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BCR is not a perfect measurement, there are many things it does not / cannot take into account. Also, not everything needs to have a positive BCR. There are many things that governments do that have "negative BCR" but they do for political, social or equity reasons. Improvements to northern...

Other places include Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Madrid. Madrid even had a battery explode in a train carriage in October last year - luckily with zero injuries...

If there's any risk of this on a crowded rush hour train, it's not worth it. After this fire in November 2021, they've been banned from the Tube since Dec 2021 - many other metros/subways around the world have also implemented this policy. It would be silly to have staff checking the "quality of...

Phil Verster is leaving Metrolinx.

Obviously the cursed outcome would be leaving Metrolinx to become TTC CEO.

As happened to the Azur trains in Montreal - sole sourced to Bombardier, Alstom sued and won, Alstom and Bombardier then joined forces for a combined bid on the contract. Realistically it's Alstom's to lose - it depends what the level of Canadian protectionism is in the bidding documents.

Surely there's a lawsuit waiting to happen when a very sad fatality inevitably happens...

It's so plainly clear that Doug wanted to be Mayor, not Premier. What a backwards, regressive step. I don't even think I've seen car-brained DOT in the States try and pull this - because the Federal government would probably pull all of their grants!

One example of "other infrastructure to perform maintenance without impacting service" are express tracks as seen in NYC. Other systems (especially fully automated ones) can run limited service on one track, or use crossovers to bypass work areas - lots of Line 1 is in shared tunnel with the...

Imagine, just imagine how much electrified regional rail, subway lines, streetcar extensions, BRT lines you could build for however many billions this is gonna cost. It’s pie in the sky stuff, someone at Transurban has def been speaking to Doug. Also, the MOT needs a clear out if people are...

Not a fan of this proposal, but there are many many many urban road tunnels of extended length - these “problems” have been solved. Sydney has just finished building 33 km (26km tunnels) of new urban motorways at about AU$20 billion, for example (WestConnex)

Sigh. The 401 tunnel proposal has the fingers of Transurban all over it.

Well quite!

Finally found a source for something I wanted to include - Alexander Dennis' new Enviro400EV double decker will have a 14 year / 1 million km battery warranty, allowing it to cover two consecutive TfL bus contracts of 7 years. Capacity of 87 with 472kWh batteries (range of 418 km), or 96 with...

It's very interesting to see this from across the pond - some bus manufacturers here are going from strength to strength with the growth in BEB and FCEB in Europe. But when London's fleet is nearly 9,000 buses (about 1,400 now electric), Paris is around 5,000 ... it's just a completely...

He's certainly more of a centre-left, pragmatic figure yes. Some (moi) might argue that the policy proposals are sometimes Tory-lite or don't go far enough - whereas others would point to the UK's dire economic situation and lack of money. Steadying the ship and driving growth may be more...

All of the planning stuff has a direct impact on my job as an urban planner - noting that where I work, we're already planning for ~50,000 new homes in the next ten years, in a borough of about 350,000 and 36km2. The thing that is holding up new homes for us - is the lack of infrastructure to...

Basically the Conservatives got rid of housing targets, so lots of places went "yay, we don't want development, so no target means we can't be forced to build!" A more YIMBY attitude has to be a good thing - the Conservatives blocked TfL building apartment on a car park adjacent to a Tube...

Well I was more delighted to see Sunak go than joy at Keir Starmer winning ... Some of Labour's "Tory-lite" positions and their LGBTQ+ policies are not good enough - but I look forward to seeing how they will govern. I think Starmer is going to be a better administrator than he is a politician...

On the contrary, broadcasters love live events like the Olympics and the World Cup because it is "live" - Appointment television! Rights deals have are in place until 2032 in both the US (NBC) and Europe (EBU and Warner Bros Discovery)...