Sometimes, size matters: what smaller cities can learn from London’s ever-expanding infrastructure

The News Craving

By Elena Siniscalco I’m not saying news travels slowly up North, but it took me until this week to finally travel on The Elizabeth Line. The train was noticeably cleaner and nicer than the older trains that I had been on for the first part of my journey, and the sheer breadth of stations that the line serves is genuinely impressive. Given the depilated state of a public realm increasingly beset by staffing shortages, increased waiting times, and deteriorating buildings, it was a welcome reminder of what the British state can achieve when it puts its mind to it. This is not just a ghost of past…

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