Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s lineup:
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- • Modernism in London’s Metro-Land (CityLab)
- • London Transport Museum to open two engineering-themed galleries (DesignWeek)
- • Transit State of the Art (Reconnections)
- • Exquisite tunnel symmetry (Creator.Vice)
- • Munich puts people before cars to transit work better (TreeHugger)
- • Anti-sexual harrassment transport campaigns (SmartRailWorld)
- • Paris starts on demand night bus stops to fight harassment (TheLocal)
- • Why are NYC subway operating costs so high? (NY Curbed)
- • Diagrams of US Light Rail system frequencies (Intermodality)
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Sorry to bring this up again, but please could you provide an update on when the next printed magazine will be sent to subscribers, assuming it hasn’t been abandoned?
Hello CG – nope not abandoned. But ‘long delayed’ for some personal health reasons behind the scenes.
Good news is that they’re now sorted, so my piece on German WW2 railways, Tony Badsey-Ellis’ piece on London monorails and a whole lot more will now soon see the light of day.
We’re writing now, then we need to layout and get printed, so it’ll be a couple of months but then we’ll be back into a regular cycle after that.
My fault rather than the teams – I realised the other day that by not saying anything outside of the meetups I’d fallen foul of the very thing I’d moaned about SouthEastern doing – assuming that the solution is just around the corner so not sharing information!
Meanwhile, back “on topic”, I’ve added a quick short post on Elizabeth line fares separate to our regular link roundup. That seemed something that was likely to spawn enough discussion it was worth posting on its own.
JB
It was interesting to read about the on-demand bus stops in Paris. Toronto was doing this for lone passengers after 9.00pm in 2004. I suggested it to my local council then but it was ignored.
But it is a simple and cheap way to improve safety.
@John Thorne
Specifically the Toronto on demand night bus stop program is available only to women (and hopefully for children, as it gets dark early here in winter, around 4.40 pm at winter equinox, and kids returning from afterschool programs, or evening movies, should also be safe).
NYC Subway Operating Costs – surely those metrics don’t tell you anything until you show cost per passenger km or something similar.
@QTR
Surely what you are suggesting is an efficiency measure, whereas the article is only on operating costs, which is slightly different.
@LBM. The first image in the article show the operating costs per mile, and asks why. You could have two identical metros in terms of length and layout etc, however one has twice the demand and therefore has twice the level of service. with the resultant doubling of trains required (and maintanence), increase in track wear, doubling of drivers required etc etc.
Sorry to put this here … re earlier comment on the LU magazine, how can I inform you that my address has changed? Very much looking forward to the next edition.