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Three-Dimensional Estate Map
TweetI spotted this rather fantastic estate map in Chislehurst, while heading to the Bromley parkrun on Saturday morning:
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A Gate as a Map
Tweet Part Two in an extremely rare series of ornate metal maps on features, is this map, which is on the gate to a student block in Tottenham Hale. The map is only in the correct orientation (i.e....
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Rename a Tube Station!
TweetIf you could rename a London tube (or DLR/Overground) station, what would you rename it to and why? I would rename the following: Aldgate East to Brick Lane Why? To promote a famous street and...
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London City Race 2014
Tweet Having co-founded and been heavily involved in the organisation of the London City Race over the last six years, this year I’m taking a step back and looking forward to being a competitive runner...
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An East-West and North-South Cycle Superhighway for London?
Tweet TfL is currently consulting on a couple of proposed “Cycle Superhighways” – an East-West route from Paddington to Tower Hill and a North-South route from St Pancras to Elephant & Castle. The...
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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – New Bridge
Tweet There’s a new bridge into the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – the Monier Bridge. It connects Monier Road in Fish Island, part of Hackney Wick, with the Loop Road in the Olympic Park. At the latter...
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Book Review: The Capital Ring
TweetThe Capital Ring, by Colin Saunders, is an guide to walking the eponymous route, a 78 mile circular walk around inner London (generally Zones 3-4), one of London’s official long-distance walking...
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Crossrail Site Tour: Tottenham Court Road
TweetCrossrail organised a number of tours of their major worksites, as apart of Open Doors, this weekend, for civil engineering students and other interested parties. One of the sites was the Dean...
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Engineering Tour: The Thames Barrier
Tweet I was recently able to have a behind-the-scenes tour of the huge Thames Barrier structure in east London, thanks to the IET London branch – I’m not a member of the IET (although I used to be) but...
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Traffic Calming Bank Junction
TweetAn idea from the City of London – to ban through traffic (except buses) from the seven-way junction at the very heart of the City, modelled on the part-pedestrianisation of Times Square in New...
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High Lines 3. Millwall Viaduct
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the next one tomorrow. Before the DLR came along in the 1980s, there was an abandoned railway route (the Millwall...
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High Lines 4. Peckham Coal Line
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the next one tomorrow. The Peckham Coal Line is a potential “High Line” for south London, which has a higher profile...
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High Lines 5. Parkland Walk
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the next one tomorrow. The Parkland Walk is possibly the closest thing that London has to a High Line, right now....
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High Lines 6. Bishopsgate Goods Yard
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the next one tomorrow. This is a potential High Line that might well happen, but in a radically different form to...
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High Lines 7. Limehouse Curve
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. See the full list here including the one with the best potential. The Limehouse Curve lies just east of Limehouse station in east...
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High Lines 8. Barbican Highwalks
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the next one tomorrow. The Barbican is a huge 1950s/60s housing development in the “raw concrete” Brutalist style...
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High Lines 9. Pedways of the City
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the next one tomorrow. Complementary to the Highwalks of the Barbican, the concept (originally called Pedways by the...
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High Lines 10. Borough Market Bridge
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the next one tomorrow. This new railway bridge got lifted into place a couple of years ago. Eventually, in 2018 or...
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High Lines 11. Garden Bridge
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the final one – my big idea for a High Line that I think has real potential – tomorrow. Well, this is a...
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The Camden Line
Over the last two weeks I have featured eleven potential London High Lines (see all the previous ones here) – all of them could be interesting place but none of them quite have the potential to be a...
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