If you are of a certain mindset, you might find yourself getting a little obsessed with metrics. "I must beat my step count!!!" is a beginners=level one. :) Enjoy Geneva. (View Post)

As a small example of short-sighed infrastructure. A new secondary school was opened in our village about ten years ago. The road route to it is (literally) around the houses; to improve connectivity… (View Post)

That's sadly not true. Crossrail was designed to supply a certain number of train paths, and take a certain number of passengers. These numbers were set without thinking about HS2. OOC might hav… (View Post)

One of those Wash bombing ranges is/was both the RAF's biggest base and its smallest, twice a day, depending on the tide. (View Post)

It has to be Euston, sadly. As I've said passim, a sane plan would have been for Crossrail to have been planned and designed to cope with HS2 sets; allowing (say) one service an hour to intercon… (View Post)