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SkyScraper City Rail links to Heathrow  
19:36 19-Oct-07   [Replies: 5, Views: 400]    By: Unnamed
As we know, currently there are two rail links to Heathrow Airport, both of which face London's city centre: the Piccadilly Line which enters from the east and loops between T4 and T123 (to be ext...
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SkyScraper City Job Cuts in the City  
09:54 19-Oct-07   [Replies: 2, Views: 198]    By: Unnamed
Just wondering what are some local forumers' views on this. I thought the City and Canary Wharf are booming now and that financial firms are expanding, not cutting. ANALYSIS-2008 job cuts woul...
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SkyScraper City Which rail company carries the most passengers?  
21:00 17-Oct-07   [Replies: 2, Views: 152]    By: Unnamed
Now that the latest round of re-franchising has been finalised, it is possible to see which of the UK train operators are the busiest. Shown below are a couple of cartogram maps with each TO...
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SkyScraper City Stansted - Luton  
19:37 14-Oct-07   [Replies: 13, Views: 377]    By: Unnamed
Hi can you help me? I'm going to travel next month and i´ll make a connection between Stansted and Luton airports. I have a flight that will arrive at Stansted at 11.40, then i have to take a...
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SkyScraper City In light of Crossrail, what else would you like to see done to improve..  
19:57 13-Oct-07   [Replies: 62, Views: 1840]    By: Unnamed
Let's hear your ideas, no matter how unlikely they are to ever happen. My ideal proposal would be a Zone 2 Circle Line. Imagine a line, completely orbiting around Zone 2, consisting of these...
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SkyScraper City Airport Design  
10:35 12-Oct-07   [Replies: 4, Views: 553]    By: Unnamed
Hi guys Just after a bit of help here. Have been given my third year project and its the SCI Steel Design Competition 2007. I have to design a new regional airport terminal. The requiremen...
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SkyScraper City ULTra installation at Heathrow airport and beyond  
01:07 12-Oct-07   [Replies: 21, Views: 1497]    By: Unnamed
As part of the construction at Terminal 5, a transport system to bring people from remote car parks to the terminal is being put in for next year (designed by this company - http://www.atsltd.co.u...
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SkyScraper City The Miracle of St. Pancras  
10:54 11-Oct-07   [Replies: 36, Views: 1783]    By: Unnamed
There was a very interesting feature full of pictures on St. Pancras station in the Guardian today, I thought I'd post it. I deliberately chose not to put this in the Channel Tunnel Rail Link sinc...
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SkyScraper City Pre-Budget report: doubled investment in transport  
20:28 10-Oct-07   [Replies: 4, Views: 213]    By: Unnamed
In his pre-Budget report, Alistair Darling pledged to double investment by 2010 to £14.5bn to provide extra money "for strategic road schemes like widening the M1 and M6". There will be ...
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SkyScraper City Manchester set to become rail capital of north in 2 billion pound expa..  
08:25 6-Oct-07   [Replies: 21, Views: 1120]    By: Unnamed
Quote: Plans for rail capital of north Alan Salter 5/10/2007 MANCHESTER could become the rail capital of the north in a £2bn expansion of Piccadilly Station. Tra...
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SkyScraper City Britain's least used railway stations!  
13:39 5-Oct-07   [Replies: 41, Views: 1919]    By: Unnamed
According to 2005-06 passenger figures, Britain has 10 stations (out of 2506) that are used by less than 100 people annually, here they in reverse order are for your amusement and education N...
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SkyScraper City Britain's biggest wind farm wins approval  
18:03 3-Oct-07   [Replies: 14, Views: 481]    By: Unnamed
http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=3101 [http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=3101]> Britain's biggest wind farm wins approval Posted: 02 Oct 2007 Britain's biggest wind farm has won ...
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SkyScraper City Dublin Airport Terminal 2 starts construction  
17:22 1-Oct-07   [Replies: 18, Views: 2216]    By: Unnamed
Hi! This will come as a relief to anyone who has used Dublin Airport recently with its awful overcrowding. Construction of new terminal began today with a 3rd anticipated before 2015. http:/...
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SkyScraper City Shrewsbury gets direct London rail link!  
14:24 1-Oct-07   [Replies: 1, Views: 154]    By: Unnamed
The ORR announced on 3 September that it was giving approval for open access operator The Wrexham, Shrewsbury and Marylebone Railway Company to run services between Wrexham and Shropshire and Lond...
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SkyScraper City BA to buy 12 A380s, 24 B787s  
12:45 27-Sep-07   [Replies: 5, Views: 405]    By: Unnamed
Quote: British Airways will buy 12 Airbus A380 aircraft as part of the airlines’ long term fleet modernisation. The announcement marks the first time British Airways h...
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SkyScraper City Desired transport projects  
11:29 27-Sep-07   [Replies: 30, Views: 1160]    By: Unnamed
If your city/town/village/region/whatever could have the money for three transport projects what do you think would be priority? Just going off what's been said on the crossrail thread, lets j...
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SkyScraper City Germany to build maglev railway  
10:49 25-Sep-07   [Replies: 58, Views: 2621]    By: Unnamed
Germany to build maglev railway Germany has come up with the funds to launch its first magnetic levitation - or maglev - rail service. The state of Bavaria is to build the high-speed ...
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SkyScraper City Northern Crossrail  
22:49 21-Sep-07   [Replies: 110, Views: 4511]    By: Unnamed
A very interesting proposal IMO: http://www.transportbriefing.co.uk/story.php?id=4370 [http://www.transportbriefing.co.uk/story.php?id=4370]> Regeneration agencies back Northern Crossrail ...
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SkyScraper City Shared Space? A Case for central London/UK congestion relief?  
16:46 18-Sep-07   [Replies: 6, Views: 202]    By: Unnamed
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2970787.ece [http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2970787.ece]> Sharing the road: a sign of the times? It sounds like a crazy idea, but th...
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SkyScraper City Tale of two commutes: UK/Germany  
11:02 16-Sep-07   [Replies: 14, Views: 724]    By: Unnamed
Didn't seem to be a current thread to post this on: Radio 5 Live broadcast today on the difference in commuting between here and somewhere where they do it right! Repeated 7.30 tonight, or wil...
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SkyScraper City London UndergrounD | Wimbledon & North Line  
09:48 16-Sep-07   [Replies: 6, Views: 530]    By: Unnamed
ok so its not actualy real...its summit came up with one day when i was bored so here it is... the bit in the grey box is the section below ground (deep level) maybe one day i'll get it built, hm...
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SkyScraper City British Waterways (i.e. the canal network)  
08:54 9-Sep-07   [Replies: 8, Views: 592]    By: Unnamed
Post everything to do with this here, images, news, suggestions and so on. British Waterways maintains 2200 miles of canals in the UKThey restore UK canalsA huge amount of British heritage is pres...
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SkyScraper City London Rail Levels  
12:09 5-Sep-07   [Replies: 18, Views: 620]    By: Unnamed
Hi guys... I'm intrested in knowing if you have any good examples of rail stations in London (Or somewhere in Brittain) where you have more than 5 levels of railstations beneath each other? Al...
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SkyScraper City City Star to launch Aberdeen to Houston Flights  
19:07 3-Sep-07   [Replies: 7, Views: 287]    By: Unnamed
City Star to launch Aberdeen to Houston Flights City Star Executive makes history in the North East of Scotland today, with the announcement it will launch the first ever Inter-continental ...
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SkyScraper City Canary Wharf - Reflections on a Massive Redevelopment  
10:07 28-Aug-07   [Replies: 16, Views: 1231]    By: Unnamed
Tall order After a shaky start, Canary Wharf has proved the critics wrong and cemented London's position as Europe's business capital 25 August 2007 Financial Times From the 30th ...
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