New Projects: The Copenhagen Wheel

New Projects: The Copenhagen Wheel (h/t: Make)

Mexico City Airport: A Case Study

Lessons learned from a visit to Mexico City Airport – something for the London Olympic Committee to consider? Click the headline to read on…

CrossRail in Bechtel’s Own Words

CrossRail in Bechtel’s own words (pdf download).

The Mayor’s Transport Strategy

Click the headline for the full story… As mentioned elsewhere on this site, the recently Mayor published the “Statement of Intent” for his transport strategy. The document, a marker between November’s Way to Go and “early” 2010’s full transport strategy, outlines the Mayor’s priorities following a public consultation and a year in office. In particular it highlights six “challenges” for consideration: supporting economic development and population growth ensuring a better quality of life delivering safety and security improving transport opportunities for all tackling climate change delivering the Olympic and Paralympic Games…

New Tube Plans

Londonist carries the recent news that the Mayor is looking into a southern Bakerloo Line extension… the article then goes on to discuss the likelihood of other Tube plans coming to fruition including the Morgan Line and a non-stopping tube service. Well worth a read – click the headline to find out more…

London Electric Car Scheme

From the Guardian: Boris Johnson is considering the introduction of an electric car hire scheme in London as part of his attempts to make it the “electric capital of Europe”.

Bringing Trams Back

The Mayor’s Way to Go document ended speculation that a further extension of the tram network would happen in London any time soon. As we said in our review of the document:

The Mayor needs to look sensibly now at bringing in the private sector to build, run, and then hand-over innovative projects when they become profitable. Being creative is now perhaps the Mayor’s best chance of delivering any form of transport revolution for the capital, but to be so is a risk. Is Mr Johnson prepared to take it?

As the availability of fund tightens, the Mayor has to look to the private sector to take a lead in delivering and running of new transport projects. News comes today that a British firm is willing to step into the breach…

Projects | Walkit.com

The Times carries an profile of the excellent website walkit.com, which aims to allow people to make informed decisions about choosing to walk for some, or all, of their intended journey rather than taking alternative modes of transport.
Entering your route into the walkit system (central London only) gives the option of a direct, or less [...]

Projects | Son of Routemaster

Both the BBC and the Times carry articles about the new Routemaster project, dubbed ‘Son of Routemaster’.
Says the Times:
The open-platform bus that allows passengers to hop on and off without waiting for the driver to release the doors could return to London’s streets, only this time it would be able to carry wheelchairs and [...]

Projects | Bike Theft in London

Figures released by the Government today, after a question from Conservative Mayoral candidate Boris Johnson MP, show that on average 52 bikes every day are stolen in London.
The full Government answer can be found on Hansard here, with a break-down by London borough.
LondonUnlocked suspects that these figures do not even touch the true level of [...]