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SkyScraper City Circumnavigate the globe on low cost airlines!!  
15:53 24-Aug-07   [Replies: 15, Views: 364]    By: Unnamed
Low cost airlines have been with us for some years now and their methods have revolutionised shorthaul flying all over the world. The biggest and best carriers such as Southwest, Ryanair, EasyJet,...
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SkyScraper City Bridge to Northern Ireland mooted  
10:45 23-Aug-07   [Replies: 22, Views: 1059]    By: Unnamed
Bridge to Northern Ireland mooted BBC News 22 August 2007 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...nd/6958191.stm [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/6958191.stm]> ...
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SkyScraper City Britains Unbuilt Motorways  
19:33 17-Aug-07   [Replies: 33, Views: 1398]    By: Unnamed
Just wondering where there were plans to build Motorways that were cancelled or re-routed, any maps, pics etc would be appreciated. I'll start us off. Glasgow, most of these routes were either...
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SkyScraper City National Express Win London To Scotland Route  
10:36 14-Aug-07   [Replies: 1, Views: 118]    By: Unnamed
From the BBC Today Quote: National Express has won the battle to operate the main London-to-Scotland rail route. The transport group was awarded the contract to run th...
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SkyScraper City National Express Win London To Scotland Route  
10:23 14-Aug-07   [Replies: 1, Views: 154]    By: Unnamed
From the BBC Today Quote: National Express has won the battle to operate the main London-to-Scotland rail route. The transport group was awarded the contract to run th...
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SkyScraper City The Orwell Bridge At 25.  
00:45 13-Aug-07   [Replies: 3, Views: 243]    By: Unnamed
The Orwell Bridge was opened to road traffic in 1982 and carries the A14 (then A45) over the River Orwell just south of Ipswich in Suffolk, England. The main span is 190 metres which, at the t...
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SkyScraper City Where it all went wrong...  
20:39 11-Aug-07   [Replies: 14, Views: 893]    By: Unnamed
NEW STATESMAN http://www.newstatesman.com/200708090012 [http://www.newstatesman.com/200708090012]> The road fix Jonathan Leake Published 09 August 2007 Why do we keep building more roads? Because ...
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UrbanPlanet.org Building Cube structure from movie Cube  
23:14 10-Aug-07   [Replies: 0, Views: 313]    By: Unnamed
Has anyone seen the movie cube? A handful of strangers are trapped inside this 26^3 room structure that they crawl around in and try to get out of. Each room is a cube and hence the whole thing...
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SkyScraper City Which UK roads should be widened or upgraded ?  
22:28 10-Aug-07   [Replies: 23, Views: 746]    By: Unnamed
OK, also the obvious answer from the pro-motoring lobby would be 'all of them'. However, with the huge increase in traffic levels over the last decade (set to double again within 20 years) th...
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SkyScraper City M1 to be 10 Lane Superhighway  
18:53 10-Aug-07   [Replies: 16, Views: 404]    By: Unnamed
The road ahead is a 10-lane superhighway · Highways Agency plans to widen 50 miles of M1 · Motorists to get extra lane plus use of hard shoulder David Adam, Environment Correspondent ...
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SkyScraper City How Low Can You Go?  
10:08 10-Aug-07   [Replies: 3, Views: 239]    By: Unnamed
Having read about the Crossrail project I know the new tunneling will be at a fairly deep level below the streets of London. I was wondering just how deep, on a practical level, any other new tunn...
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SkyScraper City Road Tax, has yours gone up  
20:47 9-Aug-07   [Replies: 13, Views: 175]    By: Unnamed
I've just had my letter come through about paying my road tax and I can't believe how much it has gone up. I'm got the same car as I had last year, a Vauxhall Astra and where as last year I paye...
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UrbanPlanet.org New Urbanism in Mainstream Media  
09:21 6-Aug-07   [Replies: 1, Views: 276]    By: Unnamed
How did they do? CBS Sunday Morning New Urbanism on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRrl7LwNUtw]> ...
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SkyScraper City 10,000 bicycles for hire in Paris  
12:29 4-Aug-07   [Replies: 29, Views: 428]    By: Unnamed
I've just got back from Paris, having gone over there to watch the finish of the Tour de France (and then cycle back to London again, but that's another story...) While I was there I witnessed...
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SkyScraper City Tube resignalling: Paris sets the benchmark  
16:59 2-Aug-07   [Replies: 13, Views: 422]    By: Unnamed
As part of the upgrade of the tube, most lines are being resignalled to ATC and ATO standards. the main advantage is that trains can run faster and closer, thereby releasing up to 30% additional ...
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UrbanPlanet.org America's aging infrastructure...  
06:58 2-Aug-07   [Replies: 60, Views: 4437]    By: Unnamed
With the steam pipe explosion in New York City and the terrible tragedy of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, it is evident that the infrastructure in America is aging. Considering America is tril...
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SkyScraper City British and Irish Trams  
20:04 29-Jul-07   [Replies: 25, Views: 663]    By: Unnamed
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SkyScraper City Thames Gateway crossing goes to 2nd PI  
11:34 27-Jul-07   [Replies: 16, Views: 567]    By: Unnamed
Anybody else picked up on this? The proposed Thames Gateway Bridge has gone into yet another public inquiry. Stupid greens. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6917414.stm [http://news...
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SkyScraper City Virgin loose Cross Country franchise  
10:39 25-Jul-07   [Replies: 3, Views: 201]    By: Unnamed
Received an e-mail from Virgin about them loosing out to Arriva in the bidding for Cross County franchise, e-mail below. Seems a bit of a mismatch of dates and services can anyone put this into mo...
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SkyScraper City Reading station redevelopment  
16:28 22-Jul-07   [Replies: 7, Views: 585]    By: Unnamed
Part of the announcement about Thameslink's approval was that Birmingham New Street and Reading stations were to be redeveloped. This has been on the cards for quite a few years, but I haven't see...
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SkyScraper City Euston redevelopment  
15:44 21-Jul-07   [Replies: 0, Views: 311]    By: Unnamed
Can anyone explain to me what exactly is going to be done to Euston? All I've seen and read is a picture of an airy new concourse, a clear facade, couple of more platforms and something about ...
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SkyScraper City London Oxford Airport  
15:38 18-Jul-07   [Replies: 8, Views: 557]    By: Unnamed
http://www.pleiade.org/loxreport03.html [http://www.pleiade.org/loxreport03.html]> Never come across this before, I at least like their idea for a North West connecting Heathrow rail link onto...
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SkyScraper City TfL map  
23:19 16-Jul-07   [Replies: 10, Views: 801]    By: Unnamed
Does anyone know where I can get the TfL map of the London railway network which has a border going around the outskirts of the city showing where suburban trains stop? ...
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SkyScraper City Metronet Rail faces administration  
09:04 16-Jul-07   [Replies: 10, Views: 362]    By: Unnamed
http://www.transportbriefing.co.uk/story.php?id=4214 [http://www.transportbriefing.co.uk/story.php?id=4214]> Crunch time for Metronet as Bolt throws out cash plea Filed 17/07/07 Shareh...
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SkyScraper City Euston v le Gare du Nord  
22:21 13-Jul-07   [Replies: 4, Views: 515]    By: Unnamed
Noticed on google earth that le Gare du Nord doesn't appear to be that much bigger then Euston in terms of it's land take and yet has a fair number more surface platforms. Are our platforms to wi...
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