Not sure what you're going on about, seems fine to me! Happy new year! Also, I've been enjoying your presence on WTYP! Are they doing ok? I've noticed the output has slowed a bit. Cheers! 🥂
The Beeching Transport Modernisation Plan was a strategy for a modal shift from rail to road to take advantage of cheap Middle Eastern oil. The UK now needs a modernisation plan with a strategy for a modal shift from road to rail to take advantage of green energy and meet the internationally agreed carbon reduction targets.
Ive been reading the book, and it's been great so far! I've been bringing it up wayyyyy to much in general conversation. People need to know that story about the NHS, about indian electrification, about the segregation of service types via HS2, about BREL. They need to know what is possible. Also cheers to that person in the background at 8:42
Lovely to see your disjointed wander through York. Absolutely love it there and was a very close second to Bristol for us to move to (family being in south Wales and Plymouth basically made the decision ultimately).
It's sad that the train building has gone from York. However, a positive move is that new train building factory has recently been opened by Siemens at Goole. Hopefully the Siemens supply chain will include factories throughout the whole of the Yorkshire area.
Hopefully, the rollout of urban electrification in Yorkshire and the North will include a huge increase in work for the Overhead Line Equipment manufacturers, SPL, in Doncaster.
Hi Gareth, Your book is a great read and I am recommending it to all my friends. The book, "Left Behind" by Professor Paul Collier of Oxford University, emphasises the importance of the public sector in the transport infrastructure
Not the only line suffering from being single track. Same issue with Salisbury - Exeter and the latest news is that Honiton is unlikely to receive a dynamic loop so Devon Metro would be truncated there, back from Axminster. Which is insane.
Another positive is that I think in Southeastern's announcement for procuring new rolling stock they said that it required level boarding, which is great as that is a decent size order to replace the Class 466 and 465. If that is successful maybe Chiltern can replace their networkers with those as they are quite knackered?
Thank you for this, always a reason to be optimistic about the future. Just having a different government is a good start but I agree that Labour can definitely be pushed in a progressive direction and if anything, their current unpopularity may mean that's easier than usual. And for all their flaws, at least they seem to want to be a serious government. I'm eagerly following the devolution and local government reorganisation stuff. It's already bringing up some very interesting things and hoping different areas think outside the box. For devolution to be a success, you need economically similar areas to be together as much as possible, then the issues of services, housing, transport etc become much easier to solve. For the big cities, not just London but across the country, they need to be treated as strategic wider regions. Like many of the commuter towns in the home counties can't really be treated separately from London, for Liverpool could argue the same about Chester and Runcorn, Greater Manchester, the towns of the High Peak District etc. and the same for Warrington nestled between the two big cities. I hope the argument falls along socio-economic economic lines rather than just about local identity. Local government reorganisation alone could transform this country for the better, if done right.
The economic model is based on the theories of Milton Friedman, but it needs to return to the model Maynard Keynes. ua-cam.com/video/EhG670_BgrE/v-deo.htmlsi=cftVuV6k4gzyD2pU
oh dang, well the edit really did a number on itself huh... looks like it's worthy of a re-upload when I'm back! SORRY
Not sure what you're going on about, seems fine to me! Happy new year!
Also, I've been enjoying your presence on WTYP! Are they doing ok? I've noticed the output has slowed a bit. Cheers! 🥂
Gareth thank you so much, you're a beacon of radical sanity. Top man.
And - congratulations on the job!
Thanks for this and for your continued voice of positivity. Happy new yer and congrats on the new job!
The installation OLE needs to be accelerated by the new Labour Government.
The Beeching Transport Modernisation Plan was a strategy for a modal shift from rail to road to take advantage of cheap Middle Eastern oil.
The UK now needs a modernisation plan with a strategy for a modal shift from road to rail to take advantage of green energy and meet the internationally agreed carbon reduction targets.
Ive been reading the book, and it's been great so far! I've been bringing it up wayyyyy to much in general conversation. People need to know that story about the NHS, about indian electrification, about the segregation of service types via HS2, about BREL. They need to know what is possible. Also cheers to that person in the background at 8:42
@17:35 Cheers ! Great news about the new job.
Really nice to hear.
Your book is great. It offers a vision of rebuiling the rail network that is equivalent to the creation of the NHS by Nye Bevan
Take care Gareth and have a wonderful new year.
Fantastically uplifting Gareth thank you very much
That was lovely! Thank you, Gareth. Thank very much indeed.
"what you need is a powerful vision of the future" - Adam Curtis.
Lovely to see your disjointed wander through York. Absolutely love it there and was a very close second to Bristol for us to move to (family being in south Wales and Plymouth basically made the decision ultimately).
That was quite moving!
It's sad that the train building has gone from York. However, a positive move is that new train building factory has recently been opened by Siemens at Goole. Hopefully the Siemens supply chain will include factories throughout the whole of the Yorkshire area.
Hopefully, the rollout of urban electrification in Yorkshire and the North will include a huge increase in work for the Overhead Line Equipment manufacturers, SPL, in Doncaster.
Hi Gareth, Your book is a great read and I am recommending it to all my friends. The book, "Left Behind" by Professor Paul Collier of Oxford University, emphasises the importance of the public sector in the transport infrastructure
Loved your recent appearance on Novara
How about doing a feature in the Far North Line? An awesome line that is underperforming due to failure to invest in some much needed passing loops.
Not the only line suffering from being single track. Same issue with Salisbury - Exeter and the latest news is that Honiton is unlikely to receive a dynamic loop so Devon Metro would be truncated there, back from Axminster. Which is insane.
Another positive is that I think in Southeastern's announcement for procuring new rolling stock they said that it required level boarding, which is great as that is a decent size order to replace the Class 466 and 465. If that is successful maybe Chiltern can replace their networkers with those as they are quite knackered?
Happy New Year!
Tees Valley and Durham Coastline.
happy new year
Its gonna be a sad end to your regular stewardship of WTYP, But.... HELL YES NEW JOB WOOO
Thank you for this, always a reason to be optimistic about the future. Just having a different government is a good start but I agree that Labour can definitely be pushed in a progressive direction and if anything, their current unpopularity may mean that's easier than usual. And for all their flaws, at least they seem to want to be a serious government. I'm eagerly following the devolution and local government reorganisation stuff. It's already bringing up some very interesting things and hoping different areas think outside the box. For devolution to be a success, you need economically similar areas to be together as much as possible, then the issues of services, housing, transport etc become much easier to solve. For the big cities, not just London but across the country, they need to be treated as strategic wider regions. Like many of the commuter towns in the home counties can't really be treated separately from London, for Liverpool could argue the same about Chester and Runcorn, Greater Manchester, the towns of the High Peak District etc. and the same for Warrington nestled between the two big cities. I hope the argument falls along socio-economic economic lines rather than just about local identity. Local government reorganisation alone could transform this country for the better, if done right.
The economic model is based on the theories of Milton Friedman, but it needs to return to the model Maynard Keynes.
ua-cam.com/video/EhG670_BgrE/v-deo.htmlsi=cftVuV6k4gzyD2pU
I just offset it by never being cheerful.
16:18 Not sure what word was said here
'Porte-cochère' I think.
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