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Category: Friday Reads

Friday Reads – 18 October 2019

On 18 October 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Friday Reads, Maps, Stations

• Fenchurch Street makeover plans submitted (IanVisits) • Hook of Holland – Harwich history (Retours) • Ferrari design firm designs Swiss Alps train (Wired) • New Metro lines open in Russia and India (NextCity) • …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 14 October 2019

On 14 October 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Cycles, Friday Reads, Maps, New York, Pedestrians

• I found my mother with this 1977 Tube Map (CityLab) • UK cities call for £1.5bn funding of national CAZ network (AirQualityNews) • Scotland to reopen yet another passenger rail line (RailEngineer) • London …

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Friday Reads – 11 October 2019

On 11 October 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Cycles, Friday Reads, HS2, Maps, New York, Trams/Streetcars/LRT

• 5 things TfL should do with its new cycling database (CityWayfinding) • Manchester pushes back on Piccadilly HS2 parking garage (PlaceNorthWest) • New York’s forgotten elevated subway (Jalopnik) • What was Philly’s Broad-Ridge spur …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 7 October 2019

On 7 October 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Crossrail, Friday Reads, New York, Pedestrians, Uber

• Crossrail rules out dust link to mystery deaths (ConstructionEnquirer) • Data visualisations of Britain’s most trodden paths (OrdnanceSurvey) • Uber stops own investigators from reporting crimes to police (Verge) • Efficient vertical heavy transport …

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Friday Reads – 4 October 2019

On 4 October 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Crossrail, Friday Reads, Pedestrians, TfL

• See inside Crossrail’s Whitechapel station (IanVisits) • Lessons from a London car-free street fight (CityLab) • Remembering the GN&C Moorgate Class 313s (NewWipersTimes) • The railway air quality challenge (Emsol) • How poor public …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 30 September 2019

On 30 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Friday Reads, Pedestrians, Trams/Streetcars/LRT

• 80,000 homes could be built on London parking spaces (Homes&Property) • Royal Mail rolling out all-electric vans (Engadget) • Manchester plans for London style transport fare zone (RailTechnology) • How Merseyrail dared to be …

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Friday Reads – 27 September 2019

On 27 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Design, Friday Reads, Trams/Streetcars/LRT

• London banned cars for a day – why not forever? (Wired) • Underground tests new design of information boards (IanVisits) • DB features doppelganger staycation rail destinations (Contagious) • Green roofed tram & metro …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 23 September 2019

On 23 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Fonts, Friday Reads

• Plans to reopen Brentford to Southall railway (IanVisits) • Why fewer people are riding the Underground (TheDeveloper) • The tale of two Underground posters (20thCPosters) • Mexico City’s trolleybus revival for clean air (UrbanTransport) …

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Friday Reads – 20 September 2019

On 20 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Friday Reads, Trams/Streetcars/LRT

• Decommissioned double decker conversions (Buses4Homeless) • West Midlands Metro’s tram extension program (MetroAlliance) • Union Station dig down doesn’t disrupt trains (CBC) • Federal program to help US cities demolish highways (StreetsBlog) • Meteor …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 16 September 2019

On 16 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Data, Friday Reads, Maps, Pedestrians

• Experience London transport in a wheelchair, without working hands (CityMetric) • CR Mackintosh’s Gothic railway terminus design (MackintoshArch) • How safe is the air in five major cities? (FT) • How developers are remaking …

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Friday Reads – 13 September 2019

On 13 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Cycles, Data, Friday Reads

• Depressing lesson of west London’s lost cycle route (Guardian) • Gare du Nord addition ‘une grave offense’ to passengers (CityLab) • Senate moves temporarily to old rail station (OttawaMag) • ‘Smart’ Cities – not …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 9 September 2019

On 9 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Croydon Tramlink, Friday Reads, Maps, New York

• Croydon tram crash safety report watered down (BuzzFeed) • Tube map of Roman London (Londonist) • Accessible UK Travel Policy Guidance published (RailwayNews) • Art Deco, Poirot & the Orient Express (ArtDecoSociety) • Boston …

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Friday Reads – 6 September 2019

On 6 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Friday Reads, New York, Pedestrians

• NYC new farecard decades behind London’s Oyster (NYPost) • E-scooters pulled from Miami streets to avoid ‘Scooternado’ (Gizmodo) • Toronto Green Line parkway proposal (UrbanToronto) • Freight trains could help predict earthquakes/ (PhysicsWorld) • …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 2 September 2019

On 2 September 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Crossrail, Cycles, Friday Reads, New York

• World’s most famous crosswalk (HydeParkNow) • Box in a box to avoid Crossrail vibrations (IanVisits) • UK’s first autism friendly rail line (RailTechMag) • Photo essays of North American rail systems (SubwayNut) • Flying …

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Friday Reads – 30 August 2019

On 30 August 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Friday Reads, Maps, Trams/Streetcars/LRT, Uber

• TfL’s retail innovation competition shortlist (RetailTechInnov) • 1929 Kew Underground map (MappingLondon) • Aerial photos of London’s super sewer work (Tideway) • Caen replaces guided buses with tram network (RailTech) • Drivers suing Uber …

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