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• The 1.3-hour rule: Why quicker trains encourage longer-distance commutes

  08-12-2025 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Regardless of how people get to work or where they live, it turns out that most of us tend to spend the same amount of time commuting to work.
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  Long suspected and at times disputed, a new review of people’s commutes across 43 countries found a strong bias toward a daily commute of around 78 minutes (1.3 hours), regardless of how it occurs.
  Whether driving, on the bus, tram or train, walking or cycling, the study by ICTA-UAB and McGill University in Canada found the 1.3 hou
  
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• Royal Observatory to unveil a Mirror Moon sculpture in March

  08-12-2025 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  You’ve looked at Luke Jerram’s inflatable moon as it pops up around the place, and next year, you will be able to touch a metal moon as well.
  Mirror Moon (c) Luke Jerram
  Arriving at the Royal Observatory Greenwich in March, this new installation, measuring two metres in diameter, uses accurate topographic data from NASA to map the textures of the Moon onto the mirrored steel surface.
  The tactile medium allows visitors to run their fingers across the craters, valleys, mountains and sm
  
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• HELCH’s dropped Hs land in Dalston exhibition

  08-12-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  In 2018, a much-loved piece of graffiti near Denham on the M25 saying “give peas a chance” was itself graffiti’d with Give Helch a Chance. Since then, Helch has been seen dotted all around the place, and now the anonymous typographically inclined artist has their own show.The Peas graffiti, on a railway bridge crossing the M25 has since been repainted many times, to the considerable annoyance of Network Rail, and reminding us of the tension between street artists who often buil
  
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