You need to know little about urban railways’ cartography to know the name Harry Beck, …
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Deal to Enable Mobile Phones on Jubilee and Central Lines Reportedly Near
Cellular News are reporting that TfL are nearing an agreement with all four major mobile phone networks to bring mobile coverage to certain areas of the Underground. Reportedly, the deal would see phone coverage brought …
Continue readingThameslink Confirmed as Hammond Announces More Rail Spend
Transport Secretary Philip Hammond revealed details today of a number of rail projects for which news had been missing since the Spending Review. Most notable in the announcement was confirmation that Thameslink will indeed be …
Continue readingCrossrail Designs: Pictures and a New Exhibition
A public exhibition, which shows various images of the new Crossrail Stations on the central section of the line, has now opened at The Building Centre in London. The Exhibition is open until the 8th …
Continue readingCrossrail Designs: Paddington
Design Team: Scot Wilson / Weston Williamson / Gillespies The station largely sits under Eastbourne Terrace and Departures Road and the design is intended to be open and “pedestrian friendly.”
Continue readingCrossrail Designs: Bond Street
Design Team: WSP / John McAslan & Partners Bond Street will have two ticket halls and, as can be seen, a colonade effect. Enigmatically, according to the design factsheets, it will also have “technology walls” …
Continue readingCrossrail Designs: Tottenham Court Road
Design Team: Arup Atkins / Hawkins Brown Some of these we’ve seen before. The Western Ticket Hall (on Dean Street) is apparently intended to represent an obvious focal point when coming out of Soho, through …
Continue readingCrossrail Designs: Farringdon
Design Team: Scott Wilson / Aedas / Burns & Nice According to the design team: The design approach has sought to celebrate the industries and crafts that have defined Farringdon over the years, from the …
Continue readingCrossrail Designs: Liverpool Street
Design team: Mott Macdonald / Wilkinson Eyre / Urban Initiatives The diagram below, taken from our post last year, gives an idea of the spread of the new Liverpool Street Crossrail Station. The images below …
Continue readingCrossrail Designs: Custom House
Design Team: Arup Atkins, Allies & Morrison Interestingly, Custom House is the only Crossrail Station on the central section that’ll have surface-level platforms.
Continue readingCrossrail Designs: Canary Wharf
Design Team: Canary Wharf Group / Arup / Foster & Partners / Adamsons Associates / Gillespies As the first image (which is one of my favourite of this round of Crossrail images) clearly shows, the …
Continue readingCrossrail Designs: Whitechapel
Design Team: Hyder, BDP One of the major features of the Whitechapel design is the “station bridge” this was visible in our earlier Whitechapel post as well, the images from which I have also included …
Continue readingTfL November Board Meeting: And Finally…
Motorcycles in Bus Lanes Safety Campaign A new radio advertising campaign was launched on 5 October, aimed at improving drivers’ awareness of motorcyclists in bus lanes. This is part of a package of measures that …
Continue readingTfL November Board Meeting: Walking, Cycling, the River and the Urban Environment
Championing electric vehicles, car clubs and moving to hybrid buses Electric Vehicles Negotiations are nearing completion with Siemens for it to deliver the Pan-London Scheme back-office functions in early 2011. Evaluation of bids for the …
Continue readingTfL November Board Meeting: Roads and Buses
Traffic Signal Timing Reviews 333 signal timing reviews have been completed so far this financial year, delivering just over a seven per cent reduction in stop-start delays for traffic. This has been achieved alongside an …
Continue readingTfL November Board Meeting: Overground and Crossrail
The Overground Customer satisfaction The second quarter Customer Satisfaction Survey was completed at the end of August, and showed an overall satisfaction score of 81. This is an increase of three points from the previous …
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