Michal Tosovsky graduated in mechanical engineering from the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1969. In the post-communist period he was President of the Czech Standards Office, then Deputy Minister for Transport and Telecommunications. He is now executive director of a small clinic in Prague.

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The survival of an extensive railway network in the Czech lands was ensured under communism by the state’s preference for public over private transport. But can local lines survive the financial disciplines and free voices of a new economy? A former deputy minister of transport, torn between nostalgia and realism, argues that the railways’ future should be decided by respecting the ways that people want to travel.