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COVID-19 has shown the importance of having stable housing in regards to public health. Having water, heating and housing has shown to not only benefit individuals, but society as a whole. Outside of this, it is my personal opinion that if a massive regime of homebuilding wasn't needed before...

Japan is currently constructing/developing it's maglev technology with the Chuo Shinkansen line. This is being built by JR central and is planned to initially connect Tokyo and Nagoya by 2027, with connections to Osaka expected to be completed by 2045, although this may be as soon as 2037 with...

How useful of a costcutting measure is narrow guage rail construction and would it be of any use in the UK? To a certain extent, I can see how the UK's system could be classed as being restricted in guage regardless, due to the small loading guages our older infrastructure imposes upon us...

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/metrolink-could-shut-down-unless-18125746 Metrolink has now run into funding issues, especially due to fares making up such a large proportion of operating costs. I don't know whether the decision to give free travel to NHS &...

There seems to be a lot of holes in our testing and reporting of both cases and reporting of deaths due to COVID-19. This has made coming out with more concrete spread/death rates difficult. Having this data is important, as it allows health officials to know what policies to enact and the...

In perhaps another dystopian, but useful turn in the light of Coronavirus, Google have compiled data based on user data that people have allowed to be compiled publically; https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/ You can search for almost every country and the UK's report is broken down into...

Sorry if this is speculative, but I think the intended theme of this thread belongs in this sub-section. I've just been thinking, been as the 15X fleets are celebrating their 30th/31st birthdays, that it is perhaps a good time to look at replacing them, especially as ordering new units has...

This is totally on the crazy end of speculative, but I've always wondered why you couldn't lay down something like a guided busway down the middle of a motorway, with interchanges, etc around the junctions. These sections could be protected by barriers and even have different speed limits to...

Hello all! Probably not great timing to ask for new infrastructure to deal with record passenger numbers, but I hopped on the petitions site as soon as it opened, with a previous unsuccessful attempt at getting this petition moving. Been as you're all at home, if you support trying to resolve...

Hi, Wondered what people have to say about the current housing issues we're facing here in the UK, as the supply added each year continues to be woefully inadequate. London is financially inaccessible to many young people, with other cities, even in the North quickly growing in price. I can...

Many areas of Greater Manchester rely on their bus connections as one of the only means of public transportation. This shouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, but the state of buses in Greater Manchester seems to be really quite poor, not only in comparison to other countries, but also other areas...

So considering Northern has recently fallen into public hands, alongside LNER, I wonder whether companies will continue to bid for future franchises. Scotrail under Abellio is also having it's franchise stripped early, in 2022. The tender for EMR ended up resulting in one bidder and was handed...

400-450 passengers were stranded on a Greater Anglia train for 5 hours today, before eventually being able to walk down the tracks to another train. Last year, high temperatures affected power systems and many passengers were left stranded for hours in essentially greenhouses during high...

So I've noticed in my trips between Greater Manchester and Derby/Nottingham area how much more I'm willing to use the buses at home, essentially because they are run by Trent Barton. The buses are clean, reasonably reliable and with the easy to use online bus tracker and Mango payment system...

Was just at Manchester Oxford Road on a 319 towards the airport and I was stood in the powered carriage. Anyway, the thing goes pop pretty loudly, sparks fly everywhere and the lights go out. I was already late for my flight because of the Castlefield Corridor joys, so I gave up and now am in...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/manchester-metrolink-trafford-centre-extension.171586/ Are there going to be any differences with the new M5000's, these ones are going to be a good few years newer? Would've almost thought it was time for a newer model, say an...

Occasional visitor of New York and a bit of a mass transit nerd, so the MTA modernisation programme is quite interesting to me. The subway system is facing rising passenger numbers, despite creaking, outdated infrastructure and under-funding. (Sound Familiar? ;)) The system is the largest and...

Looks like the new Hitachi AT300's based on the IET platforn for EMR are going to be called the Class 804. These are going to be bi-mode trains and should be capable of running at up to 140mph, even if 125 is all they see in service. We're looking at 33, 5-car long sets, with 23m long coaches...

Hi all! Thought I'd start a thread looking at the reasons rail has been seeing a year over year increase in ridership and a discussion about whether rail is taking journeys away from the roads and if it is a viable alternative to car ownership. Almost every year since 1995 has seen around a 4/5...

Just checked on a map and rail goes surprisingly close to East Midlands Airport! Made a quick route on Google Maps Measure distance feature and made one that comes out at 3.4 miles, doesn't involve demolition of a single building/structure and drops passengers off just below the short stay car...