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Comment on Latest designs for Birmingham Curzon Street Station focus on passenger experience by phil@pja.co.uk

phil@pja.co.uk — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:57:30 +0000

In reply to phil@pja.co.uk. Whoops one ‘L’!

Comment on Latest designs for Birmingham Curzon Street Station focus on passenger experience by phil@pja.co.uk

phil@pja.co.uk — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:56:29 +0000

In reply to Philip Alexander. Hello Phillip!

Comment on What can be done to resolve the UK’s local road crisis? by Tim Block

Tim Block — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:32:31 +0000

There is an old adage ‘that water causes more damage to man made structures than any other single element.’
It is so often the case that in their needs to meet local budgets attention is very often limited to the drainage of roads, particularly the secondary and minor roads. Such roles as ‘Parish Lengthman’ has very often been removed and the local roads are now more subject to local flooding than ever before.
Tim Block C Eng MICE

Comment on Latest designs for Birmingham Curzon Street Station focus on passenger experience by Philip Alexander

Philip Alexander — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:43:48 +0000

Sorry, I forgot to say hello to Phil Jones

Comment on Latest designs for Birmingham Curzon Street Station focus on passenger experience by Philip Alexander

Philip Alexander — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:43:10 +0000

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?

Comment on Latest designs for Birmingham Curzon Street Station focus on passenger experience by phil@pja.co.uk

phil@pja.co.uk — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:18:54 +0000

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.

Comment on Latest designs for Birmingham Curzon Street Station focus on passenger experience by Philip Alexander

Philip Alexander — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:16:57 +0000

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.

Comment on Mayors detail proposal for new Midlands – Manchester railway to replace HS2 by Philip Alexander

Philip Alexander — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:40:57 +0000

Now to turn the ridiculous HS2 white elephant into a conventional railway too, thus saving billions on fancy bespoke rolling stock and signalling systems to cope with 400kph running. It’s not too late. Please.

Comment on HS2 unable to confirm level boarding accessibility at £1.6bn Old Oak Common station by Andrew Thomson

Andrew Thomson — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:59:07 +0000

The fundamental problem here is the lack of a consistent level boarding strategy for the rail network. OOC’s non-HS2 platforms will have a mix of trains with different boarding heights. There is simply no ‘correct’ height to set the platforms at to provide level boarding. The Elizabeth line ‘solved’ this by using non-standard platform heights, but this creates problems for the future as you then have a further problem of different platform heights.

Comment on Expert ‘massively disputes’ National Highways’ claim that M25 runoff ponds aren’t overdue maintenance by dyhprum@yahoo.com

dyhprum@yahoo.com — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 11:50:42 +0000

One linked issue – if (or when) the silt blocks the outlet, the high-speed road will flood, and the HSE will be knocking on someone’s door! We must all be sure to add knowledge about dangers to the routine inspection package. and caveat the outcomes of not doing something.