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Time for a break? Motorway services delivering for road users
As the summer holiday getaway gets into full swing it’s good to see road users telling us that they get a good experience at motorway…
Roadworks ahead! Or, summertime and the diggers are starting…
Investment in the maintenance and improvement of transport systems is the thing that makes most difference over the long-term to overall day-to-day experience for users.
Eight long weeks of rail timetable problems…
We’ve just entered the eighth week since the 20 May timetable change went so badly wrong on the Thameslink, Great Northern and Northern networks. In…
There and back again – a tale of timetable crisis woes
Sunday before last one of my colleagues got first-hand experience of the passenger impact when timetables aren’t finalised early enough. He needed to get from…
Turn up and (maybe) go: timetable problems persist….
The weekend looms As the weekend approaches, where are we on the great timetable crisis? Northern has become more reliable and oddly, in a…
A different type of timetable issue?
Timetable changes, cuts to services, delays and cancellations…. not another blog about the ‘rail chaos’, I hear you say? Well, actually, no. Welcome to the…
Week 5: train roulette on Thameslink, more certainty in the north
Tonight the Transport Select Committee is questioning the rail industry over the last few weeks’ meltdown. We’ll be there –…
While we are currently focusing on helping rail passengers suffering chaotic services due to the timetable issue (read more on our work here), our…
It’s an understatement that it’s not been a good week for many Govia Thameslink (GTR) and Northern passengers. There’s not been much progress with the…
Earlier today Transport Focus met rail minister, Jo Johnson MP, in Manchester. The minister was there to see senior stakeholders and learn first-hand about the…