It's truly an autumn of Finally Approving Transport Projects That Should Have Happened 10 Years Ago. As well as Thameslink 2000 and Crossrail (both of which approval I've somehow failed to write about - bad me), we're now getting the Camden Town station rebuild. As regular readers may be aware, I approve of all of … Continue reading Hooray for London
Category: Transport
Via the Grauniad blog, this is quite fun - the Great Bear redone to illustrate Shakespeare characters...
...nonetheless, I'm delighted to hear that Boeing's oh-so-clever, oh-so-globalised, not-like-those-silly-Europeans approach to developing the 787 has run into trouble. Hopefully the damn thing will never fly...
Everyone rants all the time about the Tube being rubbish. It's practically a qualification for living in London, with instant deportation as a punishment for those who fail to join in. Which is fine: there are problems with the Tube, and it's not as good as the public transport systems in East Asia (although I'd … Continue reading Tubular rant
It's been reported that the major cause for the delay in Airbus A380 deliveries is that the entertainment systems are enormously complicated, require millions of miles of cabling to be squeezed into the aircraft, and are completely different for different airlines so there's a risk of serious screw-ups if staff work on two different configuration … Continue reading Free aviation consulting
Compare and contast: Don't fly from the wrong airport, says Ryanair, and Plane lands at airbase by mistake.
One of the things I like about my current house is that from my bedroom window if the wind's right, I can hear: * the crowd chants and tannoy from the football stadium; * the announcements from the mainline station. I'm not being sarky, either. London is great. (and welcome, Tim-readers. This site isn't entirely … Continue reading Vicariously sporting