Zebra machine to pedestrianise entire streets

Monday’s Friday Reads – March 14 2022

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• A megalopolis of engineering: the new Crossrail (Guardian)

• SNCF to install solar panels on 1.1M m2 of station areas by 2030 (RailTech)

• Vienna’s U2xU5 line cross will reshape the U-Bahn & increase capacity (RailwayGazette)

• New York City fare capping pilot could become permanent if popular (Gothamist)

• New York’s dollar vans/jitney networks, analysed & mapped (NewYorker)

• The zebra crossing machine (StudioMuis)

• Lifetime cost of a small car is about $689,000 (Treehugger)

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4 comments

  1. Look at the state of the concrete ceiling at Woolwich station in the Guardian article. While concrete is a wonderful structural material, how anyone thinks it’s an acceptable finish is beyond me. And as for all the Crossrail stations with cylindrical tunnels made of concrete, how is that an upgrade from the tiled tunnels to which we are accustomed?

  2. “75,000 people have worked on Crossrail, the majority of them all over the country” means what, actually? More than half outside Greater London? None of the examples mentioned included anywhere in Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales, so I remain to be convinced that it’s anything more than a “fact” that if repeated often enough will give the impression to the impressionable that (say) Lisburn, Wick and Haverfordwest are sharing in the largesse.

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