Tom Winsor, the Rail Regulator, tells Boris Johnson why he has hopes for a privatised future — in spite of unwarranted political intervention
One of the reasons why some of us travel almost exclusively by bicycle is that under this government every other form of transport has been turned into a detailed psychological torment. As I write, the Tube is about to go on strike. Humps and tax have taken the joy out of motoring, and in my case the evil Gatso paparazzi threaten to remove my very right to drive. As for the trains, well, we all have our own special glimpses of hell; and now, as I pedal off through the choking canyons of Holborn to see Tom Winsor, the outgoing Rail Regulator, I cannot but remember my own most recent railway disaster.
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