Christian Wolmar
@christianwolmar.bsky.social
Transport specialist. Writer and broadcaster. Author of 20 books on railways & transport. Host Calling All Stations, transport podcast. Parkrunner, QPR, cyclist, driverless car sceptic. christianwolmar.co.uk My substack https://transportnews.substack.com/
Senedd Members have rejected a Reform motion calling for the Welsh Government to scrap default 20mph speed limits
Senedd Members reject Reform bid to scrap 20mph speed limits
Ella Groves – ICNN Senedd Reporter Senedd Members have rejected a Reform motion calling for the Welsh Government to scrap default 20mph speed limits. The proposal was defeated by 51 votes to 37 follow...
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I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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If ever there was a case to reopen a branch line this is it The West Somerset would be of enormous benefit locally as the parallel road is dreadful
Christian Wolmar@christianwolmar.bsky.social · yesterdayDelighted to be shortlisted as columnist of the year by the British Association of Media Editors drive.google.com/file/d/1T7Ww...
This was yesterday, but what a great move from the West Somerset Railway! #HeritageRailway www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/2659432...
A358 closed after crash as Somerset railway offers free travel
Free public transport is being offered after an incident on a key route into Taunton.
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Delighted to be shortlisted as columnist of the year by the British Association of Media Editors drive.google.com/file/d/1T7Ww...
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Man City should get extra points deducted for not fessing up. Bang to rights is an understatement
Am giving a talk on the history of the London Underground to 700 neuroradiologists tomorrow at the QE2 centre. An intriguing assignment.
1/7 @mrjamesob.bsky.social delivers an absolute masterclass breaking down Andy Burnham’s landmark conference speech. It wasn’t just another political address; it was a rare moment of razor-sharp truth cutting through decades of political cowardice and media prevarication. youtu.be/6lMLTq7PomU?...
James O'Brien analyses Burnham's speech in mammoth monologue
YouTube video by LBC
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“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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Paris has been praised in recent years for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get enough credit for just being really pragmatic! Everything they’ve been doing is common sense. They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air and cooling the city.
AI has kindly produced this collage of my book covers. .
And here to help you Sadiq is my campaign pic visualising Oxford St pedestrianisation produced in 2014
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 3d agoIt’s happening. Oxford Street is going traffic-free on Monday 26 October. The transformation of the nation’s high street into a world-class pedestrianised space will begin in earnest four weeks from today.
Why does Word still flash up the notice that 'this file is not available because a dialog box is open '? WTF does that mean? Why after 30 years does Word still does this! Why?!!
This insane reversal of bike lane installation in Toronto shows that the battle has by no means been won spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto
After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...
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Currently on a train still branded as the “Gatwick Express”. It no longer runs to Gatwick from Southampton, it now calls at every single station en route to Brighton. Yiu need to changetrains to go to the airport now. So: not Gatwick, and not an Express. Bravo to all for this. #UKRail
Well done Sadiq ..took you 11 years after I suggested it at the first mayoral hustings in Chelsea
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 3d agoThe countdown is on for a traffic-free Oxford Street. Monday 26 October marks a new chapter for the nation’s high street as it becomes pedestrianised.
@christianwolmar.bsky.social on how railways were seen as "disruptive technology" by the Americans. transportnews.substack.com/p/ai-is-not-... My view: it's funny how mass car use has not been properly seen as "disruptive technology": efforts like those by Buchanan were utterly inadequate IMO.
AI is not the first disruptive technology
AI is dominating our lives. Or at least, discussion and debate over it are ubiquitous ...
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Rail crossing needed safety works 2 years before boy's death insidecroydon.com/2026/09/28/r... #Croydon #Kenley #Riddlesdown @networkrail.bsky.social @abcommuters.bsky.social @christianwolmar.bsky.social
Rail crossing needed safety works 2 years before boy’s death
The pedestrian level crossing over railway lines near Kenley Station, where 11-year-old schoolboy Jaiden Shehata died after being hit by a train in January 2025, had been recommended for a safety u…
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Oh dear I have incurred wrath of Autocar magazine pressreader.com/article/2819...
Prior Conviction | Autocar
ARE YOU ENGAGED in a culture war? Perhaps you didn’t realise; you just thought you were leaving work in time to collect a child for sports practice, before going to the shop on the way home and ...
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I got to Copenhagen this morning and have been biking around all day and, y'all, I don't know if you've heard about this, but ... this place has pretty good bike infrastructure. You read about it but it's still just mind-blowing to see. Swarms of bikes, everywhere. Swarms!
Please become a subscriber to my substack - Are driverless cars still on a road to nowhere? transportnews.substack.com/p/are-driver...
Are driverless cars still on a road to nowhere?
I wrote this article nearly three years ago. I was challenged by a Substacker to accept that I was wrong. Actually, I still think I am on the right track.
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