Monday’s Friday Reads – 30 March 2020

On By In COVID, Friday Reads, Pollution, Trams/Streetcars/LRT

• Manchester Metrolink opens Trafford Park line (MetroReport)

• The longest ever individual load on rails (RogerFarnworth)

• Budapest’s busy tram network (TheUrbanist)

• Toronto & Vancouver look into closing roads for social distancing (Globe&Mail)

• Love letter to Amtrak (TheOutline)

• What the oil companies really think about climate change (Intelligencer)

• Where are the bike lanes in Lego world? (TheVerge)

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4 comments

  1. Perhaps it might be a good idea to pull together a “best reads ever” of London Reconnections. I know there are great reporting and history articles on here that aren’t easy to find. Perhaps you might like to pull up a “top 20” list for new readers?

    Stay safe everyone!

  2. Budapest’s trams also play a vital role in transferring passengers from the outlying HÉV trains into the city centre. The four HÉV corridors are curious for depositing people at termini several km short of the city centre – as if the DLR terminated at Limehouse instead of Bank. It’s a rather ‘quaint’ setup with much invitation for crayon link-through solutions, and some more serious plans to feed them into the metro lines.

  3. Impressive that the latest Metrolink extension was opened 7 months early

    I look forward to riding it sometime in the future…

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