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- Mail Rail ride & Postal Museum opening 28 July 2017 (Postal Museum)
- TfL contactless bottles (Transit Wire)
- Britain runs on rail campaign (The Beauty of Transport)
- Mapping Britain’s lost tram lines (CityMetric)
- Paris to open underground attractions (City Metric)
- Development premium near rail stations (New York Times)
- NYC Considers Congestion pricing (Curbed NY)
- Toronto subway line approved, LA LRT tunnel progress (NextCity)
Reassuring to see in the Paris disused stations article that the politicians in question seem to have realised that most of them still have trains running through them – no more lunatic swimming pool plans!
Mapping the lost tramways seems like one of those heroic projects, for those who can’t face sitting at home all day!
I greatly admire them!
“Britain runs on Rail” – this quote: One of the criticisms of the early privatised railway and its structure was that it was so fragmented that there seemed to be no guiding mind behind its development. Is still almost entirely valid.
I would love to know how much “wasted motion” there is between now-separate & formerly-integrated parts of the system … as in “system” that according to the DfT does not exist?
[ And of course, both ATOC & to a lesser extent the RDG are still adept at shooting themselves in the foot. All-lines ticket from London, anyone? Oh, forget it. ]
Oh, yes, re the video – I LURVE the seagull!
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Paris:
How about more public use re-opening of other parts of the Petit ceinture?
Having walked the “Promenade Plantéé just under a fortnight ago, I’m all in favour.
@ Greg – don’t see much point in reopening the Petit Ceinture given a lot of its likely transport demand is now covered by tram lines nearby. Paris is doing the right thing in having a mixed strategy of rolling stock replacement, Metro upgrades, Metro extensions, better buses, tram extensions, RER extensions and upgrades and also the planned orbital automated Metro lines plus rail services on the Grand Ceinture. It’s a properly planned incremental strategy that covers good asset management together with service enhancement in both inner and outer areas of the Ile de france region. It’s as it should be. Oh that London had something quite as ambitious.
And yes, before anyone corrects me, we do have schemes in build but a lot of that finishes within 18-24 months and there is not very much in the pipeline behind it and even less chance, given the wider political climate, of anything “big” starting anytime soon. We may get the GOBLIN extension, the Bank rebuild has started and the dregs of the Battersea extension moving towards completion but not much else of any great substance apart from mass fleet replacement on SWT / Gtr Anglia.
WW
Sorry, you have got the wrong and of the push-pull unit entirely.
I said “Public Use” didn’t I? … I was suggesting that more of the “Promenade Plantêê” solution to the disused trackbeds would be an excellent idea, emphatically not a railway re-opening.
@WW
I think Greg meant opening more of the old Petite Ceinture up as footpaths similar to the Promenade Plantee on the former Vincennes surface line.
@ Phil – OK noted. No objection to footpaths. 😉