November 20, 2004
One airline, 4 crashes, 8 dead: the real price of sugar snap peas in November …link
August 15, 2004
The future of transport - as seen from the past
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Ferry solution, please - Eamonn Butler wonders how you could introduce competition to a subsidised ferry service in the Western Isles
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July 28, 2004
Misrepresentation drives projects - "underestimated costs, overestimated revenues, underestimated environmental costs and overestimated economic benefits". Let's thank our lucky stars that didn't happen with the
West Coast Route Modernisation…link
June 26, 2004
Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India call for privatisation of all transport - "suggested that by transferring the existing management of State transport utilities to the corporate sector, its efficiency, productivity and quality and frequency will improve." Well, duh!
June 03, 2004
The folly of state intervention in the waterways - from the Mises Institute
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May 27, 2004
Petrol rationing ended - on this day 1950
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May 26, 2004
UK government's transport portal experiencing delays - An IT project, behind schedule? A
government IT project, behind schedule? Colour us shocked
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May 25, 2004
"Transport in South Africa is a mess" - Well, it matches most other aspects of that country, then. This certainly bodes well for my prediction that the 2010 World Cup in South Africa will be the mother of all man-made disasters ...
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April 26, 2004
Why PRT will ultimately fail - PRT = Personal Rapid Transport ie the stuff beloved of sci-fi writers
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April 23, 2004
Drilling for victory, and the black gold will never run out - there really is quite a lot of oil out there
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April 06, 2004
British engineers hit new heights - story about a viaduct in the Massif Central which will be the highest in the world relieving (and I can say this from personal experience) a notorious stretch of road
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April 03, 2004
More sprawl please - TM Lutas makes the case and then, somehow, turns his attention to Segways
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March 23, 2004
Annie on Tube ads then and now - some things never change
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March 10, 2004
The flying motorbike from Oz - only one problem: it went bust. Cute mind
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February 19, 2004
Heathrow drivers may pay over the odds to go underground - a story involving road, rail and air AND the European Union and pollution
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February 16, 2004
How Engineers Got Lazier - Highway on how it's getting easier to do infrastructure
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February 14, 2004
Parisians thrill to life in the fast lane - it's that
walkway again
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January 31, 2004
Belgian rail commuters given free ride to cut chaos on the roads …link
January 13, 2004
Car that drives on water sails to success - the Aquada might have some real world uses...link
January 10, 2004
That sinking feeling - letter to the Times
January 09, 2004
The clean, green car out in front is a Toyota - report on the Prius...link