Dermot Hanney
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- New wayfinding signage in Canary Wharf
- Anyone able to explain what is going on here? How can one automate a post box?
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- Ah very good. Had no idea but makes sense. Let’s see how robust the system is.
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- Interesting!
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- I guess there might be a mini project here as a follow on on how London connects into and out of its core cycleways
- Also here in Greenwich maps.app.goo.gl/a9fzAuAyvmbs...
- The issue for UK is not it shouldn’t build high speed rail, but why does high spreed rail cost so much to build? As someone raised in the comments here, the cost per passenger km is not so great as this will be a high use route so maybe we are in many ways simply miscalculating these schemes costs
- This is *before* the new budget increases, which could take the total cost over £100bn www.ft.com/content/3f73...
- Just a simple comparison (these numbers are moving all the time so no absolutes here)… But certainly in original plans, HS2 aiming for 18 passenger trains per HOUR, whereas from what I can tell from online the Turin Lyon tunnel is only planning for 22 passenger trains per DAY.
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- Very sorry to hear @samfr.bsky.social It was interesting that this morning walking to office in places it was ok to walk until facing an all asphalt pavement. I seriously doubt anyone putting it in thought about how treacherous the surface is when it’s cold and damp.
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- This might be a helpful addendum so by @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/rant...
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- It’s better to follow the London model planned of charging through the dock. The only downside to this is cost so hopefully they can make it all scalable but otherwise it solves charging and tidiness
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- I was looking for that the other day on iPlayer. I assume it’ll now be up post Christmas Day 👍
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- And there was I thinking I was the only to get this sort of picture at St T’s. Congratulations! Enjoy going back to Westminster when they make it too.
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- I’m always intrigued what solution should be, as just relying on central Gov to step in when failure occurs doesn’t seem efficient. My hunch is Network Rail has the answer as, in the main, they get funding to renew pre failure. But councils can only ask for this ad hoc? Or it’s there but underused?
- @secondcaptains.bsky.social @kenearly.bsky.social @jonawils.bsky.social @dionfanning.bsky.social player that fell off cliff example after major transfer in Premier League after looking world class example missed = Andriy Shevchenko at Chelsea. Never got off the ground after looking amazing at AC
- This is where blind reliance on cars and ignorance of decarbonisation gets you youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?...
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- “Don’t hate the player, hate the game” - the road to Sustainable Safety
- Lecture 2 The “possession is 9/10 of the law” / “what we have we hold” / “two steps forward one step back” lecture where it’s outlined how our spatial layout is a conscious decision and inevitably we need to reduce space for cars to make space available to make progress for non-car modes
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- I’m getting more stressed by the day as the nursery run is getting darker and darker and I look to give my 4 year her independence to walk beside me multiple times cars bolt up the wrong side of the single carriageway A road to turn right without looking who’s crossing the side road
- @secondcaptains.bsky.social suddenly this makes much more sense youtube.com/shorts/3_vRu...
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- Downside of not going electric. Wonder in future with Diesel/Battery electric could you enforce trains are electric only entering / exiting stations, especially termini
- Is it a diesel train thing?
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- Hear me out but is this not another example of the lost art of cost benefit analysis. I know it gets a bad rep now but ultimately if we did it properly between modes, not just within them, we’d better spend what we have. Currently we literally just know the cost of everything and the value of none.
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- Ha it seems yet another new rail link where demand forecasts are wildly underestimated and somehow we celebrate this fact (where poor forecasts clearly will hold back further rail growth due to imprecise business cases)
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- Absolutely! Indeed one persons largess is another person’s future proofing. bsky.app/profile/plan...
- Am I missing something. Is there not plenty of motorway schemes where passive provision for new roads such as a bridge or underpass box before any new roads put in? Sure people would complain if a few years down the line they wanted a new road but HS2 “didn’t have the foresight” to put in crossing
- Example here www.roads.org.uk/blog/ghost-j...
- Westfield Avenue new cycle track coming along nicely Intrigued if blue sections are part of guidance or designer just going on a solo run Really like the SUDS / planting arrangement. More to come soon further west
- Anyone know if there’s a hack to find out when the new DLR train is running today?
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View full threadHackney council will be slightly by fact they just signed a bit fat deal with Lime bikes to revenue share. Lime might well ask where are all our user views in all this. And yet in all this the A10 continues to generate loads of crashes but minimal focus.
- Something not right in how we review things that such a consultation has zero references to the A10 but yet on crash map it has approximately +500 crashes one could reference as evidence a main road is a severance safety issue
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- I guess a compromise could be allowing the park to grow and take some of the excessive road space that’s on SSG to rebalance what is being planned to be removed for the station. Thus wouldn’t impact existing planning but offers opportunity to maintain same scale of park footprint there today.
- Expansion of Dart to Drogheda using battery-electric trains delayed until 2027 A plan to operate a more frequent train service under the Dart brand on Dublin's northern line has been delayed by a year until 2027 due to a supply issue with the battery units for the new trains, Irish Rail confirmed…
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- The new battery is not going to arrive overnight though is it. Unless IE cut their loses on these trains and just run as full electric they will need to sit in the shed until new battery is installed whenever that is. Their hand might be forced if many of original DART fleet start failing.
- Irish Rail should have ordered the established tech 100% electric trains up front to get going asap and given themselves time to develop and test the battery electric trains. Instead they’ve rushed delivery of BE’s that will still be delayed, but nothing to show for it except 3 sets gathering dust.
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- All the best!
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- Also add in this one. Though I must admit I’ve never tried a spice bag despite being Irish so you know I hear it’s good and all that. Slightly odd this a thing but there you go. I blame the Devonshire www.paddywok.com
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- Is this not more (dangerous) posturing by the government to position Ireland to not pay the EU fines in 2030 rather really sharing a true coherent belief on climate change?
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- Looks similar but don’t think that’s Diana playground in Kensington Park which is always wedged. Which goes to show that you’re right they’re popular but also you’re right we need more of them as the limited ones we do have can feel quite overwhelming as a parent.
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- Maybe can shape this point around fact in the UK the most trafficked motorways don’t allow any walk/cycling so there’s rarely a conflict there. Then also a significant additional set of roads where technically could find walk/cycling but in practice very few interactions occur eg rural roads
- This article is written in such a way that’s it’s a revelation to the Irish Government that public transport services need a subsidy to run at any way a decent level of service. What are they on about about a “funding gap”? Every year there’s been “funding gap” www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
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View full thread“Government may raid National Development Plan funds to plug €250m gap in 'public service obligation' transport” Just again these were well signposted initiatives led by the government itself. How can they be so confused as how to keep funding public transport when they budgeted it from start???
- Ultimately Irish Gov have been told to rein spending in. But it seems in their wisdom they have taken aim on cuts on a scheme proven to be value for money by dint of record passenger numbers, with a funding envelope always known and a revelation to no one. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
- It’s hard not to think their heart was not really in supporting public and sustainable transport if they give up on properly funding local transport after a couple of years. This is not how you create a top quality transport system. People can’t change their lifestyles on short termist policies.
- Can no one in Irish Government see the link between their spend and outcome “In August, Transport for Ireland reported an “all-time high” usage of PSO public transport, with a total of 343m journeys across 2024.”
- Public transport revenue never covers costs. Gov has to step in to “fund the gap” between revenue and costs. It’s been ever thus. Now Gov may no longer be willing to fund that gap to same level. But that’s not responsible budgeting, it’s a political decision. Irish Government should own it as such.
- “In recent years, the costs of delivering public transport services have been impacted by a number of issues, including … expansion of services in line with Government policy, and various fare initiatives.” What? They’re complaining their own policies cost money to implement.
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- We need minimum basic level of service standard for walking and wheeling infrastructure across the whole network!!! Everyone of every ability should be confident if they see a path they won’t be abandoned later on without a dropped kerb or safe crossing.
- Just a few examples from this weekend on how climate change is impacting us more and more using the medium of football to illustrate it. These are clear examples of climate impact costing society. But yet people will try convince you we are wasting money on spending on infrastructure resilience.
- Spend now to save money later and secure economic benefits into the future. We need to avoid being seduced by the idea spending more on climate resilience is in any way money wasted and a cost we could do without www.railtech.com/all/2025/09/...
