Transport data and decision-making don’t just under-represent women. In many cases they trivialise or ignore their needs completely.
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Nicole Badstuber is a transport policy researcher and writer. Her writing covers urban transport policy, strategic transport decision-making, and transport history. Nicole works as an academic researcher and is also completing her doctorate in transport governance.
Operation Umbrella: Rebuilding Oxford Circus
As the Victoria line celebrates its 50th birthday, we look at a largely forgotten triumph of transport construction: Operation Umbrella.
Continue readingLondon’s Congestion Charge Needs Updating (CityLab)
After 15 years of existence, London’s method of congestion charging is dated. It needs to be bigger, longer, and greedier. By Reconnections’ Nicole Badstuber London’s congestion charge turned 15 in February and it is showing …
Continue readingThe Importance of Being Earnest: Making the Case for Crossrail 2
“When I was at school I liked art.” Says Michèle Dix CBE, Managing Director of Crossrail 2, when we ask her how she began her journey to the world of London transport. “I liked drawing, …
Continue readingDon’t Fear the Beeper: Bus Hopper Tickets and the Future of Oyster
“Today is a landmark day for transport in London,” London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan said on 12 September 2016. “It wasn’t right that Londoners had to pay twice simply to change buses.” It is a deceptively …
Continue readingA Glimpse At The Transport Path Ahead
A TfL presentation delivered to Sadiq Khan, the newly elected Mayor of London, has surfaced online. It offers an insight into the transport announcements we can expect in the near future. It also indicates a …
Continue readingThe DNA of a London Underground Station
Transport for London has unveiled its new design bible, the ‘Design Idiom’. We talk to some of its creators about their quest to change the way London Underground thinks about station design.
Continue readingOrange Invades: All Change for London’s New Overground Lines
This weekend saw the addition of 28 new stations to TfL’s hugely successful Overground network. Rail services running from Liverpool Street to Enfield Town, Cheshunt and Chingford in North East London, as well as the …
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