#transport (14 links)
- Crossrail: A Hole New World - London Reconnections londonreconnections.com
It is the principle that bad news tends to accrue at a lower management level, because no one wants to be the person who moves a project risk marker from ‘yellow’ to ‘red’ on a RAG chart. As a result, pessimism and a belief that the project will overrun ‘bubbles up’ to a certain decision-making level but never beyond, as if hitting the thermal layer that exists in the ocean. Eventually, the issues reach critical mass and force their way through, leaving senior management wonder why everything ‘suddenly’ went wrong, when in fact the signs that the project was troubled existed at a lower level for some time.
- Traveline Cymru traveline-cymru.info
Public transport info for Wales. Useful if one should, for example, be visiting Snowdon.
- Minimalist City Transit Map Posters laughingsquid.com
- diamond geezer diamondgeezer.blogspot.com
- Tom Roper's Weblog: North doesn't matter roper.org.uk
The Legible London project began in 2003 as an initial study working with the central London boroughs and business fora, aiming not just to improve signs, but to offer far better guidance for walkers. The project was to run a prototype, a measurable trial to prove the concept. They set about developing a taxonomy of walkers, but when they had discovered sixty different types and were still counting they gave up, and instead measured walking activity along two axes, the walkers' knowledge of the area and their speed, defined on a continuum from strolling to striding.
- National Rail Enquiries - Special Offer - Freedom of the South West 3 in 7 Day Rover nationalrail.co.uk
The Freedom of the South West rail rover provides unlimited use of all National Rail services on the map in the validity section. Available any 3 days within a 7 day period.
One price, one ticket, unlimited train journeys ... when the snow clears, the rail rover could be one of Britain's best-kept travel secrets.
- TIFFL — Transport for you (Beta) tiffl.org
Please don't shut this down, TfL.
- Tom Morris: Thursday, February 22, 2007 blogs.opml.org
You can then quite easily subscribe to individual Tube lines and get updates via whatever means you deem appropriate as you would as a Twitter user.
- Sustrans Home sustrans.org.uk
The UK's leading sustainable transport charity
It's not the end of the road for the world-famous double-deckers. They are finding homes with lifelong fans - friends in search of fun, middle-aged men who should know better, even schoolgirls too young to drive.