Rail mobile signal threatens the perfect tunnel excuse
Rail mobile signal will improve on busy routes under Project Reach, ending a cherished national tradition of entering a tunnel just as someone asks for Saturday cover. The engineer’s real achievement is making avoidance much harder at speed.
The project begins with 1,000 kilometres of fibre on routes linking London, Manchester, Newcastle and Cardiff. It may later extend much further. That is enough cable to connect every passenger with a colleague who sends urgent emails beside a hot tub.
The carriage prepares for full contact with the office
Engineers will target blackspots and tunnels. Consequently, you are breaking up may soon describe an actual relationship problem rather than a perfectly timed career decision.
“Connectivity matters,” said Neville Buffering of Tunnel Based Alibis. “People deserve immediate messages from colleagues who could have waited until Monday.”
The deal could save taxpayers about 300 million pounds. Commuters may then send three messages, dismiss four alerts and watch half a programme beside the toilet without learning whether the train arrives on time.
Every carriage gets a live report from the Moon
The upgrade also removes a respected British silence. Soon every carriage can hear twenty people announce that they are on the train, each speaking as though filing a report from the lunar surface.
At launch, the announcement vanished halfway through a sentence. Officials expect it to reconnect near Doncaster with no memory of what anybody had promised.
Passengers welcomed stronger coverage. They did not welcome the prospect that their manager would finally discover the journey home takes longer than the phrase nearly there has suggested since 2004.
Read the real story: The Department for Transport announcement on Project Reach.
