Work has started on the construction of an enormous deck that will help support the platforms at the new Curzon Street station for HS2 in Birmingham.
Work has started on the construction of an enormous deck that will help support the platforms at the new Curzon Street station for HS2 in Birmingham.
The Mayor of #London, Sir Sadiq Khan, has appointed two new members to the #Transport for London (TfL) Board.
Laura Shoaf CBE will join on 29 June 2026, filling a vacancy and bringing expertise in safety and security. Alison Munro CBE will join on 7 September 2026, replacing Mark Phillips and adding experience in audit, risk and assurance.
Khan said the appointments would strengthen the Board and support TfL’s continued delivery of London’s transport network.
Shoaf previously served as Chief Executive of the West Midlands Combined Authority and now sits on the Department for Transport Operator Board. Munro is a transport specialist, Ofwat non-executive director and former Chief Executive of #HS2 Ltd.
https://www.london.gov.uk/mayor-appoints-new-members-tfl-board
"Think global, act local" has a structural flaw: judged on its own terms, almost any decision looks right — which is how a £100m bat tunnel got built, by people doing exactly what they were asked, with nobody lying or cutting corners. The same gap is opening up in New York's solar boom.
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Environmentalism needs a full accounting "Think global, act local" has been environmentalism's working instruction for half a century. But it has had a structural flaw built into it from the start: a decision made locally is by definition judged locally — against whether this project, on its own, is worth