Monday’s Friday Reads – 8 June 2020

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

• Face masks to become mandatory on UK public transport (IanVisits)

• Street View used to discover UK’s lost Dutch-inspired cycle ways (BBC)

• Cities & their streetcars – top 10 favourite spots (Spacing)

• Track trespass film wins New York film festival prize (RailBusinessD)

• Why Boston consolidated some light rail stops (RailwayGazette)

• The racial injustice of American highways (CityLab)

• Transport themed backgrounds for Zoom calls (IanVisits)

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5 comments

  1. Not thge first time that “BR” have made a really good anti-trespass film.
    There was the one where it was made a game, with the most deaths & horrific injuries “winning” – eugh.

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    LOVE the tram locations.
    The Antwerp one I know – it’s wonderful sitting in an Antwerp Bar ( Shut up! ) whilst the metre-gauge trams slide past in the narrow street,

  2. Citylab has some more really interesting articles, especially around public space / systemic racism matters. It’s a good read. The article about 16th St. in DC brought a smile to my face.

    On the classic tram spots, their squeezing through the Zytglogge in Bern was a favourite of mine, but Streetview reveals that the tracks have been taken up (except for within the arch)
    https://goo.gl/maps/dzqH6FTmJaShPp578
    so my other recommendation is the perfect circle etched around Karolinenplatz and its obelisk in Munich
    https://goo.gl/maps/GWYzG7dCyocHYFjZ7

  3. Sorry to spoil your memory Nickbxn, but the trams never ran though that arch. A double track ran to the right of the image for what was latterly tram route 8 to Schosshalde. This was replaced by trolleybuses in January 1941 and the tracks quickly removed. I think what is seen in the arch is just a pattern in the paving.

  4. P.S. Could you be thinking of the Käfigturm at the western end of Marktgasse? One track runs through it and one to the side there.

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