Comments on: Latest designs for Birmingham Curzon Street Station focus on passenger experience https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/accessibility-and-safety-key-to-hs2s-updated-designs-for-birmingham-curzon-street-station-17-09-2024/ Civil engineering and construction news and jobs from New Civil Engineer Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:57:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/wp-content/themes/mbm-mops-2017/images/logo.gif New Civil Engineer https://www.newcivilengineer.com 125 75 Civil engineering and construction news and jobs from New Civil Engineer By: phil@pja.co.uk https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/accessibility-and-safety-key-to-hs2s-updated-designs-for-birmingham-curzon-street-station-17-09-2024/#comment-4902 Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:57:30 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=283596#comment-4902 In reply to phil@pja.co.uk.

Whoops one ‘L’!

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Hello Phillip!

]]> By: Philip Alexander https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/accessibility-and-safety-key-to-hs2s-updated-designs-for-birmingham-curzon-street-station-17-09-2024/#comment-4899 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:43:48 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=283596#comment-4899 Sorry, I forgot to say hello to Phil Jones

]]> By: Philip Alexander https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/accessibility-and-safety-key-to-hs2s-updated-designs-for-birmingham-curzon-street-station-17-09-2024/#comment-4898 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:43:10 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=283596#comment-4898 HS2 is surely being built to provide a premium priced fast alternative to the existing Euston to New Street train service for travel between somewhere in Birmingham to somewhere on the outer reaches of London. Or have I got that wrong?
I expect all those people who are flush enough to pay for (hopefully) hugely expensive tickets for their 45 minute journey will definitely be leaving their bikes chained up outside Curzon Street station! Can no one see a Monty Python element to this HS2 madness. The HS2 clowns really are making it up as they go along. And not very well, either!
And fancy only now deciding that perhaps a timber roof might be more flammable than a metallic one, aluminium or steel. For the design to get this far before engaging a commonsense brain over the green woke brain which seems to ignore practicalities such as fire is unforgiveable. Haven’t any of the HS2 design clowns heard of Justice Popplewell’s enquiry into the Bradford City fire?

]]> By: phil@pja.co.uk https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/accessibility-and-safety-key-to-hs2s-updated-designs-for-birmingham-curzon-street-station-17-09-2024/#comment-4897 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:18:54 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=283596#comment-4897 Additional cycle parking that merely consists of Sheffield stands out in the open with no adequate security or shelter. Rather than trumpeting this as some big win it fails to meet the quality of provision given to cars at Curzon St and is not in accordance with the standards set by DfT in its Local Transport Note 1/20.

]]> By: Philip Alexander https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/accessibility-and-safety-key-to-hs2s-updated-designs-for-birmingham-curzon-street-station-17-09-2024/#comment-4896 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:16:57 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=283596#comment-4896 Surely not more accessibility? Wow, it must be rocket science to find out at this stage in the construction of HS2 that the terminus in some obscure Birmingham suburb has to be accessible. Whatever next? Platforms which allow smooth no-step transfer from one train to another?. Oh no, that would be far too difficult.

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