Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s lineup:
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- • Kew Gardens’ private underground railway (IanVisits)
- • Is Britain’s rail franchising system fit for purpose? [paywall] (Financial Times)
- • Global underground/metro typography [many images] (Prototypr)
- • Train passengers double between Berlin and Munich (The Local)
- • Vienna’s new central railway through running station (Global Rail News)
- • If a distressed Liam Neeson boards your train – this is the official transit response (Globe & Mail)
- • Why did JFK airport struggle with flight backlog? (The Points Guy)
- • Dramatic increase in California transit oriented development (TOD) legislation proposed (LA Times)
- • Slow train coming – from Australian TV (Guardian)
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“Typography on the Subway”
Will require a very careful re-read, as will at least two of the embedded links within.
I love the way you can tell where you are ( If you are a local ) on the Berlin one, simply because every station is so different – rather like my own favourite Victoria-line tiling patterns/designs.
@Greg: Stockholm is like that too. Kungsträdgården station is a particular work of art and you’ll want to look at both entrances.
I thought BA at Heathrow were hopeless in bad weather but that JFK article is astonishing.
The new Wien Zentralbahnhof has been called a lot of things over the last few years, mostly non-complimentary….
The original Edwardian Tube stations each had their own distinctive tiling pattern and colours to help passengers identify their station in an era when literacy was less common that it is now.
Oakland, CA, USA, has two identical metro stations, 12th Street and 19th Street. One is completely tiled in blue, the other in red. Simples!