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A childhood fascination with trains shapes transport policy

Paul Withrington, Director, Transport-Watch, Northampton NN2
19 March 2010
 

Transport 2000, now named the Campaign for Better Transport, was originally funded by the railway unions.  Today many of its corporate members have large railway interests. Hence, although the organisation masquerades as an environmental transport group it is, in truth, a railway lobby group.

How else can one explain its London secretary’s letter in your last issue, advocating trams in Oxford Street? After all, it is well known that there is nothing wrong with a tram apart from the...

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