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Friday Reads – 3 February 2023

• Trainspotting unites my family: we share the pleasure of intricate details (Guardian)

• Speed cushions, traffic humps, chicanes: many ways to slow cars (TrafficChoices)

• Brussels-Amsterdam-Berlin night train March 2023 launch (RailwayGazette)

• Berlin tries to cut traffic & emissions with a mobility sharing app (CityLab)

• More trolleybus turntables (EuroGunzel)

• US Transport Sec funding making public transit more accessible (Planning)

• Electric vehicles are bringing out the worst in drivers (Atlantic)

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One comment

  1. The traffic choices website is a very useful resource for discussions.

    It is also unusual that it identifies that use of traffic calming measures as isolated features “may cause traffic to divert to other routes, creating a problem elsewhere”, whereas many proponents of more “aggressive” traffic control measurres (e.g. narrowing of arterial roads/road diets, LTNs) will argue that there will be traffic dissuasion/evaporation., without understanding the full context of why other modes of travel are not a universal replacement,

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