Monday’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 big city bike lanes (CBC)

Permanent King Street transit way a model for cities (Spacing)

Mysterious wind on DC Metro (Atlantic)

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3 comments

  1. Footpaths, yes, well ….
    Mind you the photo, showing an approach to Wearyall Hill is very symbolic.

    The Drumm battery-electrics! Long time since I heard of them …..
    It is to be hoped that advances in electrical storage make them practical, though you still have the disavantage of carying their weight around.

  2. Re forgotten footpaths: this is often associated with rural areas, but one hopes there are people with their eye on the ball in London, where, for instance, access to walks along the side of the Thames have often been closed while building takes place, and in some places have been in danger of not being reinstated.

  3. There was a great little public footpath through a wood that I used to take to the local train station that had a little-used level crossing of the railway that was severed–as far as I can tell without any public notice or comment. There’s now a signed-and-fenced public footpath about a metre between two industrial estates on the far side that terminates at a piece of chainlink across the path held up with zipties and with a spraypainted board hung off of it.

    The near, wooded, side still has a stile to approach the tracks, and then another spraypainted sign and hodgepodge chainlink closing off access.

    I wonder if it was done so quickly and shoddily to avoid being categorized?

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