Bridges are becoming safer, more durable, and longer than ever before. Bridges haven’t really changed much for many years, says Anil Agrawal, a professor of civil engineering at the City College of New York. And it …
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Monday’s Friday Reads – 19 September 2022
• London’s mainline railway stations to stay open overnight for the State Funeral (IanVisits) • Inside the Battersea Turbine Hall at end of the Northern Line Extension (Sounds&Visions) • NYC considering congestion charge, sales tax …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 5 September 2022
• Off-peak Heathrow Tube fares scrapped, but there’s a workaround (DiamondGeezer) • Amazon’s e-cargo bikes to replace 1,000s of London van deliveries (Guardian) • Work starts to finally connect Barcelona tram networks (Barcelona) • European …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 29 July 2022
• Piccadilly Night Tube restarting today: 1st full Night Network since start of pandemic (RailUK) • Plans to open a disused railway bridge over the Thames to pedestrians (IanVisits) • A better job of categorising …
Continue readingHammersmith Bridge repair video (NewCivilEng)
Future of modular: HS2 & East West Rail collab on bridge kits (NewCivilEng)
High Speed 2 and East West Rail are sharing knowledge to help develop modular bridges in a unique collaboration. A kit of parts approach that enables greater efficiency in bridge design and construction is taking the …
Continue readingCost of repairing TfL’s bridges & tunnels to top £35m (NewCivilEng)
Transport for London (TfL) has forecast further cost increases related to patching up the Capital’s ageing surface transport assets. In total, TfL spent a record £2.9M on implementing interim measures for its road tunnels and …
Continue readingFirst order for modular railway footbridge (NewCivilEng)
It’s offical: the railway footbridge revolution has begun. Greater Anglia has become the first customer to order one of the modular Ava footbridges, which will replace the old concrete pedestrian crossing at Stowmarket station in …
Continue readingConstruction begins on UK’s longest railway bridge (RailTechnology)
Sitting at 3.4km in length, the Colne Valley Viaduct is set to become the longest railway bridge in the UK, as work officially begins on the construction. The bridge will cover over two miles across a …
Continue readingThe benefit from legacy railway assets (RailEngineer)
Nature’s reclamation of our dismantled railway network describes a delightfully melancholy intermingling, whereby wildlife and vegetation recolonise trackbeds while structures are lost to the permeative interventions of water and tree growth. But a more malevolent …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – April 25 2022
• A flash sale is not a transport strategy: What Is wrong with British rail (inews) • Pollution back to illegal levels on ex-zero emissions London street (Guardian) • Portland’s Tilikum Crossing longest US non-traffic …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – March 28 2022
• Day in the life of a London bus: video (LondonTravelWatch) • 50 rail bridges & tunnels could escape National Highways demolition (NewCivilEng) • Untold story of a hero who risked life & liberty to …
Continue reading3D-printed concrete bridge at Venice Biennale (Dezeen)
Zaha Hadid Architects has built a 3D-printed concrete footbridge named Striatus at the Venice Architecture Biennale that is freestanding and assembled without mortar. Named Striatus, the 16-metre-long bridge was built by the computation and design team at Zaha Hadid Architects, known as ZHACODE, …
Continue readingStagecoach’s new GPS alert tech to prevent bridge strikes (Scotsman)
The new technology will be installed in buses and high coaches across Scotland, England and Wales as part of a £4 million investment. The company is the first bus operator in the country to invest in …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 10 September 2021
• TfL needs to reassess flood risk after stations left underwater (NewCivilEng) • Boat tours of illuminated Thames bridges (IanVisits) • The last flying boat on the Thames (DavidHodgson) • A video tour inside a …
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