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Chris Harris on Cars has been its own channel on Youtube and a regular feature on The Drive. His pre-TG work was very well received and the production quality was on a par with TG. Chris is at his best when not required to do orchestrated silliness.

Norway is in the EEA. Switzerland has bilateral agreements which are almost equivalent to EEA membership.

You can buy a car with a top speed well in excess of any speed you'd ever do legally without visiting a racetrack. Some are limited to 250km/h by their manufacturers. I see little reason for all cars sold not to be limited to 80ish (a little headroom to allow for "getting out of the way of...

Wivenhoe looks about the same radius as the tightest part of Deansgate, where I've stepped over some quite cavernous gaps.

The ideological drive to eliminate public funding of rail travel is unhinged. Government should count funding the railways as an investment in both reducing total emissions and also in road capacity, since you'll get an extra car on the roads for (approximately) every 1-2 passengers priced off rail.

Altnabreac.

Salford Crescent could be a better station if it was moved 600m northwest to the triangle between Frederick Road and the junction between the Atherton and Bolton lines. At this point, both lines are double tracked. From what I can see, there is an unused bridge span to the west of the current...

It does matter, and you've got it the wrong way round. For a given train weight, you need a certain amount of force to achieve acceleration (Force = mass x acceleration). For each wheel, there is a limit of how much force you can transmit through the contact patch, based on the pressure at the...

Bolton-Walkden-Moston using the Looplines alignments is now a very well used route for pedestrians, cyclists and horseriders, forming part of Sustrans NCN route 55. Reinstating rails would be a lot of work given the buildup of the surface as trail and the restrictive gauge of many brick...

Or British Rail.

Here's an idea: Stop dreaming of infrastructure in places which are already saturated in terms of employment density. Instead, build centres of employment where the existing infrastructure is not at capacity. Mix residential and commercial development so people don't each waste 500-1000 hours...

Given a DEMU has a diesel engine, an alternator and then a relatively conventional electrical drivetrain, you could have additional contacts in the coupler to extend the DEMU power distribution circuits into the coupled EMU's circuits. You'd need the DEMU to have some hefty batteries or...

Nah, we must easily have had 140+ pages of Pacer-mocking...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

Actually no, "victory" wasn't defined by the European Referendum Act as it was only ever an advisory poll. It would be entirely legal for the government to decide that the deals available would ruin the country completely and it wasn't worth it.

Correlation vs causation.

After butchering the recovery by failing to understand the Keynesian role of government spending as a driver for the economy, now Gideon wants to disincentivise consumer spending. We'll be in a worse state than Greece by the next general election.

The Tories will take their 24.9% of the electorate and treat it as a carte-blanche mandate. By 2020 the Lib Dems will be redeemed.

convention != standard.

Great way to reeducate criminals: put them in a building full of other criminals.