London Reconnections

Friday Reads – 11 October 2019

On 11 October 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Cycles, Friday Reads, HS2, Maps, New York, Trams/Streetcars/LRT

• 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 …

Monday’s Friday Reads – 7 October 2019

On 7 October 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Crossrail, Friday Reads, New York, Pedestrians, Uber

• Crossrail rules out dust link to mystery deaths (ConstructionEnquirer) • Data visualisations of Britain’s most trodden paths (OrdnanceSurvey) • Uber stops own investigators from reporting crimes to police (Verge) • Efficient vertical heavy transport …

Friday Reads – 4 October 2019

On 4 October 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Crossrail, Friday Reads, Pedestrians, TfL

• See inside Crossrail’s Whitechapel station (IanVisits) • Lessons from a London car-free street fight (CityLab) • Remembering the GN&C Moorgate Class 313s (NewWipersTimes) • The railway air quality challenge (Emsol) • How poor public …

Monday’s Friday Reads – 30 September 2019

On 30 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Friday Reads, Pedestrians, Trams/Streetcars/LRT

• 80,000 homes could be built on London parking spaces (Homes&Property) • Royal Mail rolling out all-electric vans (Engadget) • Manchester plans for London style transport fare zone (RailTechnology) • How Merseyrail dared to be …

Friday Reads – 27 September 2019

On 27 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Design, Friday Reads, Trams/Streetcars/LRT

• London banned cars for a day – why not forever? (Wired) • Underground tests new design of information boards (IanVisits) • DB features doppelganger staycation rail destinations (Contagious) • Green roofed tram & metro …

The Rise and Fall of a Vision: Wrightbus Enters Administration

On 25 September 2019 By John Bull In Boris Johnson, Borismaster, Buses, TfL

Northern Irish bus manufacturer Wrightbus, most commonly identified in London with the manufacture of the New Bus for London (NBfL), has entered Administration. Questions first began to surface about the firm’s long-term viability in July, …

Monday’s Friday Reads – 23 September 2019

On 23 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Fonts, Friday Reads

• Plans to reopen Brentford to Southall railway (IanVisits) • Why fewer people are riding the Underground (TheDeveloper) • The tale of two Underground posters (20thCPosters) • Mexico City’s trolleybus revival for clean air (UrbanTransport) …

Senior mobility crisis of declining options

On 20 September 2019 By Katherine Freund In Data

By the year 2030, approximately 72 million people, one in five Americans (20%), will be 65 years of age and older. In this age group, people outlive their decision to stop driving by about 10 …

Friday Reads – 20 September 2019

On 20 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Friday Reads, Trams/Streetcars/LRT

• Decommissioned double decker conversions (Buses4Homeless) • West Midlands Metro’s tram extension program (MetroAlliance) • Union Station dig down doesn’t disrupt trains (CBC) • Federal program to help US cities demolish highways (StreetsBlog) • Meteor …

Monday’s Friday Reads – 16 September 2019

On 16 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Data, Friday Reads, Maps, Pedestrians

• Experience London transport in a wheelchair, without working hands (CityMetric) • CR Mackintosh’s Gothic railway terminus design (MackintoshArch) • How safe is the air in five major cities? (FT) • How developers are remaking …

Toronto LR Meetup – 21st September 2019

On 13 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Meetup

In a first, a number of transport commentators and writers will be meeting in Toronto later this month for a social evening. Like the London LR meetups, these are informal affairs where the beer flows. …

Friday Reads – 13 September 2019

On 13 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Cycles, Data, Friday Reads

• Depressing lesson of west London’s lost cycle route (Guardian) • Gare du Nord addition ‘une grave offense’ to passengers (CityLab) • Senate moves temporarily to old rail station (OttawaMag) • ‘Smart’ Cities – not …

Monday’s Friday Reads – 9 September 2019

On 9 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Croydon Tramlink, Friday Reads, Maps, New York

• Croydon tram crash safety report watered down (BuzzFeed) • Tube map of Roman London (Londonist) • Accessible UK Travel Policy Guidance published (RailwayNews) • Art Deco, Poirot & the Orient Express (ArtDecoSociety) • Boston …

Friday Reads – 6 September 2019

On 6 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Friday Reads, New York, Pedestrians

• NYC new farecard decades behind London’s Oyster (NYPost) • E-scooters pulled from Miami streets to avoid ‘Scooternado’ (Gizmodo) • Toronto Green Line parkway proposal (UrbanToronto) • Freight trains could help predict earthquakes/ (PhysicsWorld) • …

Monday’s Friday Reads – 2 September 2019

On 2 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Crossrail, Cycles, Friday Reads, New York

• World’s most famous crosswalk (HydeParkNow) • Box in a box to avoid Crossrail vibrations (IanVisits) • UK’s first autism friendly rail line (RailTechMag) • Photo essays of North American rail systems (SubwayNut) • Flying …