At the conference in Zagreb, there were several presentations on the state of Croatian Railways which are in a mess. Promised investment has not materialised, both track and rolling stock are in a poor state and many international trains have been cancelled. The situation, however, is being made worse by the preparation for entry into [...]
May 16, 2013 Leave a Comment
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Za Grad on the right path in Zagreb
Zagreb is a lovely city with a huge central pedestrianised area full of cafes, people and, tonight, music in the main square. But it suffers from the lack of a coherent transport policy and while cars have been reined back from the centre, they rule the roost elsewhere. I met Marko Gregovic, one of the [...]
April 24, 2013 Leave a Comment
Cycling should be on the national curriculum
I’ve signed a letter in the Daily Telegraph today supporting the idea of cycling being on the national curriculum. Swimming already is but cycling is a much more accessible activity for kids all the time and, of course, with proper facilities they could cycle to school. Moreover, by making cycling part of the curriculum, it [...]
March 7, 2013
A genuine vision for cycling but needs sense of urgency
The mayor’s blueprint for cycling has been welcomed by cycling groups and others across the capital and rightly so. While Boris Johnson’s first attempt at improving cycling was a hotchpotch of ideas with poorly designed ‘superhighways’ at their heart, the mayor seems to have learnt the lesson of this failure and adopted most of the [...]
March 4, 2013
The perils of standing for office
The mauling John O’Farrell got in the tabloid press for a silly thing he wrote more than 20 years ago does explain one reason why the queue of people ready to move into politics is not large. The context of O’Farrell’s quip about regretting Mrs Thatcher was not killed in the Brighton bomb in his [...]
