• Lyft bikeshare shut out of London (Bloomberg) • TfL publishes tables of Tube capacity (CityMetric) • Rotterdam’s crowdfunded Luchtsingel pedestrian bridge (PopUpCity) • The future of transportation is the bus, bike, and elevator (Slate) …
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Monday’s Friday Reads – 13 November 2019
• Underground to improve broadband speeds (IanVisits) • The end for the Cairn-Gorm mountain railway? (RailTechnology) • Boo! Who’s afraid of the pedestrian mall? (Curbed) • Gradials and the unreasonable road network (Transportist) • Sydney …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 1 November 2019
• 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) • …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 14 October 2019
• 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 readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 7 October 2019
• 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 …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 4 October 2019
• 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 …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 30 September 2019
• 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 …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 16 September 2019
• 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 …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 6 September 2019
• 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) • …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 26 August 2019
• We need to talk about the Tube’s noise problem (Wired) • How walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier (Guardian) • Dutch build world’s largest multi-storey bike garage (TheVerge) • Europe edging towards post-car …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 26 July 2019
• Second thoughts on The Tide elevated folly (HydeParkNow) • Getting down to grass tracks (RailTechnologyMag) • We need better surface transit whilst waiting for subways (Spacing) • New Yorker subway cover story & graphics …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 8 July 2019
• Hammersmith Highline best and winning entries (HydeParkNow) • 1845 graphic train schedule & tool (SandraRendgen) • Signs, signs, everywhere there’s signs (PriceTags) • Billions spent in US highway boondoggles (CityLab) • Portland takes step …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 28 June 2019
• Manchester to begin its own bus franchise (LGC) • 1876: Building a Channel Tunnel (TheEngineer) • Pedestrians pushing back in car-choked Brussels (CityLab) • Bus driver learns Punjabi from passengers (CBC) • Portland congestion …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 24 June 2019
• The search for Britain’s forgotten footpaths (NewYorker) • Early pioneer of battery-trains wants nationwide fleet (CityLab) • Bike architecture Bienniel (Forbes) • Best conversion of parked cars (PopUpCity) • Research determines financial case for …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 10 June 2019
• Hydra London High Line at Greenwich O2 (HydeParkNow) • Newcastle reopening Northumberland Line (RailEngineer) • Mulhouse beat High Street blues with transport, pedestrians (PriceTags) • Living close to public amenities could improve your life …
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