Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • How the Tube pioneered bank cards (Forbes) • Layers of London map documents local history (MappingLondon) • Free French buses in Dunkirk (Guardian) • Why transit works better outside …
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Friday Reads – December 1, 2017
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s lineup: • Visualising the daily pulse of the Tube (Tube Heartbeat) • TfL claims public transport users subsidise London’s roads (CityMetric) • Disused passenger tunnels to reopen at …
Continue readingFace-scanning Tube station ticketing developing (Wired)
The company behind the Oyster card is working on a face-scanning ticketing system. Cubic Transportation Systems, the US company behind London’s Oyster card technology, is working on new ticketing systems that use facial recognition, palm …
Continue readingFriday Reads – July 14, 2017
If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at goodreads@box5466.temp.domains. • How tube stations got their funny names (Beeb) • Demonyms – not what you …
Continue readingThe Mess of UK Smartcards (Beauty of Transport)
“ITSO [Integrated Transport Smartcard Organisation] was (and is) a membership organisation set up with an apparently simple mission: to create a single, integrated transport smartcard technical standard for the whole of the UK. It wasn’t …
Continue readingFriday Reading List – 17 March
As anyone looking to properly understand London’s transport needs and network knows, context, background and best-practice are important. As readers might imagine, behind the scenes here at LR Towers we thus spend a lot of …
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 readingFares 2015 and the Continuing Social Evolution
Summarising the annual fares announcements has become something of an LR tradition. It is rare, however, that they carry the level of changes to TfL’s fare structure seen in the announcement of the latest fare …
Continue readingA Brief Guide to the 2014 TfL Fare Increases
After a much longer wait than is typical, this morning the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, announced the fares levels that will apply to TfL services and National Rail services within the TfL zonal area …
Continue readingThe Transport Committee: Crossrail and the Overground Talk Shop
Today’s London Assembly Transport Committee meeting covered Crossrail and wider London Rail developments – two areas of great interest to LR readers. Andrew Wolstenholme (CEO) and Terry Morgan (Chairman) both attended from Crossrail. Taking Crossrail …
Continue readingTransport Committee: Franchise Bids and Frank Comments
Last week saw the first meeting of the London Assembly’s Transport Committee since the elections. In front of the Committee were Transport Commissioner Peter Hendy and Isabel Dedring, Deputy Mayor for Transport. Hendy and Dedring …
Continue readingFurther Oyster Expansion Beyond London Under Discussion
Tom Edwards over at BBC London is reporting that discussions are now actively underway between the DfT, TfL and FCC over the expansion of Oyster onto more services. TfL first mooted the idea of further …
Continue readingOEPs To Be Scrapped and a New Combined Tube/Rail Map
TfL have today confirmed that Oyster Extension Permits (OEPs) are to be scrapped, most likely from the end of May. Brought in when Oyster PAYG was rolled out onto National Rail, the scheme required Oyster …
Continue readingIn Pictures: A Vision of the Underground’s Future
Back in July 2004 TfL released a “2016 Tube Map.” This was intended to give a potential vision of how both TfL and then Mayor Ken Livingstone felt the network may look by that time. …
Continue readingThe Problem With Simples: Why Oyster is a Victim of its own Success
In 1998 London Transport signed a £1.1bn PFI deal that, by the time of its termination in 2010, would have had a massive impact on the journeys of millions of people across London. It wasn’t …
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