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SkyScraper City Underground London  
14:48 28-Feb-08   [Replies: 3, Views: 543]    By: Ciudad Bristol
New London Architecture's exhibition on Underground London opened today and gives a pretty good overview of transport, services, utilities etc plus some abandoned stuff. Of particular note is ...
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SkyScraper City Transport Projects in Ireland  
21:27 27-Feb-08   [Replies: 97, Views: 4664]    By: Unnamed
I thought it might be an idea to start a thread on all the big transport projects that are starting in Ireland, most of them are in Dublin. Starting with Dublin Airport, where Terminal 2 is go...
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SkyScraper City First Great Western  
12:23 27-Feb-08   [Replies: 11, Views: 520]    By: Unnamed
Saw this bit of news from the Guardian today: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/27/transport [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/27/transport]> Quote: # ...
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SkyScraper City For the love of bricks  
11:58 26-Feb-08   [Replies: 9, Views: 458]    By: JDRS
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7264419.stm [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7264419.stm]> For the love of bricks The Victorian Society is celebrating 50 years of trying ...
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SkyScraper City Businesses to be paid to offer toilet facilities to public  
15:03 23-Feb-08   [Replies: 8, Views: 216]    By: potto
Should businesses be forced to allow public access or offered incentives? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7260484.stm [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7260484.stm]> Cash for pubs to offer loo ...
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SkyScraper City Merseytram Oficially Resurrected!  
11:18 19-Feb-08   [Replies: 18, Views: 722]    By: Unnamed
Liverpool trams plan back on agenda Feb 18 2008 by David Bartlett, Liverpool Daily Post TRAMS will today be put back at the heart of future transport on Merseyside – despit...
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SkyScraper City Woodhead Tunnel  
13:53 18-Feb-08   [Replies: 16, Views: 856]    By: Parkey
The ongoing saga of the potentially useful and intact transpennine railway alignment that proves we are living on planet insanity. Quote: Kelly forced to backtrack on Wo...
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SkyScraper City MERSEYTRAM PETITION  
19:12 17-Feb-08   [Replies: 0, Views: 34]    By: Unnamed
GUYS PASS THIS AROUND AND SIGN IT YOURSELVES... http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/merseytrams/ [http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/merseytrams/]> GIVE US THE BEST CHANCE OF GETTING THE TRAM SYSTEM THIS CITY ...
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SkyScraper City Birmingham Metro Extension  
18:10 14-Feb-08   [Replies: 13, Views: 834]    By: Unnamed
Could you all sign the petition please, it will be greatly appriciated. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Birmingham-Metro/ [http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Birmingham-Metro/]> ...
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SkyScraper City Low MPG vehicles to pay £25 to enter London  
16:02 12-Feb-08   [Replies: 73, Views: 1284]    By: potto
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...on/7240309.stm [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7240309.stm]> Gas guzzlers C-charge up to £25 The majority of cars are unlike...
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SkyScraper City New St Station Secures Government Funding  
08:30 12-Feb-08   [Replies: 45, Views: 1645]    By: Biosonic
The Birmingham Post leads with VICTORY FOR NEW STREET AS KELLY PLEDGES £400M The government has agreed £288m from the DfT and £100m through DEBRR/AWM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...
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SkyScraper City New bike hire scheme for London  
12:33 11-Feb-08   [Replies: 20, Views: 419]    By: Plaistow
New bike hire scheme announced for central London modelled on Paris, plus bike parks and routes. (I wonder if the Greenway between Beckton and West Ham, will receive the same 'Olympic' treatment t...
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SkyScraper City Marine Current Turbines and RWE Npower to develop 11 MW tidal power sc..  
16:39 10-Feb-08   [Replies: 10, Views: 318]    By: Unnamed
Nice. Interesting technology and potentially a very lucrative technology for the UK, not only could it provide a substantial amount of energy to the UK if it gets rolled out in more places, but i...
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SkyScraper City MetroNet  
21:07 6-Feb-08   [Replies: 10, Views: 415]    By: Metrolink
Quite interested in comments from the Londoners on here about their thoughts on MetroNet... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7230893.stm [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/72308...
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SkyScraper City Shepherds Bush Closure  
12:50 6-Feb-08   [Replies: 19, Views: 496]    By: Trances
Shepherds Bush station has closed for 8 months for redevelopment.From Saturday 2 February until mid-October 2008, the station will be closed for major refurbishment works. TFL is running good repl...
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SkyScraper City Major break-through clean aircraft technology  
09:37 5-Feb-08   [Replies: 9, Views: 333]    By: Unnamed
This has gone largely unnoticed in the Uk press, despite substantial involvement of UK firms. It appears cleaner planes are becoming reality faster than anybody could have hoped for. Airbus is p...
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SkyScraper City UK's first emissions zone begins  
13:56 4-Feb-08   [Replies: 12, Views: 370]    By: potto
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...on/7225527.stm [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7225527.stm]> The most heavily polluting lorries are facing charges of £200 per day to ...
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SkyScraper City Crossrail 2 / Space Train  
13:31 31-Jan-08   [Replies: 5, Views: 630]    By: Unnamed
The next stage of Crossrail is obviosly Crossrail 2. Probley not due to be completed for at least 25 years, but might as well change talking about Crossrail 1 and move on. Tied in with this, I...
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SkyScraper City The Economic Argument for Investing in the North's Infrastructure  
23:15 24-Jan-08   [Replies: 112, Views: 2177]    By: SleepyOne
Perhaps Northern Way are evolving into a useful lobby group finally..? All too often investment in London's infrastructure is prioritised over that of anywhere else with levels of inves...
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SkyScraper City MS Beluga Skysails  
16:58 22-Jan-08   [Replies: 3, Views: 233]    By: mk61
This is a container ship that uses a tethered parasail-type-thing to augment its traditional powerplant and reduce fuel consumption. Seems rather elegant. Given current fuel prices, I'm not surp...
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SkyScraper City Connecting Waterloo and King's Cross  
17:35 21-Jan-08   [Replies: 49, Views: 1702]    By: ChrisH
I was idly wondering what would be the best way of going about connecting these stations with a direct heavy rail link (don't mention the Cross-River Tram!). There would be various options for a c...
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SkyScraper City Blackpool Tram System  
00:05 21-Jan-08   [Replies: 38, Views: 2072]    By: Unnamed
I thought it was time Blackpool Trams had a thread. Currently the 12 mile Tram line is closed for the first time in it's 120 year history whilst the track is relaid. It's a massive job and...
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SkyScraper City Movie about Bydgoszcz Airport  
14:56 18-Jan-08   [Replies: 4, Views: 366]    By: Unnamed
The Airport Bydgoszcz (www.plb.pl [http://www.plb.pl]>) offers 9 regular connections and 4 charter-connections in season to of summer. They last the work over the opening of new connections. At p...
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SkyScraper City Boeing 787 hit by another delay, no EIS until 09  
18:39 16-Jan-08   [Replies: 3, Views: 459]    By: Jon Reid
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7192137.stm [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7192137.stm]> You'd have hoped they would have taken a lesson from the A380 delay fiasco. Quote: ...
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SkyScraper City Best Tube line?  
15:39 11-Jan-08   [Replies: 27, Views: 889]    By: iampuking
I think a positive thread is a good idea for once... And the East London line isn't there cause it is shut. ...
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