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Pretty much all English and Welsh election numbers over the last twenty years are explained by the fact that young people have been moving into large cities to go to

didn't think it would be possible for this to look even more stupid in real life than it did in vissim: a metro/subway can move as many people in a

In March, @CambsPboroCA and @GreaterCambs announced the next stage of their plans for the Cambridgeshire Autonomous Metro (CAM), a bus rapid transit system on steroids that promises to transform transportation

This new motorway is causing as much habitat loss along its 14-mile length as HS2 does along its 345 mile length.It will also, assuming the numbers in its favour, have

In all the discussions about people working from home (WFH), I've seen very little discussion of how hard that is for people, not least from a mental health perspective So

Yesterday, @JuliaBradbury asked #whyHS2 is happening and if I could say a few things about it...Hopefully we'll have a chance to have a proper Q&A about it in a couple

British post-war prime ministers as British Rail post-war locomotives: a thread. Clement Attlee = Class 47Best in class. Transformed services in Britain, providing a tremendous improvement for huge numbers of

News-based aerial footage of the Stonehaven derailment has been focusing on the train and not on the track approaching the derailment... However, new footage from the @EveningExpress (https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/video-new

Today, @MidsConnect launched their integrated transport plan for plugging the new East Midlands Hub (EMH) at Toton into the wider region…These plans are excellent and make the #whyHS2 case better

So... £1bn for a few stretches of dual carriageway on a road that would be better served by average speed cameras and on a corridor that would be better served

the Alignment System for Permanent Way™ (points for correct naming or better substitutions, other than my Patreon folks who are excluded because you know what these are) (yes, I have

Double junctions are avoided because the flat crossing of the outer turnout route over the inner through route is more maintenance intensive than two additional switches, and it includes a