• Design launch of the new London Underground Piccadilly line trains (RailEngineer) • Now is the time for road pricing (FreeWheeling) • 100 year old cart & rails found sticking out of Cornish cliff (CornwallLive) …
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Friday Reads – 12 March 2021
• Let’s look within Sir Peter Hendy’s Union Connectivity Review (FreeWheeling) • The case for Manchester bus re-regulation (CityMonitor) • The cycling prescription for better health (Guardian) • Norway’s ship tunnel approved: the world’s first …
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• Top court confirms UK has broken air pollution law (AirQualityNews) • London Cycle Routes YouTube channel shows safe routes (Road.CC) • Strap hanger advertising, & some unused concepts (LTMuseum) • Berlin gets Germany’s first …
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• History of British railway freight control from telegraphs to TOPS (NewcomenSoc) • Why some bike shares work & others don’t (BBC) • Graham F’s video pick: Zürich snowplow tram cab ride (ZürichTramVideos) • Locomotive …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 19 February 2021
• Air pollution in US subway systems stuns researchers (Guardian) • Reopening disused King’s Cross Gasworks tunnel for ECML boost (RailEngineer) • Fancy driving an HS1 train? Javelin train simulator launched (IanVisits) • Uncovering history …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 12 February 2021
• 100 Years of Tube Trains video by LU’s Head of Train Engineering (LTMuseumFriends) • 5 more bridges join illuminated Thames, for world’s longest artwork (IanVisits) • Fossil fuels caused 8.7m deaths globally in 2018: …
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• HS2 starts construction of Old Oak Common crossover box (IanVisits) • Hidden London Hangouts digs deeper at Piccadilly Circus station (LTM) • Sweden’s interactive Arctic bus shelter (Dezeen) • Public lifts & escalators for …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 22 January 2021
• London buses converted to Covid ambulances (Guardian) • The archaeology of HS2 (RailStaff) • Welcome to the time capsule Art Deco Railway Hotel (MessyNessy) • The chic garments made from WWII escape maps (AtlasObscura) …
Continue readingCity car park to be turned into cycle delivery hub (IanVisits)
Part of an underground car park in the City of London is to be turned into a space for delivery services by bicycle around the City of London. The underground car park at London Wall …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 18 January 2021
• My Routemaster Passion live YouTube show Monday 18 Jan 6.15pm (LTMFriends) • Nine Elms ped/cycling bridge paused for council rethink (NewCivilEng) • The Millennium Inclinator: London’s most obscure transport? (JagoHazzard) • Is Cambridge Autonomous …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 11 January 2021
• TfL revises & botches Thameslink addition to Tube Map (DiamondGeezer) • Transported music: Delightful links between transport and opera (LTMuseum) • Netherlands is transforming old ashtrays into bike charging stations (FastCompany) • Lund Sweden …
Continue readingBoxing Day’s Friday Reads – 26 December 2020
• Xmas DLR preliminary funding present for Thamesmead (IanVisits) • And a second entrance present for Surrey Quays station (IanVisits) • When the Big 4 railways banded together to run an airline (AirportOfCroydon) • How …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 4 December 2020
• A deeper dig into Aldwych (HiddenLondonHangout) • The rise and fall of Broad Street Station (ALondonInheritance) • Climate change hits Chicago cyclist (StreetsBlog) • Toronto Police embarrass themselves with cyclist speed traps – streets …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 30 November 2020
• Restoring a heritage London Underground roundel totem (IanVisits) • Alexandra Palace’s never opened Tube station – video (JagoHazzard) • A conversation with London’s Walking & Cycling Commissioner (StreetsBlog) • Clermont-Ferrand’s one-off monorail tram now …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 27 November 2020
• London hospital trust to pay £250k for a LTN for public health benefits (Guardian) • Do bike lanes have an accessibility problem? (CityLab) • Finding City Road, Islington’s abandoned Tube station video (JagoHazzard) • …
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