Friday Reads – 2 August 2019

On By In Friday Reads, Maps, Trams/Streetcars/LRT

• Literary Tube map of London (InTheBook)

• Paddington station’s 1930s ‘digital’ clock (HydeParkNow)

• Commuters who interact with others have more pleasant ride (NPR)

• Tram network expansion in Algeria (UrbanTransportMag)

• Redesigning Delhi’s Champs Élysées (Guardian)

• The architecture of air control towers (SmithJ)

• Peak Parking – the Garage Mahal, but convertible (Globe&Mail)

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8 comments

  1. Dickens gets quite an airing in the literary tube map, and could have many more mentions. If only to add something to the the sparsely populated north east segment, Barnaby Rudge could be in Epping Forest, specifically Chigwell. Dombey and Son could be placed around the docks or the City, but perhaps as it has not been taken, Mornington Crescent, as a nod to the dramatic description of the railway construction approaching Euston, with all the upheaval that entailed (1830s not 2010s).

  2. Filling a few more gaps in the literary tube map:

    Holloway Road = Diary of a Nobody

    Kennington = London Belongs to Me

    Lambeth North = Liza of Lambeth

    Neasden = A Black Hole in Neasden

    Richmond = Heart of Midlothian

    There must be many more!

    ‘Sherlock Holmes’ is not a novel, but quite a few stations could be named after individual Holmes stories.

  3. “News from Nowhere” for Walthamstow C – closest to William Morris’ childhood home?

  4. “510 spots for parking and will cost $80-million” Even at Canadian dollars that would be cheaper to buy everyone a new car instead of parking them there; that seems a frankly silly price to pay per space.

  5. AlisonW – thanks for challenging the assumption that the car MUST be accomodated, at any cost.

  6. The whole premise of that Calgary article seems strange, as Calgary already has a light-rail system, and a walkable compact downtown area.

  7. Ya the parking garage/business centre is particularly batshit crazy, especially in a city which was one of the pioneers of the North American LRT renaissance. Most of Alberta however has long had a strong US style ‘personal freedom’ culture.

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