Do councils still have the specialist transport knowledge to act as intelligent clients?

Malcolm Bulpitt
21 December 2012
Malcolm Bulpitt is now-semi retired, after having been involved in the design and implementation of traffic and transport schemes for over 45 years.
Malcolm Bulpitt is now-semi retired, after having been involved in the design and implementation of traffic and transport schemes for over 45 years.

 

Lawyers are not universally loved. However, occasionally, we must be thankful for them. This should have been the case recently when it was only the intervention of Sir Richard Branson’s lawyers, and the subsequent investigations by the lawyers hired by the Department for Transport, that brought to light the anomalies that have caused the arcane franchising system foisted on the British public by the 1993 Railways Act to be subject to review.

One of the most worrying things that has come...

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