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[Trivia] Largest UK railway station to have a subway and/or footbridge but no lifts?
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I was about to say Bournemouth, but if I’ve understood the question correctly that doesn’t count as its subway has ramps providing level...
12 Apr 2024
PTR 444
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Rail replacement aeroplane?
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I can’t imagine it happening if the train developed a fault mid-journey. For starters you’d need to transfer passengers off the train...
29 Mar 2024
PTR 444
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Guided Busways
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If anything, the Cambridge busway was probably built in the wrong place. With the A14 upgrade now complete you’re just as likely to...
28 Mar 2024
PTR 444
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Local radio stations
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Final night of Wave 105 tonight.
28 Mar 2024
PTR 444
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Guided Busways
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Think of a busway as like a railway, it has its own segregated and mostly grade separated infrastructure. The big difference is that the...
27 Mar 2024
PTR 444
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Disc, voucher and meter parking zones
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Other Transport
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I was up in the North of England earlier this month and came across several road signs mentioning a “Disc Zone”. From the signs, it is...
27 Mar 2024
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Rerouting all Southeastern Mainline services into Victoria (and via Crystal Palace?) or Waterloo - could it work?
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Victoria is useful for Buckingham Palace and the Kensington museums, so I would highly doubt that nobody wants to go there. I agree...
21 Mar 2024
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Speeding up slow journeys between London boroughs
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I wasn’t suggesting full-blown motorways, but more Paris-style boulevard roads with tree-lined central reservations, bus lanes and high...
15 Mar 2024
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Speeding up slow journeys between London boroughs
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This. It’s a real shame that a network of arterial and radial boulevard-style roads never came to fruition in London, as they would have...
15 Mar 2024
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Speeding up slow journeys between London boroughs
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The Bakerloo extension to Lewisham is still needed however, as that serves Old Kent Road which is an area even more deprived from rail...
13 Mar 2024
PTR 444
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Speeding up slow journeys between London boroughs
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The issue with extending existing tube lines is that they are mostly at full capacity. The Victoria Line is already overcrowded for its...
13 Mar 2024
PTR 444
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Speeding up slow journeys between London boroughs
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Roger French’s latest blog post might be worth a read - similarly involving buses getting stuck in traffic in Streatham…...
11 Mar 2024
PTR 444
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Speeding up slow journeys between London boroughs
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Engineering works on the line through Wandsworth Town might have also played a part on this occasion. My sister has the Citymapper app...
10 Mar 2024
PTR 444
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Speeding up slow journeys between London boroughs
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Well I suppose if you are a suburbia resident who always goes to Central London for work, shopping and entertainment, there’s little...
10 Mar 2024
PTR 444
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Speeding up slow journeys between London boroughs
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London is a global player when it comes to public transport connectivity, but the issue with cities of its size is that away from the...
10 Mar 2024
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