New politics. New transport?

What does Westminster’s happy couple mean for transport? David Leeder offers a little bit of marriage guidance

David Leeder is an independent investor in the transport sector. He has also held a variety of director-level posts in transport operators in the UK, EU and USA. From 2001 until 2008 he was a main board and executive director of FirstGroup plc.

David Leeder is an independent investor in the transport sector. He has also held a variety of director-level posts in transport operators in the UK, EU and USA. From 2001 until 2008 he was a main board and executive director of FirstGroup plc.

The TV cameras have fled College Green. A brooding Gordon Brown has retreated to Fife, possibly for a new life as a primary school teacher. Meanwhile, that nice young man, David Cameron, married Nick Clegg in a sun-dappled Westminster garden. All cynicism is banished and men of good faith rule the land. What does all this mean for transport?

The election provided few meaningful clues. The ‘debate’ about spending was essentially about whether to cut the enormous budget deficit by a...