Monday’s Friday Reads – 4 November 2019

On By In Friday Reads, Pollution

• Massive gaps in UK Gov’t air pollution monitoring (AirQualityNews)

• Rotterdam Metro extension opens (RailRech)

• Queen Margrethe II opens Copenhagen’s Cityringen Metro (UrbanTransport)

• Parking garage residential conversion (Governing)

• The war on cars is over – if you want it (TreeHugger)

• Personalising urban rail lines and their trains (PedestrianObvs)

• Feds keep cracking down on creative crosswalks (StreetsBlog)

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16 comments

  1. Re: creative crosswalks. I wonder if repainting the Beatles Crossing on Abbey Road with some different pattern would improve traffic flows and safety (of tourists) by discouraging people trying to replicate the iconic photo.

    There may even be local “Community Infrastructure Levy–S106” money available to do the paint job

  2. Re. creative crosswalks, the dreaded buzzphrase “false sense of security” has appeared. I wonder if this has ever actually been measured. I remember its (first?) appearance as an anti-seat belt factor, as drivers would thereby feel safer and drive faster and with less care.

  3. Even though it’s not actually in the original location, the Abbey Road crossing is apparently Grade II listed, so changing the design would require planning approval.

  4. Massive gaps in AQ measurement. In a network of sensors like this, it’s important to know what proportion of sensor-minutes is missing, and, statistically, what good looks like. If 98% of sensor-minutes is achieved and we need 95% to construct an accurate picture, we’re good.

  5. On personalising metro lines, did no-one notice how LU has colour coded things like grab rails to the line colour?

  6. Re Abbey Road: surely the obvious thing to do is to paint it using the 3D trick so that it appears that the Beatles are walking across it?*

    *Obviously this will not help traffic flow, but think of the ‘gram!

  11. The sheer numbers of young people taking photos on the Abbey Road zebra crossing is staggering, when you consider that the album cover was done 50 years ago

    I did have to help a couple of tourists the other day though, who missed the stop on the bus and were going through West Hampstead when they turned around to ask me where the “Beatles crossing was”!

  13. Brian Butterworth. Tourists looking for the Zebra can and do turn up at Stratford and ask staff for Abbey Road. I think most of the staff now know to ask them “which one”? During the Olympics, I stopped the then Jubilee line general manager sending tourists who wanted to west London Abbey Road to the east London one. However, that’s nothing compared with the Olympics football fans who turned up at St James’s Park District line station expecting football at the “nearby” stadium!

  14. CXX
    “St James’s Park” … sorry, don’t understand that one.
    I presume that somewhere there is a cold muddy field for um, err … soccer … called the above?

  15. @Greg: I believe that they call themselves “Toons”? (The supporters that is)

  16. There is another St James Park league football ground – in Exeter. I think it unlikely that fans would go to the wrong ground.

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