• 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 …
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Friday Reads – 17 April 2020
• The Social Distancing Machine for pedestrians (PriceTags) • New Zealand first to fund pop-up bike lanes & widened sidewalks (Forbes) • Climate Safe Streets: life without cars in 10 years (TransportXtra) • Rail station …
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• Vauxhall bus station set for demolition (IanVisits) • Underground tubes used for WWII bunker (Xenophon) • Photos to vector diagrams of public spaces (UrbanNext) • Manchester rethinking zebra crossings (CityMetric) • World cities turn …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 10 April 2020
• Survey of city actions to support walking, cycling during COVID (PedBikeInfo) • Coronavirus reveals transit’s true mission (CityLab) • Free rail travel to those fleeing domestic abuse during lockdown (RailDeliveryGroup) • We need to …
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• London Review of Books reviews Tube escalators (LRB) • A lot going wrong on Ottawa’s new LRT (OttawaCitizen) • Why the US sucks at building public transit (Vice) • Map of SFO BART – …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 23 March 2020
• Tube heating at closed City Road station to warm homes (IanVisits) • Comfort, or capitalist realism, more important on UK rails (PassengerTransport) • Barcelona Tibidabo tram reconstruction on hold (UrbanTransport) • Renfe inks $6bn …
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• Curzon Street Station’s 1st roundhouse found in HS2 dig (Nodrog) • Whence went the flying boat – the Saunders-Roe Princess Story (Mustard) • Germany’s intercity cycle superhighway (InterestingEngineering) • Meet Montréal’s REM – Sydney …
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• Plans for Hackney Central station 2nd entrance move ahead (HackneyCitizen) • The Parisian ‘taxi robot’ people mover experiment, Aramis (FabricOfParis) • The LA sports team named after a transit mode (CityLab) • Public transport …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 28 February 2020
• Restoration of Crystal Palace subway moves forward (IanVisits) • Exposure to ultra fine particles linked to heart attacks (AirQualityNews) • The disappearing sound in airports: Solari boards (BBC) • Animated map of US Growth …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 24 February 2020
• Heathrow e-taxi charge prices forcing cabbies to run petrol engines (TaxiPoint) • Art Deco by the Sea Exhibit (ArtDecoSociety) • The rise and fall of the Aérotrain (FabricOfParis) • Asphalt art creates safer streets …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 21 February 2020
• My Fair Lady – London Bridge station (BeautyOfTransport) • Surprising reason for the Underground’s new heritage signs (IanVisits) • Norwegian dream road tunnels (BldgBlog) • Natural selection of urban public transport (CityLab) • San …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 14 February 2020
• Software challenge blows Crossrail off course (RailwayGazette/LR) • AirBnB-like showers for London exercise commuters (PopUpCity) • East-West Rail Phase 2 gets green light (Railway-News) • £15bn plan for new West Midlands rail & tram …
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• Two major UK rail stations fail air quality standards (Railway-Tech) • Playing patriarchy chicken with male commuters (NewStatesman) • Integration of all transit key to public transport success (Globe&Mail) • Philadelphia bucks trend & …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 10 January 2020
• End of Euston station’s underground taxi rank (HydeParkNow) • How railways can better deal with heatwaves (BBC) • MaaS consolidation on the horizon? (SupraGeography) • Why don’t all cities use Leading Pedestrian Intervals? (PriceTags) …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 6 January 2020
• Oslo reaches Vision Zero pedestrian deaths (StreetsBlog) • Grosvenor Canal, London’s last commercial canal (LondonCanals) • Level boarding fairness: Letting everyone on (PermanentRail) • Switzerland and France now linked by S-Bahn (RailTech) • Inside …
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