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

“Don’t hate the player, hate the game” - the road to Sustainable Safety

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

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?

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.

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)

Absolutely! Indeed one persons largess is another person’s future proofing.

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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

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

Hackney 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.

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.

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.

All the best!