Friday Reads – 17 July 2020

• Network Rail seeking contractor for Forth Bridge walk (RailTechMag)

• Traffic clogged Brussels is building its own RER network (Forbes)

• Comeback could reopen 4,000km of closed rail lines – in Germany (RailGazetteIntl)

• Inside the Farley: the future NYC Moynihan Amtrak station (UrbanOmnibus)

• NYC Subway ridership now almost 1m daily (NY1)

• Stop building more roads! (NYTimes)

• Making booking trains as easy as booking flights is really hard (Wired)

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2 comments

  1. Germany is doing it right, meanwhile here, the party in power appears to be still looking to emulate Serpell & Marples …..
    Even the USA is heading i that direction too (maybe) from that NYT article

  2. The article about Brussels calls the Berlin S-bahn and the Paris RER light rail. This sets alarm bells ringing as to the accuracy of any of the other facts in the article

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