Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s lineup: • Without Congestion Zone, London traffic would be 20% slower (StreetsBlog) • Melbourne Road Usage Study studies road charges (The Conversation) • Dublin Luas LRT line opens, …
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Friday Reads – December 8, 2017
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s lineup: • Average journey times of trains into London in 1968 (Spatial.ly) • Capacity Relief at Camden Town station – Talk 9 Jan 2018 (LURS) • UPS making …
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Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s lineup: • Visualising the daily pulse of the Tube (Tube Heartbeat) • TfL claims public transport users subsidise London’s roads (CityMetric) • Disused passenger tunnels to reopen at …
Continue readingFriday Reads – November 24, 2017
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s lineup: • DLR Conductor monologue (Londonist) • Soviet maps of London & other cities (CityLab) • Paris closed a major road & half its traffic disappeared (Fast Company) …
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Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s lineup: • Is London’s hopper fare encouraging Londoners onto buses? (CityMetric) • Harry Beck’s Imperial Airways map (Tube Map Central) • Millenium Falcon found on Earth, next to …
Continue readingFriday Reads – November 10, 2017
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s lineup: • TfL is pedestrianising Oxford Street & rerouting the buses (CityMetric) • New TfL consultation on new walking/cycling river crossing between Rotherhithe and Canary Wharf (IanVisits) • …
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Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s links lineup: • Next generation Santander Cycles roll into London (London Assembly) • Turn off your mind, relax and take the Tube upstream (BoingBoing) • River Bus pier …
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Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s lineup: • Last Paddington WaterTaxi free ride today (This Is Paddington) • Computer model of Hobbs End Underground station (Coroflot) • Old train carriage converted into restaurant (DesignBoom) …
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Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected]. • Post Office Mail Rail stations, above ground (Londonist) • …
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Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected]. • Brunel’s drawings of Thames Tunnel up for auction (IanVisits) …
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Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected]. It’s not about the black cabs (LR’s own JB moonlighting …
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Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected]. • Landmarks (and bridges) of London map (Mapping London) • …
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Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected]. • Planned pedestrianisation of Oxford Street podcast (CityMetric) • Museum …
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Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected]. • Map of London’s defunct tram network (CityMetric) • Manchester’s …
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Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected]. • Councils to be allowed to charge for road closures …
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