Daily Archives: October 9, 2023

• The Assassination of HS2 by the Coward Rishi Sunak (S.Y. LEE) • Sunak’s ‘scorched earth’ slashing of HS2 means further legs will never be built (NewCivilEng) • France to launch German-style cut-price monthly rail pass next summer (Guardian) • Atlanta BeltLine to study nearly 14 miles of transit around loop (Urbanize) • Megalopolis with world’s worst traffic finally opens…

For West To East And Back In Time? Blog readers may remember fbbs review of Keith Shayshutt’s two volume magnum opus detailing the working timetables of the Western National bus company on the approaches to privatisation. A third effort (and fbb bets it was a huge effort!) takes us from Cornwall and Plymouth to East Anglia and from 1986 back…