Researchers have blended used tyres with building rubble to create a sustainable road-making material that they believe could cut the vast quantities of waste generated by the construction sector. Construction, renovation and demolition account for …
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Monday’s Friday Reads – 13 July 2020
• It’s time to bring railways back to life (Independent) • How Dublin can regain its Cycling City ways – video (5MinUrbanist) • Parking, micromobility and COVID (LinkedIn) • Baguette fight over Paris Gare du …
Continue readingSchrodinger’s Cab Firm: Uber’s Existential Crisis
London’s minicab regulator, TfL, has revoked Uber’s licence to operate in the British capital, one of its largest world markets. Getting that licence back may require the firm to finally confront a question it cannot …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 1 November 2019
• How London’s ULEZ is changing travel behaviours (TheDeveloper) • Your driving is scaring me – TfL’s Vision Zero (TfL) • Paris plan to pummel its Périphérique (CityMetric) • Cars are death machines (NYTimes) • …
Continue readingHammersmith Bridge: The signs are not good.
On 10th April 2019 the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham suddenly and without notice announced that Hammersmith Bridge was closed to all traffic due to urgent concerns about its structural integrity. To anyone familiar …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 25 January 2019
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • Hyde and seek – the road in Hyde Park (RoadsUK) • Glasgow’s Low Emission Zone comes into force (AirQualityNews) • Historical review of the Reconnections site (HydeParkNow) • Manchester’s …
Continue readingElectric roads launched in Sweden and Netherlands (Eltis)
April and May 2018 saw the inauguration of two innovative pilot projects on the ‘electrification of roads’. Both could help support the transition to carbon neutral transport. While one project attempts to generate clean energy …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 22 June 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. • So what’s this franchising for? (PassengerTransport) • Wireless augmented reality audio Tube navigation standard (ITUNews) • Underground lines vertical profile maps (DanSilva) • TfL to cut road speeds to …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 9 February 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s lineup: • Vision impaired & on the Tube? There’s an app for that (Tech’s Good) • LED road studs to guide drivers at complex junction (E&T) • Fifty …
Continue readingTransforming Oxford Street Part 2: A Real Regeneration
There have been proposals to pedestrianise Oxford Street for many years, but until now nothing has happened. This was partly because it was regarded as too difficult and partly because the City of Westminster (who …
Continue readingBritish pay per mile road toll proposed (Politics Home)
The Government is considering introducing the UK’s first pay-per-mile system for drivers in a bid to cut emissions and traffic. The Department for Transport would charge lorry drivers using mileage and emissions-based charges in a …
Continue readingTransforming Oxford Street Part 1: The Bustterfly Effect
Some readers may already be aware of the current consultation on the pedestrianisation of Oxford Street between Orchard Street (just to the west of Selfridges) and Oxford Circus. This is part of a programme to …
Continue readingFriday Reads – December 1, 2017
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 readingFrom Rail to Road: ‘Big Data’ and Transport
In August 2016, users of Singapore’s normally-reliable Circle Line increasingly found their daily journeys disrupted. Seemingly without warning, trains would suddenly apply their emergency brakes and rapidly come to a stop. For the next few …
Continue readingUnderstanding Uber: It’s Not About The App
On Friday 22 September, many Londoners who regularly use Uber received an email. “As you may have heard,” it began, “the Mayor and Transport for London have announced that they will not be renewing Uber’s …
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