Friday Reads – 2 October 2020

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• TfL picks DLR & Northern line upgrades over CR2 & Bakerloo Extension (IanVisits)

• Parcel forwarding via Thames launched (TidalThames)

• High speed fish shipment (RailwayGazette)

• Crustacean biologist obsessed with building a DC commuter rail subway (GGreaterWash)

• Rural US transit agency reinvents itself for COVID (Governing)

• Artificial Intelligence can calm road rage (Time)

• Berlin’s new airport. Is. Finally. Opening. (EuropeByRail)

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  1. This is TfL saying to the government, give us some money to do these please. It has sensibly prioritised schemes that deliver relatively large capacity increases relatively cheaply, over the usually preferred grands projets. Less ribbon-cutting potential for the politicians who supply the money, but being much more realistic/modest with scarce money. Maybe such a change of behaviour in that direction might coax some money out of a government recently disinclined to give it anything.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere we are told Crossrail 1 is still £2bn from completion. (So how far from completion was it, really, when we were first told it was going to overrun?) And TfL is going to run out of money just to run the trains, again, any minute. It needs £2bn just to tide it over, just for now. Boris’s response is political: the mayor’s own fault for keeping the fares down. That’s clearly the opening salvo in a negotiation.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-54383989

    So there are numerous more urgent begging jobs before the begging job for enhancements. And a government more interested in pleasing voters in northern parts than the capital just now.

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