Miami will add about three miles of protected bike and scooter lanes on busy downtown corridors as part of a new program partially funded by fees on electric scooters. Under a plan approved by the Miami-Dade Board of …
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Empire of the Air Part 2 – R.100 Overseas
Whilst we in LR have generally been bound to the ground or under it, we once again turn our eyes up to the skies. The Imperial Airship Service was a very serious scheme authorised at …
Continue readingAutomatic marshalling in Germany’s first digital goods yard (Railway-News)
DB Cargo is turning the marshalling yard München-Nord into Germany’s first digital goods yard. The goal is to make the preparation of trains largely automatic. This should increase the yard’s capacity by up to 40 …
Continue readingTarmac to cleanly power rail freight with vegetable oil (Railway-Tech)
Hydro-treated vegetable oil (HVO) can lower a train’s carbon emissions by nearly 90% as against traditional red diesel. Tarmac and its rail freight partner DB Cargo UK have announced that construction materials delivery on a …
Continue readingNYC MTA appalled by track inspectors’ malfeasance (RT&S)
MTA Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny announced the findings of an 11-month investigative report which found seven New York City Transit (NYC Transit) Track Inspectors were skipping inspections in addition to falsifying inspection reports and have …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 14 June 2021
• Gear change: review of the govt’s active travel plan (Freewheeling) • History of Heathrow Express webinar (IARO) • Amsterdam bans fossil fuel, cheap flight ads in its Metro (PublicRadioIntl) • The Most Passenger Friendly …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 11 June 2021
• South Kensington station heritage upgrades & development tensions (OnLondon) • Virtual tour of proposed West London Orbital Overground (CapitalWestLondon) • Berlin’s free cargo bikeshare program (StreetsBlog) • Opening up a brutalist bus terminal (Dezeen) …
Continue readingRoyal Mail gets first electric van fleet (AirQualityNews)
Royal Mail has launched its first all-electric fleet at the Bristol Delivery Office. The Bristol East Central Delivery Office, located in the City’s Easton area, has had its 23 diesel vans replaced with fully electric …
Continue readingHS2’s groundbreaking project under the Chilterns (Building)
Phase 1 of the route from London to Birmingham includes 16km of tunnels running under the Chiltern Hills, a giant project that will be carried out by two 170m long tunnel boring machines and more …
Continue readingUK is lowering e-scooter speed limits (MindTheZag)
One of the most notable parts of the London e-scooter trial announcement was that the scooters will have their speeds capped at 12.5mph, 3mph lower than the 15.5mph limit allowed by the Department of Transport. …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 7 June 2021
• Transreport app greatly improves rail accessibility for disabled passengers (Railway-Tech) • Germany’s other historic suspension railway (UrbanTransport) • NYC MTA breached by hackers as cyberattacks surge (NYTimes) • Regional rail makes most sense on …
Continue readingNYC worker-owned rideshare co-op to compete with Uber, Lyft (NYTimes)
About 2,500 drivers in New York are organizing to create what they say is a better deal for drivers than what the ride-hailing giants offer. For years, Uber and other ride-hailing companies offered the promise of …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 4 June 2021
• Could pantographs make a return to London’s buses? (IanVisits) • Get on your e-bike: ‘have a go’ scheme proposed for England (Guardian) • Sweden converting street parking to community space (WorldEconForum) • Can Lebanon’s …
Continue readingGSM-R failure cripples Dutch rail network (IntlRailJ)
GSM-R failure cripples Dutch network. An investigation into the cause is underway. Much of the Dutch railway network came to a standstill at around 14.00 on May 31 following the failure of the GSM-R network. …
Continue readingHS2’s new piling innovation will benefit construction industry (RailBusiness)
HS2 Ltd has revealed a new vacuum excavation technique for piling which could have massive benefits for the wider construction industry in the UK and abroad. The innovation, developed by specialist contractors working on HS2, …
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