• TfL publishes step-free access consultation results, trials new gap ramp (RailUK) • UK electric car owners to pay road tax from 2025: Autumn Statement (Guardian) • Germany’s €49/ public transport ticket FAQ (JonWorthEuroBlog) • …
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Monday’s Friday Reads – 24 October 2022
• Underground staff problems cause large rise in step-free suspensions (DisabilityNews) • The unbuilt Tube station at Mount Pleasant: video (JagoHazzard) • Inside the ghost pod metro of Paris: video (TimTraveller) • The NYC Subway …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 29 August 2022
• Liverpool’s 1st railway station listed as Scheduled Monument (Liverpool&McrRyTrust) • Boston subway train fire adds to troubled safety record at underfunded transit agency (CityLab) • Milan is taming cars & people love it (Forbes) …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 11 July 2022
• Uber Files leak reveals ruthless global lobbying campaign (Guardian) • Fleetwood Poulton rail line reopening approved (BBC) • Germany’s beleaguered rail network is overdue for a $14Bn overhaul (CityLab) • Fiat rooftop car factory …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 1 July 2022
• 9 more abandoned rail schemes receive funding toward restoration (NewCivilEng) • Northern line Night Tube to return July 2 (RailUK) • Paris beltway to swap traffic lanes for green space (CityLab) • Rotterdam rooftop …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 27 June 2022
• TfL advances plans for DLR & Overground extensions (NewCivilEng) • Wales stops funding north-south air route in favour of rail (Railway-Technology) • Lyon announces light rail express line instead of metro (IntlRailJ) • Lausanne …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 24 June 2022
• Elizabeth Line to Ebbsfleet extension could cost £3.2bn (IanVisits) • German rail traffic surge exposes high speed gaps (PedestrianObvs) • NYC Subway vows to be 95% accessible by 2055 (MassTransit) • The overgrown tracks …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – April 11 2022
• Russians gone, Kyiv revives, including transport system (NYTimes) • Jubilee night Tube May return, more lines to follow (RailUK) • Moving San Francisco: evolution of its public transport video (PBS) • New Zealand fully …
Continue readingPriestmanGoode designs accessible interiors for VIA Rail (Dezeen)
Industrial design studio PriestmanGoode has created the interiors for a fleet of trains in Canada, which have a focus on accessible design. The London-based studio designed the interiors for a fleet of trains called Corridor that is run by …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 11 February 2022
• Automated people movers from 1924 British Empire Exhibition to HS2 (RailInsider) • History of the South Kensington Subway (IanVisits) • Glasgow Subway complete refurbishment, with new trains (RailEngineer) • The geopolitics of Rail Baltica’s …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 4 February 2022
• TfL funding crisis will leave the disabled stranded (BylineTimes) • What comes after London’s Congestion Charge? (CityLab) • Sense of place: White Hart Lane station updated (BeautyOfTransport) • Paris starts test runs of new …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 17 January 2022
• Confusion over future of Beam Park Station in East London (IanVisits) • Lumo Trains’ new Diversity & Inclusion Ambassador (HydeParkNow) • Mancunians rebel against grey advertising boxes blocking pavements (Guardian) • Berlin proposal for …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 6 December 2021
• Inside the Elizabeth Line’s Tottenham Court Road station (HiddenLondonHangouts) • How serifs lost the road war but won the streets (BeautyOfTransport) • Netherlands’ trains work well for the visually impaired (ReasonsCheerful) • Old Danish …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 8 November 2021
• Night Overground service set to resume before Xmas (RailBusiness) • TfL’s in-house design teams’ process (DesignWeek) • Call of the wild when walking London’s Capital Ring (Guardian) • Naples’ new all timber Metro station …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 5 November 2021
• Underground seeks ideas to improve step-free access to stations (IanVisits) • Vivarail’s D-Train pitched for US branch line pop-up metros (Trains) • Istanbul’s historic European railway terminus to be reopened (RailwayGazette) • Vancouver planning …
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