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| From LT News |
Following the UK Government’s Budget 2025 announcement, a look through the Treasury’s document reveals that railway fares will be frozen, the £3 bus fare cap will be retained, funding will be provided for new railway improvements, support will be given to Transport for London’s plan to extend the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) to Thamesmead, primarily funded by London with long-term government contributions, and in Ireland, €2 billion from the Irish Government’s Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund will support the construction of MetroLink, reflecting its scale and national importance.
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| My Dailymotion channel in 2022 Via Archive Wayback Machine |
Public transport infrastructure is a vital component of urban and intercity mobility, facilitating economic growth and environmental sustainability worldwide. The development processes for such infrastructure—including trams, Underground/Metro networks, and high-speed rail—vary considerably between countries and regions in terms of planning laws, financial arrangements, consultation practices, and project delivery timelines. This article presents a detailed comparative overview of these aspects in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the European Union, the United States, Canada, China, Japan, Brazil, and the United Arab Emirates.
In this article, I will highlight key details from the UK Government’s HM Treasury Spending Review 2025, with a particular focus on public transport. While the broader review includes major commitments to the National Health Service (NHS), this piece will concentrate on the financial commitments and policy direction for transport infrastructure.
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| Map of bus services in London and South East England during Christmas Day 2024. Source: BusTimes.org |
We would like to raise awareness that, during the Christmas period, there are ongoing consultations that are worth taking part in.
Integrated National Transport Strategy: a call for ideas
The Department for Transport has released data revealing how much compensation train operating companies (TOCs) in the UK have paid to passengers since 2016. This compensation, guided by each company's Passenger’s Charter, includes various schemes: delay repay compensation, traditional charter compensation, and discretionary payments. In this article, we'll take a closer look at compensation trends from 2020 to 2024, focusing on noteworthy changes and the factors at play.
As we are a couple of months into the new Government by the Labour Party administration. Their manifesto commitment is about improving bus services for England by giving powers back to the local authorities.
From UK Department for Transport press release
Transport Secretary sets the wheels in motion on "biggest overhaul to buses in a generation"
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| Cover of the Oyster card guide booklet from 2003 |
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| Map of the Sydney Metro City and Southwest |
This is a follow-up to my previous article about the most common journeys on the London Underground for the year 2023.
I can reveal that Transport for London (TfL) has published the most common journeys for the other modes, including National Rail (NR), Elizabeth line (EL) and the Docklands Light Railway (DLR).
I can confirm that we hold the information you require, which is provided in the attached spreadsheet. This provides the total counts for origin destination pairs for all rail journeys we have data for in 2023. Note that these counts are derived from completed journeys where the customer tapped in and out using either an Oyster card or a contactless payment card. Journeys completed using a paper ticket, and incomplete journeys (i.e. where the passenger did not tap in or out for whatever reason) are not captured in the data.
Transport for London (TfL) reveals from a Freedom of Information request the most common journeys for the London Underground for the year 2023.
The top 20 most common journeys are as follows:
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| Waste collection vehicle in the London Borough of Islington |
In this article, I will be suggesting how the administrative divisions in England may need restructuring to simplify responsibilities to provide services and to reduce complications, including administrative costs, with the different layers of public bodies.
I'm not an expert in the field of local government, as I can explain the basics, but various functions are part of the Critical National Infrastructure, such as the emergency services, finance, transport etc. I have drafted this article as we are in the General Election period in the UK, so forgive me if you see any inaccuracies.
This is a supplement to my suggestion on creating a new South East Regional Transport Authority to subsume Transport for London, the railways of the former Network SouthEast and other transport responsibilities in general for Greater London, Home Counties, and the South East of England.
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| Elizabeth line fleet at Old Oak Common depot during the day - Photo by Alstom |
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| CNI Criticalities Knowledge Base flyer |
Firstly, I don't really wish to get involved with party politics, especially on social media.
In this section of the article, I will highlight the manifesto policies for the London Mayoral election about transport from the main four political party candidates (Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats and Greens).
Which transport improvements do we expect to see with Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan in his third term?
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| Non-emergency ambulance using the bus lane in London. Image by TfL |
The purpose of this article is to show my research on how bus lanes and priority measures are beneficial to emergency services, including non-emergency service ambulances.