Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • Sub-surface line disruption averted by Thames Water (ThamesWater) • 6 graphs show how London’s changed since 2000 (CfL) • Oslo banning parking in city centre (NYTimes) • Boston considering …
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Friday Reads – 21 December 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • Understanding London’s underground railway infrastructure (NathanDarroch) • Phone data saves London’s transport from chaos (Wired) • Walking high on other side of tracks (Times £) • The case for …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 14 December 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • Tube map finally shows walkable interchanges (IanVisits) • Farewell to a London ghost train (HiddenEurope) • All Swiss intercity trains have playground area (WEForum) • Talent wants transit – …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 7 December 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • What was Europe’s largest tram network (JayForemanVideo) • Who’s behind bid to get London’s best bike lane ripped up? (Guardian) • London has been putting on weight (Forbes) • …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 30 November 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • Walking & cycling could help save high streets (TfL) • Wayfinding Barbican’s hidden high walks (CityWayfinding) • Colour intersections for safety & fun (Guardian) • Pitfalls of technical utopias …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 23 November 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • Victorian railway viaduct transformed into home (TreeHugger) • Unofficial Paris Metro map improvement process (SmashingMag) • NYC subway mosaics tell visual stories (99%Invisible) • Chicago L card game (MassTransit) …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 16 November 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • Map of London’s 1947 tram & trolleybus routes (MappingLondon) • Will new larger Thames Clipper increase ridership? (BBC) • Thames Path opens between Woolwich & Charlton (FromTheMurkyDepths) • Pay …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 9 November 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • How London became centre of the world (NatGeo) • War pigeons & their double decker buses (MessyNessy) • Ocean liner style exhibit (scroll down page) (V&ADundee) • France’s optical …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 2 November 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • Station sponsorships and TfL (Reconnections thread) • King’s Cross Coal Drops Yard history & photos (HydeParkNow) • Vacant underpass now useful public space (PopUpCity) • The Millennials improving Boston’s …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 26 October 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • Tube Lines connections tabletop dice game – rules (PracticeTheoryPlay) • Tube Lines game – printable map (PracticeTheoryPlay) • London’s other massive tunnel construction operation (E&T) • Her Majesty’s nuclear …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 19 October 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • How the Tube pioneered bank cards (Forbes) • Layers of London map documents local history (MappingLondon) • Free French buses in Dunkirk (Guardian) • Why transit works better outside …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 12 October 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • UK rail companies’ message: We’re very sorry (NYTimes) • Tube Map of Summer Olympics host cities 1896-2020 (BrilliantTrains) • Civilising the City of London (UrbanTransportGroup) • London City Airport’s …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 5 October 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • St Pancras at 150 (HydeParkNow) • Women built “The Ladies’ Bridge” – Waterloo (AtlasObscura) • Why Liverpool MerseyRail needs its Circle Line (CityMetric) • How Boston designed its T …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 28 September 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • When poetry, light & warmth advertised the Tube (EthicalGirl) • The wonderful world of off-peak London (MappingLondon) • Chat with Mark Ovenden, World Metro Maps author (GeoffMarshall) • Five …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 21 September 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • Choo Choo Chat on Crossrail with John Bull (GeoffMarshall) • Green number plates to boost electric cars sales (Guardian) • France’s TGV expansion takes new direction (CityLab) • UPS …
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