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- How London can cut air pollution – CityMetric
- Tunnel boring machine display in Westminster – Ian Visits
- Transport art of Gail Brodholt – The Beauty of Transport
- Computational patterns in new Cambridge North station – StephenWolfram.com
- Dublin’s new bus routes plan – NextCity
- Barcelona super blocks to reduce vehicle pollution – TheCityFix
- Call to ban cars from NY’s Times Square – McClatchy
- Traffic underestimated as Nitrogen Oxide producer – Phys
Wolfram on Cambridge North is fascinating.
Recommendation – please, everyone: read it.
There are a couple of important philosophical points in the article, too.
@Greg
See also Cambridge has a new mathsy train station
As a mathematician and someone who has always been interested in patterns, I really enjoyed reading the Cambridge North article.
I know I am an ancient pedantic stick-in-the-mud but the use of Train Station instead of the time honoured Railway Station really jars with me. However the article was fascinating.
Pedant Schmedant – forgot the comma after However.
A possible addition to “Friday Reads” in a slightly different format:
BBC 2’s The Fiteen Billion Pound Railway – two episodes, available on iPlayer for a little while.
Interesting views, if a little “breathless” in its presentation.
@Greg Tingey
BBC Two’s top rated show of the year so far, which is nice. 3.35m live viewers.
I’ve also enjoyed the Inside the Tube series on C5. Much more history than the previous series. http://www.channel5.com/show/inside-the-tube-going-underground/
Update to this story –
Cambridge North station’s tribute to a famous mathematician got everything right, except his math.