Transport & infrastructure

Issue 159 June 2009

One nation under tarmac

4th June 2009 - Issue 159

Many Britons spend a twelfth of their lives driving, yet we barely examine the roads beneath our wheels. Now Joe Moran has told the story of a vast, unseen world

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Current affairs

Edie Lush

4th June 2009 - Issue 159

A new generation of powerful viral batteries could mean a breakthrough for electric cars

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Issue 144 March 2008

The story of Britain's railways is one of chaotic genius in the Victorian era followed by a century of more or less uninterrupted decline. Christian Wolmar charts this history in admirable detail, but succumbs to unwarranted romanticism when it comes to the last days of British Rail

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Issue 141 December 2007

Cooler cities

Matthew Lockwood

4th June 2009 - Issue 141

The world's cities are responsible for 80 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, but are also likely to produce many of the solutions to climate change. Many cities have far more ambitious environmental aims than do national governments. But how are they to be met?

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Issue 134 May 2007

Leave London alone

Paul Barker

4th June 2009 - Issue 134

Ken Livingstone's development plan for London is an ill-guided attempt to impose order on the city's creative chaos

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Railway panache

Andrew Martin

4th June 2009 - Issue 134

Train companies should present themselves more assertively. Where is the Michael O'Leary of railways?

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Issue 133 April 2007

Interview: Ken Livingstone

Simon Parker

4th June 2009 - Issue 133 Free entry

"Red Ken" explains why big business is a progressive force in the new, global London. He also discusses the city's high-density growth, Sharia law and segregation in the capital, and how he will sink Labour if it won't invest in Crossrail

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These islands

Simon Jenkins

4th June 2009 - Issue 133 Free entry

Each month, our new column will look at life in one of the five capital cities of "these islands." As this is Prospect's London month, we start in the old imperial capital

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A city of capital

Simon Parker

4th June 2009 - Issue 133

London is diverse, dynamic and rich. It is also unequal, expensive and congested—and getting fuller every year. Can London's socialist mayor preside over a hyper-capitalist city-state while keeping it a decent place to live for most citizens?

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