BYD BD11 All Electric Double Decker Bus

Friday Reads – 21 March 2025

• London’s black cabs destined for extinction in 20 years, TfL warned (Guardian)

• London’s Most Controversial Bus, the BYD BD11 Reviewed: Video (Network Nathan)

• Britain’s Bike-Friendliest ‘New Town’ Is a Model for Car-Free Living (CityLab)

• The 1991 Island Line runaway train (LondonRail)

• Athens metro project tunnel mistakenly excavated 160m in the wrong direction (eKathimerini)

• Rio de Janeiro revives proposed metro line (Int’l Rail Journal)

• Boeing’s Worst 7 Years, & the Man Fighting For Answers (Wired)

5 comments

  1. I was half-expecting the article about Britain’s bike-friendliest new town to be about Stevenage

  2. Herned – me too!
    However .. Waterbeach was one of the places where you had to be careful about driving past if the RAF were flying – I went past it many times in the 1950’s “commuting” with my parents to my grandmother’s house in Lincolnshire & the RAF Vampires didn’t clear the road by much at all ….

  3. BYD BD11
    The YouTube puindit raised a sore point, during his critique of the display …
    Not only is it small, it doesn’t have a destination display at the back – but – once upon a time, not so long ago, TfL displays showed intermediate stopping points.
    Why were these abandoned, because they were so useful?

    A negative not mentioned – the BYD BD11 is Chinese manufactured.
    Um, err…

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