Old Kolkata tram at Maidan in grassy tram reservation with trees and domed building in background

Monday’s Friday Reads – 28 November 2022

On By In Congestion Charge, Design, Friday Reads, Trams/Streetcars/LRT, Trolleybuses

• ULEZ charge to drive polluting cars expanded to London’s M25 (IanVisits)

• TPE uses loophole so services cancelled a day ahead do not appear in stats (Guardian)

• Paris targeting converting parking garages, other buildings to affordable homes (CityLab)

• Tubular Belle: Køge Nord Station in Denmark (BeautyOfTransport)

• How to drive a bus, learning on a bus simulator, & a trolleybus yard: Video (RMTransit)

• Your own, personal, funicular in Wellington NZ (Guardian)

• Why is Kolkata letting its iconic trams die?: Video (TheHindu)

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3 comments

  2. scared me with a clickbait title – expanded to London’s M25
    NOT this is a London mayor action that will catch people out in places like Rainham marshes and Epping Forest.

    If it were a Government policy in a few years say 2030 with the ICE ban then the M25 would be a more recognisable boundary than the unmarked administration one.

    @LMM ‘unmarked@? Just slow loading maybe. Played OK and a good report. Oldest tram system in Asia 1880. 52 routes in 1970s, only 2 still running, will it die out?

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