Taking the strain - For three and a half years, Alistair Darling managed to keep transport troubles out of the headlines. But no one could keep the lid on such a bubbling cauldron for long - and now he faces all the issues at once

Broken rails : how privatisation wrecked Britain's railways

Wolmar, Christian, (2001)

Improving Urban Access : New Approaches to Funding Transport Investment

Sclar, Elliott D., (2016)

Tunnel vision - The government is stubbornly clinging to its public-private partnership plan for the London underground, although it was cobbled together as a compromise and has few supporters

Wolmar, Christian, (2002)