Friday Reads – 9 July 2021

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• UK urged to decarbonise railways with electrification plan (E&T)

• Reprieve for 46 old railway bridges but dozens more face infill (Times)

• Air grievances: NYC pollution maps by source (UrbanOmnibus)

• Connect the Bay: The SFO Bay Area fare transit game (KickStarter)

• Uber surge pricing drives angry customers back to taxis (SFExaminer)

• How highway noise barriers can make traffic louder (Cheddar)

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2 comments

  1. The “E&T” article on decarbonisation is identical in message to what informed writers & sources have been saying for some time. Unfortunately, I think we can guarantee that DfT will continue with the current version of “Bionic Duckweed” ( Which is now – Hydrogen vapourware ) rather than actually do anything useful.
    Depressing.

    Meanwhile, it’s good to see the Highways England deliberate vandalism campaign being given more unwelcome-to-them publicity in the “mainstream” press. There has been much anger in specialist journals & a particular worry concerning the Queensbury Tunnels between Halifax & Keighley.

    I thought that the “Surge Pricing” of Uber/Lyft was & is part of their deliberate strategy,
    The object of the whole exercise was to extinguish all the competition & then gouge the public, surely?
    Sometimes referred to as the “Wal-Mart model” of monopoly extortion.

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