand – ending up in York on the weekend (according to The Times).