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A truly well respected transport correspondent who always sparked enthusiasm and excitement in transport enthusiasts like myself. South Today will certainly feel like a strange place without him, having grown up watching his reports every weekday evening for as long as I can remember. I hope...

Bournemouth Airport (BOH) is an airport with a lot of potential since it offers cheap flights to many European destinations, but the biggest issue is that the public transport offering is next to nil. There is the 737 bus service from Bournemouth but the only journeys in the outbound direction...

Has anyone here delved into the world of social media content creation? I ask because I have an idea to create a travel blog on Instagram that focuses specifically on journeys that can be made by public transport. My aim is to increase the general public's knowledge and awareness of public...

If driverless road vehicles become widespread, they will most likely revolutionise the fabric of mobility. For starters, many people will be willing to give up owning a car and only hire one as and when they need it. It’s uncertain whether there will be a mix of privately owned and on-demand...

I came across a map on my Facebook news feed the other day showing a comparison of the French Autoroute network from 1990 and 2019. I was intrigued to discover how different it looked back then, with the most notable omissions including: Generally a very Paris-centric network, following roughly...

Home working has reduced the demand for travel from the Surrey commuter belt to Central London, and one area that is particularly noticeable is around Epsom. Pre-Covid, there were 4tph from London Waterloo to Leatherhead, with half of those continuing to Dorking and the other half continuing to...

I’ve always found it astonishing that both Bournemouth and Southampton, two of the largest settlements on the south coast of England, have no full park & ride provision. Especially so when smaller cities like Salisbury and Winchester have multiple sites spread across many locations. The issue...

I have spent some time creating a map of the UK's railway network in the style of the Tube Map. Unlike other maps however, this one attempts to depict the British railway system as a series of self-contained lines, suitable for running a hypothetical high intensity metro-like service. The lines...

Found this article on the Dorset Echo yesterday: https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/24481448.work-begin-dorset-metro-concept-summer/?ref=socialflow&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3JLDoE_YycfbNUnJ7V06HjM1nUww-88wfJgGd-7qc0yjk-N0kDew9558Q_aem_ICQjv3Fqay2c0Trh6sZ9MQ An interesting idea, although i’m...

I am thinking of villages where a bus route passes nearby but does not actually serve it. Realistically the bus route could serve the village without incurring a significant time penalty, but the operators have decided not to do so for commercial reasons. For example, Hatch Beauchamp and Ashill...

Colwich junction is a major bottleneck on the WCML, since the down fast towards Stoke crosses the up fast on the flat as it comes from Stafford. The arrival of HS2 Phase 1 at Handsacre will exacerbate this with more intercity trains per hour scheduled in addition to existing freight and local...

The implementation of the Big Four railway companies (SR, GWR, LMS, LNER) in 1923 was done on a geographical basis, meaning they were effectively monopolies apart from where they bordered each other. I’m wondering if a hypothetical alternative could have been created to facilitate more...

Most transit maps depict transport routes in a variety of colours, which is essential to ensure passengers are familiar with where each route goes. The question however is, what makes designers choose a particular colour over another? Some factors I can imagine influence choice of colour...

I was up in the North of England earlier this month and came across several road signs mentioning a “Disc Zone”. From the signs, it is obvious that they a form of parking restriction, but what makes Disc Zones unique is that parking is enforced by drivers displaying a “disc” (piece of card with...

London is a global player when it comes to public transport connectivity, but the issue with cities of its size is that away from the mainline corridors, everywhere takes so long to get to. For example Epsom Downs is only 10 miles from Clapham Junction as the crow flies, but it takes longer to...

Thought I’d start a topic on this, as it was announced yesterday that one of the most popular radio stations for my local area, Wave 105 (covering Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight), is to be amalgamated into Greatest Hits Radio...

This question applies to both the UK and internationally, as I expect examples over here will be limited to suburbs or villages. Still, I’d be intrigued to find out if there are any large towns or cities around the world that entirely use trams for their local transit network. Considering that...

This is a regularly contested topic, and one that usually makes the news whenever there is a proposal to ban mobile phones in schools. Most children now own a smartphone and use it as a staple of their lives, whether for good or bad. They have great potential to be useful learning devices, but...

…Or the Autobahn equivalent of that word. Inspired by a similar thread on HS2 from a few months ago, I’m wondering what might have happened in an alternative scenario where Britain’s motorway network was planned as a series of incremental bypasses paralleling the existing trunk road network...

The Northern City Line is functionally the same as the Elizabeth Line, Thameslink, Overground and sub-surface Tube lines, in that they are services operated using mainline rolling stock which are underground for at least some of their length. While it did appear on the Tube Map in times gone by...