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Category: Cycles

Monday’s Friday Reads – 20 July 2020

On 20 July 2020 By Long Branch Mike In Cycles, Design, Friday Reads, Maps, Micromobility, Pollution, Uber

• Banksy Tube graffiti removed but TfL ask him to use another space (ArtNewspaper) • Overground upgrading East London line, with government funding (IanVisits) • Portland TriMet reallocates $18m from transit police to public safety …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 13 July 2020

On 13 July 2020 By Long Branch Mike In COVID, Cycles, Friday Reads, Micromobility, Roads, Trams/Streetcars/LRT, Tunnels, Uber

• It’s time to bring railways back to life (Independent) • How Dublin can regain its Cycling City ways – video (5MinUrbanist) • Parking, micromobility and COVID (LinkedIn) • Baguette fight over Paris Gare du …

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Friday Reads – 3 July 2020

On 3 July 2020 By Long Branch Mike In Bridges, Cycles, Friday Reads, HS2, Pollution, Stations

• Combined HS2 / NPR Manchester underground station proposed (NewCivilEng) • Tyres a significant source of marine microplastic pollution (AirQualityNews) • Plan for 100km pop-up cycle lane network in Manchester (WalkRideGM) • Best Parisian bridges …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 29 June 2020

On 29 June 2020 By Long Branch Mike In Cycles, Friday Reads, Maps, New York, Pedestrians, Pollution

• The 1967 GLC scheme for London monorail people movers (C20Society) • And the corresponding unbuilt monorails map (NotQuiteTangible) • Pandemic lack of public restrooms reduces mobility, esp for women (StreetsBlog) • Include poor, minority …

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Friday Reads – 12 June 2020

On 12 June 2020 By Long Branch Mike In Bridges, Cycles, Friday Reads, History, Maps, Pedestrians, Stations

• Riding transit hasn’t caused Covid infection in Japan or France (CityLab) • Infographics on the economic benefits of walking & cycling (TfL) • Hidden London’s Down Street station Vlogcast (LondonTransportMuseum) • Walking Tube maps …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 8 June 2020

On 8 June 2020 By Long Branch Mike In COVID, Cycles, Friday Reads, Maps, Trams/Streetcars/LRT

• Face masks to become mandatory on UK public transport (IanVisits) • Street View used to discover UK’s lost Dutch-inspired cycle ways (BBC) • Cities & their streetcars – top 10 favourite spots (Spacing) • …

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Friday Reads – 5 June 2020

On 5 June 2020 By Long Branch Mike In COVID, Cycles, Design, Friday Reads, HS2, Micromobility, Stations

• Female Overground train driver on cover of British Vogue (TransportXtra) • UK Government to issue half million £50 bike repair vouchers (Road-CC) • New twist in mystery of Brunel’s Box Tunnel birthday sunrise (Guardian) …

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DfT tells councils to close main roads to cars (Forbes)

On 2 June 2020 By Long Branch Mike In Cycles, DfT, Industry News, Pedestrians

Millions of pounds will be “released as soon as possible so that work can begin at pace on closing roads to through traffic, installing segregated cycle lanes and widening pavements,” says a letter sent to …

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Friday Reads – 22 May 2020

On 22 May 2020 By Long Branch Mike In Aerial, Cycles, Friday Reads, Micromobility, River

• Thunderbird 4 – on the Thames! (IanVisits) • Churchill War Rooms virtual tour (ImpWarMuseum) • Running a car costs much more than people think (Nature) • Cities transforming as electric bike sales skyrocket (TheVerge) …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 18 May 2020

On 18 May 2020 By Long Branch Mike In Cycles, Friday Reads, Mail Rail, Pedestrians

• London’s StreetSpace central car-free plan explained (TransportXtra) • NHS bosses urge pop-up cycleways for UK cities (Forbes) • Mail Rail virtual ride (PostalMuseum) • Steampunk model railway enthusiast has designs used by Hornby (BBC) …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 11 May 2020

On 11 May 2020 By Long Branch Mike In COVID, Cycles, Friday Reads, History, Network Rail, Pedestrians, Pollution

• UK Govt boosts cycling & walking with £2bn post-pandemic plan (Forbes) • We need health warning labels on fossil fuel sales (BritishMedJ) • New metro rail services urged to connect housing clusters (CIHT) • …

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Friday Reads – 24 April 2020

On 24 April 2020 By Long Branch Mike In COVID, Cycles, Friday Reads, New York, Pollution, Trams/Streetcars/LRT

• That MIT study about the subway spreading COVID is crap (StreetsBlog) • Milan’s big plan to prevent post crisis traffic pollution (Guardian) • Paris to create 650km of cycleways for post-lockdown (Forbes) • Airlines …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 16 March 2020

On 16 March 2020 By Long Branch Mike In Cycles, Friday Reads, Pedestrians, Stations, Uber

• Curzon Street Station’s 1st roundhouse found in HS2 dig (Nodrog) • Whence went the flying boat – the Saunders-Roe Princess Story (Mustard) • Germany’s intercity cycle superhighway (InterestingEngineering) • Meet Montréal’s REM – Sydney …

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Friday Reads – 17 January 2020

On 17 January 2020 By Long Branch Mike In Cycles, Friday Reads, Maps, Pollution, Waterways

• New diesel cars even dirtier due to loophole (AirQuality) • Alternative approaches to cooling the Tube (RailMag) • The sad fate of Brunel’s innovative Canal Bridge (HydeParkNow) • The fashion of Bristol Temple Meads …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 6 January 2020

On 6 January 2020 By Long Branch Mike In Accessibility, Cycles, Friday Reads, Maps, Pedestrians, Waterways

• Oslo reaches Vision Zero pedestrian deaths (StreetsBlog) • Grosvenor Canal, London’s last commercial canal (LondonCanals) • Level boarding fairness: Letting everyone on (PermanentRail) • Switzerland and France now linked by S-Bahn (RailTech) • Inside …

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