Category Archives: Transport

Calling all graphic designers!

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Sophie Talbot

The tube map is a world famous design icon, pleasing in itself yet incredibly easy to use. So, here's your mission graphic designers out there should you choose to accept: design an equally pleasing and easy to use map of … Continue reading →

Posted in Kings Cross Station Refurbishment, Transport, Travel | 2 Comments

They shoot pedestrians don’t they?

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Sophie Talbot

King's Cross has a long standing and fast growing reputation for being possibly the worst pedestrian danger spot in the entire capital. At "over a kilometer including three escalators, five pelican crossings, two uncontrolled road crossings, two sets of steps", … Continue reading →

Posted in Kings Cross N1C, railwayslands, Planning, Licensing and Regulation, Road Safety in Kings Cross, Transport, Travel, Weblogs | 8 Comments

The hire bikes are coming

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Clare Hill

It's hard to miss the lickably-shiny new bicycle docking stations that have sprung up, in anticipation of the actual bikes, due on 30 July for the Transport for London, ahem, Barclays, cycle hire scheme. Or maybe it is hard to … Continue reading →

Posted in Transport | 6 Comments

KX Station zero hour

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Sophie Talbot

Unveiled just an hour ago by newly appointed Secretary of State for Transport Philip Hammond, Platform Zero is a key milestone in the transformation of our local station, but its impact may not be so positive for the local area … Continue reading →

Posted in Kings Cross Station Refurbishment, Transport, Travel | 6 Comments

An Alternative Cycle Route

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Stephan Schulte

The Bulletin Board received the following message from Del Brenner of the Regents Network via Lisa Tang of Friends of Regent's Canal. Camden is conducting a study to look at an alternative cycle route to the Regent’s Canal towpath to … Continue reading →

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Northern Ticket hall – making a difference?

Posted on January 8, 2010 by William Perrin

Britain's most expensive hole in the ground is probably the £300million northern ticket hall under the road between St Pancras and Kings Cross.  Alternate exits for Kings Cross underground first came up in the Fennell Report  into the appalling 1988 … Continue reading →

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Super station plans afoot to join Euston, St Pancras & King’s Cross…

Posted on January 2, 2010 by Sophie Talbot

By David Millward, Transport Editor, Daily Telegraph Published: 1:41PM GMT 30 Dec 2009 "It will be capable of handling 18 trains an hour – some of which could be double decker – into London, carrying about 20,000 passengers. "Detailed plans … Continue reading →

Posted in Kings Cross N1C, railwayslands, Kings Cross Station Refurbishment, Planning, Licensing and Regulation, Transport | 3 Comments

And this is also King’s Cross

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Sophie Talbot

A fabulous short spotted on YouTube by neighbour Yolande, starring Emily Bronte (Mike's Cat), the tiny nesting platform wangled out of McAlpine's whilst King's Place was being built and the lemon scented geranium donated to the towpath garden by our own local … Continue reading →

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