What have I been on about?
I hope you don’t mind me being introspective in the last few days before I draw stumps on Freewheeling.
I thought I’d look back and see the key topics I’ve been writing about.
Each post has a number of tags associated with it, so I can easily produce a tag cloud to see where my focus has been.
This cloud shows my most popular 100 tags. The bigger the writing, the more posts had that tag.
Unsurprisingly, words like “Bus”, “Rail”, “TfL”, “Network Rail” and “Transport” dominate.
Interestingly, the DfT and Government are two of the absolute biggest - a reminder of just how critical Government is to what we do.
The National Bus Strategy and the Williams Review also stand out: a reminder that I was lucky enough to be writing Freewheeling during a critical few months in which the Government published the most important strategic plans for both rail and bus in a generation.
Boris Johnson is also relatively large (in the tag cloud, I mean. This isn’t intended to be a comment on the Prime Minister’s weight). That’s partly just a function of the importance of Government, but also a reflection of the fact that - for the time in my lifetime - we actually have a Prime Minister with a genuine interest in transport. Doesn’t mean he has all the answers, but he is unusually interested in the questions.
I also notice just how large Road Pricing is. I’ve banged on about this frequently on this blog. I still think it’s absolutely critical and not given the airtime it needs and deserves. So, to round off, I’ll link back to the very first post I wrote on Freewheeling which was, of course, on road pricing.
