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If we're doing that, I'd also suggest extending the H&I terminators to Willesden Junction low-level, re-open Primrose Hill, and extend the Bakerloo back up to Watford. I just assumed it would be obvious if transport planning was joined up (see also: eventually extend Crossrail to Ebbsfleet...

The HS2 bill allows for a Crossrail and GWML interchange to be built within the station box. TfL are also consulting on a NLL station on Old Oak Common Lane and a WLL station on Hythe Lane, about 200m away from the station. The only line it won't directly serve will be the Central Line, where...

Oh yes, Northern commuters should definitely stop moaning that commuters are shoved into two-car rolling stock that even the Islamic Republic of Iran didn't want to subject onto their own citizens. Even when adjusting for all other factors, London and the South East has an absolutely ridiculous...

I mean, it's not as if the Northern franchise is deliberately designed to be unprofitable or anything. Transpennine wires will benefit more people in Liverpool, Hull, Middlesborough, Newcastle too for the same "few hundred million" than those two junctions will supposedly benefit. And to the...

The population of the cities and boroughs where the TPE core serves – York, Leeds, Kirklees, Tameside, and Manchester – is 2.2 million. The population of the fourteen districts and boroughs that Crossrail 2 will serve is 2.9 million. One of these lines is getting thirty times the spend of...

Ah, the age old argument that the march of technology justifies skimping out on needed upgrades. Seems like only yesterday that Labour were claiming that hydrogen and biomass trains were Just Around The Corner and would make electrification obsolete. Sadly, greener fuels are no nearer...

That would effectively draw the North Yorkshire border back to the pre-1972 West Riding borders. Selby in particular being part of North Yorkshire does look silly on a map. The cluster**** that's the Sheffield City Region has been causing cold feet all around; Derbyshire County Council...

Mostly, the problem is Sheffield. Most of Yorkshire is united on the type of devolution they want; the only people who really want the city region model are Sheffield City Council and Whitehall.

Midland Main Line electrification had a benefit-cost ratio of between 4.5 to 7.2. Crossrail 1's BCR was 1.9 to 3.0 and Crossrail 2's was 1.8 to 4.1.

The Wednesday front pages announcing the ban on diesel cars from 2040 convinces me that this is more a political decision than a financial one. In effect, Osborne thought that electrification was good, so May thinks it's automatically bad. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Wasn't the price tag for MML electrification about a billion pounds? It looks like we've found Theresa's Magic Money Tree. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Case in point: Hillingdon Council are all about disruption to the greater tube network if it means a Central Line station at Park Royal or the Central extended to Uxbridge. I think the worst NIMBYism was Natalie Bennett getting the Green Party to oppose green transport in the form of HS2...

Although you can't get a direct train between the two, Brighouse and Deighton. Its a long-term goal of WYITA to re-open Elland, which will make this a string of three.

The northern gateline also has working scanners now; I'm not sure if they're all on, but certainly most of them are. Makes my journey easier, at least. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Apparently, they're turning on the scanners at the northern gateline slowly over the next couple of weeks. Hopefully. The southern gateline scanners already work.

Crosshills and Elland are high up on WY Metro's priority list. I believe the timetable has slack built in for those stations.

I do wonder what will happen to the taxi rank though; you can't really move it to Princes' Square as that's a bottleneck just with the PHVs.

Atkins have a contract for the station remodelling to prepare it for HS2, which includes improvements to the northern concourse taking place over the next five or six years.

I imagine the 13-14 joining up needs to happen sooner or later to give capacity for "HS3" anyway; I think it's in at least one of the Yorkshire Hub proposals?

I asked about the scanners myself tonight and they said the contractor who was supposed to configure and activate them has had to take time off for illness.