Friday Reads – 24 January 2025

By John Bull

• Lime bike brake failures keep breaking Londoners' legs (London Centric)

• Famously quirky Osterley Bookshop in old Tube station is closing down (Ian Visits)

• Hungerford Bridge Refurbishment Set to Begin (Railway-News)

• Bank Junction – The Historic Centre of London? (A London Inheritance)

• Northern warns sly vapers that they can delay trains (RailUK)

• A decade into Melbourne’s free trams experiment, has it been worth it? (The Guardian)

• NYC's oldest subway cars are fixed in crumbling repair shops (Gothamist)

• Anne Shaw on the Transport Transformation of Birmingham: Podcast (Freewheeling)