The future's bright

Mr P has just sent me what may be the most exciting thing I've seen for ages (well, since the last 'most exciting thing' at least).

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to London Transport, 2016. Admittedly, this is a fairly optimistic projection, but the array of new lines, dominated by the fabled Crossrail (in development since Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister) is dizzying. I somehow always thought we'd be wearing silver space suits and getting our food from pills before Crossrail actually happened, as may yet prove to be the case, but despite the never-ending stream of problems that have beset it, I'm still childishly excited about the whole thing.

Quite apart from Crossrail there are all these smaller projects of which I had only half-heard, if at all; we can all sit back now and watch Peckham become the fastest-rising housing market in South London. Transport geeks and Mayor Ken fans can read the accompanying press release, short and to the point, here. Bit worried about the name "Thameslink 2000" though, that's very last millennium.

As I suspected, the estimable Going Underground blogged about this - umm - when it actually came out. Which turns out to have been last year. But in my defence I wasn't blogging back then.