‘Transport Policy Week’ launched as election coverage starts to ramp up

With the General Election just a few weeks away, the transport policies of the major political parties are starting to come under increased scrutiny, with The Times, for example, devoting no less than a whole week to the key issues on its high-profile political briefing website

Rik Thomas

09 March 2015

The Times has devoted a whole week to coverage of transport policy issues on its ‘Red Box’ website

With the General Election a matter of weeks, rather than months, away, media interest in the transport policies of the various parties has noticeably become more intense. Indeed, on 1 March The Times launched ‘Transport Policy Week’ on its ‘Red Box’ political briefing website. “Two months out from the ballot, many issues at the heart of the debate over transport in the UK, from HS2 to the future of the road network, are very much up in the air,” the...