Friday Reads – 21 June 2024

On By In Congestion Charge, Friday Reads, HS2, TfL, Trams/Streetcars/LRT

• TfL’s latest railway improvements: Trains, signalling, and station upgrades detailed (Ian Visits)

• Blackpool’s first new tram extension in 98 years opens (Mainspring)

• HS2: Progress on a grand scale (Rail Engineer)

• London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS (The Guardian)

• Work Paused On Second Avenue Subway Extension After Congestion Pricing Pause (Streetsblog)

• Baselines are Very Important for Evaluating Transit, esp for Media (Reece Martin)

• Hong Kong’s MTR is Enviable: Video (BuildingBeautifully)

• Cheap, Easy, Good: We Need to Think Like Amazon to Decarbonize Transportation (NextCity)

2 comments

  1. The cost of the Blackpool tramway

    “the cost of the 0.4-mile (600m) tramway is about £23.42M”

    Does it go at 200mph ?

  2. “The cost of the Blackpool tramway”
    Yeah, 600m still leaving 150m walk to the station, with no provision for further extension, and all to provide a measly 2 trams per hour in each direction.

    Might as well not have bothered

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