Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Waterloo: more Boris Bikes but still no sign of life for the Eurostar old platforms

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Two good posts this week on Londonist . The first one is on the continuing mystery of the old Eurostar platforms and why they cost £4.1 to ...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

TfL still has little ideas about cycling lanes...

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A sobering read in today's Evening Standard on the Elephant & Castle roundabout redesign. It is described as a cycling blackspot whe...
Thursday, September 09, 2010

The Boris bike vs. the French vélib -unfair comparison?

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I've meant to post on this for quite a while, being a bit of a pedal addict and a huge propoenent of common-sense-commuting, i.e. not ta...
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Monday, July 19, 2010

Cycle superhighways: an expensive joke?

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Read this today: BBC News - Testing a London 'Cycle Superhighway' This sems to me a bit like a joke: there's still the same spac...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Lessons to be learnt from the Eurotunnel Christmas debacle

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Alright, this isn't very timely but I was enjoying my holidays in a nice farmhouse in Dordogne . So, here I am: we too were stuck with E...
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Monday, December 04, 2006

Excessive excuse!

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Today, we learn that the WATERLOO & CITY LINE is "Suspended due to excessive dust on platforms". Must be the daftest excuse w...
Friday, November 24, 2006

Why is air travel competitive against rail on short distances?

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The quick answer is: because UK politicians have not invested in high-speed railways and keep subsidising air travel. For once, there's ...