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All this economics stuff might be relevant if the cost of the TDNS project was all that high but, compared to what Highways England (or whatever they're called this week) is getting thrown at them it isn't. There is no need to increase borrowing to fund electrification, we just need to divert...

The answer to your question is not clear (or maybe it would be if I had paid to read the full article...) but yes the Government is shockingly bad on transport decarbonisation; whether or not the MML is still 'on' the fact remains that things like Didcot-Oxford and Derby-Birmingham-Didcot are...

I'm not sure exactly what commitments we made at COP26 but either they didn't say anything meaningful on transport or we are not implementing them, because we are still heading in the same direction as we were prior to COP26. That direction being AWAY from a zero-carbon transport system...

Is it possible to increase platform heights to provide level boarding with UK stock where the doors are over the bogies? In some cases, over the bogies is the best place to put the doors for other reasons so if that prevents level boarding everywhere then we can't have level boarding everywhere.

Thanks; interesting that it even says 'Transport for Wales' (and no other operator name is visible) and not just the T logo. Did the Welsh Government give any grants to Wrexham & Shropshire? Not a day-to-day operating subsidy of course but perhaps depot facilities?

Thanks. I can't find the picture, but I seem to recall seeing one previously that I didn't think would be legal. It was red with green doors; isn't red-green a common form of colour blindness which would mean this wasn't a contrasting colour for the doors?

Is there a topic for Grand Union's proposed services to Stirling (I assume a similar conclusion)?

Note that I said the UK government was finding billions of pounds to buy more space for more cars. UK Government means Highways England means more space for more cars IN ENGLAND. Google "road investment strategy 2" if you want to know more. The headline figure is £27bn I believe. Since a large...

Indeed they are, but the first thing I would cut if I was in charge and short of money (and probably would cut even if I wasn't short of money) would be the road investment strategy.

You probably don't want to be on a Tram-Train if a FLIRT hits it either, and isn't it still possible (between Cathays and Radyr via Cardiff Central) for a 2000t coal train to hit the tram train anyway? The reason they are tram-trains, not just plain trams, is so they would be allowed to share...

Wasn't there a requirement to permit freight across the entire existing ValleyLines network, hence the use of 25kv AC including on the routes via Pontypridd? There was still freight through Aberdare until recently wasn't there? Personally, I think it is more to do with the depot for the...

Does this have any connection with the map put out by the Welsh Government earlier this year?

Maybe not but how well is social distancing being maintained at the moment (genunie question, I've not got any experience of rail travel in the era of COVID-19)? If we removed social distancing and face mask rules to allow public transport use to return to how it was, maybe it would be a major...

Must confess I didn't think of that, which could be a solution for inter-urban rail travel (but how much would it cost to implement) but I can't see it working for buses or metro systems.

Is a train with only 16% of seats usable anywhere near being environmentally friendly? If that percentage is correct, I believe we're talking a limit of about 30 passengers per 3-car train. At best that's 30 cars off the road, compared to between 60 and 100 if the train was comfortably loaded...

I'm very much in the 'entrenched views' camp although I wouldn't say COVID-19 has entrenched them; they were entrenched already and COVID-19 hasn't changed that. Even my ambivalence towards HS2 hasn't changed; I read that it is a net-emitter of greenhouse gases and I think that's awful and...

Or this, which didn't take much longer: I did spend a fair bit of time trying to Photoshop it onto a 195, but my use of the vanishing point tool left a lot to be desired so I decided not to post it.

Tricky one that; the number of 197s is not far short of what would be needed to run all the routes (although the Cambrian would be a little short of units if the replacement of 158s with 197s goes ahead). It is the specification of the 197s that is inappropriate for virtually all the planned...

Well, he probably can (to a degree) justifiably blame KeolisAmey for the atrocious spec of the class 197s, although he is not completely blameless since he has refused to do anything about it when warned about it. I agree completely, although had the spec of the new long-distance trains actually...

Ah. Although given the political fallout a full closure would result in that's more-likely to mean cuts to service frequencies (or postponement of upgrades such as extending Liverpool-Chester services into Wales) particularly with an election coming up in 2021 (if it isn't postponed due to the...