• More spent on failed Garden Bridge than on TfL crossings in 10 years (NewCivilEng) • Safeguarding the Bakerloo Line Extension (IanVisits) • Hammersmith High Line competition ideas (HydeParkNow) • Trans Europe Express 2017 video …
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Recent downtown funicular wins award (Edmonton)
Alberta, Canada – The 100 Street Funicular opened to the public on December 7, 2017, with the help of the River Valley Alliance, provincial and federal governments. Since opening, the funicular has increased access to …
Continue readingA Measure of Urban Connection: Cable Cars Part 2
Urban cable cars are more widespread than you’d think – and they go back long before the celebrated South American lines. And like any decent, flexible public transport mode, they have evolved and improved. Nowadays, …
Continue readingUpdating travel prediction modelling for 21st century (CityMonitor)
Outdated travel prediction systems are getting in the way of more efficient and equitable transportation. Urban planners Claire Fram and Richard de Cani of Arup believe there’s a solution. Assumptions regarding how people move and …
Continue readingIn flight air pollution is yet another flying risk (CleanTechnica)
In an article published in the LA Times, the author shared her airline industry investigation that found out that toxic fumes from jet engine oil are seeping into the air supply and sicken the passengers as …
Continue readingWhat scaling back Euston Station means for HS2 (NewCivilEng)
The Department for Transport’s (DfT’s) decision to order a redesign of High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Euston station has renewed fears that the line’s Eastern leg to Leeds is about to be axed (see Twitter reaction …
Continue readingGood public transport concessions: London & Melbourne (IntlTransportForum)
Considerable experience in designing, implementing, managing and renewing contracts for the delivery of public transport service by private providers has been accumulated in a small number of jurisdictions which were among the earliest adopters of …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 1 March 2021
• History of British railway freight control from telegraphs to TOPS (NewcomenSoc) • Why some bike shares work & others don’t (BBC) • Graham F’s video pick: Zürich snowplow tram cab ride (ZürichTramVideos) • Locomotive …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 26 February 2021
• Video: Development of TfL’s Overground (LTMuseumFriends) • Public transport moves the invisible workers of society (Atlantic) • Air rights above tracks in midtown Manhattan (OldStructures) • Chicago Metra fights switch icing with fire (RT&S) …
Continue readingSolar panels on Hong Kong’s latest light rail vehicles (RailwayGazette)
The first of Hong Kong’s latest generation of light rail vehicles began entering service on routes 610 and 751 in the Northwest New Territories on November 17. Phase 5 LRVs have a similar exterior design …
Continue readingCities using Value Capture to fund transit (StreetsBlog)
When the city builds a train line or a bus route, adjacent property values skyrocket. Why shouldn’t the public benefit more from that phenomenon? Generally speaking, there are few (if any) public investments that can …
Continue readingIconic Ribblehead Viaduct repaired for vital freight route (RailFreight)
An icon of the British landscape is under repair. Ribblehead Viaduct, in a remote part of North West England, is the subject of 2.1 million pound repair programme (2.5 million euro), to ensure the smooth …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 22 February 2021
• Traffic & plane noise is a silent killer (Atlantic) • Necropolis Railway station to be turned into flats (IanVisits) • Crashes cut by a third after 20mph limit introduced in Edinburgh (EdinburghNews) • France …
Continue readingWhy did renewables become so cheap so fast? Wright’s Law (OurWorldInData)
For the world to transition to low-carbon electricity, energy from these sources needs to be cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels. Fossil fuels dominate the global power supply because until very recently electricity from fossil …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 19 February 2021
• Air pollution in US subway systems stuns researchers (Guardian) • Reopening disused King’s Cross Gasworks tunnel for ECML boost (RailEngineer) • Fancy driving an HS1 train? Javelin train simulator launched (IanVisits) • Uncovering history …
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