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The A14 is to bypass having to drive through the already congested town centre. The current rail line through Ipswich doesn't have that problem. Given that there's no pressing need for the line to go South of the town centre, it's far easier to go on the flat(ish), North of it, than it is to...

Technically the closest station is Derby Road (Ipswich) at about 2.5 km, but as this is fairly useless for going anywhere other than Felixstowe, I've never used it, and always go to Ipswich station proper. That's roughly 5 km, so 15-20 minutes on my bike, or 20-25 minutes by bus (which goes on a...

If we're going to go with outrageous, then I'd go for a Dublin to Holyhead tunnel. More usefully though, I'd say widening Wakefield Westgate to 3 or 4 platforms, probably involving widening the north end of the viaduct and demolishing the current northbound platform (2?). Extending the...

That should only be the case if the additional wagons were unbraked. I think it's safe to assume that continuous braking systems of one form or another would continue to be in used in such a scenario, and hence that the braking force would scale linearly with the number of axles (ie. with train...

Whilst I largely agree with your conclusion, I think that the attitude that women are inherently defenceless and need "a nearby male to ward off any would-be attackers" is as much part of a problem as the predatory males themselves.

95%+ of the people who use the bus I get to work, also work at the same site as me, and just under half work for the same company. I probably have a conversation on the bus twice a month or less, and it's generally with the same person each time. (In the warmer months I tend to cycle, so...

That might cost you a few extra pennies, to put it mildly...

If you're not actually starting on a TGV service which uses one of the Paris bypass LGV lines you would probably not be inclined to change on to it for the purposes of going round Paris. There (partially) still is a more inner line somewhat similar to that the OP proposed circumnavigating...

4G in UK occupies 2 bands (ignoring EEs sliver of 4G in the 1.8GHz 2G band), the lowest of which (800MHz) does has better area coverage, and will be deployed in rural areas, but will be significantly slower than the 2.6GHz 4G urban services. More significantly though, by the time that 4G is...

These schemes are not really appropriate for transferring energy: cheaply, at high power, or at high efficiency. Filling the 4ft with sufficiently beefy induction coils would be absurdly expensive and you'd need to use selective powering to achieve even a low efficiency. It'd probably be...

The joys of Oyster and OSI... One of their better ideas, IMO.

Unless I have a schedule to meet, I am quite happy to take a longer journey to reduce costs. On a similar front, I have been known to take a longer route to avoid over-crowded areas (this is mainly when travelling around London). As for trains vs.. planes, having to get half-undressed, walk...

I agree that reporting it to the BTP is prudent, but why send it to a local newspaper? The odds of them writing something both insightful and factually correct about the dangers of level crossing abuse are quite thin to say the least.

My point is that whose "fault" it is doesn't matter that much. Nobody appears to have been grossly negligent, it's just an unfortunate combination of otherwise harmless circumstances. Even if we could suppose that the mother had been entirely and unambiguously at fault for dallying or whatever...

Woe betide anyone who gets between an emotional parent and their kid. It's hardly surprising that she get a bit flustered when they were separated. Paranoia over child welfare has never been higher, after all. Whether the door didn't work or not is not especially relevant. That the kid and...

Catford to Catford Bridge is an obvious one. St Albans Abbey to St Albans, Enfield Chase to Enfield Town, Hertford North to Hertford East, Windsor & Eton Cenral to Windsor & Eton Riverside, Epsom Downs to Tattenham Corner, there are loads around London really. As for London Underground, there...

Having a junction with each of the mainlines the M25 crosses would require a large number of expensive and land-hungry 4-way junctions for it to be any use as a diversionary route. These would probably have to be at least partially grade-separated, which works out as ££££!!!! It's probably be...

You could just about do Ipswich to Derby Road faster by bus if the traffic was light.

Trains use metal (ie. conductive) wheels and axles, you can't "route" current to one side of the train or the other. Your AC ground would float/bounce all over the place and/or your DC return path would tend to leak through nearby structures, neither of which are good news.

Surely by simple physics the equivalent DC current draw should be at least 35 times the AC RMS current? It would be easy enough to "solve" the need for localised power rationing in LV DC systems with more substations, but there are significant cost issues associated with that.