Kate Hawkesby: Questions need to be asked how to get more people on public transport

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · May 15, 2022 · 3m

Having lived in London I feel like something of an expert on public transport because in London it’s the only way you travel.

Unless you have millions of dollars to burn up, in which case you might take a black cab, but for most of us, the Tube and the train and the bus, is it. And it works. It’s efficient, it’s modern, it’s pleasant, it can be convivial, it carries every cross-section of society imaginable, it’s cool.

You can hop on the Tube with business people, dog walkers, students, tourists, elderly, the edgy fashionistas, families, the works. I mean there were times when trains didn’t…