Paul ツ
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Interested in Architecture, Cities, Public Realm & Urban Transport. Specialist in none of the above. | All views are my own.
Newcastle Gateshead, UK.
Joined February 2012
May version. 🚇🚆 Tidied up the Tyne Valley line stations, and removed the ‘check for opening date’ asterisk from Newsham.
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‘Stepney Western’ at Byker Station, created by local filmmaker Harry Lawson. The mural re-imagines the past & present of East Newcastle through its Western-inspired design. https://t.co/Fal7no9LcR
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It’s always when I’m climbing Stepney Bank, having eaten too many delicious things in the Ouseburn, that I really wish this imagining of an Ouseburn Station had been realised. 😅
Wouldn’t that be awesome! ‘An imagining of how a Metro Station could be realised in Newcastle’s Ouseburn Valley’, by Miller Partnership Architects: https://t.co/SEN6t7dv9x
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The city prepares for Christmas. (The Gate has their decs up & turned on already. Mid Oct!)
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Almost 17000 government staff who are relocating to Newcastle City Centre have been asked for their views on their travel plans. DWP in Longbenton & HMRC at Longbenton & Washington will relocate to Pilgrim Place & Pilgrim’s Quarter by 2027. 🚶🏻🚴🏾♀️🚇🚊🚍🚖🚘 https://t.co/rka5vUOqga
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The improvements to Grey St are great but should’ve gone further and made the whole street pedestrianised bar access for deliveries and emergency vehicles - it is achieved on the continent so why not here? The next step I hope.
Last job for Friday- tweaking an image of the greatest street in the greatest city for a last minute magazine feature request. Captured early doors before it gets rammed with & ruined by white vans parked here there & everywhere. Job done. Time for bed.
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The glazing is going in at the North East Space Skills & Technology Centre at Northumbria University, Ellison Place.
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@bandkbuild @bandkphoto @Ryder1953 The pavements surrounding Pilgrim’s Quarter should be finished and open from around mid December I’m informed.
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I do like how the proposed redevelopment of Percy House will create a new wide pedestrian thoroughfare between Strawberry Lane & Percy Street. Especially handy during events & match days. https://t.co/dA3lpLiS6p
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THIS! Not only is a unified bus fleet simpler & therefore more attractive for people to use, it can make our towns & cities appear neater. I’m not a fan of our current array of multicoloured buses & route names. It’s jarring, confusing & makes the network appear VERY fragmented.
In Manchester and hadn’t appreciated how something so simple - making all buses yellow - can really improve public space. Feels neater
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Still wishing we had those bus priority measures on the Redheugh approach… 🚌 ⏰😣
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What caught my eye in the vision docs was the suggestion of a NEW BRIDGE, seemingly at the old Redheugh Bridge abutments, spanning from Forth Yards to Clasper Village where new housing is also planned. This would encourage more walking & cycling, as the current Redheugh does not.
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For too long Britain's failed to build the local transport that its towns & cities need to thrive. Would you like to change that? The Tram Network is a mission we're incubating with @cbtransport to streamline planning, reduce costs &speed up design &delivery of new trams in UK...
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The mere half mile of electrification required at Morpeth siding to enable EMUs to run Newcastle to Morpeth, improving & decarbonising that service? 🤞
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What caught my eye in the vision docs was the suggestion of a NEW BRIDGE, seemingly at the old Redheugh Bridge abutments, spanning from Forth Yards to Clasper Village where new housing is also planned. This would encourage more walking & cycling, as the current Redheugh does not.
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Lack of tram/Metro line aside, it’s extremely positive to read Forth Yards will be a sustainable urban community where pedestrian & cycle movement will be prioritised over private vehicles. Low levels of car ownership will be encouraged & a bus route will run through the centre.
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Well it’s going to be fun trying to get off this. Single-doored buses are awful on busy routes.
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