In November 2024 the Office of Road and Rail (ORR) published its annual count of …
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A 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 …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 7 October 2019
• 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 …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 4 October 2019
• 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 …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 30 September 2019
• 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 …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 27 September 2019
• 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 …
Continue readingThe Rise and Fall of a Vision: Wrightbus Enters Administration
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, …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 23 September 2019
• 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) …
Continue readingSenior mobility crisis of declining options
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 …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 20 September 2019
• 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 …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 16 September 2019
• 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 …
Continue readingToronto LR Meetup – 21st September 2019
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. …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 13 September 2019
• 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 …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 9 September 2019
• 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 …
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