Monday’s Friday Reads – 11 May 2020

UK Govt boosts cycling & walking with £2bn post-pandemic plan (Forbes)

We need health warning labels on fossil fuel sales (BritishMedJ)

New metro rail services urged to connect housing clusters (CIHT)

Seven recent historic railway discoveries (NetworkRail)

Liberating cities for people by repurposing parking lots etc (CityLab)

LA Metro to speed subway construction during traffic lull (StreetsBlog)

World’s largest labyrinth, in Parma (DesignBoom)

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3 comments

  1. Re the Forbes article on funding for cycle / walk schemes and new rule book. It’s not clear from the article (well, not to me anyway) whether this is UK wide or applies only to England.

  2. “The world’s largest Labyrinth is marvellous!
    Having walked several of the Troy Towns in Britain – also called Miz-Mazes that is impressive.
    If you are evr in Saffron Walden, they have the largest in Britain – the full path is 1.5km long.

  3. In the mid-80s I was part of the group of people converting a car park into a public green space just off Charing Cross Road and Shaftesbury Avenue. It’s not quite as we built it now, but it is still there….

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