On The Bright Side fbb can remember several articles in the Railway Press that painted a sorrowful picture of train travel in the USA. The thrust of these articles was that everybody flies everywhere or drives a huge gas-guzzling car! Over the past ew years, fbb has been following the development of Brightline, which lays claim to being the first…
Logistics businesses have this week urged the Welsh government to provide a clear future plan for logistics at a roundtable hosted by Logistics UK, attended by Welsh Deputy Minister for Climate Change, Lee Waters MS. At the event, hosted at Owens Group’s facility in Cardiff Bay, members and industry leaders discussed the key priorities for the Wales National Freight and Logistics…
This week, many families will be taking to the roads to help move their children into university accommodation around the country. A time packing up the car with numerous essential (or maybe not!) items to ensure that home from home comforts and essential study equipment is transported to start their higher education journey. Many of these journeys will be on…
• Secret MI6 spy tunnels being turned into London tourist attraction (SecretLondon) • ÖBB & DB to double sleeper train traffic by 2030 (RailTech) • Can the Messina Bridge project cross the divide to Sicily? (Railway Technology) • 5 transit lessons from an American blogger’s Eurotrip (SYLee) • Lufthansa’s Austrian unit loses greenwashing lawsuit over jet fuel use (Bloomberg) •…
Political Posturing? The phrase was coined by Enoch Powell way back in the 1970s. Fiery Scotsman and MP Tam Dalyell … … repeatedly brought up “The Question” as the Devolution debate began to feature in Parliamentary business. Should, for example, Scottish MPs (e.g. from West Lothian), sitting in the House of Commons, be forbidden from voting on purely English business. …
Bee Network Starts (Sort Of) A chum emailed fbb earlier this week asking (Excitedly?) about “all these new bus services in Manchester”. GoAhead in particular has gone for this big time. The company have drafted in extra drivers from all points of their operating compass to ensure their bit of the franchise works without a hitch. And they have dressed…
By Bus To Palma Nova Sad to say, rather than flooding fbb’s in-box with pictures, timetables and maps, No 3 Son seemed to feel that he was in Palma Nova for a holiday! What better holiday can there be that riding around on an excellent network of red and yellow buses? The kids today? Sigh? So fbb had to work…
A Network That Makes Sense Yesterday’s blog ended with some video of the quaint tram that runs from the equally quaint railway station at Soller through even quainter town scenery to the Port of Soller. Oddly the train appears on the network map but not the tram! But this block of routs is numbered in the 2xx series – neat,…
• End ‘spiral of decline’ of bus services by handing control to councils (LocalGovt) • Nottingham’s multi-pronged approach to effective public transport (MobilityMatters) • Prague’s new minimalist pedestrian bridge (Domus) • How the US created the worst type of rail station: Video (AlanFisher) • Manila Metro’s limited accessibility facilities fails persons with disabilities (Rappler) • China reviving its first urban…
No 3 Son On Holiday The Balearic archipelago lies between Spain and North Africa. Of the four main islands the largest is what we used to call Majorca (Major – the bigger one) which sits alongside Menorca (Mini – the smaller one). There is also Ibiza and Formentara. The Catalan speakers have engineered their spelling to be standard so now…