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Headingley should really be renamed back to "Headingley and Kirkstall".

HS2 was never going to go through Bradford. Funnily enough, though, Bradford Crossrail often appears in the crayonista "alternatives" that pop up every so often. (My favourite being the plan to bulldoze half of Dewsbury to get to Bradford) The NPR route isn't set in stone, but Bradford's been...

Restore the Meadowhall route, as it made much more sense than the changed route; restore passive protection for a HS1–HS2 link; and link HS2 to the Woodlesford line to allow Leeds to have through HS2 services (possibly also reopening Castleford–Garforth to take the Knottingley services off that...

BCR as a be-all and end-all is a bad metric in any case. I recall McLoughlin had to overrule the bean-counters over Pacer replacement.

I'm glad to be proved wrong, but I'm still disappointed that national figures such as Lucas, Bennett, Bartley, Berry, or Womack have been incredibly silent on the LTC.

Indeed, the Lower Thames Crossing, at only 13 miles, has almost as much of an ancient woodland take as HS2. The Green Party has, of course, not said a single word about this road project.

If you've got two buses going from A to B by different routes, you'd want to go for the faster and possibly more comfortable bus route. Most comparable journeys on rails have to follow the same route and take comparable times. Competition for the sake of competition isn't always healthy either.

That line about "continuing to assess the Castlefield Corridor" is annoying me to no end. How many "re-assessments" have we had where the answer at the end was "build it as is"? 1,449 days and counting…

Smart timetabling, obviously, with digital railways on the blockchain running an agile workflow.

Stockport–Piccadilly is one of the most congested parts of the rail network outside of London, just after Deansgate–Piccadilly.

"Why don't we start building HS2 in the North?" makes as much sense as asking "why don't we start building skyscrapers from the top?" I look forward to Andrew Gilligan's floating skyscraper. At least it stops him from declaring every other day that trans people are causing the death of...

I do wonder how much was spent on a report to find out the bleeding obvious, though…

Brighouse lost one of its direct train to Leeds because Northern had to scramble around to provide the promised increase in destinations that Calder Valley trains could access, because the Airport service had to be kiboshed to not conflict with the Bolton trains.

Tories in Skipton and Harrogate have also been spending the past ten years systematically undermining devolution talks, so there’s no voice for Yorkshire like Burnham is for Manchester.

Brighouse, in particular, is a massive casualty of the Manchester snafu. We lost a Leeds direct (replaced with Hull–Halifax and Huddersfield–Interchange) last month (coincidentally, when Interchange–Airport was supposed to start…), and I don't think I've seen the direct we do have be on time for...

Bradford to the Airport was supposed to be a headline Northern Connect service, but that's been effectively canned after they couldn't run the pilot Leeds–Oxford Road service without having knock-on effects with the Bolton–Airport service.

I mean, the Northern and TPE (and even East Coast!) franchises were let on the assumption that Platforms 15 and 16 would be ready for December 2018, the 195s ready for December 2019, and wires through Huddersfield ready for May 2022. All of those are problems which stem from the DfT. Remember...

Shapps could've done something useful, like finally signing off on MAN 15&16 after 1,056 1,422 days, but, alas, he's more concerned with the 2024 election.

The Secretary of State has had the inspectorate's report on his desk for 30 months by now. He's approved other TWAO but not this one.

The irony is that the people most responsible for shafting Sheffield over the past few years is… Sheffield. Anybody with half a brain could have told you that you can't run the HS2 mainline into Midland station, and that Meadowhall could've served Sheffield, Barnsley, and Rotherham quicker than...