The rail industry review announced this week has been hailed as a much-needed dose of common sense by stakeholders and commentators, in spite of an absence of detail.
The Department for Transport has emphatically dismissed claims that it scrapped a Strategic Rail Authority report highlighting chronic underinvestment in the rail infrastructure.
Plans to further centralise control of Britain's rail network could bring an end to the 'messianic individual' approach to regulation, which hinders effective co-ordination across the sector, a...
The Audit Commission waded into the bitter council tax row this week with research laying the blame for England's 12.9% average rise in the tax on the government's poor funding system and its...
Public services viewed by Labour as key 'battlegrounds' in the run-up to the next election received 'below average' reviews in a strategy document released by the Prime Minister's office this week.
E-voting is being imposed on electors across Europe, even though ballots may not be secure or accurate, the Foundation for Information Policy Research, an IT think-tank, has warned.
MPs this week blasted the Highways Agency for its poor management of Britain's roads last winter, just hours after industrialists claimed the transport network was at 'breaking point'.
Whitehall must bail out Transport for London if the public-private partnership contracts cannot keep London Underground safe for travellers, the Greater London Assembly demanded this week.
Local government leaders have called for long-term sustainable funding to ensure that the latest plans to crack down on antisocial behaviour are a success.
Rail passengers are forced to travel in 'intolerable conditions' on overcrowded trains and urgent action is needed to stop the situation from getting even worse, according to MPs.
Trade unions got their wish and delivered a bloody nose to ministers at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth last week on the issue of foundation hospitals.
Renewed questions were raised about the efficiency of private firms carrying out rail maintenance after Jarvis Rail admitted responsibility for another derailment this week.
Transport for London has warned its congestion charge contractor that it must see 'direct and fundamental' improvements in the administration of the scheme, after agreeing to pay the firm up to £31m...
Housing experts have warned ministers not to become over-reliant on the multibillion pound house-building scheme across key 'growth areas' of the Southeast announced this week, claiming it should not...
Britain's largest airport operator, BAA, should be broken up because its dominant position is hindering regional economic development, members of the Commons' transport select committee have said....
Outsourcing firm Capita has been removed from an information technology contract by Norfolk County Council. The company had provided Norfolk's exchequer, payroll, pensions and operational IT services...
Businesses will be called on to make up a multibillion pound gap in the funding of the London Crossrail project, approved in principle by Transport Secretary Alistair Darling on July 14.
The line,...
Transport Secretary Alistair Darling has launched a massive road-building programme and signalled that the government's long-term aim is road pricing.
Darling said: 'On any view, existing capacity...
