Friday Reads – 19 April 2019

Analog Tube map prototyping (EsriArcGISBlog)

Paris to trial all night Metro & Tram lines (MetroReport)

Uber admits directly competing with transit (Jalopnik)

Story of Toronto streetcars’ bullseyes (SeanMarshall)

Old NYC subway cars become coral reef (ScubaDiving)

The evolution of road rage (MotherNature)

Kochi Metro run by majority of women (Guardian)

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4 comments

  1. The Uber atricle is … interesting, especially for the US-viewpoints.
    [ I was particularly taken by the idea that people who use public transport are “commies” – has anyone told The City’s bankers that yet? ]

  2. @GREG

    It’s another version of the car-lobby’s standard fayre, such as “A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.”
    apocryphally attributed to the Lady from Grantham.

    [Rest snipped as off topic. LBM]

  3. For Paris all-night service, seems odd that they didn’t go for line 4, which is the second busiest line after Line 1. Instead they went for line 5 as the primary N-S line. I guess Line 5 hits up more nightlife type areas than line 4?

  4. Line 4 is being resignalled and refurbished for automatic operation. Otherwise I assume they would have chosen it

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