Despite having one of the largest subway networks in the world, New Yorkers now experience frustratingly erratic and unreliable service. Underfunding has meant that engineers have been pushing the often-century-old subway signalling hardware decades past …
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Friday Reads – 31 January 2020
• London’s canal waterbus (Londonist) • Manchester Ship Canal line map from 1923 (TransitMap) • We need to talk about noise in cities (Curbed) • NYC subway exhibit of subway station graphic design (UntappedCities) • …
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• TfL & Santander reach 87m bike hires since 2010 launch (IntelTransport) • We need a new Treaty of Ghent to remove cars from cities (TreeHugger) • Swedish car separating device documentary trailer (TheLocal) • …
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• York to ban private cars from city centre within 3 years (guardian) • A Spitfire parts factory in Marylebone (LondonCanals) • Electric car owners can be paid to charge (AirQualityNews) • The 2010s in …
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This edition has been compiled by Friday Reads contributor Daniel Demby: • Abandoned Tube tour photos (Guardian) • Pedestrian detection systems don’t work well, AAA finds (ArsTechnica) • America’s alleyways capital & its first curvy …
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• UK rail stations trial to help those with hidden disabilities (GlobalRailway) • Fighting Thatcher with poetry, & influencing NYC (UrbanOmnibus) • Air pollution Central London Tube map (MappingLondon) • Climate Connections: urban transport & …
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• How the Tube beat the New York subway (Guardian) • Overground station mosaic roundels a hit (TransportXtra) • Commercial reuses of disused Paris transport infra (FabricOfParis) • Is East Side Access really going to …
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• Introducing the Central London Walking Network (LondonLivingStreets) • Sheffield’s tram-train a success so far (Wired) • Why Paris wants to tax Amazon deliveries (CityLab) • Redesign cities with women in mind (Globe&Mail) • Augmented …
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• Westminster Tube station gets Africa themed roundels (IanVisits) • How Barcelona replaced car domination with SuperBlocks (Vox) • Are train companies doing enough to help disabled passengers? (Which?) • The importance of station second …
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• Map of tunnel boring machines under the Thames (IanVisits) • Is surge pricing a fair way to manage demand? (BBC) • Rising Paris Métro ridership is driving new solutions (CityLab) • NYC is spending …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 15 November 2019
• 2nd on-demand bus trial begins (TfL) • Can poor public transport explain Britain’s productivity problems? (CityMetric) • Decay & repair of the Dingle Overhead Railway Tunnel (ChrisIles) • For better transit for all, understand …
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• How London’s ULEZ is changing travel behaviours (TheDeveloper) • Your driving is scaring me – TfL’s Vision Zero (TfL) • Paris plan to pummel its Périphérique (CityMetric) • Cars are death machines (NYTimes) • …
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• The A to Z history of London (MappingLondon) • Virtual transit of the Thames under water (BBC) • When is efficient too efficient? Tech lessons from Hamburg (Spacing) • Gothenburg electrical circuit tram map …
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• 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 …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 11 October 2019
• 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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