Grand Prix Express based in Colwyn Bay in North Wales have taken delivery of 4 brand new DAF FTG XF 480 tractor units from Hexagon Leasing. Founded in 1978, the family business specialises in a worldwide parcel and pallet delivery and collection service and operates a fleet of vehicles ranging from courier vans to articulated lorries. Graham Berry, General Manager…
• The last of Britain’s railway slip coaches: Video (TimDunn) • Barcelona visual system for tactical urbanism + wayfinding (AraunaStudio) • Maya Lin’s Eclipsed Time removed from LIRR Penn Station concourse (UrbanOmnibus) • Silicon Valley Subway Project Balloons in Cost (CityLab Daily) • Melbourne’s $12bn Metro Tunnel to open in September 2024, builder lets slip (The Guardian) • Electric vehicles…
Motorway services are often a critical part of our journeys. Most of us have felt tired or hungry, run short of fuel or just needed a comfort break when on a long drive. Some of us plan where to stop in advance, returning to services where we have had a good experience in the past, or where we know what…
Poor Map Prevents Positive Perusal The cunning plan was to use Cambridge as a source of comparison between today’s network and the 1970 routes as shown in Keith Shayshutt’s book. But Stagecoach’s extremely weedy Cambridge map made comparison too challenging for the old bloke still trying to recover from an overrunning heavy Scottish cold. Ditto Peterborough. So we have to…