The world's newest metro line opened today for passengers. The East London line combines the best of 19th and 21st century technologies, passing through the Brunel Tunnel under the River Thames, the world's first underwater tunnel and on state-of-the-art modern tracks and new arch bridges.
The carriages and stations are spacious - much more so than the Docklands Light Railway - and passengers can walk through from one carriage to the next should the nearly empty space soon fill up with eager commuters.
Top row from left to right: (i) Interior carriage seats at Shoreditch High St., (ii) platform seats at Canada Water, the transfer point for the Jubilee Line, (iii), Whitechapel, an 'old' refurbished station, (iv) poster at the brand new Hagerston Station. Center row - left to right: (i) girders on bridge over A10, (ii) Hoxton station platform, (iii) train arriving at Canada Water. Bottom row from left to right: (i) interior carriage shot showing connection to next carriage, (ii) New tile work at Haggerston station, and (iii) train departing Haggerston station.
27 April 2010
02 April 2010
Tower Hamlets Wheelers Workshop
Tower Hamlets Wheelers celebrated their seventh year of monthly bicycle workshops on 27 March 2010. The workshop ran from 11:00 to 15:00 at the Limehouse Town Hall in East London. Here, Dave, a volunteer mechanic, is pumping up a tyre for one of the more than two dozen cyclists who attended for a variety of repairs ranging from brakes to bottom brackets.
28 March 2010
BFI Southbank - 60s Diva DJs
BFI Southbank - 60s Diva DJs
Originally uploaded by D1v1d
25 March 2010
Dangerous Roundabout
Southbound traffic on Southgate Rd oftens fails to give way to cyclists travelling east or west on Northchurch Rd. The gray car in the foreground is encroaching on the cyclist who is already in the roundabout despite clear road markings and give way signs on all approaches. There was a serious accident at this roundabout on the evening of 24/3/10 - a police car hit a cyclist who is in serious condition.
www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23818847-cyclist-...
www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23818847-cyclist-...
18 March 2010
Paul Day - Frieze under 'Meeting Place' - Soldiers returning from war
This photo depicts one of the panels on the frieze at the base of the 'Meeting Place', Paul Day's large bronze statue of a kissing couple in St Pancras International Station. The panels stand in stark juxtaposition to the embrace above, creating a kind of historical tension between the dark days of war, the 7/7 bombings, the sense of dark industrial isolation and the embrace in modern clothes above. I'm not quite sure what to make of the large sculpture (heterosexist) but the panels beneath drew me in with a very different view of the work as a whole.
26 February 2010
Critical Mass - London
Waiting for rest of group at Piccadilly Circus. Critical Mass happens on the last Friday of every month - meet under Waterloo Bridge at 18:00 for 19:00 departure.
14 February 2010
30 January 2010
24 December 2009
Merry Christmas
Wishing everyone good health and safe travelling today, and all best for the New Year!
21 December 2009
Christmas Balls and Bike Horns
From Hackney's Lock 7 bike shop and cafe - it's a cyclist's dream - a big kitchen with a bike repair workshop, good drinks and food and warm sunshine through large windows to warm up on a cold day!
19 December 2009
Holiday Cheer in London Fields
LCC Hackney cyclists served up mulled wine, delicious biscuits and minced pies last night in the heart of London Fields. Cyclists are a hardy bunch - the temp was 0 C with a wind chill. Hackney has seen the largest growth in cycling over the past few years of any London borough.
21 November 2009
16 November 2009
Rainy Days for Royal Mail
Poor industrial relations have already degraded the quality of Universal Service. First class UK post is now taking three to seven days or more to arrive; I got a birthday card from my sister recently that took one month via air mail from the USA. Up until a year ago, that card would have arrived within 5 to 7 days.
Failing to address fundamental efficiency issues now and the continuing impact of electronic commmunications will make the difficult decisions Government is facing even more difficult following the general election. Will the iconic pillar box become a listed artifact of a bygone era?
Mordernise or decline - Hooper Report
www.berr.gov.uk/files/file49389.pdf
The report addressed modernisation in two phases - first, transformation, changing culture and breaking down resistance to change, and, second, diversification, finding new sources of revenue. This is a massive management challenge on the scale of modernising the telecomms trunk network by BT in the 1980s.
Failing to address fundamental efficiency issues now and the continuing impact of electronic commmunications will make the difficult decisions Government is facing even more difficult following the general election. Will the iconic pillar box become a listed artifact of a bygone era?
Mordernise or decline - Hooper Report
www.berr.gov.uk/files/file49389.pdf
The report addressed modernisation in two phases - first, transformation, changing culture and breaking down resistance to change, and, second, diversification, finding new sources of revenue. This is a massive management challenge on the scale of modernising the telecomms trunk network by BT in the 1980s.
07 November 2009
Rainy Day City
London's City on a rainy Sunday from the front of a double-decker bus (141). Camera phone set on macro to focus on windscreen raindrops.
11 October 2009
05 September 2009
Priority Crossing
Here's a chance for Hackney to score another first. Why not make this the UK's first priority crossing for bicycles. Move the give way signs to the roadway and install speed humps on each side of the crossing. This is a busy cycle route; let's do it!
26 August 2009
Albert Dock - Liverpool
From a recent business trip to Liverpool. This is the view from the bar / restaurant at the Holiday Inn Express - north towards the Royal Liver building. The massive buildings are a testament to robust construction quality; they are now protected by law as Grade 1 listed properties. The Tate Liverpool museum is at the far end of the block on the left side of the water.
11 August 2009
Church of the Panagia Paraportiani, Mykonos Greece
The church is comprised of five separate chapels linked together in the Cycladic style. The oldest parts are from the Byzantine era.
03 August 2009
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