Network Rail has withdrawn a planning application for rail infrastructure works in Manchester, Rail Minister Huw Merriman confirmed during a visit to the city on May 25. The plan included additional through platforms 15 and 16 …
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Monday’s Friday Reads – 29 May 2023
• Is renationalising more UK train services a viable strategy? (FutureRail) • Politicians’ cries of ‘The War on Cars’ fails to move voters (NewStatesman) • Brussels’ Good Move mobility plan cuts tram & bus delays …
Continue readingWhy not cover ugly parking lots with solar panels? (Wired)
In France, a plan to cover swaths of asphalt with photovoltaics will bring renewable energy even closer to urban areas where it’s needed. A BACKLASH AGAINST industrial-size solar farms is brewing. At least 75 big solar …
Continue readingCrossrail – the May 2023 ‘final’ timetable
Much has already been written about the Elizabeth line 2023 timetable – the so called ‘final’ timetable signifying the completion of the Crossrail scheme with all the proposed services implemented and 24tph (trains per hour) …
Continue readingRegent unveils full-scale mockup of electric passenger ground effect ekranoplan (SmartCitiesDive)
With more than 500 orders to date, the company’s CEO said commercial service is expected to begin by mid-decade, starting in Hawaii. Regent unveiled a full-scale mockup of its Viceroy electric seaglider on Friday at …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 5 May 2023
• British infrastructure agency running out of money says leaked report (RailFreight) • The twenty-six (26!) attempts to extend the Bakerloo line: Video (JagoHazzard) • Deep inside South Kentish Town ghost Tube station: Video (HiddenLondonHangouts) …
Continue readingSuperloop: Analysis, hopefully not paralysis
Someone at City Hall found the box of crayons. On the 28th of March, Transport for London unveiled a map of a new transport proposal. It featured a colour scheme to rival the New Jersey …
Continue readingPeriodic Table of Urbanism, with their transport links (CNU)
At CNU [Congress for the New Urbanism] 30 in Oklahoma City, planner Stephen Goldie presented an idea that has been in the works for several years, building on the rural-to-urban Transect. Goldie calls it the …
Continue readingThe Great Western Main Line to Reading in the era of Crossrail
Much has been written about the Crossrail project and the benefits of the Elizabeth line. Nearly everything written about its benefits looks at the benefits to users of the Elizabeth line. But often transport projects …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 24 March 2023
• Attempts to restart the Western Rail Link to Heathrow (IanVisits) • 20 years after Congestion Charge began, let’s recognise TfL as a tech innovator (OnLondon) • Weirdest ride ever! Riding through London’s new, pre-effluent …
Continue readingThe Mysterious Case of the Gidea Park Shorts
Just in case anyone thought this might be a whodunnit concerning a pair of minimal trousers, let it be known that its current use is to describe an apparently strange feature of the Crossrail timetable. …
Continue readingWill there be a direct train from [insert city] to London through the Chunnel? (JonWorth)
Basel, Switzerland. The latest city for which a direct train to London has been proposed. It is unlikely to get it, as are Geneva, Köln (CDU-Green NRW coalition agreement Page 132), Frankfurt and Bordeaux. And Marseille and Lyon are unlikely to get …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 10 March 2023
• Parts of HS2, & the Lower Thames Crossing delayed two years due to soaring costs (Guardian) • Le Métro in Île de France: a new year retrospective (FabricOfParis) • Using a railway carriage as …
Continue readingThe Slow Death Of Heathrow Express
When discussing Crossrail, commenters have often speculated on the ultimate demise of Heathrow Express – the private train operating company that runs a non-stop express service between Paddington and Heathrow. This speculation is generally predicated …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 17 February 2023
• Fast charge battery trial to resume after GWR agrees to purchase Vivarail assets (RailUK) • Wales road building projects stopped after failing climate review (Guardian) • Ottawa’s LRT didn’t go wrong, it started wrong …
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