Remember the early Boris/Kulveer decision to keep Parliament Square as an inaccessible traffic island (or, as Boris put it, a ‘green glade of heroes’)? Building Design website has an interesting article about the guy behind the scheme, that’s well worth reading, particularly for this bit which confirms what we thought at the time:
Transport for London [...]
Return To Parliament Square
December 21st, 2008 No Comments
Tags: parliament · petrolhead · square · war on cyclists
How Long Is A Routemaster?
December 21st, 2008 No Comments
The Evening Standard have added a small image of side and top elevations of the Aston-Martin/Fosters RM design, which gives us the opportunity to do some guesswork at dimensions. Blowing it up on my screen, it’s about 222mm by 57mm, which, allowing for imperfect measurements, is a length 3.75-3.95 times the width. Now, the width [...]
