• TfL closes 40 Tube stations & Night Tube, fewer buses next-week/ (IanVisits) • UK could nationalise transport during COVID crisis (Independent) • Why Britain should legalise e-scooters (CityMetric) • The French S-K people mover lines that moved no-one (FabricOfParis) • Public transit is next battleground in #MeToo movement (WAMU) • Almost everything going wrong with new LRT line...
• Curzon Street Station’s 1st roundhouse found in HS2 dig (Nodrog) • Whence went the flying boat – the Saunders-Roe Princess Story (Mustard) • Germany’s intercity cycle superhighway (InterestingEngineering) • Meet Montréal’s REM – Sydney Metro’s Canadian twin (StrategicWeek) • NHL Seattle to provide free transit to all home games (Urbanist) • Car price predicts...
• Plans for Hackney Central station 2nd entrance move ahead (HackneyCitizen) • The Parisian ‘taxi robot’ people mover experiment, Aramis (FabricOfParis) • The LA sports team named after a transit mode (CityLab) • Public transport growth surges in New South Wales (SMH) • Railway-style sleeping bunks proposed for airliners (Dezeen) • Vision Zero misses the obvious – getting cars...
Due to COVID-19 concerns, and in line with many institutions completely closing, we are cancelling this month’s LR Pub Night official meetup.
As recommended by the health authorities, remember to:
Wash hands frequently and thoroughly. Social distancing – do not come too close to others.Travel on public transport at non-peak hours if possible
• Flying Scotswoman service celebrates Int’l Women’s Day (BelfastTelegraph) • New ‘rail to refuge’ free travel to women fleeing domestic abuse (RailBusinessDaily) • Network Rail’s new focus on architecture & design – Part 1 (BeautyOfTransport) • Leadership critical for COP26 climate conference (HighSpeedRailGroup) • Don’t let coronavirus scare you on...
• Tube dust: Union demands tests into ‘toxic’ particles (BBC) • Nancy converting guided bus into a modern tramway (UrbanTransport) • Stockholm’s stunning subterranean subway stations (DavidAltrath) • Ceneri Alps Base Tunnel to open in December 2020 (Railway-News) • We are addicted to cars (RobinMazumder) • The low price of freed parking (GreenBiz) • Star Wars plot maps...
• The telphers of Manchester Victoria (RogerFarnworth) • Plan to reopen Maid Marian passenger line (NottinghamPost) • Car culture has a toxic masculinity problem (Streetsblog) • NYC using its fleets to fight air pollution (GreenBiz) • Secretive $250M private transit system just for techies (OneZero) • Comparing Australia’s tram routes (DanielBowen) Read our most popular articles: ...
• Restoration of Crystal Palace subway moves forward (IanVisits) • Exposure to ultra fine particles linked to heart attacks (AirQualityNews) • The disappearing sound in airports: Solari boards (BBC) • Animated map of US Growth via railways & Interstate system (FleetLogging) • Does owning a car hurt your health? (GlobeAndMail) • US only nation not willing to prevent road deaths (Forbes) •...
A long time ago we had the Christmas Quiz and now it is finally time to announce the winners in detail. Apologies for the delay but the number of entries coupled with an incredible number with virtually identical scores meant a lot of concentration and careful marking was required. In the end we were fairly tolerant with the marking and assumed an answer was correct unless obviously wrong. So we...
• Heathrow e-taxi charge prices forcing cabbies to run petrol engines (TaxiPoint) • Art Deco by the Sea Exhibit (ArtDecoSociety) • The rise and fall of the Aérotrain (FabricOfParis) • Asphalt art creates safer streets for pedestrians (PopUpCity) • How not to build a light rail network (DallasObserver) • LA exploring car free Broadway (UrbanizeLA) • Tricking a Tesla with tape (MITTechnologyReview)...
• My Fair Lady – London Bridge station (BeautyOfTransport) • Surprising reason for the Underground’s new heritage signs (IanVisits) • Norwegian dream road tunnels (BldgBlog) • Natural selection of urban public transport (CityLab) • San Francisco Bay’s overdue transport integration proposal (RailwayGazette) • In LA vs Uber, bet on LA (SmartCitiesDive) • Global push for 30kmh...
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 its design life, so breakdowns are frequent. This is all too familiar to Londoners who lived through the 1950s to the 1980s, when its transport...
In May 2019, Britain reached a major climate combating milestone when it was coal plant power generation free for the first time since the Industrial Revolution. Nonetheless, there is still much work to be done, as transportation still accounts for a large proportion of CO2 emissions worldwide. We had visited the 2018 Movin’On Summit in Montréal to investigate a number of new, and the re...
• The messy mission to bring 4G to the Tube (Wired) • Hidden London’s Piccadilly Circus (LondonInheritance) • Derelict Catesby Tunnel refit for aerodynamic testing of autos (TunnelTalk) • Île de France seeks to open RER network to competition (RailwayGazette) • Maersk testing new biofuel which could clean up shipping (GreenBiz) • High rise ornate mail transport (AtlasObscura) • Maps to...
• Software challenge blows Crossrail off course (RailwayGazette/LR) • AirBnB-like showers for London exercise commuters (PopUpCity) • East-West Rail Phase 2 gets green light (Railway-News) • £15bn plan for new West Midlands rail & tram lines (NewCivilEng) • Runaway Bonn tram (HydeParkNow) • Bridges to nowhere (AtlasObscura) Read our most popular articles: Schrodinger’s Cab Firm: Uber’s...
