Getting off the motorway at Eindhoven is the first challenge, the city’s motorway box which doubled as a ring road has been upgraded to two parallel routes with the only access from the motorway to the ring road at the points where radial motorways join. Local and through traffic is effectively segregated but miss the […]
Strictly Come Dancing has hit the screens of the UK for another season, and once again many millions will each week watch the developing partnership of the professional dancer and their willing if sometimes incompetent student. The success or failure of these dancing duos owes much to the faith and trust that each side puts […]
The site is run by the Bletchley Park Trust, Registered Charity number 1012743, whose mission, according to their website, ‘is to preserve and develop Bletchley Park as a world-class museum, heritage site and education centre in order to enhance the understanding of the critical contribution of Codebreaking and intelligence in World War Two, the birth […]
Despite warnings and the threat of a Judicial Review it went ahead and confirmed to operators that this was what it was going to do. Only on 26 June, after Stagecoach had been through all the processes that will result in the closure of its Brynmawr depot on 20 July, and operators including Cardiff Bus […]
There is no doubt that cash was expensive to handle, costing £24m a year, a saving that TfL says will be reinvested in the network. It will also help to maintain quick boarding times as cash payment increased stop dwell times. However, cash payers were already paying a substantial premium for their journey compared with […]
I’ve always been a bit of a sucker for the gold edged invitation with the same portcullis emblem you used to get on the back of an old thrupenny bit that indicates a call to the House of Commons. There’s something about walking past the spot where Charles 1st faced his Parliament and more recently […]
When I was walking to the hotel, I saw something else I’d not seen before, a policeman pull over and book a cyclist for riding through a red light. Was this a coincidence or is it a new policy because something does need doing about the road sense of cyclists. Too many are being injured […]
Last week’s Optare launch at Covent Garden was quite an event. With only nine months development time and so many double deck false dawns in the past, I had feared that we might be witnessing something less impressive than turned out to be the case, but a TfL specification double deck weighing a shade under […]