Currently Europe’s largest infrastructure project, Crossrail is one of the most amazing, large and complex projects ever undertaken in the UK, delivering 118 km (73 miles) of new, modern railway linking Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west to Canary Wharf, Abbey Wood and Shenfield in the East. That’s 10km longer than the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and involves 21kms of twin tunnels right under the centre of London.
Crossrail will improve the speed, regularity and comfort of your journeys across London, with 37 connections, nine of which are brand new station structures. There will be 24 trains an hour, or a train every two and a half minutes during the rush hour and some 200 million passengers will use Crossrail every year.
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In years to come I think Silicon Valley and San Francisco will be viewed as the laboratory of the information age but much of the real world growth of tech will be driven from other locations. There has been no letup in the rapid expansion of technology startups in San Francisco since the end of 2010. The vibrancy of this innovation economy is alive and well. What is newer however is the engagement of corporations into the ecosystem and this could be London’s greatest opportunity.
“David Rowan’s article perfectly sums up both the potential and the risks of a “big data” world. Knowledge is power and big data increases that power.
