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Evening Standard column

Christian Wolmar

Boris Johnson's hotline won't shame the roadworks villains

It's difficult not to greet with some scepticism the news that City Hall is setting up a new website and hotline to "name and shame" companies that clog up the streets with interminable roadworks

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Noisy, polluting and fatal for business - Boris should scrap all one-way systems

Along with tower blocks and shopping precincts, one-way systems are a product of the Sixties ethos that fail to put people first

Boris is learning harsh lessons

The harsh truth is that Boris Johnson has very little room to manoeuvre over his transport budget

Mind the gap: departing Tube chief warns of £2bn black hole

Gordon Brown's £30 billion Public Private Partnership to refurbish the Tube has wasted public money, says the managing director of London Underground

Departure of this quiet American leaves London poorer

Tim O'Toole's departure is not only a great loss for Londoners but a serious blow to Mayor Boris Johnson.

This transport collapse is inexcusable

THIS has been the worst weather-related transport chaos in living memory.

High-speed link a flight of fancy?

LORD Adonis rather lets the cat out of his bag by accepting that a high-speed rail connection to Heathrow would do little to reduce the number of flights from the airport. This is commendably honest but undermines the case put forward by his boss, Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon, for the railway as a green alternative to flying - which was the rationale for including it in the announcement about the third runway at Heathrow.

Train bosses must be told where to get off

Could 2009 be the year when rail passengers finally decide enough is enough?

Get rid of the buses and taxis or Oxford Street won’t survive

Oxford Street’s pedestrian-only day at the weekend was a triumph. Make it permanent – and give the street a chance against its stiff new competition

Your first job is to keep London moving, Boris

After 100 days in office, the Mayor finds congestion is as bad as ever. But if he is to break the gridlock, he must first resist the car lobby, says one transport expert

This is a railway unfit for the 21st century

Once again commuters returning from holiday face rail delays - yet fares keep going up. Now only a radical shake-up will give us the service we need, says one transport expert

Is this the winter of Ken's discontent with Tube unions?

When Ken Livingstone signed a three-year pay deal with the rail unions in February, Londoners breathed a sigh of relief, hoping that strikes on the Underground would be a thing of the past.


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