Recent content by Ken Hunter

There are lots of politics at play, we saw it with Ca lMac. Labour have a habit of wanting , demanding , the process for tendering change.But never doing anything about it when in power, indeed they did not propose changes to the rail franchises in the recent Smith Commission. Still , we are...

I need to be convinced on this. I live in the city and haven't used the trams yet. Also I was totally against the development in the first place It is one line that runs from the Airport missing most of the population hot spots in Edinburgh. I remember the utter chaos that the works...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-33582013 Interesting piece from BBC Scotland business editor. He has a point. In Scotland we have a private monopoly instead of a public one. Little in the way of choice.

Most of the so called anti English sentiment is in the minds of the likes of the Daily Mail etc.

Edinburgh City council wants more Government cash. The Government has in the past said no. They should stick to their guns.

Talk of pushing locos and coaches onto some routes again. Edinburgh - Stirling -Dunblane is very busy at peak periods. I sometimes use this from Edinburgh Park. I get a seat on the platform as I will not get one on the train until least Falkirk.

This is exactly what it is. Murphy and his party are in real trouble. He needs to appear left of centre to counter the SNP. The problem is he is a right wing Blairite, even his own union backed someone else for the leadership.

I don't use them as much as I used to, but on the whole they are not too bad. A lot more services that a few years ago. Edinburgh to Glasgow now has the choice of three lines. But two of them can take a while. I sometimes use Edinburgh / Stirling Dunblane and getting a seat say joining at...

Interesting to see how electrification in Scotland proceeds. And the new franchise. Is it a private monopoly rather than a public one?