Friday Reads – 8 March 2019

On By In Friday Reads, Maps

Welcome to Reconnections’ Fridays:

• London’s most stressful Tube stations (MappingLondon)

• Ongoing saga of Berlin-Brandenberg airport (OneMileataTime)

• Aerial views of the world’s oldest metros (QuickQuid)

• Latest developments in mapmaking event (SchematicMapping)

• Cities repurposing useless golf courses (FastCompany)

• National Links: Concrete and Congestion Pricing (OverheadWire)

• Global queuing philosophies (Quartz)

• SimCity turns 30 (HumanTransit)

• Bizarre traffic safety video for felines (PriceTags)

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9 comments

  1. DO try the “cat safety” video …..
    ( Especially if you are owned by a Cat )

  2. Two complaints about the article on the world’s oldest (sic) metros:

    1) It omits the world’s oldest and second oldest metros (London and Budapest).

    2) Whilst it does include the third oldest (Glasgow) and the old subway was indeed shoogly, I have never (and I am a card carrying professional Glaswegian) heard it referred to as The Shoogly Train.

  3. @Ronnie MB

    The fourth paragraph of the QuidCorner article has a link to Martin’s original photoshopped aerial photo of London:

    “Luckily, planning theory and urban development researcher Martin Bangratz decided to solve the mystery by overlapping a realistic subway map on top of an aerial photograph of London. This image helped to accurately show where the London subway map really takes you.”

  5. How slapdash can lines-on-maps be before you criticise them?

    Using the London image link above, try as an example to follow the actual Piccadilly Line which is largely under existing streets and (north of Kings X) under the GNR line. Then watch it allegedly miss Hyde Park Corner, not wiggle enough near Holborn, and is now seemingly diverted around the east side of the Emirates Stadium at Arsenal! The NLL Overground also appears to have a mind of its own, compared to the photographic image which shows where the real line goes.

    So a mapping to be binned and not trusted.

  6. It’s a shame that the article on Berlin Airport was written over a year ago. It would be more interesting to see what has happened in that year and if opening is any closer.

  7. @quinlet

    Judging from the comments on Berlin Brandenburg airport construction progress on another thread, likely little progress at all and perhaps even regression (and not regression testing…).

  8. LBM
    Update from “wiki”:

    BerlinerTagesspiegel reported that Bosch (fire detection) and Caverion (sprinklers) are unwilling to participate in a hearing of Berlin’s parliament on 14th of march 2019. It was assumed that 2020 becomes even more unprobable as an opening date.

  9. According to the Berliner Morgenpost the fire alarm installation is running late but the airport management remain confident that the airport will open as scheduled in October 2020. Sounds like Crossrail reports to the TfL board this time last year.

    Bosch are apparently meant to have all the fire alarms finished by 29 March. So a tight tortoise race to the finish between Berlin airport, Crossrail, and Brexit then…

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