• A New Road for London (BusAndTrainUser) • London St. Pancras Highspeed (formerly HS1) announces incentive scheme to grow international rail services (Rail UK) • Camden High Street’s pedestrianisation trial starts in May (Ian Visits) …
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Friday Reads – 4 April 2025
• Get to know the MTA’s first new subway map since 1979 (NY Groove) • Work to reopen Bristol to Portishead railway line to start this summer (ITV) • Secret tunnel found under Salisbury station, …
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• London’s Tramways Posters Exhibition (Global Photos) • One Bullet, Two Volts: How Seoul’s Metro Was Born (SY Lee) • Cab ride videos with interactive map overlays of trains, trams, metros from all over the …
Continue readingHigh-visibility clothing may thwart pedestrian crash prevention sensors (InsuranceInstForHighwaySafety)
The clothing that makes pedestrians stand out to human drivers may make them invisible to automated crash prevention systems, a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety suggests. “These results suggest that some …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 24 March 2025
• Oxford Street Transformation: Have Your Say (TfL) • Transit Professionals Saw Elon Musk’s Lies & Disdain for the Public First (Union of Concerned Scientists) • Is London’s New Tram-Bus Worth the Hype? The Irizar …
Continue readingNew Study Quantifies Just How Much Highways Block Social Connection (NextCity)
Anew study confirms what urban residents and advocates have known for decades: that America’s urban highways are barriers to social connection. The research, published this month in the journal PNAS, quantifies for the first time how …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 17 February 2025
• ‘So patronising’: rail bosses spark anger by hiding train departure times (The Guardian) • The Blackfriars Station That Isn’t in Blackfriars: Video (Jago Hazzard) • Is Berlin’s Public Transport Actually Better Than London’s? Video …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 13 January 2025
• Global (non-US) Rapid Transit Projects planned to open in 2025 (TransportPolitic) • Matthew Somerville pulls Live Underground Train Tracker due to possible legal action (CLondoner92) • How Madrid built its Metro Cheaply (WorksInProgress) • …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 23 December 2024
• No Tyne & Wear Metro service south of River Tyne due to highway flyover fault (BBC) • New Berlin-Paris high-speed rail service epitomises Europe’s thirst for train travel (RFI) • New York State Governor …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 11 November 2024
• The Class 799 Hydrogen Train: Video (Geoff Marshall) • Converting NYC Commuter Rail to Regional Rail; Plus Eliminating Crosstown Traffic on 14th St (Zach F Howe) • New extension finally connects Barcelona’s tramway lines …
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• Local businesses want all of Soho to be pedestrianised (TimeOut) • Highland Mainline to run no trains between Inverness and Perth for 4 weekends (Inverness Courier) • Less ‘crush and rush’? Euston changes bring …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 1 November 2024
• End of “Euston Rush” as train companies improve boarding announce times (Ian Visits) • TfL seizes 1,400 vehicles from drivers who ignore Ulez fines (Guardian) • Local businesses want all of Soho to be …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 21 October 2024
• Possible Scope of Sadiq Khan’s plans for Oxford Street (On London) • TfL Invites Bids for New London Trams Fleet (Rail Technology) • The Rise, Fall, & Rise Again of the Leeds Tram (Railway …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 23 September 2024
• Old Paddington tube – final weekend! (London Rail) • London tube map creator’s archive goes up for sale (The Guardian) • Cannon Street Station 1866-1966 (The Railway Hub) • Rail expert rubbishes Andy Burnham’s …
Continue readingResults from the 2023 National Travel Survey analysed (Mobility Matters)
A few weeks back, the latest results from the National Travel Survey for 2023 were released by the Department for Transport. Being the closest thing that transport statistics in the UK has to a bible, it caused …
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