• Overground trains to call at Battersea Park station all day New Year’s Eve (IanVisits) • Vintage Views from the upper deck: London bus videos (LondonInBits) • A bold failure: Rise & fall of Big …
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Japan launches road-rail bus service (Coach&Bus)
Billed as ‘the world’s first operational dual-mode vehicle’, the ASA Seaside Railway Corporation in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, is set to launch a new vehicle into service on 25 December. The vehicle is described as ‘essentially …
Continue readingIs the future of buses hydrogen or electric? (Wired)
Clean transport needs clean vehicles. New power developments are crucial for a mass transit revolution, and each has pros and cons. FINDING NEW WAYS to power the world’s vehicles has long been a vital component in …
Continue readingConverting diesel buses to electric sometimes cheaper (NextCity)
Faced with a goal to achieve a zero-emissions transit fleet by 2040, TriMet in Portland is exploring all of its options. The obvious solution for transit agencies to get to zero-emissions is to replace fossil-fuel-burning …
Continue readingBus turntables for limited spaces (UrbanTransport)
What do you do when a town is built so close to the hillside that the only major road runs just as narrowly between houses and finally ends at a small square that does not …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 11 October 2021
• Imberbus 2021 behind the scenes video (HiddenLondonHangouts) • Northern Virtual Reality simulation to assist disabled (Railway-Tech) • Fog on the Underground (ThomasBrissot) • Man builds home in style of a Grand Trunk Railway Station …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 24 September 2021
• Ian Visits the Northern Line Extension opening (IanVisits) • Diamond dissects the Battersea Droop on the Tube Map (DiamondGeezer) • Battersea Power Station Bullet Train’s lost plans (LondonLaunch) • BR logo designer appalled by …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 6 September 2021
• HS2 restoring listed Curzon Street station (RailTechnology) • Underground train Boxing Announcement (PriscillaOprescu) • Huddersfield’s Platform 1 crisis & mental health charity (PaulBigland) • Nancy’s tram project postponed in favour of trolleybus line (UrbanTransport) …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 20 August 2021
• Mott’s £6m plan approved for Hammersmith Bridge (ConstructIndex) • What is the City, Greenwich, & Lewisham railway? (Variably) • The future of electric buses is its own past (RidersBloc) • Former EV leader Toyota …
Continue readingIn Motion Charging for buses: Knowledge Brief (UITP)
Battery electric trolleybuses with In Motion Charging (IMC) are highly effective technology with huge economic and environmental potential: with passenger capacity, an infinite range, uninterrupted 24/7 operation, the flexibility of off-wire service and energy-efficient emission-free …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 30 July 2021
• Bus privatisation destroyed British systems – but there is hope (Guardian) • TfL property company plans to build up to 46,000 homes (ArchitectsJ) • Leeds ponders transforming iconic Holbeck Viaduct to ped High Line …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 19 July 2021
• Proposal to reopen Oxfordshire rail line (NewCivilEng) • Mind the Gap: Keeping trains & platforms level is a complex issue (IMechE) • A40 buslanes almost perfect, but stop short (Freewheeling) • Berlin’s severe new …
Continue readingThe problem with bus accessibility legislation (Freewheeling)
One example of where bad draftsmanship and bad policymaking have resulted in bad outcomes is the application of the Passenger Service Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 2005 (PSVAR) to coaches. The idea was that by the 1st …
Continue readingElectric bus fleet projects around the world (SustainableBus)
Electric bus adoption in public transport urban fleet is growing all over the world. It started in China, and it has taken a few years for other regions to start the transition. But now Europe is …
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 …
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