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• The future of transportation is the bus, bike, and elevator (Slate)
• Subway to Harlem risks gentrification (NYTimes)
• The pedestrian tunnel under DC’s Capital Hill (GGWash)
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Some googling found that the Rotterdam 390m long footbridge crossing both a major railway and a major road, near Rotterdam Centraal station, cost about €300k, of which €100k was crowd-funded. Couldn’t happen in Britain, could it? Says a lot about the ridiculous knots we have tied ourselves up in, entirely of our own creation.
You may like to listen to last week’s episode of The Disrupters podcast 158 Elon Musk’s Wrong ,Driverless Cars Make Things Worst and Buses are the Future of Transportation on disrupters.fm not the BBC series,it has an interview with Jarrett Walker transit network designer who wrote the book Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives,he talks about The reason Uber and Lyft are part of the problem,Why the Boring Company is bogus,Why cars are a dead-end future ect.
I like the sign off statement on the CityMetric article. Ultimately all the investments and upgrades currently on the block at TfL maintain business as usual. It’s would take a lot more funding and financing to get radical change in the level of comfort.
@Ivan – as long as it meets our safety requirements and the construction fits in with the local autority/road/rail closure schedules then of course it could
Those Northern Line stats are grim, and with the order for additional trains cancelled, likely to get worse, with any slack in the current fleet taken by the Battersea extension.
New housing developments in places like Colindale restrict the ability to stop more trains short too.
” The pedestrian tunnel under DC’s Capital Hill”
Capitol Hill, as it the linked article, not Capital.
Named after the Capitolium or Capitoline Hill in Rome, now the Campidoglio in Italian. Indirectly related to capital, as in head (city, punishment, etc) but distinct.
I’ve had the opposite arguments with Americans who insist that Washington DC is the capitol of the US. It’s the capital.