Some Places Are Just Facinating. Travel west from Glasgow along the A82 and you will pass close by the Erskine Bridge. Mrs fbb’s Aunt Jean announced that you would never get her up on that, just held up with two wee pieced of string! It replaced the Erskine Ferry. Neither ferry nor bridge has even been the busiest crossing of…
Yes, On Line Leaflet! Ir is rare for fbb to receive a Royal Mailed letter; a genuine hand typed letter not a letter trying to sell something or a threatening letter from somebody trying to con the old bloke. He was almost too excited to open the hand written envelope. The above is what he found therein complete with the…
• Manchester, Yorkshire, & Liverpool Mayors initiate legal process against ticket office closures (RailAdvent) • Full Tube Map of human anatomy [safe for work] (VisualCapitalist) • The American car death cult [close registration request] (AmericanProspect) • Cars, planes, trains: Where do CO2 emissions from transport come from? (OurWorldInData) • The aviation sector benefits from unjustified billions in tax exemptions (Transport&Environment)…
Mr Khan’s Plan To Get Rid Of Passengers Sajid Khan (as in “my dad was a bus driver”) seems to be developing plans for controlling Transport for London’s dire financial crisis. Part one of the plan is to increase Underground fares significantly so the really busy services make loadsa dosh. Part two is to keep the ludicrously cheap flat fare for the…
Are We Being Conned? Sometimes, Yes! The above diagram shows the relatively small amount pf hydrogen produced by electrolysis (GCSE science style), the electrical process which is less “dirty” than most, depending on how “green” the electricity is in the first place. Next we have hydrogen produced by the various chemical processes which create all sorts of less desirable emissions and…
A REMINDER : fbbs eyes are not too bad, but they do get tired if he is doing a lot of close work. Mistooks can slop through the nut and are corrected hoopfully next mourning. Please be patient rather than annoyed! So Can I, Can You? That’s the kiddies version. Here are the “correct” words. There is absolutely no doubt…
• London buses are slowing down, slowing down, slowing down (OnLondon) • Gloucester Road: Forgotten spaces, historic features, & art installation: Video (HiddenLondonHangouts) • Fare Dodger Bingo: Which excuses have you heard? (RailUK) • Freight Expectations: The real impetus for the development of Britain’s railways (AgeOfInvention) • How to fight bad faith planning (RMTransit) • Bangkok converted abandoned SkyTrain bridge…
Much Mention Made By Metrobus Roger French has written a whole blog about Metrobus’ Hydrogen powered vehicles. This Metrobus, by the way, is the bus company (part of the GoAhead empire), that operates in the hinterland between Brighton and London. It is not the First Bus operation in Bristol! Here is Wikipedia expounding Fastway. Fastway aims to improve bus services…
It Seemed A Good Idea At The Time The concept of disgorging M32 traffic right into the centre of Bristol … … along Newfoundland Way, and splurging into the inner ring road (above map, bottom left), might not have been the best traffic management scheme ever. Helpfully, there is a bus lane inwards almost the full length of Newfoundland Way…
Can We Fix It; Yes We Can Sadly, the indefatigable optimism of Bob is often less than apparent when cities decided to “go tram”. Whatever happened to Transport for London’s proposal to run trams from Camden … … to Peckham and Brixton? It died a quick death after being lodged in the “all too difficult” part of the filing cabinet.…