3 London Bus motor type diamond stickers - requested by London Fire - indicating Diesel, Hybrid, & Electric motors

Monday’s Friday Reads – 5 June 2023

On By In Accessibility, Crossrail, Friday Reads, Trams/Streetcars/LRT, Trolleybuses

• TfL to buy more Elizabeth line trains to serve Old Oak Common HS2 temp terminus (OnLondon)

• Former High Speed Rail College to close at the end of July (BBC)

• Public inquiry on inaccessible footbridge will be line in the sand say activists (DisabilityNews)

• What are the small, new yellow diamond stickers on London buses? (DiamondGeezer)

• Lyon to bring in parking charges linked to car’s weight (ConnexionFrance)

• Small cities with rail rapid transport (Straphanger)

• Why trolleybuses are vastly superior to battery electric buses: Video (ArmchairUrbanist)

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4 comments

  1. Some of us have been banging on about the superiority of Trolleybuses since 1961 (!)

  2. 1961? Gosh that’s the last time I was able to catch a trolleybus down the Grays Inn Road!

  3. Still riding the 17 to the swimming pool down Wokingham Road in ’68 (Reading Corporation)

  4. Like the Trams … London got rid of the “Trolleys” & everyone slavishly followed along.

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