Friday Reads – 29 November 2019

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• TfL’s cancelled roundel (IanVisits)

• London recent aerial photography (Colossal)

• UK railways mostly nationalised – by other countries (LondonEconomic)

• Medieval trade routes interactive map (MerchantMachine)

• Copenhagen increasing parking costs 100 times to reduce car use (Eltis)

• Moscow’s first two Crossrail lines open (RailTech)

• Superblocks are making cities safer and cleaner (Bloomberg)

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5 comments

  1. “Copenhagen increasing parking costs 100 times” sounds impressive, but it’s actually just raising the price of an annual residential parking permit from £1 to £100 for low-emission cars. That merely brings it into line with most London councils.

    Most residential parking schemes in the UK vary their parking permit charges according to vehicle emissions. The city of Norwich takes a different approach, with parking permit fees based on vehicle length.

  2. The Moscow “Crossrails” are impressive, though I would liken it more to London Overground-does-Berlin S-Bahn, as it makes use of above-ground routings through the inner suburbs taking in some key hubs. Looks like an exemplary development of inherited infrastructure to me.

  3. @NickBxn

    I’m surprised Moscow hadn’t done this sooner, given that it has the busiest Metro network in the world. Yes, the Moscow Central Diameter lines are more like Overground or S-Bahn than tunneled Crossrail routes.

  4. Basing the parking charge on vehicle length is an interesting idea, but taxing by width would be even better. These monster SUVs are ridiculously wide.

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