Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s lineup:
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- • New solutions to reduce transport emissions (IMechE)
- • Zeppelin distant early warning system (Andrew Grantham)
- • History of the bollard, from Napoleon to Carillion (CityMetric)
- • Bankside Boardwalk pavement extender trial (Better Bankside)
- • When manual road painting goes bad (99% Invisible)
- • History of street light banners (Curbed)
- • How Paris is liberating itself from cars (CityLab)
- • A new train hall won’t fix New York’s Penn Station (CityLab)
- • The groundbreaking post-war story of Chicago’s Skokie Swift (Chicago Curbed)
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Re Zeppelin early warning, why is a sound mirror near Sunderland featured here? An interesting subject perhaps, but they were essentially coastal features, and I can’t get the LR relevance. Am I missing something?the
@Twopenny Tube
I’m fascinated by the history of technology, especially the forgotten technologies. I thought this link would intrigue readers given the great interest in our Imperial Airship Service article.
The article on the Skokie Swift is good – the little line that could. Its sad that mass transit always draws the short straw against roads.
Philadelphia’s PATCO High Speed line opened in 1969 against the grain of increasing auto usage, connecting to New Jersey, but it reused much existing subway and intercity rail trackage.
@twopennytube
Friday reads is very much “here are things we have been reading in the virtual office that may be directly relevant or of interest”.
So whilst you’re never going to get a list of the various stuff I read on football history here, you are likely to get tech or other locational stuff where it meets the above.
@ JB & LBM
I was not, and am not objecting, I was curious about some sort of connection that I was missing. I know such comments on message boards can come across as rather negative, or carry an unintended hint of sarcasm, but anyway thanks for putting me straight. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Tuppence!