First The Good News (If You Can Fund It) It would seem that the very last thing Heathrow wants to do is to give you helpful information about anything. What Heathrow wants to do is to encourage you to travel on a plane to exotic places. Lima (Peru) was the home of Paddington Bear and still is the home of…
Playing Catch-up The airport people are keen for their passengers and staff to use public transport rather than their cars; and over the years have invested quite large sums of money to support new bus ventures and encourage train travel. But it all went a bit belly-up with Covid. Services were curtailed or cancelled “for the duration” and some have…
• If the bus networks are poor, then so are we (TheTimes) • Death of the front garden: Brits spending £27Bn turning front gardens into parking (DirectLine) • Holloways, England’s mysterious sunken roads, extend longer than thought (BBC) • Surprisingly beautiful Berlin U-Bahn stations (ExBerliner) • Helsinki building car-free tram ‘Crown Bridges’ (Built) • New study looks at horrible impact…
Always ready to give his readers a linguistic challenge, the above piece of Japanese orthography forms the core of our first Monday Variety item. It is, as you will all know, the name of a town in Japan. So here is the far less challenging headline in English text. Unusual Utsunomiya Undertaking And there it is, approx 100km north of…
Chaos And Confusion In California This sounds like particularly good news for the sir-travelling American folk as the nation and its inhabitants wrestle with the challenge of global warming, cheap oil, pollution, air quality and international pressure to save a bit of the planet. Although six train sets to serve the massive mega cities of the USA west coast doesn’t…
Befuddled By Brands Almost all pictures of buses in Cherbourg show route numbers and the brand Zephir. The town core network consists of services numbered 1 to 6 … … plus one night service. Interurban routes are lettered. Le réseau devient effectif au 30 août 2021, la nouvelle marque et le nouveau réseau commence cependant avec plusieurs problèmes notamment des…
• The London Underground Line Loo League Table (CarolineRussellAM) • How a community bus service made a Perthshire village smile again (Guardian) • Photos read by Lead Curator of UK National Railway Museum: Video (RailPhotoArt) • Trams are finally returning to Liège (RandomRailways) • CrossRail Chicago – Making American high speed rail possible: Video (HighSpeedRailAlliance) • Automakers starting to admit…
Dave And Carrie Have An Adventure (1) (weary of typing No 1 Son etc.) Their adventure begins here at the SNCF station in Cherbourg. It is a modest affair … … seen above on the platform side of the buildings. But if we turn through 180 degrees … … we see a new booking hall area that has been built…