Friday Reads – 2 February 2024

On By In Friday Reads, New York, Roads, Vertical transport

• London Overground staff to strike over pay (BBC)

• Transport-related social exclusion in England (Transport for the North)

• Through traffic to be banned from key routes across Edinburgh city centre (Edinburgh News)

• The Bizarrely Huge Station at Pudding Mill Lane: Video (Jago Hazzard)

• The accessible triple-integrated lift of Battersea Power Station: Video (Proper Engineering)

• The incredibly Danish interior design of Denmark’s new national trains (Fast Company)

• TurnStyle: Manhattan’s Underground Specialty Market (SFA)

• Carrosses à cinq sol, the first public transport system of the world (Party like 1660)

2 comments

  1. The Paris article quotes 22000 houses and 530000 inhabitants, I feel that one is out by a factor of 10.

  2. @Garry – maybe not in 1660. Only well off would have a ‘house’ and even they would not be at 2.4 ppHouseHold

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