Motoring’s most outspoken and opinionated columnist sounds off
THIS is long overdue. A bright new Transport Secretary, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, takes the stage at the Conservative Party Conference. The time and place – Birmingham, West Midlands – somehow seem right. As does the theme: Get Britain Moving.
Her inaugural speech should’ve offered hope to all users of mainstream modes of transport. Instead, it was as if some of them no longer exist. On this evidence, she’s obsessed with “rail” or “railways” (referred to a dozen times), with trains, train operators, their customers, workers, stations and ticket offices, collectively receiving an additional 12 or so enthusiastic mentions right at the start of her address.
Next, what seemed like her second tier of priorities – shipping, ports, maritime travel, coal and steam power…
