Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. • London’s commuter towns mapped & rated (MappingLondon) • The strange world of British Rail mathematics (CityMetric) • Buried Brunel structure halts road scheme (BBC) • DC Metro station design …
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Transport infrastructure’s environmental effects (Passenger Transport)
When transport infrastructure projects are given the go ahead how can we ensure that they are not just delivered as standalone engineering projects, but by working across policy sectors how can the wider economic and …
Continue readingNJ Transit PTC pressure prompts service cuts (RailwayGazette)
NJ Transit to invest more as PTC pressure prompts service cuts – On August 8, 2018 New Jersey Transit [NJT] announced that it would be spending $3·8bn in the 2019 financial year as the commuter …
Continue readingHow cities can influence better behaviour (BBC)
Damani started a behavioural design firm, Briefcase, back in 2013, along with his partner Mayur Tekchandaney. Their first project, Bleep, aimed to reduce Mumbai’s rampant car horn honking problem. The method was simple: over six …
Continue readingToronto’s Great Streets (Star/Ryerson City Building Institute)
Amid growing concern about traffic deaths, the recent conversation in Toronto has often focused on what the city has done wrong in designing its streets. But a new report from the Ryerson City Building Institute …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 17 August 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. • London’s other massive tunnel under construction (E&T) • London’s lost canal network (Londonist) • How Roman roads predict modern day prosperity (WashingtonPost) • Vancouver’s multi-modal success story (StreetFilm) • …
Continue readingLift retrofit cost comparison in US & Europe (MetroReport)
Most metro stations around the world rely on stairs for access to platforms. These are easy to build, especially for stations not far below the surface. However, this arrangement offers no accessibility for many people …
Continue readingE-Scooters stalled by UK’s 1835 Highways Act (Bloomberg)
Electric scooters taking US cities by storm are illegal on British roads, symptomatic of English legislation that dates back to the year of Mark Twain’s birth — and still in force today. But in the …
Continue readingSan Francisco’s new transit center opens (SFChronicle)
For the past decade, the transit center that will replace San Francisco’s Transbay Terminal has been the subject of grand plans and political controversies, struggles to stay on schedule and squabbles over costs. Next weekend, …
Continue readingSNCF confirms TGV of the Future order (RailwayGazette)
Delivery of the 100 Avelia Horizon trainsets to SNCF will run from 2023 to 2033. Branded Avelia Horizon by Alstom, the double-deck trains will be acquired at a cost of €25m per trainset, which SNCF …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 10 August 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. • The Tube’s spiral escalator (LTMuseum) • The London walker’s Tube map (Londonist) • Manchester considering High Line on rail viaduct (Confidentials) • Story of classic three-wheel Reliant Regal Supervan …
Continue readingCooling the Tube progress (RailTechnology)
Fighting heat in the underground – Rail Technology Magazine (RTM) looks at the successes of the Cooling the Tube programme so far and what TfL hopes to achieve in the coming years. Despite what was …
Continue readingLR Meetup at Royal Oak pub, 9th August
The second Thursday of the month brings with it our meetup, which happens next on 9th August from 6pm. As always, these are informal affairs where the beer flows, offering an opportunity to put faces …
Continue readingPolitics turned NY Gateway tunnel into $30B grudge (Politico)
President Donald Trump was in an unusually bipartisan mood on September 7 [2017], when he convened a White House meeting about a massive project to build a rail tunnel under the Hudson River. He was …
Continue readingInto the depths of New York’s East Side Access project (FoggiestIdea)
Gazing at the vast expanse of marble and stainless steel spanning the new concourse over one hundred feet below Grand Central Terminal, you could almost feel the rumble of the Long Island Rail Road trains …
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