Steve Chambers
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planningtransport.co.uk
Steve Chambers
@planningtransport.co.uk
Transport and urban planning stuff. I run sustainable transport and environmental justice non-profits: @transportgood.org @transportfornewhomes.org.uk

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Oh!
December 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I just signed up for a savings account there.
December 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Final straw was walking to the City of London head office of my bank to get cash to find... It has been closed.
December 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Once again the only transaction I make in a month that can't be done using my phone or my watch has failed. 💈💇‍♂️
December 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I don’t see this, but I’ve quite agressively turned off things in settings. Under privacy settings I have almost every option turned off.
December 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Might be for the best, taking the long view...
December 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I'm going to start calling it Great English Railways to remind myself.
December 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Also the main issue in 2018 was staffing (and overtime practices). Is the railway short of staff now?
December 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Don't forget his skills in forensics.
December 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The kind of persona you could forgive a competent administrator. But he isn't even that.
December 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Although on the one hand it makes sense to align police boundaries to the new "strategic authorities", I don't think these geographies are going to last so will end up in a permanent state of reform or back to a system of overlaps.
December 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I give a different email address to every company I do business with. I've used hundreds. Potentially thousands.
December 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM
*This* is England.
December 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I can clear that up! The GBR branding was a poorly executed stunt. Whereas this is an actual plan to run a railway.
December 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
😬
December 12, 2025 at 7:36 AM
A positive transport vision. 😍
December 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM