Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected].
- • Councils to be allowed to charge for road closures (Beeb)
- • King’s Cross coal drops (1LondonBlog)
- • Pram on a Tram – Melbourne’s Step-free Challenge (Transporting Cities)
- • A ride on the world’s most mysterious commute (CNN)
- • LA’s bus ridership decline analysed (LA Times)
- • Ten worst types of people on the NY Subway (Gawker)
- • Ten worst type of people on NY sidewalks (NYC Boosh)
- • Inside Cincinnati’s abandoned subway (Abandoned Spaces)
“The world’s most mysterious commute” – Pyongyang …
Was fascinating. If you read it, look at the companion piece about the same city being a perfect SF film-set (!)
The King’s Cross Coal-drops piece is worth a read, too. The only fly in the ointment seems to be the “designers”, also responsible for the “Boris_Bus” & the Garden Bridge – Heatherwicks. Um.
We appreciate the suggestions for this column, but please note that Friday Reads posts are a selected list of links, and are not intended as a bulletin board for readers to add their own links.
Readers can suggest a link by emailing [email protected], which also appears at the top of each post.
Regarding today’s suggestions, I’ve added an Industry post on the London Underground wifi tracking pilot, with links to analysis and TfL’s report. LBM
“…not intended as a bulletin board for readers to add their own links.”
Is there an appropriate place on here for such a facility? I only ask as sometimes interesting articles come up in more obscure trade mags or on foreign sites that might be missed by the majority of people. Read an interesting article on London Busses in a trade mag on busses (the grouped wiring kind) once! Didn’t even know such a thing existed!
Hi Ben,
There is no bulletin board facility on LR by design. It is provided by a number of other online forums (fora for the Latin readers), which we also read regularly.
Nonetheless you can always email [email protected] and we’ll assess the link(s). Note that submitted links may not appear for a few weeks.
LBM
It is noteworthy that the visitor to the Pyongyang metro was only allowed to travel for a few stops, and only got off at certain stations. This fits with previous reports that tourists are only allowed a limited ride. See http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/pyongyang-metro-childrens-palace-etc.html for example. The limited access for visitors has raised the question as to whether the rest of the system is built to the same standard.