Gary Gibbon
HS2 vote: ‘Come if you want to’
Tories and Lib Dems are running a three line whip on the HS2 vote – but it’s a “come if you want to vote for it, do feel free to spend half term with the family if you don’t” three line whip.
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Grayling fends off calls to resign after rail timetable fiasco
The government has described the Northern Rail timetable fiasco, which left passengers stranded and delayed, as “totally unacceptable”. We have spoken to one Northern Rail worker who says he feels “ashamed” to wear the uniform and that staff knew the new timetable “probably wouldn’t work” before it was introduced.
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Grant Shapps MP on rail nationalisation: ‘When service is useless, who do you boot out?’
Former Conservative party chairman, Grant Shapps, is calling for Great Northern, run by Govia Thameslink, to lose its franchise.
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Tube workers’ strike causes gridlock
If failings in the public services are among the “everyday injustices” Theresa May wants to tackle, she only had to look out of any window in London today to find an example. A 24-hour strike by London Underground workers forced two million commuters to find alternative ways into work and brought gridlock to the capital’s…
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Gary Gibbon
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Faisal Islam
Ten reasons why Labour are bluffing on HS2
Your correspondent is making a strong call: HS2 is a done deal, it will sail through parliament, and if anything will be fast-tracked
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Gary Gibbon
HS2, transport armageddon and playing chicken
The weather chaos on roads and rail today is as nothing, the government is warning, to the travel network armageddon that threatens if HS2 is not built.
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Faisal Islam
Rail shambles: More than a dodgy government calculator
Faisal Islam gets to grips with the spreadsheets that reveal the sensational story of the government handling of the award of the west coast mainline franchise.
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Gary Gibbon
Tim Yeo gets personal
Gary Gibbon blogs on how Tim Yeo’s very personal attack on the Prime Minister strikes a chord with a lot of Tory MPs.
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Faisal Islam
The great west coast mainline gamble
If Sir Richard Branson is right about First’s “unsustainable” west coast mainline bid, then this Department of Transport decision is a gamble way in to the future for a new fat controller and for the government.
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FactCheck: train travel on track?
Will passenger numbers cut the grade for FirstGroup’s bid for the West Coast line? FactCheck takes a look.
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Jon Snow
A curtain raiser to the greatest show on earth
“From the very outset the crashing power of the opening bars announced something portentous – almost as if inaugurating the Olympics themselves.”
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Michael Crick
Is a Tory rebellion putting the brakes on HS2?
Michael Crick looks at the Tory backlash against HS2, the plan for a high speed rail link between London and Birmingham.
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Michael Crick
HS2 rail line could start in Manchester and Leeds
MPs on the transport committee will say that if ministers continue to face opposition at the southern end of the proposed HS2 line, they ought to think about switching the project round, and start instead in the north, reports Michael Crick.
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Has David Cameron protected transport capital spending?
Prime Minister David Cameron says the Coalition can claim to have protected capital spending on transport – is he right?
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Jon Snow
The greenest revolution
The victory on the Champs Elysees by Britain’s Mark Cavendish in the final stage of the Tour de France, coupled with the amazing fourth place by Olympic gold medalist Bradley Wiggins seals a brilliant year for British cycling. it was a year that began with the record medals haul in Beijing last summer.