As anyone looking to properly understand London’s transport needs and network knows, context, background and best-practice are important. As readers might imagine, behind the scenes here at LR Towers we thus spend a lot of time sharing links and reading around the subjects we cover here.
We also occasionally share links containing good information about transport topics that we know we just don’t have time to cover. We also all, as authors, occasionally write elsewhere on this or tangentially related subjects.
If you’ve got something you feel we should read or include in a future list, don’t forget to email us at [email protected].
- ATO for mainline UK railways? – Railway Technology
- New Silk Railway – Railway Technology
- Sheffield tram-train completion date set – Rail Technology Magazine
- VR Railway station for staff training – Railway Gazette
- Improving urban mobility starts with better trip data – Medium
- Uber lowering NYC Subway ridership? New York Times
- Metro cartography resolves congestion? – Washington Post
- Grizzly bears on the tracks study – National Post
The “Improving urban mobility…” link isn’t working.
[Fixed. Cheers. LBM]
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Somewhat off topic,but reading the grizzly bears article attracted sidebar adverts for property in Toronto, reporting that the average price for “average property” there had now passed the CAD 1m mark. Comparisons with London would be simply invidious…
@Graham H
Whilst $1m CAD seems a lot, it is only about £500,000, give or take. Although our houses are, on average, larger, and with much better insulation.
Give or take: I’ll take the odd £112,750 difference please? The GBP has taken a bit of a hammering from certain recent events…
@LBM: Insulation? What’s that? 😉
@LBM -bears not included presumably?
An alternative suggestion:
That the “Industry News & Releases” section have a date/time stamp attached ( as in the “Most Active Articles” list.
Then, readers can see how recent they are.
Please?
If people want some extra exciting reading matter then there is a plethora of new papers for next week’s Programmes and Investment Cttee meeting (see 8 March 2017).
https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/programmes-and-investment-committee
Various juicy bits of info across a range of topics. As I have separately alerted JB and PoP I won’t go into detail as I don’t know what they may choose to write about.
@WW
“4.11 [DLR] … extension to Thamesmead as set out in Appendix 3.
Appendix 3: Further future including extensions: Barking Town, Barking-Thamesmead service (Objective: North Beckton new town centre) , Extend Thamesmead to Abbey Wood (Objective: Thamesmead housing intensification)
Probability before 2030 … Low”