A quick reminder to this interested that our monthly meetup is on Tuesday 12th September. For more details click ‘Monthly Meetup – 2nd Tuesday Evening in the City‘ at the top of the home page. The current heat spell should be over by then so we do not expect the air temperature or the beer to be unpleasantly warm. All…
Issue 296 of Passenger Transport is published on September 8. Contents include: LEAD STORY TfL records highest ridership since CovidAugust Bank Holiday Weekend saw a near 10% increase in bus travel on the equivalent weekend last year, with Tube journeys seeing a near 6% rise NEWS West Midlands unveils rail investment strategyThe West Midlands Rail Executive’s comprehensive 2022-2050 investment…
• UK rail industry deeply frustrated by Network Rail’s extensive domestic air travel (RailTech) • Family Friendly Train operating companies Scorecard 2023 (FamilyFriendlyTrains) • Reuse of Philly’s City Branch downtown tunnel & RoW for transit is unlikely (WHYY) • Gotthard Base Tunnel preliminary report confirms crash details (RailwayTechnology) • Ideas not just infrastructure: What the US could learn from the…
Where What When – And Why? (1) Heathrow is big and all the statistics are big! Heathrow is the largest single-site employer in the UK. More than 76,000 people work at the airport – and many more nearby. In total, Heathrow supports 114,000 local jobs. It accounts for 22% of local employment. In 2022, London Heathrow Airport handled approximately 61.6…