Steve Chambers
@planningtransport
Transport and urban planning stuff. I run sustainable transport and environmental justice non-profits: @transportgood.org @transportfornewhomes.org.uk Can also be found: Ⓜ️ mastodon.cloud/@respros 📸 pixelfed.social/respros 🍴 beliapp.co/app/respros
As we discovered in 2022, London's greenness creates the potential for fires very close to homes. 207 wildfires attended by London Fire Brigade in 2022. www.london-fire.gov.uk/news/2025-ne...
Just arrived! The author accidentally saved the Romford-Upminster "Liberty line" when at the Ministry of Transport by noticing BR had made inflated claims about the level of subsidy required, which initiated closure proceedings.
Semmens, Peter (July 1987). "Anglian Accelerations". The Railway Magazine. Vol. 133, no. 1035. p. 448.
I had not apreciated how little of Dagenham is left in this constituency. Can't see that one being held on to. And yet the lesson of the loss will be what? We should have been more like Reform?
Those smart home temperature sensors finally proving useful to confirm everything is terrible.
Full quote actually worse. It is a limited stop railway. It doesn't matter what end you build from. The current stub that is under construction is being done in his preferred direction and it will be a railway between two cities with a station in only one of them until Euston is built last.
Their logo is a heart with blood pouring from it and their name is written out in the blood.
Two cats crossed my path on public transport today. One walking alongside the track at West Ham station and another slowly crossed the road in front of the bus, causing a very brief delay.
Not so keen on this part of the Parliament archive site. I have failed the humanity check as many times as I have passed.
These wretched triangles are all that remains of grass verges that have been eaten up by dropped kerbs until that is all the remains.
What a rabbit hole this has been! NCS Board was established in 1996 and 2001. Government creating what already exists? (It has been known) www.gtkp.com/wp-content/u...
Keeping to the shady footpaths. Ancient rights of way once through fields that long-forgotten councils had the foresight to retain (although typically rerouted to fit the new street pattern).
Not the main point, but Greenwich is the most gauche royal borough. You'd never see Kingston mentioning it twice in the same sentence.