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Rob Lyons
High-speed rail,
snail's-pace building
The HS2 link between London and Birmingham will do wonders for Britain, but why will it take til 2026 to build the thing?
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| Wednesday 28 July 2010 |
Rob Lyons
The speed-cam debate: calm down, dears!
Speed cameras are neither scarily Orwellian devices nor the saviours of pedestrians from rampaging motorists.
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| Thursday 22 July 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
A ‘cycling revolution’? On your bike, Boris
When cyclists are continually told that their mode of transport is saving humanity from doom, it’s no wonder so many of them are annoying pricks.
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| Wednesday 3 March 2010 |
Kennedy & Lyons
Infrastructure should be an electoral flashpoint
Both the government and the opposition are scared of big, slow-return, risky projects – but Britain needs modernisation.
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| Thursday 6 August 2009 |
Rob Lyons
We need planes, trains and automobiles
Justifying high-speed rail as a way of stopping people from flying is a perverse anti-travel argument.
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| Tuesday 21 July 2009 |
James Woudhuysen
Who’s afraid of electric vehicles?
Green opposition even to eco-friendly electric cars shows that what environmentalists really dislike is travel itself.
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| Thursday 11 June 2009 |
Tim Black
Committing the sin of demanding more
In their anachronistic demand for better wages, London Tube workers have struck a blow against the culture of austerity.
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| Thursday 30 April 2009 |
Tim Black
At least the recession will ‘slow down London’
Why the well-heeled, slow-witted campaigners of the Slow Movement are welcoming the economic downturn.
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| Wednesday 18 February 2009 |
Alex Hochuli
Why I’m standing up for the right to fly
The co-founder of Modern Movement explains why they’re holding a pro-flight demo in London on Thursday.
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| Thursday 15 January 2009 |
Rob Lyons
India’s ‘festival of
first-time fliers’
As British eco-activists fly into a fury over the Third Runway, millions of Indians are exploring the skies on cheap flights.
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| Tuesday 16 December 2008 |
Rob Lyons
Honk if you support the voters of Manchester
Mancunians have struck a blow against the politics of behaviour and blackmail by shunning the congestion charge.
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| Tuesday 7 October 2008 |
Alka Sehgal
India’s economic progress left in Tatas
The campaign to shut down a cheap car factory is driven by elite green angst more than the Indian people’s interests.
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| Thursday 21 August 2008 |
Rob Lyons
Drive this careless law off the statute books
A law that criminalises death by careless driving is New Labour’s ‘Dangerous Dogs moment’: desperate, crude, illiberal.
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| Thursday 12 June 2008 |
Tim Black
Mancunian motorists, say ‘No’ to this sin tax
The proposal for a road-pricing scheme in Greater Manchester shows what is driving today’s anti-car zealotry: distrust of the people.
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| Thursday 28 February 2008 |
Rob Lyons
Choking on the congestion charge
Look out, New York: London’s failed, car-baiting, bossy road-toll scheme is heading your way.
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| Thursday 10 January 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
One short drive for a man, one giant leap for mankind
All hail ‘The People’s Car’, which could liberate Indians from their (bicycle) chains.
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| Thursday 16 August 2007 |
James Panton
Let us celebrate the freedom of flight
There’s more to manmade flight than the spewing of CO2 molecules: flying is liberating and enlightening, and that’s why millions of us do it.
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| Thursday 31 May 2007 |
Mick Hume
Hijacking at Stansted
Protests over the expansion of the UK airport are being turned into yet another pulpit for preaching about the evils of man-made global warming.
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| Thursday 22 March 2007 |
Peter Smith
Air travel: the skies, the limits
If poor people have less opportunity to fly, then surely the answer is to tackle poverty rather than to limit other people's travel.
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| Monday 19 February 2007 |
Austin Williams
Steering the debate in the wrong direction
For a government whose transport policy is to punish motorists, the 1.5million who signed a petition against road-pricing are a political pollutant.
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