Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads.
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- • Why has non-London bus funding been halved? (TheConversation)
- • London’s goal to become world’s most walkable city (ThisIsPlace)
- • No toilets, no seats, no way to leave – no help for wheelchair users (HuffPost)
- • R.34 airship’s trans-Atlantic centenary (Eastern Daily Press)
- • Rome’s Metro extension uncovers ancient artifacts (NPR)
- • US National links – Footpaths to the future (TheOverheadWire)
- • Brief history of air conditioning on NY subways (CityLab)
- • Decoding tired tropes of flashy architectural graphics (WebUrbanist)
- • What’s yellow, cheap & makes people better drivers? (CBC)
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I note the Bus Services Act forbids local authorities from setting up their own bus services, which smaks of political dogma, to me.
Though, it’s also clear from the article that re-regulation will almost certainly result in improvements.
As for the “architect’s drawings” – had me laughing, certainly
The first article is wrongly titled and misleading. I only read the article because I knew the title was wrong. The article talks about funding for supported services outside of London being cut. The reality is that the cost of the TfL bus budget is going up but will deliver less service volume. The extra cost is for new “greener” vehicles plus the impact of the Mayor’s policies on bus driver wages.
@WW
In my desire to condense the title for better readability, I added in London mistakenly. I have corrected it. Thanks for pointing this out. LBM
@ LBM – your revision isn’t showing for me and I have reloaded the page just to be sure. Still references London.
@WW
Try it again, I refreshed the change.
(still showing as London)
My local council – Brighton & Hove – does spend approx £1m on supported bus services.
But only does so because it is one of the few local authorities outside of London that have a parking surplus of such scale that it allows them to do so after they have paid approx £11m for concessionary fares.
It a coincidence that the annual profit of B&H buses made a profit of £15m whilst still cutting services??