Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s links lineup:
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- • Next generation Santander Cycles roll into London (London Assembly)
- • Turn off your mind, relax and take the Tube upstream (BoingBoing)
- • River Bus pier opening at Battersea Power Station (Your Local Guardian)
- • Piccadilly Circus Lights are back (Engineering & Technology)
- • Uber offers no relief for NY Subway overcrowding (Crain’s New York)
- • Chicago’s three separate passenger transport networks (Chicago Mag)
- • Chicago O’Hare express train is a bad idea (DanielKayHertz)
- • Major League Baseball stadium rail access (Intermodality)
- • Delhi’s Seldom Seen (or used) Ring Railway in photos (Guardian)
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Those new Pashley ( “Santander” ) bicycles look to be a great improvement – not that it would be difficult.
As for Chicago “transit” – oh dear, they are just-approching 1936 in terms of operating integration, aren’t they? Though a uniform signage & map-recognition is at least a start.
Lasty re: the interview about Uber/Lyft etc in NYC … “Larrf? I nearly wet meself”
@Greg: It’s not just Chicago, in the US that is normal…
@SHLR, Greg
And Canada. Although the US is more fragmented as states are smaller and sometimes several states border large cities, as in New York City where there is the Long Island Railroad, NY State’s Metro-North, PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson), and New Jersey Transit.
To be fair, most maps in London are just tube maps. You tend to have to be on the lookout (or be lucky) to find one with rail on too.
@Muzer
The point I take from the ‘Chicago’s three separate passenger transport networks’ link is that the individual network maps, (and websites, from personal experience) don’t provide much information at all about the other two networks. And most of all there is very little fare integration between the three.
Each of the three networks are separately managed, operated, and funded. Whereas TfL operates (at a high level) Tube, bus, and Tramlink services, and commuter rail is integrated into the fare zones.
Muzer
Actually THIS MAP is visible at most tube stations ….
( HINT: “London Connections”, yes? )
Both the LIRR and Metro North come under the MTA which also includes the NYC subway, buses and several bridges and tunnels.
The MTA is an agency of New York State.
The Staten Island Ferry is run by the City of New York,
PATH is part of the Port Authority which is a bi-state Agency and they were essentially forced to take on the PATH system as part of a deal to get the World Trade Centre built.
@greg
I’ve ridden one of the new Pashley bikes. Can’t say it rode signficantly differently from the old ones.
The rear lights are better positioned , and the height markings on the saddle tube are on the wrong side (i.e opposite side to the control panel in the docking station for releasing the bike).
Err, that’s it really.