I so hope we get to the point of a single national rail app and website, to replace the confusing current mess of them! 🤞

I am travelling to Leeds from King’s Cross today and ahhhh so much nicer. My wife says the new departure boards at Euston give her migraines - too bright I think. The old orange LED ones are much nicer (although possibly less accessible).

Great to see newly-updated guidance on using progressive enhancement rather than single page apps for government services: www.gov.uk/service-manu... 🎉

Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement - Service Manual - GOV.UK GOV.UK

How to build web pages so they work in HTML first: starting with HTML, extra styles and features, using JavaScript.

Welcome!

I had always assumed this was to enable the night tube to run when the station was closed. But according to the article it’s to help manage overcrowding.

It was an ordeal. Train was half an hour late too. This article from today sums it up pretty well: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Euston, we have a problem: how can London fix the ‘worst main station’?

Ugly, overcrowded and undermined by dithering over HS2, the unwieldy terminus needs an urgent rethink – or at least a few less digital billboards

Boo! There’s a whole bunch of guidance on this. It’s a very tricky topic. But having write-in options is essential. And all the questions should be optional. Should also be very clear how the data is used! (Sorry, it’s a sore point for me as I spent 2 years working on gov ethnicity data.)

Was there a write-in option, as on design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/equ...? I tried to get “Other ethnic group” reworded to “Another” at one point (doesn’t solve everything but we had evidence it came across better). Failed though.

Multiple ethnicity equality question – Equality information

If it can just be public content then any cms would be ok? I’m dubious of the value of platforms that have logins and track “progress” but maybe there is some?

Curse you sciatica, my old foe!