Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s lineup:
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- • Vision impaired & on the Tube? There’s an app for that (Tech’s Good)
- • LED road studs to guide drivers at complex junction (E&T)
- • Fifty Shades spoof (safe for work) (Yahoo)
- • The Trouble with NYC Subway timetables (CityLab)
- • Pedestrian Injuries Drop 63% After Queens Boulevard Redesign (StreetsBlog)
- • Before private jets, there were private train cars (Curbed)
- • Paris asking for ideas for ghost Métro stations (Reinventer Paris)
- • International subway line will connect Singapore and Malaysia (NextCity)
- • Seoul’s Answer to Pollution: Free Public Transit (CityLab)
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Two sourpuss niggles :
(1) Describing something as “hilarious” is often advance notice to me that what I’ll read or see is anything but. Indeed, the Fifty Shades spoof bore this out, the amusement factor not helped by the presence of James Corden, an inexplicable addition to the pantheon of comedy greats.
(2) The piece on subway schedules included the phrase “London planners reticent to let go …”, an example I’ve come across before of professional writers not knowing the right word. It’s worse than, for example, “refute” being used instead of “deny”, as those two do have in common the claim that something ain’t so. Not knowing the difference between “reluctant” and “reticent” is just illiterate.