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A loop railway line connecting British and Irish cities
And to think Chris Williamson is apparently serious, normally
Loop line to connnect British and Irish cities
If we had any doubt about the UK's lack of coherent high speed rail planning, the country has been unable to connect its existing high speed railway line HS1 to the new HS2 line it is building. But now along comes Chris Williamson (who is President of RIBA, so ought
Jon Worth (jonworth.eu)
Also this stupid thing reminds me of a 2021 1st April joke I made... laughing at Boris Johnson
But it is not 1st April!
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A loop railway line connecting British and Irish cities
And to think Chris Williamson is apparently serious, normally
Loop line to connnect British and Irish cities
If we had any doubt about the UK's lack of coherent high speed rail planning, the country has been unable to connect its existing high speed railway line HS1 to the new HS2 line it is building. But now along comes Chris Williamson (who is President of RIBA, so ought
Jon Worth (jonworth.eu)
@jon I think we need to add a new level to the bullshit meter of “whatever drugs you’re on, I don’t want them”
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A loop railway line connecting British and Irish cities
And to think Chris Williamson is apparently serious, normally
Loop line to connnect British and Irish cities
If we had any doubt about the UK's lack of coherent high speed rail planning, the country has been unable to connect its existing high speed railway line HS1 to the new HS2 line it is building. But now along comes Chris Williamson (who is President of RIBA, so ought
Jon Worth (jonworth.eu)
@jon I like how they don't even consider that railways should connect with other railways. But my favourite detail might be the render showing the viewing platform for the scenic coastline, with the massive concrete viaduct placed exactly at eye level to block as much of the view as possible.
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A loop railway line connecting British and Irish cities
And to think Chris Williamson is apparently serious, normally
Loop line to connnect British and Irish cities
If we had any doubt about the UK's lack of coherent high speed rail planning, the country has been unable to connect its existing high speed railway line HS1 to the new HS2 line it is building. But now along comes Chris Williamson (who is President of RIBA, so ought
Jon Worth (jonworth.eu)
@jon "Neom-informed Loop"
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@jon I like how they don't even consider that railways should connect with other railways. But my favourite detail might be the render showing the viewing platform for the scenic coastline, with the massive concrete viaduct placed exactly at eye level to block as much of the view as possible.
@jon Oh, and "it'll be cheaper than HS2 if we build a viaduct all the way" sounds a lot like "maglev will be cheaper if we put it in a vacuum tube"
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A loop railway line connecting British and Irish cities
And to think Chris Williamson is apparently serious, normally
Loop line to connnect British and Irish cities
If we had any doubt about the UK's lack of coherent high speed rail planning, the country has been unable to connect its existing high speed railway line HS1 to the new HS2 line it is building. But now along comes Chris Williamson (who is President of RIBA, so ought
Jon Worth (jonworth.eu)
@jon TIL there was a long history of tunnel projets between Ireland and Great Britain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_British_Isles_fixed_sea_link_connections#Proposed_fixed_sea_links_between_Great_Britain_and_Ireland
(… and a 2018 idea by boris johnson of a **bridge** betwean France and Great Britain)
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@jon TIL there was a long history of tunnel projets between Ireland and Great Britain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_British_Isles_fixed_sea_link_connections#Proposed_fixed_sea_links_between_Great_Britain_and_Ireland
(… and a 2018 idea by boris johnson of a **bridge** betwean France and Great Britain)
@_nb Yes I am aware. I even made an April Fools joke about it!
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A loop railway line connecting British and Irish cities
And to think Chris Williamson is apparently serious, normally
Loop line to connnect British and Irish cities
If we had any doubt about the UK's lack of coherent high speed rail planning, the country has been unable to connect its existing high speed railway line HS1 to the new HS2 line it is building. But now along comes Chris Williamson (who is President of RIBA, so ought
Jon Worth (jonworth.eu)
@jon Is it more practical (to build, if not to use) if the trains are half the height of a person and the whole thing's made of Lego? Because that's what his pretty pictures seem to show.
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A loop railway line connecting British and Irish cities
And to think Chris Williamson is apparently serious, normally
Loop line to connnect British and Irish cities
If we had any doubt about the UK's lack of coherent high speed rail planning, the country has been unable to connect its existing high speed railway line HS1 to the new HS2 line it is building. But now along comes Chris Williamson (who is President of RIBA, so ought
Jon Worth (jonworth.eu)
@jon he is quoted in Architects Journal as saying, "Maybe I have been too influenced by the Line."
Quite.
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A loop railway line connecting British and Irish cities
And to think Chris Williamson is apparently serious, normally
Loop line to connnect British and Irish cities
If we had any doubt about the UK's lack of coherent high speed rail planning, the country has been unable to connect its existing high speed railway line HS1 to the new HS2 line it is building. But now along comes Chris Williamson (who is President of RIBA, so ought
Jon Worth (jonworth.eu)
@jon Wow, I’ve crayoned ridiculous pie-in-the-sky proposals that make more sense than this.
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A loop railway line connecting British and Irish cities
And to think Chris Williamson is apparently serious, normally
Loop line to connnect British and Irish cities
If we had any doubt about the UK's lack of coherent high speed rail planning, the country has been unable to connect its existing high speed railway line HS1 to the new HS2 line it is building. But now along comes Chris Williamson (who is President of RIBA, so ought
Jon Worth (jonworth.eu)
@jon I like how the loop, rather than going at the narrowest point of the North Channel, instead takes a trip to Arran for the lolz.
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@jon So two tunnels longer than the channel, to connect to a island with 1/12 of the population of France alone?
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Also this stupid thing reminds me of a 2021 1st April joke I made... laughing at Boris Johnson
But it is not 1st April!
@jon A perfect send-up of both.
I enjoyed it so much I read it twice.
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@jon A perfect send-up of both.
I enjoyed it so much I read it twice.
@samueljohnson Also I had forgotten Arc Uri Ltd providing services to Boris Johnson.
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A loop railway line connecting British and Irish cities
And to think Chris Williamson is apparently serious, normally
Loop line to connnect British and Irish cities
If we had any doubt about the UK's lack of coherent high speed rail planning, the country has been unable to connect its existing high speed railway line HS1 to the new HS2 line it is building. But now along comes Chris Williamson (who is President of RIBA, so ought
Jon Worth (jonworth.eu)
@jon The Irish Sea is clearly the issue here. Let's learn from the Dutch, put some dams across the St George's & North Channels, pump out the water and bingo, problem solved. This even gives the Isle of Man a nice hilltop location from where to waive at the bypassing trains.
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@samueljohnson Also I had forgotten Arc Uri Ltd providing services to Boris Johnson.
@jon I confess I corresponded with the CEO of said enterprise via Twitter. Gondolas on fire off the shoulder of the Isle of Man... Moments lost in time like tears in the rain - - I deleted everything (had to do it twice, they restored it all). She was v much unamused by her former client.
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A loop railway line connecting British and Irish cities
And to think Chris Williamson is apparently serious, normally
Loop line to connnect British and Irish cities
If we had any doubt about the UK's lack of coherent high speed rail planning, the country has been unable to connect its existing high speed railway line HS1 to the new HS2 line it is building. But now along comes Chris Williamson (who is President of RIBA, so ought
Jon Worth (jonworth.eu)
@jon That northern crossing reminds me of an old what-if idea:
What if there was an island SW of the Mull of Kintyre? i.e. so that even the Victorians would at least do serious plans for bridging the gaps.
Then there'd be a connection in the present day - put it'd be *VERY* inconvenient for almost all trips. Freight? sure. Scotland - Ireland, sure. But Liverpool - Dublin? nope. -
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A loop railway line connecting British and Irish cities
And to think Chris Williamson is apparently serious, normally
Loop line to connnect British and Irish cities
If we had any doubt about the UK's lack of coherent high speed rail planning, the country has been unable to connect its existing high speed railway line HS1 to the new HS2 line it is building. But now along comes Chris Williamson (who is President of RIBA, so ought
Jon Worth (jonworth.eu)
@jon i don't think it's fair to call RIBA serious
the anglosphere has the worst construction costs in the rich world and they've done nothing to stop it
this kind of rubbish is very on-brand
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@jon he is quoted in Architects Journal as saying, "Maybe I have been too influenced by the Line."
Quite.
@tops suspect a generous editor has capitalised that and misunderstood the kind of lines he was influenced by
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@bovine3dom you're right, it's a pull-quote. I believe it represents the spirit of what he said, though - the full text is, "Maybe I have been too influenced by the scale, the vision and the ambition of NEOM the Line in Saudi Arabia, having worked on the high-speed stations running alongside the 170km city for the last few years."
RIBA president proposes giant loop city spanning Britain and Ireland
RIBA president Chris Williamson has unveiled an ambitious vision for a ‘single, connected’ circular city, the Loop, spanning northern England, Scotland and Ireland, linked by a high-speed rail line
The Architects’ Journal (www.architectsjournal.co.uk)
