Bus redesigns aren’t a new idea. When Seoul – a city pursuing a car-first approach to surface transportation to satisfy the dreams of an increasingly wealthy population – faced plummeting bus ridership in the early …
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Autonomous tram testing to begin in Germany (E&T)
Siemens Mobility has shown off a driverless tram that it says is the first vehicle of its type to be equipped with autonomous technology. The tram will be tested on a 6km long test track …
Continue readingTwo London boroughs imposing ultra-low emission zones (Guardian)
All but the cleanest vehicles to be banned from nine streets in Islington and Hackney. Two London councils are to ban all but the cleanest vehicles from some areas at peak times to help tackle …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 31 August 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • TfL’s secret internal Tube map (DiamondGeezer) • The museification of London (FailedArchitecture) • Britain’s lost tram network and its future (Guardian) • Televised 1959 preview of Lisbon’s Metro (CityLab) …
Continue readingRail industry pledges to cut ticket jargon (Railway-Technology)
The rail industry has revealed it will remove jargon printed on rail tickets and journey information from 500,000 routes this September in a bid to simplify the process of buying tickets. A host of industry …
Continue readingMelbourne orbital rail proposal (DanielBowen)
Okay, I didn’t see this coming. Orbital rail for the middle ring of Melbourne, announced on Facebook this morning. Labor say they want to build a 90km suburban rail loop from Cheltenham (by which they …
Continue readingLondon rooftops snapped up for drone vertiports (Dezeen)
Landing and recharging pads for drones will become ubiquitous atop urban buildings within a few years, according to a company that is buying up London rooftops for a network of drone ports. Duncan Walker of …
Continue readingRethinking bikelanes for personal mobility (HumanTransit)
Now that we have scooters sharing bike lanes, I wonder if we’ll need to think more clearly about the different kinds of lane on a street and what their real defining features are. This could …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 24 August 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. • London’s commuter towns mapped & rated (MappingLondon) • The strange world of British Rail mathematics (CityMetric) • Buried Brunel structure halts road scheme (BBC) • DC Metro station design …
Continue readingTransport infrastructure’s environmental effects (Passenger Transport)
When transport infrastructure projects are given the go ahead how can we ensure that they are not just delivered as standalone engineering projects, but by working across policy sectors how can the wider economic and …
Continue readingNJ Transit PTC pressure prompts service cuts (RailwayGazette)
NJ Transit to invest more as PTC pressure prompts service cuts – On August 8, 2018 New Jersey Transit [NJT] announced that it would be spending $3·8bn in the 2019 financial year as the commuter …
Continue readingHow cities can influence better behaviour (BBC)
Damani started a behavioural design firm, Briefcase, back in 2013, along with his partner Mayur Tekchandaney. Their first project, Bleep, aimed to reduce Mumbai’s rampant car horn honking problem. The method was simple: over six …
Continue readingToronto’s Great Streets (Star/Ryerson City Building Institute)
Amid growing concern about traffic deaths, the recent conversation in Toronto has often focused on what the city has done wrong in designing its streets. But a new report from the Ryerson City Building Institute …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 17 August 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. • London’s other massive tunnel under construction (E&T) • London’s lost canal network (Londonist) • How Roman roads predict modern day prosperity (WashingtonPost) • Vancouver’s multi-modal success story (StreetFilm) • …
Continue readingLift retrofit cost comparison in US & Europe (MetroReport)
Most metro stations around the world rely on stairs for access to platforms. These are easy to build, especially for stations not far below the surface. However, this arrangement offers no accessibility for many people …
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