Ship to shore

f you cast your mind back you might recall the once oft-quoted term ‘integrated public transport’. It was bandied about a lot, mainly by politicians, when the better management of buses and trains was something generally to be aspired to. It even surfaced in Yes, when the Rt.Hon. Jim Hacker was looking to do something ‘popular’, at least until the Permanent Secretary for Administrative Affairs persuaded him it would be a ‘courageous’ course of action to embark upon, whereupon he shied away from taking it. But you know the sort of ideas that got tossed around: buses connecting with trains, buses connecting with each other, trains