Use the filters below to refine your search
Today Jeremy Corbyn visited a sixth form school in Derby with shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald to launch Labour's new policy: free bus travel for under 25s. The sixth formers gave the Labour leader a warm welcome, chanting 'Oh…
Has a politician ever shown as great an understanding of the issues facing young people as Jeremy Corbyn does when he says that young people "deserve a break"? Labour’s policy of free bus travel for under 25s would give our generation…
Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. Today Jeremy Corbyn will visit a sixth form in Derby with shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald to launch a new policy: free bus travel for under 25s…
Last week the Treasury announced a freeze on fuel duty, which says all you need to know about the Tories' inability to face up to the challenge of building the integrated transport system Britain desperately needs. They are giving a tax…
The publication of the transport select committee report into the Airports National Policy Statement has been interpreted by the government and Heathrow as a green light for expansion to proceed. Whilst the TSC recognised the strategic case…
Yesterday, as Storm Emma covered the country in snow, I was on a delayed and diverted train from London back to Plymouth, wondering yet again "will I make it past Dawlish?". The stretch of Devon railway famously washed away by storms in…
SPONSORED POST Earlier this week, rail trade body the Railway Industry Association (RIA) published a new report into the economic value of UK rail. The ground-breaking research revealed an industry significantly bigger than previous studies…
This is the full statement published by Manuel Cortes, general secretary of the TSSA, after transport secretary Chris Grayling said the East Coast line could be returned to the public sector. It’s as if Grayling can’t see past the nose on…
The farcical nature of railways privatisation has been brought to the fore by two collapses in the first month of the year. First, we had the owners of the east coast franchise (Virgin in name but in fact 90 per controlled by Stagecoach)…
Lexiteers, happily aped by Nigel Farage, claim that EU rules prevent nationalisation. This is simply wrong, as any reading of the law would reveal. Taking the practical step of observing the wide extent of state ownership in member states…
Former sports minister Richard Caborn has entered the race to be Labour's candidate for mayor of South Yorkshire. The anti-apartheid campaigner and ex-MP said he would fight the "shocking disparity" in transport spending between London and…
Time and time again, it’s been shown that fostering good industrial relations – and ensuring a constructive relationship between employers and trade unions – can benefit everyone. This is the case with the landmark new Licence for London…
