San Francisco's new Central Subway Chinatown station interior with large red screen

Friday Reads – 13 January 2023

On By In Friday Reads, New York, Pedestrians, Pollution, Sleeper Trains

• The world’s most congested cities: London is #1 (CityLab)

• New European Sleeper train will start between London & Berlin from May (Seat61)

• New York’s plan to pedestrianise Fifth Avenue, w/ bus & cycling lanes (Gothamist)

• Twitter bans the official Washington DC Metrobus account with no explanation (NBC)

• San Francisco’s Central Subway officially opens, but it is too short (Streetsblog)

• Amtrak unveils new faster, fuel efficient intercity Airo trains (SmartCitiesDive)

• Mexico City metro drivers are using WhatsApp to schedule trains (RestOfWorld)

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3 comments

  1. The description of the Berlin sleeper service is inaccurate, as it will start from Brussels. Passengers from London can connect via Eurostar.

  2. The INRIX report on congestion is rubbish, for two main reasons. First, it measures only a limited number of cities worldwide. It omits many cities notorious for the congestion, such as Istanbul and São Paulo. It’s rather like saying that Guildford is the most congested city in the world (by the way I only measured congestion in cities in Surrey).

    Second, it takes no account of modal split and assumes that all trips are made by drivers in cars. It does this by grossing up delays to car trips. It makes no difference whether a person does 10% of their trips by car or 90% of their trips by car. So a city like London, where only a minority of trips are car based is assumed to be the same as a city, like most in the US, where a majority of trips are car based.

    Quite misleading and just aimed at generating publicity.

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