I like to rant and waffle about Roller coasters, Trains, Transport & urban planning, Infrastructure and the state of the world **All views are entirely my own**
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Just Eat apologises for AI food mistakes after social media ridicule bbc.in/4jAIj9J
Just from the British Rail standpoint - Britain's Railway Night Mail (1988) is also heavy on the national pride.
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Our Chief Mouser Larry is back at Downing Street following a minor operation, and is recovering well.
He is feline much better but taking things one paw at a time.
We are grateful to the vets for their outstanding care.
ALT Larry the Cat returns to 10 Downing Street after a minor operation.
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Every time @Heidi_Labour or @transportgovuk decide not to start a rolling programme of overhead electrification is a decision to run a worse, more expensive railway.
They waste money every day by not getting the wires up - it's an active decision to burn cash. It's unacceptable.
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🚨 WATCH: The moment an RAF training jet crashes shortly after take-off at RAF Valley
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BREAKING | State pension set to rise 3.9% next year
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As we enter the last year of this privatised mess, I remembered this gem from BR from 1988
Around 5 years after it was shot, the BR would have its heart literally ripped out of it
The video has an 'end of a golden era' vibe about it.
When we used to be proud of our railway!
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Both HS2 and Hinkley Point C have now hit peak construction phase.
That means the workforce for each project will be declining in the coming years and months.
These are the only two megaprojects being built in Britain at the moment. Thousands of apprentices were trained for each job.
HS2 specifically had a tough time finding the skilled workers able to construct a high speed railway, and trained many itself.
Now that we have passed peak construction, there is no other project for many of these workers to go to. Some will go overseas, others will retrain in other specialisms, still more may end up out of work entirely.
This is the issue with our feast and famine approach to infrastructure. Without a steady conveyer belt of projects we have to train up new workforces from scratch when we decide to build something new.
Other countries have workforces that can move seamlessly from project to project, developing new skills and keeping costs low.
Starting from scratch every time is one of the many reasons why British megaprojects are so much more expensive than everyone else's.
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80% of the civil engineering for HS2 is complete or near completion. Yet none of it will be open for another TEN YEARS.
Why?
It doesn’t take ten years to install track and signalling. No. This is the Treasury restricting spending so that the project proceeds at a glacial pace.
The right when private housing integration focuses on private entitlement and car centric design at expense of communities and the urban / local fabric 😎
The right when private housing integration focuses on private entitlement and car centric design at expense of.... 😰
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Close call for the drone cam!
I wonder if this was precisely planned to be just outside of the possible range of the TVC corrections, or if they just got lucky?
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Meanwhile, in the UK:
