• TfL data shows 20mph speed limits significantly reduce collisions & injuries (IntelligentTransport) • Underground perfection & imperfection, Tube Mapper’s Luke Agbaimoni: Video (RailNatter) • Vienna’s symphony of public transport: Video (UrbanCyclingInst) • The good, …
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Monday’s Friday Reads – 6 March 2023
• Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London (Forbes) • Abandoned UK railway links coming back into their own (NewCivilEng) • Evolution of a NA streetcar city into a modern metropolis: Video (UrbanCyclingInst) • …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 3 March 2023
• Bank Tube station’s new Cannon Street entrance has opened (IanVisits) • Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London (Forbes) • Almost 1 in 10 local UK bus services were axed last year (Guardian) …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 30 January 2023
• Lambeth strategy to make its kerbsides fairer, more accessible, & more climate resilient (LambethCouncil) • The 1930s, the decade that schematic map diagrams matured (MaxwellRoberts) • Amsterdam’s new underwater bike garage is next-level cycling …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 5 December 2022
• TfL vows to develop plans for Crossrail 2 & Bakerloo, DLR extensions (NewCivilEng) • London Paramedic Cycle Response Unit arrives faster than ambulances (LondonAmbulanceNHS) • GTR admits to breaching Equality Act on access for …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 21 October 2022
• Bond Street Elizabeth Line station now opening October 24 (RailwayTechnology) • Byford states driverless Tube trains ruled out by City Hall (EnfieldDispatch) • TfL to restart schemes to improve London active travel infrastructure (IntelligentTransport) …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 22 August 2022
• Vintage Intercity train Co launches 1st class service alternative to Avanti West Coast (BusinessLive) • Construction of Germany’s deepest S-Bahn station (TunnelOnline) • Advocates sue Montréal transit agency for cutting ads criticizing high fares …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 8 August 2022
• New poll: Soaring petrol prices, cost-of-living boost rail travel (RailUK) • Finance hub that hoped to rival Canary Wharf ends in liquidation (CityLab) • Network Rail proposes discontinuous electrification for Boston MA commuter rail …
Continue readingUS Postal Service testing delivery by e-cargo bike (Electrek)
I recently wrote an opinion piece about how the United States Postal Service (USPS) could look to solve its gas-guzzler truck problem by following Europe’s example of delivering mail with smaller electric cargo bikes. As it turns …
Continue readingFriday Reads – April 29 2022
• Put TfL live travel updates onto your smartphone homescreen (IanVisits) • Cycle paths to run alongside HS2 for 200 miles (AnonymousWidower) • 12 most effective ways to get cars out of cities (Guardian) • …
Continue readingFriday Reads – April 22 2022
• London car parking permits are cheaper than bike storage (BBC) • Long before NYC’s High Line, there was the High Bridge (UntappedNYC) • Amtrak seeks control of Washington DC Union Station for expansion (Trains) …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 25 February 2022
• TfL secures deal to build new Elephant & Castle station entrance (IanVisits) • Two UK rail museums plan exciting future (RailInsider) • Cargo without the carbon: Stunning rise of e-bike deliveries (Guardian) • Subway …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 18 February 2022
• DLR extension to Thamesmead raised in Parliament (IanVisits) • The short, little known history of City, Greenwich, & Lewisham Railway (HydeParkNow) • Why Aston Martin’s ex-CEO is betting his career on electric buses (CityMonitor) …
Continue readingNone of UK’s top 5 congested roads have cycleways (Forbes)
Traffic congestion is caused not by cycleways but by too many cars, trucks and vans. This, one would assume, is blindingly obvious. But not according to many trusted news sources which are today running with …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 15 November 2021
• COP26: Doing the wrong things, but better (Railway-News) • Transit use must double to meet 1.5C goal, Mayors warn (CityLab) • France is turning the humble roundabout into art (CityLab) • Stuttgart tram’s cycle …
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