• The future stations of HS2 (RailEngineer)
• Brits use more water to wash their cars than UK’s major cities combined (MobilityMatters)
• German government provides €12.5bn more for rail investment (IntlRailJ)
• Chicago’s complex railroad problem (HomeSignal)
• LA’s downtown pedway network was to be a people mover precursor (TransitingLA)
• Self driving wheelchair developed to move passengers through airports (AviationPros)
• Urban highways cost billions in lost home value & property taxes (CityLab)
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The MobilityMatters article compares YEARLY car wash usage with DALIY cities usage. What a useless, emotionally-driven statistic!
As another useless statistic, consider the statement that OOC’s box can contain 6300 Routemaster buses. Is this a measure of area, with them placed end to end and side to side, or of volume, with them stacked vertically as well? In this sort of case, area is usually measured in football pitches and volume in Olympic swimming pools, which is bad enough, but the comparison here is just fatuous. And are they current Routemasters, or original (real) ones, not forgetting that some of the latter were longer than others?
@GarryBrown So could TfL shelter their fleet as an alternate use, need to know basis.
@Ryan Car-washes filter and recycle their water. I doubt home users are ‘pressure’ washing. Hose use depends on bans or metered supplies, but it is a ‘component’ of domestic.
The Chicago terminals article is one of the best I have read in the past year, fascinating history of operations. Also Keith Barber in the comments makes relevant parallels with Speedlink.