• Leicester railway station redevelopment & revamp renders released (BBC)
• ‘15-minute city’: the mundane planning theory terrifying conspiracists (Guardian)
• Cardiff tram-train route consultation underway (MetroReport)
• Overnight train between London & Berlin to start May 2023 (IanVisits)
• Canada’s remote north school trains (CBC)
• Why North American buses are worse than other countries’: video (RMTransit)
• Ukraine appeals to Canada’s rail manufacturers to repair war damaged lifeline (Star)
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The Cardiff tram-train consultation has finished, the article is dated 17th January.
Quote from the Leicester station piece: ” in need of a radical overhaul to help it meet the needs of a modern city”. Utter BS, totally in keeping with developer-led, profit-oriented unnecessary change and demolition of property including pub. Closer to (my) home, Edinburgh Waverley is slated for a like up(?)grade, one can only hope that financial pressures mean that neither happen. It is impossible not to be cynical about any change to the status quo, as so many exhibit naked greed. We saw the same in the 60s/70s demolition of what was there to give concrete brutal aberrations, now seen as something to be rectified – at a profir, of course.
15 Minutes cities was also recently discussed on BBC Radio 4, in the series “Antisocial”.
The relevant episode has had all of its repeats, but is available on BBC website/Sounds App on various streaming devices/smart TVs/Smart speakers.
Re-gauging the Ukrainian railway to European standard gauge is very much a political statement (as for Rail Baltica), showing alignment with Europe rather than Russia. It also would deny the railway to Russian trains, should the military conflict go on that long.
The US understood a similar project in he Civil war period, with standard gauge used by the north becoming the standard. Was completed surprisingly quickly, through throwing people at the problem, working in parallel.
I have placed the link into the Canada’s school trains item. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Garry Brown
See Also: The hotly-contested & disputed proposed “upgrade” (not) of LST – London Liverpool St, where the developers want to remove the imitation & magnificent not-Victorian covering over the main concourse with a concrete deck.
Needless to say, the “regulars” & more importantly, The Corporation, are not happy bunnies.