WTF? Mayor announces that Crossrail is to be known as the Elizabeth Line

[LeslieB]

It'd be a nonsense to refer to the lines by colour anyway, not least because many people are colourblind so you'd have disability issues with so many shades of similar colours in use.

But also you'd have a naming convention which is as boring as the LA metro which does exactly this, i.e. it has a 'red line' and a 'green line' etc. - who wants that??

Yes, indeed a quick google seems to suggest quite a few US cities do this - Washington DC, San Fran, Boston and Atlanta and maybe others. Not NY obviously.

I do think the tube would lose a bit of character if we did the same.

 

[laptop]

It appears they have rejected it because its not up to them, they redirect you to a London Assembly page

https://www.london.gov.uk/mayor-assembly/london-assembly/take-part/petitions

Oh... it doesn't work.

Surprise.

Actual link is Petitions | London City Hall

Submit away. Or insubordinate away if you must.

 

[scifisam]

it's so easy to vex people about a train line, who know?

Nah, sorry but I don't think you've managed to vex anyone. Well, except the people in real life who are confused when you refer to tube lines by their colours instead of their names like everyone else.

 

[editor]

Free exhibition in London:
Photos: Crossrail station designs on the Elizabeth Line, and a look around RIBA in London

 

[editor]

Before/after pics of stations:
Station design in pictures: before and after

 

[Pickman's model]

i hope the technical drawings are better than the people drawings.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

i hope the technical drawings are better than the people drawings.

There is nothing wrong with the people in the drawings. They are perfect and have just come from the clothes shop where they got their stuff from. They look slightly Japanese and are all about 30 years old just like all the people you see in architects drawings. I wonder if there is a catalogue of such drawings.

 

[Pickman's model]

There is nothing wrong with the people in the drawings. They are perfect and have just come from the clothes shop where they got their stuff from. They look slightly Japanese and are all about 30 years old just like all the people you see in architects drawings. I wonder if there is a catalogue of such drawings.

they look like big blobs

 

[laptop]

There is nothing wrong with the people in the drawings. They are perfect and have just come from the clothes shop where they got their stuff from. They look slightly Japanese and are all about 30 years old just like all the people you see in architects drawings. I wonder if there is a catalogue of such drawings.

Anyone else remember Letraset people?

New Towns were built specifically to house them

 

[Pickman's model]

Anyone else remember Letraset people?

New Towns were built specifically to house them

Eye Magazine | Review | Safety pins and Letraset

 

[skyscraper101]

Come the revolution, the purple line should be re-named after Prince

They could call it the Prince & The Revolution line.

 

[William of Walworth]

Anyone else remember Letraset people?

My late dad used Letraset a lot at one time -- I remember it in the house ...

He was an architect. Not of New Towns though

 

[19force8]

I'm loving "The £15 billion Railway" on the BBC tonight. Nothing about the sparks' disputes, but then what do we expect?

And I've only just woken up to this "Elizabeth Line" nonsense. Fuck, fuck, fuck.

 

[mx wcfc]

If everyone just calls it "Crossrail" that'll piss them off.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

If everyone just calls it "Crossrail" that'll piss them off.

Or make them cross.

 

[hash tag]

I'm a tad sceptical about some of the claims being made and also what may have been pushed through to keep the project on time Etc.
However, this is interesting Welcome to Crossrail

Bungle73 mentions the free MoL exhibition.....Tunnel: The Archaeology of Crossrail - Crossrail Archaeology Museum