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• Some questions Uxbridge Tories should ask Boris Johnson

  12 Sep 2014: Conservatives in the west London constituency should not make it easy for the city’s mayor to become their candidate
  

• Riding Beijing's subway end to end: 88km of queues and crushes on a 20p ticket

  10 Sep 2014: Beijing’s metro system has already grown bigger than the London Underground – and by 2020 it will more than double in size again. Tania Branigan takes its longest journey to see how the city is coping with such staggering growth

• A short history of world metro systems – in pictures

  10 Sep 2014: From the world’s first subway system, the London Underground, to New York, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Buenos Aires

• Can you save energy by using public transport? It’s not that simple

  10 Sep 2014: Christian Wolmar: Car use is declining while the popularity of train travel is on the rise, but calculating cost per trip is a complex business

• State-owned East Coast paid £225m to Treasury – but still faces privatisation

  9 Sep 2014:

  Transport union leader says reprivatisation of most popular long-distance railway franchise is 'all about Tory dogma'

• Scrapping free bus passes for older people would 'cost over £1.7bn a year'

  9 Sep 2014: Study finds that for every £1 spent on the bus pass, more than £2.87 of benefits for society and wider economy were generated

• Northern Rail is a disgrace

  7 Sep 2014: It’s an insult that Northern Rail is putting up ticket prices when the service they offer is so reliably terrible, says the Guardian’s northern editor, Helen Pidd

• Northern commuters face big rise in fares for evening travel

  7 Sep 2014: Extension of peak rail fares hits travellers in Leeds, Manchester, Bradford, Sheffield and Newcastle

• A blind man in Bishopsgate

  7 Sep 2014: Recent experiences have brought home the challenges faced by visually-impaired people using public transport in London
  

• Rail fares to match inflation rate for another 12 months

  7 Sep 2014: George Osborne announces train tickets will be held in real terms and pinned to RPI rate

• Free bus passes under threat and the pensioners who are fighting back

  6 Sep 2014: A campaign to save a much-treasured freedom, will deliver a petition with 140,000 signatures to No 10 (by bus of course)

• What your politics says about your public transport choices

  Guardian Professional, 5 Sep 2014: We asked Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat and Ukip supporters what they like and dislike about public transport

• How does your political allegiance affect your views on public transport?

  Guardian Professional, 5 Sep 2014: A survey on how voters feel about different types of transport demonstrates how fundamentally we all conform to type, writes Hannah Fearn

• Coalition agrees to change guidelines on states' road-building projects

  5 Sep 2014: Government says it will provide more ‘sophisticated and consistent’ approach to major infrastructure ventures

• Changes to airport capacity could take off

  3 Sep 2014: Letters: Opposing a third runway a Heathrow would mean British passengers are forced to take longer routes to their destinations

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