After Crossrail’s gruesome discovery we’ve mapped all Canada’s plague pits: Do you work near one? August 12, 2015 Crossrail is unearthing all sorts of secrets from London's past. Today, people behind the major infrastructure project revealed that excavators had found 30 skeletons near Liverpool Street – victims of a “catastrophic event”, thought to be the Great Plague of 1665. “This mass burial, so different to the other individual burials found in the [...]
Crossrail workers find mass burial site containing victims of “catastrophic event” the Great Plague of 1665 at Liverpool Street August 12, 2015 Crossrail archeologists have uncovered a mass burial site at Liverpool Street containing the skeletons of victims from the Great Plague of 1665. A mass burial site containing 30 bodies was unearthed during excavation of the old Bedlam hospital ground at the site. A headstone found nearby with the date 1665, and the individuals [...]
Citymapper is showing Londoners how much time commuters will save with Crossrail, by suggesting journeys that don’t exist yet July 28, 2015 Citymapper is planning well ahead, offering commuters Crossrail journeys that won’t be available for another 41 months or so. If you’ve planned a journey across London lately and you own a smartphone, chances are you’ve used Citymapper, the cult transport app that’s won commuters over in 27 different cities since launching in London in 2012. [...]
Those Paolozzi mosaics from Tottenham Court Road station are being moved to Edinburgh July 28, 2015 When the first part of the new-look Tottenham Court Road station opened at the end of last year, one thing was conspicuous by its absence: the raft of mosaics by post-war sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi, installed at the station in 1984. Since then, passengers have complained vociferously about the absence of the brightly-coloured mosaics, which appear [...]
Derwent London buys back 1 Oxford Street as part of Crossrail agreement July 14, 2015 Derwent London has signed a new 150-year lease agreement with Crossrail on a £400m office and shopping development above Tottenham Court Road station. The developer is effectively buying back the site at 1 Oxford Street after having to surrender it in 2009 to Crossrail. Derwent will receive £55m on completion of scheme in around 2020. [...]
London can build Crossrail – so why won’t we give Heathrow a new runway? July 5, 2015 Back in 1971, the Roskill Commission on London airport expansion selected Cublington, a sleepy village in Buckinghamshire, as the site for a new South East airport. For those of us old enough to remember, the government rejected the idea, and since then politicians and policymakers have been trying to fix our airport capacity shortfall. Last [...]
From the Shard to Crossrail: 5 female engineers who are shaping the future of London June 23, 2015 Women make up only six per cent of UK engineers – but that hasn’t stopped these London engineers from joining a male-dominated workforce, building everything from the Shard to Crossrail. Tuesday marked the second-ever National Women in Engineering Day, to highlight the lack of female engineers. This is bad news for business, according to a [...]
From the Shard to Crossrail: Five female engineers shaping the future of London June 23, 2015 Women make up only six per cent of UK engineers – but that hasn’t stopped these London engineers from joining a male-dominated workforce, building everything from the Shard to Crossrail. Today marked the second-ever National Women in Engineering Day, to highlight the lack of female engineers. This is bad news for business, according to a [...]
London 24 hour Night Tube: Seven ways London travel’s going to get even better June 22, 2015 The Night Tube has nearly arrived. After years of Londoners dreaming of being able to hop on the tube after a night out, it will finally become reality this autumn. Transport for London's new map shows exactly where travellers can hop on and hop off in this first phase of the Night Tube rollout, but [...]
A booming West End will be fatally undermined unless we pedestrianise Oxford Street June 21, 2015 Oxford Street needs to be pedestrianised. There is a growing consensus about this among traders, transport operators, and local councils. The question is when and how. The “when” is easiest to answer. The new east-west Crossrail line starts operating through Central London in four years’ time. It will generate a new surge of people coming [...]