Construction industry gossip: Racing ahead

By Hansom2019-08-30T05:00:00

My hack chats to a record-breaking cyclist, Esther McVey has a rousing call and a dogged campaigner is taking many, many steps to try to prevent HS2

Whass Saab

After setting a new cycling speed record, everyone wanted a piece of architect Neil Campbell – including one of my hacks. Campbell was heading home from the scene of his record-breaking achievement, Elvington airfield near York, to Essex when my hack called. Was it a good time to chat, she wanted to know. “I’m crawling along the M62 at 60mph,” he replied. Given he’d just got up to 174mph on his pushbike, it’s no wonder he felt the speed was a little down on what he was used to. He made his attempt after being released from the back of a speeding Porsche Cayenne. That’s a bit flash to be the everyday choice of an architect, I think. Campbell, it turns out, drives a much more architecty Saab.

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