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Goodbye to a Friend: PLCD / Walthamstow Writer
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Paul Corfield (PLCD), LR author (as Walthamstow Writer) and invaluable member of our Editorial Team. Paul will have been known to many of you …
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 readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 25 November 2019
• Westminster Tube station gets Africa themed roundels (IanVisits) • How Barcelona replaced car domination with SuperBlocks (Vox) • Are train companies doing enough to help disabled passengers? (Which?) • The importance of station second …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 22 November 2019
• Map of tunnel boring machines under the Thames (IanVisits) • Is surge pricing a fair way to manage demand? (BBC) • Rising Paris Métro ridership is driving new solutions (CityLab) • NYC is spending …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 18 November 2019
• Lyft bikeshare shut out of London (Bloomberg) • TfL publishes tables of Tube capacity (CityMetric) • Rotterdam’s crowdfunded Luchtsingel pedestrian bridge (PopUpCity) • The future of transportation is the bus, bike, and elevator (Slate) …
Continue readingFriday 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) …
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