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jonn elledge
Yesterday’s chaos on the British Railways makes the strongest case yet for HS2
Yesterday lunchtime, a cable broke in Wembley, north west London. That caused the signals to fail on the West Coast…
We walked 18 miles along the Crossrail route. Here’s what we learned
On the last day of August, the London commuter and nerd communities were hit by a bombshell: the Elizabeth line,…
A new report explains who is to blame for this summer’s rail meltdown
Last May, the British rail network introduced what had been sold as the biggest timetable shake-up in a generation, and…
Podcast: London Blues, #2
And so to the second of our London Tory mayoral candidate interviews. This time it’s Joy Morrissey: an American-born Ealing…
TfL rejects calls for extra station and better names on the Bakerloo line extension
So, the good news is: Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed long-awaited plans for a southward extension of the Bakerloo…
Podcast: London Blues, #1
There are three people on the shortlist to be the Conservative candidate for London mayor in the 2020 election. So…
Some very short reviews of assorted cities in Yorkshire
When you’re only visiting a city for a few hours, you can’t realistically hope to understand every nuance of social…
Yet more ways TfL should change London’s tube and rail maps to make them less irritating to me, personally
First, I whined about interchanges. Then, I banged on about zones. And now, just when you thought it was safe…
Podcast: God’s own country
Leeds! Sheffield! Bradford! Huddersfield! This podcast has, figuratively speaking, not spent enough time in any of them. So, this week…
Bradford is beautiful. So why isn’t it booming?
The latest instalment of our series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of the numbers on…