A perennial and fairly meaningless question that is often asked is ‘what are the origins …
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Friday Reads – 15 November 2019
• 2nd on-demand bus trial begins (TfL) • Can poor public transport explain Britain’s productivity problems? (CityMetric) • Decay & repair of the Dingle Overhead Railway Tunnel (ChrisIles) • For better transit for all, understand …
Continue readingLR Meetup at Royal Oak Pub, 14th November
It’s meetup time! This starts at 6pm. As always, these are informal affairs where the beer flows, offering an opportunity to put faces to the names of a few LR writers as well as regular …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 13 November 2019
• Underground to improve broadband speeds (IanVisits) • The end for the Cairn-Gorm mountain railway? (RailTechnology) • Boo! Who’s afraid of the pedestrian mall? (Curbed) • Gradials and the unreasonable road network (Transportist) • Sydney …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 8 November 2019
• Moleman of Hackney dug his own London tunnels (Londonist)• Montréal Métro station architecture showcase (MTLBlog)• Naples tram network reopening imminent (UrbanTransport)• Portland’s MAX LRT downtown tunnel study (OregonMetro)• Quito Ecuador’s new Metro opening next …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 4 November 2019
• Massive gaps in UK Gov’t air pollution monitoring (AirQualityNews) • Rotterdam Metro extension opens (RailRech) • Queen Margrethe II opens Copenhagen’s Cityringen Metro (UrbanTransport) • Parking garage residential conversion (Governing) • The war on …
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 readingMind the Gender Gap: The Hidden Data Gap in Transport
Transport data and decision-making don’t just under-represent women. In many cases they trivialise or ignore their needs completely.
Continue readingCrossrail: Progressing but slipping
News on progress of existing TfL schemes has been in short supply during most of 2019. As if to make up for this, the 23rd October meeting of the Programmes & Investment Committee provided not …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 28 October 2019
• The A to Z history of London (MappingLondon) • Virtual transit of the Thames under water (BBC) • When is efficient too efficient? Tech lessons from Hamburg (Spacing) • Gothenburg electrical circuit tram map …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 25 October 2019
• London Ultra-Low Emission Zone cuts pollution by a third (IntelTransport) • 1967 Tube Stock retextiled reimagining (Dezeen) • Faces on the ferry art (Guardian) • The garden pavilion of West Croydon bus station (BeautyOfTransport) …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 21 October 2019
• Northern Line’s mulled Egyptian renaming (IanVisits) • South London’s lost canals (TheGreatWen) • Great Yarmouth’s 1928 Venetian waterways reopen after restoration (Revitalization) • Stockholm’s abandoned Eriksdal train tunnel (AtlasObscura) • Munich’s U9 Ubahn extension …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 18 October 2019
• Fenchurch Street makeover plans submitted (IanVisits) • Hook of Holland – Harwich history (Retours) • Ferrari design firm designs Swiss Alps train (Wired) • New Metro lines open in Russia and India (NextCity) • …
Continue readingA Short History of Crossrail 2: Part 2 – Underlying factors
Recent own goals by Crossrail 1 (CR1) on the construction and software fronts, not helped by project management by silos, have tarnished its outcome so far. Part 1 of this series presented a summary history …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 14 October 2019
• I found my mother with this 1977 Tube Map (CityLab) • UK cities call for £1.5bn funding of national CAZ network (AirQualityNews) • Scotland to reopen yet another passenger rail line (RailEngineer) • London …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 11 October 2019
• 5 things TfL should do with its new cycling database (CityWayfinding) • Manchester pushes back on Piccadilly HS2 parking garage (PlaceNorthWest) • New York’s forgotten elevated subway (Jalopnik) • What was Philly’s Broad-Ridge spur …
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