Matt HB - matthodg.bsky.social
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Aerospace w. Rocketry @ Swansea Uni. Transportation Planner/Modeller. ⚡️ all the things + HS2 + NPR + Light rail/metro 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪 Personal views only. He/Him
Lambeth, London
Joined September 2013
Love that we solved low cost, high capacity public transport 40 years ago and just decided never to do it again anywhere in this country…
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Cool. Now do the Bakerloo extension
At next week’s budget, the Chancellor is set to give the go-ahead to extend the DLR to Thamesmead. 🚆The DLR extension will enable 25,000 new, well-connected homes. Take a look at the Thamesmead Riverside, a disused brownfield site where many new homes will be built.
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Good, but is this really more important than the bakerloo line extension?
At next week’s budget, the Chancellor is set to give the go-ahead to extend the DLR to Thamesmead. 🚆The DLR extension will enable 25,000 new, well-connected homes. Take a look at the Thamesmead Riverside, a disused brownfield site where many new homes will be built.
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Tell me the plans for this don’t just include a stop on the tram…?
Our new stadium. A statement of intent for the City of Birmingham and the West Midlands, testament to a region that is on the rise.
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I really can’t help but feel this is not the right project to be spending TfLs currently very limited capital funds. East London needs more cross river connections but a branch of a localised network that ends 250m from the river for ~£2bn just does seem worth it….
At next week’s budget, the Chancellor is set to give the go-ahead to extend the DLR to Thamesmead. 🚆The DLR extension will enable 25,000 new, well-connected homes. Take a look at the Thamesmead Riverside, a disused brownfield site where many new homes will be built.
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East-West Rail needs full electrification - increasing long-term leasing costs & calling that a saving, because it doesn't appear on public debt, is just an accountancy dodge. https://t.co/sFHVlvOUCx
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Don’t forget to build a decent station in this mega property development!
Euston is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform a key central London area and create high-quality jobs and homes. We're continuing to work closely with Camden Council, the government & partners to support proposals to launch a new Locally Led Development Corporation.
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Septa please I'm begging you, go with Stadler 🙏
SEPTA has basically 3 options for rolling stock if they want something expedited. The options mostly would consist of tacking onto an order already in progress by another railroad so: 1. Modify a version of the LIRR M9A cars. Would require traps for low boarding and
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I'm trying to unpick Heidi Alexander's speech... We are "only supporting projects that are fully costed and affordable".. so we cancelled Midland Mainline electrification - without costing or ensuring the alternative was affordable (1/2) https://t.co/Qt99NzXNzR
railwaygazette.com
UK: Secretary of State for Transport Heidi Alexander says the government's approach to rail investment 'will be guided by securing value for taxpayers' by 'only supporting projects that are fully...
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@railandroad 451m trips in 3 months is equivalent to 1.8Bn per year. That’s half of China Rail’s 3.6Bn trips - on a network 10% the size. And 3x what British Rail had. You’ll be pressing for HS2 to run 1,000 seat trains Scotland to London, and release huge capacity on existing network??
#CRnews In 2023, China Railway achieved a passenger volume of 3.68 billion, with a peak day surpassing 20 million passengers, both setting historic records. #ChinaRailway
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The London Underground’s Southwark tube station has been granted listed status as an outstanding example of late 20th-century architecture. https://t.co/NfMgf2tkru
ianvisits.co.uk
The London Underground’s Southwark tube station has been granted listed status as an outstanding example of late 20th-century architecture.
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Proposals for over 2,500 homes in Kensington & Chelsea were approved last night 4 - 1 in favour. This follows an initial submission in 2023. This could provide up to 2,019 for Market Sale, 342 for social rent and 158 for Shared Ownership Other scheme features include; public
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Occasionally you have to be grateful for the UKs inability to build major infrastructure……
The unbuilt London Ringway network! @jimwaterson’s London Centric newsletter today has a great piece on the motorways which nearly wrecked the city in the 1960s/70s. Based on research of Chris Marshall ( https://t.co/LzT0KqAhSE); the best I’ve read on it: https://t.co/PauyVjQW2c
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Into Swansea earlier this evening. Transport Minister Heidi Alexander comments today, cancelling any further electrification works - reminds me why I find the route into Swansea depressing.
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These are going to be an absolute game changer for freight paths on the UKs mainlines! Very much looking forward to taking a look at their SRTs!
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A lot has been happening lately on the Birmingham Eastside Metro Extension, so here's a drone perspective from one of our recent tram tests.
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Rarely do we see a grade separation of the current railway taking shape but in this case I think it’s an excellent example of what’s required to upgrade our existing mainlines. Fantastic work by the TRU team on what will be a transformational upgrade of the Transpennine route!
From Sunday 14 December until summer 2028, Ravensthorpe station will close as TRU delivers a new, modernised station 200m west of the current site. The newly-built Ravensthorpe station will have: ✅ Step-free access and a footbridge with lifts ✅ A new forecourt area with
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Sunak's only real legacy is the blunder of cancelling HS2 to Manchester - A decision that will hold back growth in the city in coming decades
Rishi Sunak to the Times: "Clearly, I miss the levers of power. I’m proud I brought in the smoking ban for the young. I miss playing cricket in the garden with the England cricket team and the staff. But not much else."
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The @railandroad has approved the @stadlerrail @GBRailfreight Class 99s for service. https://t.co/rLohDk8D9A
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