• Moleman of Hackney dug his own London tunnels (Londonist)• Montréal Métro station architecture showcase (MTLBlog)• Naples tram network reopening imminent (UrbanTransport)• Portland’s MAX LRT downtown tunnel study (OregonMetro)• Quito Ecuador’s new Metro opening next …
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Monday’s Friday Reads – 4 November 2019
• Massive gaps in UK Gov’t air pollution monitoring (AirQualityNews) • Rotterdam Metro extension opens (RailRech) • Queen Margrethe II opens Copenhagen’s Cityringen Metro (UrbanTransport) • Parking garage residential conversion (Governing) • The war on …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 1 November 2019
• How London’s ULEZ is changing travel behaviours (TheDeveloper) • Your driving is scaring me – TfL’s Vision Zero (TfL) • Paris plan to pummel its Périphérique (CityMetric) • Cars are death machines (NYTimes) • …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 28 October 2019
• The A to Z history of London (MappingLondon) • Virtual transit of the Thames under water (BBC) • When is efficient too efficient? Tech lessons from Hamburg (Spacing) • Gothenburg electrical circuit tram map …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 25 October 2019
• London Ultra-Low Emission Zone cuts pollution by a third (IntelTransport) • 1967 Tube Stock retextiled reimagining (Dezeen) • Faces on the ferry art (Guardian) • The garden pavilion of West Croydon bus station (BeautyOfTransport) …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 21 October 2019
• Northern Line’s mulled Egyptian renaming (IanVisits) • South London’s lost canals (TheGreatWen) • Great Yarmouth’s 1928 Venetian waterways reopen after restoration (Revitalization) • Stockholm’s abandoned Eriksdal train tunnel (AtlasObscura) • Munich’s U9 Ubahn extension …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 18 October 2019
• Fenchurch Street makeover plans submitted (IanVisits) • Hook of Holland – Harwich history (Retours) • Ferrari design firm designs Swiss Alps train (Wired) • New Metro lines open in Russia and India (NextCity) • …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 14 October 2019
• I found my mother with this 1977 Tube Map (CityLab) • UK cities call for £1.5bn funding of national CAZ network (AirQualityNews) • Scotland to reopen yet another passenger rail line (RailEngineer) • London …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 11 October 2019
• 5 things TfL should do with its new cycling database (CityWayfinding) • Manchester pushes back on Piccadilly HS2 parking garage (PlaceNorthWest) • New York’s forgotten elevated subway (Jalopnik) • What was Philly’s Broad-Ridge spur …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 7 October 2019
• Crossrail rules out dust link to mystery deaths (ConstructionEnquirer) • Data visualisations of Britain’s most trodden paths (OrdnanceSurvey) • Uber stops own investigators from reporting crimes to police (Verge) • Efficient vertical heavy transport …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 4 October 2019
• See inside Crossrail’s Whitechapel station (IanVisits) • Lessons from a London car-free street fight (CityLab) • Remembering the GN&C Moorgate Class 313s (NewWipersTimes) • The railway air quality challenge (Emsol) • How poor public …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 30 September 2019
• 80,000 homes could be built on London parking spaces (Homes&Property) • Royal Mail rolling out all-electric vans (Engadget) • Manchester plans for London style transport fare zone (RailTechnology) • How Merseyrail dared to be …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 27 September 2019
• London banned cars for a day – why not forever? (Wired) • Underground tests new design of information boards (IanVisits) • DB features doppelganger staycation rail destinations (Contagious) • Green roofed tram & metro …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 23 September 2019
• Plans to reopen Brentford to Southall railway (IanVisits) • Why fewer people are riding the Underground (TheDeveloper) • The tale of two Underground posters (20thCPosters) • Mexico City’s trolleybus revival for clean air (UrbanTransport) …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 20 September 2019
• Decommissioned double decker conversions (Buses4Homeless) • West Midlands Metro’s tram extension program (MetroAlliance) • Union Station dig down doesn’t disrupt trains (CBC) • Federal program to help US cities demolish highways (StreetsBlog) • Meteor …
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