• TfL fast orbital bus routes have been rejected before: Will Sadiq’s Superloop fare better? (OnLondon) • 10-platform HS2 Euston design pricier than original 11-platform design (NatlAuditOffice) • Kay Hughes is HS2’s guardian of the …
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Designing VIA Rail’s new Corridor fleet’s look & feel to a new standard (PriestmanGoode)
PriestmanGoode designed the interiors for VIA Rail Canada’s new Corridor fleet setting a new standard in passenger rail experience that’s unparalleled, fully accessible and barrier-free. The project also encompassed the livery design for the new …
Continue readingNow this is how to design disruption workaround info & graphics (PrintMag)
New Standards for New York’s Underground The MTA (New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority), through its advertising agency, commissioned Waterhouse Cifuentes Design to develop a system to inform its ridership of Planned Work diversions for the subway. The …
Continue readingParis wayfinding & mapping design talk: Video (TransitMappingSymp)
Design management is a competency used for a long time in the RATP. The RATP mapping system will be presented under this angle, which will be completed by a historical vision and also as a …
Continue readingLayoffs at Adif & Renfe after train too big for tunnels design debacle (RailTech)
An error in the design of the new fleet for the Spanish metric gauge networks in Asturias and Cantabria will likely delay delivery of the rolling stock by several years. The current train design means …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 30 January 2023
• Lambeth strategy to make its kerbsides fairer, more accessible, & more climate resilient (LambethCouncil) • The 1930s, the decade that schematic map diagrams matured (MaxwellRoberts) • Amsterdam’s new underwater bike garage is next-level cycling …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 27 January 2023
• Inside HS2’s new Old Oak Common railway station (IanVisits) • Stanley Heaps: The other London Underground Chief Architect (ModernismInMetroland) • A public transport system of epic proportions – the Paris RER: video (RMTransit) • …
Continue readingAsking passengers what they want from train interiors (RailwayGazette)
A report into what passengers want from train interiors has been produced to help inform the proposed refurbishment of Turbostar diesel multiple-units. Built by Bombardier Transportation from the late 1990s, the units are widely deployed …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 9 January 2023
• The smells of London: The aromatic Tube Map (Londonist) • In search of perfection: Plato’s Double Arrow – Rail Symbol 2 (BeautyOfTransport) • A new UK wine train to Bordeaux by 2026 is in …
Continue readingHolistic design concepts force rethink of train interiors for sustainability (RailwayGazette)
PriestmanGoode has unveiled Green Carriage, a collection of train interior design concepts developed to ’push boundaries for greener systems and processes across the entire interior, rethinking what a future interior can be’. Continue reading
Continue readingHolistic design concepts rethink train interiors for sustainability (RailwayGazette)
PriestmanGoode has unveiled Green Carriage, a collection of train interior design concepts developed to ’push boundaries for greener systems and processes across the entire interior, rethinking what a future interior can be’. Continue reading
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 28 November 2022
• ULEZ charge to drive polluting cars expanded to London’s M25 (IanVisits) • TPE uses loophole so services cancelled a day ahead do not appear in stats (Guardian) • Paris targeting converting parking garages, other …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 18 November 2022
• TfL to renew bid to build affordable homes on Cockfosters station car park (OnLondon) • TfL planning new Overground station in Barking (IanVisits) • The great inter-war Art Streamline oceanliner race (OceanlinerDesigns) • Trams …
Continue readingIKEA’s Crimes Against Cartography
Shopping at IKEA is an ordeal, an expedition. And IKEA has just made it harder. Whilst IKEA is the McDonald’s of housewares, its approach is quite different. IKEA offers the same products and experience all …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 3 October 2022
• Who could succeed Andy Byford at the helm of TfL (NewCivilEng) • The Up & Down Club: The sleeper train commuters (Telegraph) • Europe’s kid friendly trains benefit all passengers (FamilyFriendlyTrains) • Karlsruhe tram-train …
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