Here are two interesting blogs which are well worth a listen.

In Calling All Stations (season 4, episode10) Christian Wolmar interviews Thomas Ableman, one of the creators of the Mini Switzerland for the Hope Valley initiative that has recently received £6m of backing from the DfT for a project trial.  Read more about the project in our CBTG post here...

Christian Wolmar explores with Thomas Ableman of Freewheeling his study into how the integrated public transport model which has developed over the years in Switzerland might also be successful in rural areas of Great Britain [scroll forward to 36':11"].