From parking fees in Paris to registration fees in Washington D.C., forward-thinking cities are slapping heavy penalties on heavy vehicles. In early February, Paris took a decisive step to deter visitors from driving enormous cars …
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Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics: Study (TheDrive)
Researchers say tire emissions pose a threat to global health, and EVs could make the problem worse. When contemplating the emissions from road vehicles, our first thought is often about the various gases coming out of the …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 8 March 2024
• University expands by many degrees (BusAndTrainUser) • The New Northumberland Line is Under Construction: Video (Geoff Marshall) • Green infrastructure & biodiversity (TfL) • ‘You absolute moron!’: How thoughtless abuse stays with frontline colleagues …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 26 February 2024
• UK Rail passenger numbers could almost double by 2050 (Infrastructure Intel) • Profits of UK’s private train-leasing firms treble in a year (Guardian) • New £2bn Edinburgh tram line to be put to public …
Continue readingThe Cycle of Unwalkability (Transportist)
Traveling through Mumbai one notices many things. One of those things is many, many pedestrians walking in the street (or on the motorway) amidst traffic (motorcycles, three-wheelers (auto-rickshaws), cars, trucks, buses, etc.). On the one …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 2 February 2024
• London Overground staff to strike over pay (BBC) • Transport-related social exclusion in England (Transport for the North) • Through traffic to be banned from key routes across Edinburgh city centre (Edinburgh News) • …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 15 January 2023
• Woolwich Elizabeth station much busier than predicted, to test escalator decrowding ideas (IanVisits) • Alstom signs €500m contract for Saudi catenary-free tramway system (Railway Technology) • European cities don’t regret 30 km/h speed limits …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 23 October 2023
• TfL & Google Maps collaborate to make cycling better for Londoners & world (TfL) • Glasgow Subway services could soon run later (Glasgow Live) • ULEZ already raising air quality at 144 more London schools (OnLondon) …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 15 September 2023
• West Midlands Metro extension to Wolverhampton station opens Sunday (RailUK) • Tame wide roads & replace them with boulevards of homes (Guardian) • Boston replaces trolleybuses w/ shorter range, heavier battery buses to cut …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 28 July 2023
• £14m in fines levied on TfL & TOL for Croydon Tram crash (RailwayTechnology) • UK announces £680m for Turkish high speed electric railway, but no UK benefit (LondonEconomic) • Northern expanding using classical music …
Continue readingRoad pricing: A market based solution? Global survey (Transportist)
Good news everyone, road pricing is back on the agenda in New South Wales! The previous NSW administration passed a law that said that EVs will have to pay an odometer tax by 2027, or once …
Continue readingLondon to mandate cameras & sensors on trucks to protect VRU (TrafficTechToday)
Transport for London (TfL) has announced that from October 2024 heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) over 12 metric tons driving in the capital will have to pass new more stringent tests to protect vulnerable road users …
Continue readingSatellite pay-per-mile tolling to be tested in Munich & Barcelona (TrafficTechToday)
A new dawn for pay-per-mile tolling (also known as road user charging or RUC) is approaching with the announcement today (12 April 2023) that a satellite-based system to enable it is to be trialed in …
Continue readingNYC’s anti-speeding tech could be a road safety breakthrough (Bloomberg)
As US cities and states grapple with surging traffic deaths and underperforming Vision Zero programs, their leaders face a challenge. Although they can take steps like implementing road diets or (if they’re fortunate) installing automatic safety cameras, there is one risk factor that …
Continue readingWhy traffic studies are junk science & why we use them anyway (Streetsblog)
Community leaders and the courts are putting too much faith into dubious traffic studies that always seem to predict more and more driving, a new study argues — but that could all change if our …
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