Photo by Fin Fahey Fed up with standing up for a hour while squashed into someone’s armpit and half a broadsheet covering your book? Help could be on its way with Network Rail’s promise of £35bn improvement package. ‘Britain is poised on the brink of …
Image courtesy of den99 under a Creative Commons licence The Evening Standard is all of a flap: Finsbury Circus “is to be bulldozed for Crossrail“, they say, with the flower beds and bowling green due to be torn up to make way for improvements to …
In semi-bloom – the Chelsea Flower Show’s sponsorship has wilted a bit. More Crossrail hype: it is to deliver £1.2bn in annual benefits to London. Prime Minister’s question time was suspended today as a mark of respect for Ivan Cameron, son of David, who died …
Plenty of publicity has been given to the oft-rescheduled closing of the Astoria to make way for the construction of a new station for the long-procrastinated Crossrail project. But it’s worth remembering that the Astoria is not the only establishment that is being uprooted by …
Astoria Faces Wrecking Ball Without Final Flourish Well, London gayness continues to throw up too many things to write about. So this post covers two stories in the space of one: 1) The first ever ‘Write Queer London’ international writing competition will climax at an …
Couple of transport shorts. Crossrail received another shot in the arm today, thanks to a £150 million contribution from Canary Wharf Group. The funds will cover about a third of the cost of Isle of Dogs station (warning: PDF), which begins construction next month in …
NME is reporting the Astoria’s last night will be 15 January, while the Metro Club has also confirmed it’s closing its doors in January. Less than a month away! At the beginning of the year we were thinking we could have the venues for another …
Essex is really kind of beautiful you know, especially the coast. Its crinkly bits around the edges rival the fjords for ooh-factor, although it is of course as flat as Norway is mountainous. Shame the county is so very maligned, and that it has traditionally …
Wanna take a sneak peek into the future? Those transport obsessives over at London Reconnections have posted some concept pictures of a few Crossrail stations. As noted, there is a generic Jubilee line extension feel to most of them, with lots of glass and exposed …
Yesterday we were so bemused by the prolix perambulations in Boris’ Way To Go transport document that we neglected to consider the very real probability of significant cuts to long-planned transport schemes. After the laughter, come the tears: today, in their 10-year business plan, TfL …
Inspired by the future shape of Canary Wharf’s Crossrail station and excited that the long and complicated process of cracking on with the building project is finally creaking into action, it was reassuring yesterday to see corporate airport beast BAA stump up £230 million towards …
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