How come you can see through SKS but not the FT? ;) (View Post)

Which is why usage or journey availability is a more useful stat. The railways have an about 8% share for passenger-miles in the UK, in the US it's less than 0.5%. (View Post)

We have the world's best and most experienced NIMBYs, plus successive governments who claimed in opposition that they wanted to build, build, build, but get very cold feet once in office. (View Post)

I've just checked TfL figures. Buses are the most used for journeys in London, about 5x the journeys of national and overground rail combined, 100x trams, and even about 50% more than the underground… (View Post)

Excluding buses is bizarre, as buses are probably the most widely used form of public transport. (View Post)