The following is a public service announcement from London Reconnections: During the pandemic London Reconnections …
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The following is a public service announcement from London Reconnections: During the pandemic London Reconnections …
Continue readingTransport Secretary Philip Hammond revealed details today of a number of rail projects for which news had been missing since the Spending Review. Most notable in the announcement was confirmation that Thameslink will indeed be …
Continue readingA public exhibition, which shows various images of the new Crossrail Stations on the central section of the line, has now opened at The Building Centre in London. The Exhibition is open until the 8th …
Continue readingDesign Team: Scot Wilson / Weston Williamson / Gillespies The station largely sits under Eastbourne Terrace and Departures Road and the design is intended to be open and “pedestrian friendly.”
Continue readingDesign Team: WSP / John McAslan & Partners Bond Street will have two ticket halls and, as can be seen, a colonade effect. Enigmatically, according to the design factsheets, it will also have “technology walls” …
Continue readingDesign Team: Arup Atkins / Hawkins Brown Some of these we’ve seen before. The Western Ticket Hall (on Dean Street) is apparently intended to represent an obvious focal point when coming out of Soho, through …
Continue readingDesign Team: Scott Wilson / Aedas / Burns & Nice According to the design team: The design approach has sought to celebrate the industries and crafts that have defined Farringdon over the years, from the …
Continue readingDesign team: Mott Macdonald / Wilkinson Eyre / Urban Initiatives The diagram below, taken from our post last year, gives an idea of the spread of the new Liverpool Street Crossrail Station. The images below …
Continue readingDesign Team: Arup Atkins, Allies & Morrison Interestingly, Custom House is the only Crossrail Station on the central section that’ll have surface-level platforms.
Continue readingDesign Team: Canary Wharf Group / Arup / Foster & Partners / Adamsons Associates / Gillespies As the first image (which is one of my favourite of this round of Crossrail images) clearly shows, the …
Continue readingDesign Team: Hyder, BDP One of the major features of the Whitechapel design is the “station bridge” this was visible in our earlier Whitechapel post as well, the images from which I have also included …
Continue readingMotorcycles in Bus Lanes Safety Campaign A new radio advertising campaign was launched on 5 October, aimed at improving drivers’ awareness of motorcyclists in bus lanes. This is part of a package of measures that …
Continue readingChampioning electric vehicles, car clubs and moving to hybrid buses Electric Vehicles Negotiations are nearing completion with Siemens for it to deliver the Pan-London Scheme back-office functions in early 2011. Evaluation of bids for the …
Continue readingTraffic Signal Timing Reviews 333 signal timing reviews have been completed so far this financial year, delivering just over a seven per cent reduction in stop-start delays for traffic. This has been achieved alongside an …
Continue readingThe Overground Customer satisfaction The second quarter Customer Satisfaction Survey was completed at the end of August, and showed an overall satisfaction score of 81. This is an increase of three points from the previous …
Continue readingApologies to all our readers for any delay to our service and the inconvenience this may have caused. I have recently had to take a break from writing which meant that I was not able …
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