Liam K McGrath

@liammcgrath.bsky.social

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Forecasting & modelling for sustainable cities Transport for London🚇 Director at Leathermarket CBS affordable housing 🏢 Director se1.solar Community Energy ☀️ Urban history podcast yeoldeguide.com Personal opinions liamkmcgrath.com

Piccadilly in London full of people marching against the far right
View from Bazalgette Embankment towards Blackfriars Bridge
NHS workers
High density by the standards of outer London. 15 floor blocks of flats.
New flats, Bermondsey
Massive red tower crane on floor next to office
Blue skies in Bermondsey December 3rd 2025
Two of the six categories of Radiohead miserable songs
New block of flats on a winter day
Map showing imprortant bus priority corridor along Walworth Road, Camberwell Green Denmark Hill, East Dulwich
Food left on bus as standard
Brightly coloured trees in Southwark
Interior of a greater anglia train to Lowestoft.
Melbourne Grove East Dulwich new paving, seats and plants
Screenshot of map of locations of new towns
New express bus at Ilderton Road
Stockport interchange gardens and cycle path with rail viaduct in the background
Example benefit cost ration for thousands of machine generated bus routes
Chart showing cost inflation of lower Thames crossings
Glasgow subway
Photo of royal opera house stage at end of Semele
View of Lowestoft Beach during First Light Festival
Chart from the UK Infrastructure: 10 year strategy using the Centre for Cities analysis on access to cities centres to show UK city centres have smaller population catchments than they should.
Inside the V&A storehouse, 4 floors of museum storage.
Diagram of journey time comparison for rail and driving from Nottingham to various places in the North and Midlands. Nottingham has poor rail journey times to most places.
Importance to them vs influence over us matrix
Wooden baby toy with London Underground lines written on the sides in felt tip pen
Chaulafan is a traditional Ecuadorian fried rice dish, heavily influenced by Chinese cuisine. It's a popular example of Chifa—a fusion of Chinese and Latin American cooking that developed in countries like Peru and Ecuador due to Chinese immigration.
A view of Portman Road football ground
Anglia trains a huge improvement over what we had before
Empty land for decades at convoys Wharf near central London next to the river
Diagram from Connecting the north west comparing traffic types by route between Manchester and Liverpool https://greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/media/r0fnp32u/2025-05-21-connecting-the-north-west-to-drive-national-prosperity-lmr-accessible-digital.pdf
Buildings under construction at North Acton
Convoys Wharf Deptford. Vast empty space for decades.
View over Bermondsey towards the biscuit factory
New tall building at Canada Water next to a 1960s tower and library with skyline in background and wetland / bridge in foreground.
An old northern line train at the London Transport museum with a northern line map including the northern city line
Castle Rock Nottingham
External view of Cardiff bus station
Electrification underway at Abercynon
A quadrant chart with two axis: effective communication and honest communication. Labour may be honest/sincere, but are not explaining their choices effectively.
Cardiff city hall
Bar chart showing peak capacity by line for UK metro systems
Passageway leading to new entrance with terracotta tiling
Tfl roundel in passage with new entrance to station
Grand Paris Express map
Map of Winchelsea showing planned grid
Crystal Palace new stand
Blackfriars Road, train line and St Paul's