Friday Reads – 16 May 2025

By John Bull 1 min read
Friday Reads – 16 May 2025

• Weaver Network unveiled as 'new era' for West Yorkshire public transport (BBC)

• How LA switched road priority globally from pedestrians to cars a century ago (Zag)

• La Dolce Vita Orient Express' interior redesign (Dezeen)

• I visited the Last Moving Platform on the New York Subway: Video (Trains Are Awesome)

• Shinkansen, the confusing fare schemes (KHKQ Bedside Trains)

• Private motorists should subsidize public transit: Opinion (Urbanism Speakeasy)

• Spending 13.5 Hours in a Train Mini-Cabin Sleeping Capsule: Video (Chloé sometimes Ludvig)

• A century ago, suspended monorails were serious mass-transit contenders (Popular Science)