• Face masks to become mandatory on UK public transport (IanVisits) • Street View used to discover UK’s lost Dutch-inspired cycle ways (BBC) • Cities & their streetcars – top 10 favourite spots (Spacing) • …
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Friday Reads – 5 June 2020
• Female Overground train driver on cover of British Vogue (TransportXtra) • UK Government to issue half million £50 bike repair vouchers (Road-CC) • New twist in mystery of Brunel’s Box Tunnel birthday sunrise (Guardian) …
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• Secret Moorgate Station (CarolinesMiscellany) • The original Waterloo Bridge was destroyed by its creator (OnLondon) • How Classes 158 & 159 saved Regional Railways (RuairidhMacVeigh) • Scotland’s earliest railway was fought over by Jacobites …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 29 May 2020
• Should TfL build blocks of flats to save itself? (Wired) • HS2’s Old Oak Common station receives planning approval (RailEngineer) • London: a walkable city – video (LSEPlanning) • Why open streets are good …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 25 May 2020
• London ULEZ, LEZs, and Congestion Charge now reinstated (AirQualityNews) • 10 proposals for new or reopened railway lines in gov’t Ideas Fund (RailInsider) • Newcastle city centre making car-free paths (TransportXtra) • Cities have …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 22 May 2020
• Thunderbird 4 – on the Thames! (IanVisits) • Churchill War Rooms virtual tour (ImpWarMuseum) • Running a car costs much more than people think (Nature) • Cities transforming as electric bike sales skyrocket (TheVerge) …
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• London’s StreetSpace central car-free plan explained (TransportXtra) • NHS bosses urge pop-up cycleways for UK cities (Forbes) • Mail Rail virtual ride (PostalMuseum) • Steampunk model railway enthusiast has designs used by Hornby (BBC) …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 15 May 2020
• Rebuilding Shadwell DLR & Overground stations into one (IanVisits) • Hidden Moorgate Station history and tour (LondonInheritance) • Reversing Beeching options (RailStaff) • 2 for 1 Tyne pedestrian & cycle tunnels in Newcastle (BeautyOfTransport) …
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• UK Govt boosts cycling & walking with £2bn post-pandemic plan (Forbes) • We need health warning labels on fossil fuel sales (BritishMedJ) • New metro rail services urged to connect housing clusters (CIHT) • …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 8 May 2020
• New Streetspace plan will fast track overhaul London’s streets (Guardian) • HS2 will build underground connection to Euston Square station (IanVisits) • Rethinking funding London transport (CentreForLondon) • Trainspotters: do your thing – at …
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• Improving air quality at railway stations to fight Covid (RailwayTech) • London’s street parking takes the space of 10 Hyde Parks (CityMetric) • NR & Festival of Architecture reveal Sitting Pretty designs (RailBusinessDaily) • …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 1 May 2020
• Expanding sidewalks does not spread COVID (StreetsBlog) • Vilnius Lithuania to be turned into vast open-air café (Guardian) • Bailed out Air France not to compete with TGV (BusinessTraveller) • Strategic design needed for …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 27 April 2020
• Legal bid launched to stop government’s £27bn road building plans (Forbes) • Missing taking a train? Take a KX-Leeds ride from the cab (LNER) • Norway’s A-ha moment that made it an electric car …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 24 April 2020
• That MIT study about the subway spreading COVID is crap (StreetsBlog) • Milan’s big plan to prevent post crisis traffic pollution (Guardian) • Paris to create 650km of cycleways for post-lockdown (Forbes) • Airlines …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 20 April 2020
This edition has been compiled by guest editor Rosie Greene: • Tube train door sounds transcribed (ClassicFM) • London Transport moquette designs in pictures (Guardian) • London Overground offers model for UK rail overhaul (FT-£) …
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