What Makes You Happy?
The BBC is reporting that today is International Day of Happiness 2015.
After yesterday’s trip on a Class 319 in Liverpool, where the delight and surprise at the updated train was obvious, I ask if updated transport like new trains, trams and buses make you happy.
Yesterday, was just one example of several I’ve seen in the last few months and years.
1. I know from personal experience that the Overground has definitely been a feel-good influence for everybody in Hackney. It’s biggest benefit, is that lots of young people have been able to travel to that first or a better job.
2. I also know the effect that the New Routemasters are having in London. Bus travel has become cool.
3. On my visit to see the Borders Railway, I couldn’t help but feel the expectant mood and pride at their new railway that opens in September.
4. The good people of Edinburgh seem to have forgotten the difficult creation and have embraced their new trams with gusto.
5. Londoners may moan about the disruption caused by works for Crossrail, but all exhibitions and events relating to the project are extremely popular.
If transport projects seem to make us happy, just think what they will do to the nation over the next few years, when masses of large rail projects will be delivered, like Crossrail, Thameslink, Electrification of the Great Western Main and Midland Main Lines, the creation of the East West Rail Link and lots of improvement in Scotland and the North of England.
If nothing, I think they will ensure, that whoever wins this year’s General Election, will probably win in 2020, unless they completely louse up the economy or decide to take us into another pointless and unwinnable war.
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