Times backs think tank call for rail tracks to be converted into busways

The idea that some of the nation’s rail tracks should be converted into busways makes a rare appearance in the mainstream media, and former transport secretary John Prescott takes a pop at former transport minister Norman Baker.

On 3 February The Times editorialised on the benefits of converting rail tracks to busways, on the back of a report by the Institute of Economic Affairs think-tank on the topic. “The plight of tinned sardines is rarely taken into account when formulating transport policy,” the paper began, somewhat obscurely. “The time might have come when it should be.

“It [referring to London’s commuter rail network] is, as the proverbial fish involved know, an expensive,...

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