Neal Anderson

🚗🛣️ Exciting News for Road Safety! 🚦 The Road Transport and Highways Division has approved new guidelines setting different speed limits for various roads and vehicles. This is a significant step towards curbing speeding and reckless driving, major contributors to road crashes. With clarity on speed limits, drivers can navigate safely and confidently, reducing confusion on our roads. Under these guidelines: Maximum speeds for buses, minibuses, cars, and other light vehicles on expressways are capped at 80kmph. Trucks and goods-laden vehicles are limited to 50kmph, promoting safer freight transportation. Three-wheelers are restricted from expressways and national highways, enhancing safety for all road users. By halving road deaths by 2030, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, these guidelines underscore our commitment to creating safer roads for everyone. Let's embrace these changes and work together to ensure their effective implementation. Remember, safer roads start with responsible driving! 🚗💨 #RoadSafety #SafeDriving #SpeedLimits #SaferRoads Link:

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Sun kinks or track buckles are a tricky issue for rail as temperatures climb. It is explored in this article released today by Grist. ➡ https://lnkd.in/ekTQt2Zb #railway #climatechange #rail #resilience Sensonic

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What is an “accountability sink” and why does it apply to buses? This weekend’s Financial Times featured a column from Tim Harford about his experience of an “Accountability Sink” when he couldn’t get into a conference. Just one page earlier, the same paper’s letters page had “bus replacement service” as one of the worst phrases you could hope to hear. I think they're related - and this is LinkedIn so here you are... An Accountability Sink is the trap you get caught in where nobody has the power to fix your problem and nothing is anyone's fault. This could be as simple as needing the key to a room and the guy with the key is on leave. He’s accountable, but he’s in Spain. You call maintenance to break open the door but they can’t do it without authorisation and the person who authorises them doesn’t work Mondays. The door remains closed.* And why are bus replacements such a source of sorrow? They don’t have to be – I’ve been on plenty of good ones. But…last time I was on one, a half-hourly service of 6-8 car trains was replaced with an hourly pair of fraying double deckers, one of which died in protest. The person on the ground did his best but was he accountable? He provided the service he was paid to provide and his industry faces huge challenges finding the right buses and enough drivers to provide the service (for reasons outside the scope of this blog, but I have views...). Was the budget for the rail replacement even set by the operator? Who do you complain to at the station? Whose fault is it? Anyone who works in services knows that the most stressful jobs aren’t the ones with the power, responsibility and accountability, they’re the ones with the responsibility and accountability and no power, or those on the frontline with none of the above but nonetheless facing the customers with nothing but a tabard and a smile. While a bus replacement is unlikely to be as fast as a train, it shouldn’t be a deal breaker for travelling by rail on a Sunday. In fact, decent bus replacements are vital to getting people to trust the railway and in turn, help the country get to net zero. Without accountability, we won’t do it, and we’ll all be trapped in the sink. *Every business will also have the person who will break the door down. Those people are my people.

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UK's most flood affected railway stations revealed >>https://lnkd.in/ee27u7mD<< Flooding is just one part of the climate change challenge that extreme rain events create for the railway - I've explored more here>> https://lnkd.in/gqHHsUbr << including some of the ways that better realtime infrastructure information can help reduce risks and delays. #railway #infrastructure #resilience #climatechange

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Is weather on the warpath? How does heat stress the railway? I investigate in my latest rail ramble - https://lnkd.in/eS4UBQgc What ways does heat affect our railway and how do we make it more resilient to climbing temperatures? Hopefully the first in a series of weather/climate change blogs I'd love to know what you think? And what you think I've missed!? #rail #railway #climatechange #infrastructure #resilience #rail101

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Paul Cope explaining how using advanced tech and insights to gamify and reward safe driving really does improve road safety. #saferoadschallenge #rewardmindfuldriving

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Today's rail headlines - #InTheNews: Transport Secretary rail reform update, Great Western Railway battery powered trains charging trial, c2c tackling fare dodgers, Swanage Railway WiFi trial. Listen here: #UKrail #railways #headlines

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Our latest safety message looks at how the way in which rail transport operators make changes and improvements can impact safety culture. It covers three topics: - Proactive approach to maintenance - Reviewing and updating your safety management system - Corrective actions and management of change. #railsafety #safetyculture

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Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom is killing it today, with research on the benefits of #infrastructure investment. I have pulled the following so far: Benefits of #highways #maintenance https://lnkd.in/evE89FNE Management of the #potholes fund https://lnkd.in/eN8waF_8 Benefits of #investment in #Kings #Cross https://lnkd.in/ezA-HBkV Work of #STBs and, with headline recommendations on funding models and common procurement frameworks. Sub-national transport bodies: initiatives evaluation - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) All worth a look and strong evidence for #investment for a #twenty-first #century #society.

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Sundays on the tracks once sparked quite the debate! The rail industry’s history is rich with unexpected twists, turns, and fascinating stories. We love sharing these glimpses from the past! #TrainTrivia #RailEnthusiasts #RailwayProfessionals #UKRailIndustry

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In the rail industry safety always comes first. The latest edition of Rail Director has some excellent articles to keep you up to date and learn from what other are doing. Enjoy

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We reveal today that officials in the Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom have hatched a plan to fund the new HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd Euston station and the Network Rail main line terminus. Early-stage proposals are to create a concession, whereby north of £3bn is invested by private investors alongside £700m of public money. Concessionaires are then paid fee for every passenger that passes through the barriers at the stations. It is all part of Labour Party (UK) plans to bring back PFI-style funding. Although, as Al Watson and Paul Davies highlight, it is likely likely to involve a far greater degree of partnership between the public and private sectors. In today's The Times https://lnkd.in/ecbuqkfV

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HS2 and The Budget, in more detail from my colleague Thomas Wintle

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Today's rail headlines - #InTheNews: National Infrastructure Commission Progress Review, extension to the scrapping of ScotRail peak fares, daytime tests on Metro trains, and LNER Azuma milestone. Listen here: #UKrail #railways #headlines

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Feels a little belated to be posting about Autumn following the recent snowfall however, a new partnership between Network Rail’s Wessex route and South Western Railway has seen a number of their trains retrofitted with specialist sand application technology, helping the wheels to better grip the tracks during slippery conditions. Autumn and the associated wet weather and heavy leaf fall remains one of the most challenging times of the year for the rail industry and I recently spoke with Mark Goodall to learn about the many different ways we’re keeping trains moving this Autumn as well as Neil Drury about this new partnership project. You can read more about this here - https://lnkd.in/eTwJnd4r

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