You need to know little about urban railways’ cartography to know the name Harry Beck, …
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Friday Reads – 6 December 2019
• History of Holborn Viaduct (HydeParkNow) • London 1933 Underground, Power and Substations Diagram (TransitMaps) • Repurposed Parisien transport infrastructure (FabricOfParis) • New Berlin airport & rail link to open, finally, October 2020 (IntlRailJ) • …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 20 December 2019
• How the Tube beat the New York subway (Guardian) • Overground station mosaic roundels a hit (TransportXtra) • Commercial reuses of disused Paris transport infra (FabricOfParis) • Is East Side Access really going to …
Continue readingSite design and hosting update
You’ll probably have spotted that the site now looks a bit different. We’ve been working on a new design behind the scenes for a while and, while we’d planned to hold off on pushing it live until Christmas, we’ve done so slightly early.
Continue readingNo Longer World Class Capacity
For many years TfL have run an investment programme grandly entitled ‘World Class Capacity’. Its worthy aim was to introduce a frequency of trains on the Northern, Jubilee and Victoria that could be considered world …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 2 December 2019
• Introducing the Central London Walking Network (LondonLivingStreets) • Sheffield’s tram-train a success so far (Wired) • Why Paris wants to tax Amazon deliveries (CityLab) • Redesign cities with women in mind (Globe&Mail) • Augmented …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 29 November 2019
• TfL’s cancelled roundel (IanVisits) • London recent aerial photography (Colossal) • UK railways mostly nationalised – by other countries (LondonEconomic) • Medieval trade routes interactive map (MerchantMachine) • Copenhagen increasing parking costs 100 times …
Continue readingGoodbye to a Friend: PLCD / Walthamstow Writer
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Paul Corfield (PLCD), LR author (as Walthamstow Writer) and invaluable member of our Editorial Team. Paul will have been known to many of you …
Continue readingSchrodinger’s Cab Firm: Uber’s Existential Crisis
London’s minicab regulator, TfL, has revoked Uber’s licence to operate in the British capital, one of its largest world markets. Getting that licence back may require the firm to finally confront a question it cannot …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 25 November 2019
• Westminster Tube station gets Africa themed roundels (IanVisits) • How Barcelona replaced car domination with SuperBlocks (Vox) • Are train companies doing enough to help disabled passengers? (Which?) • The importance of station second …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 22 November 2019
• Map of tunnel boring machines under the Thames (IanVisits) • Is surge pricing a fair way to manage demand? (BBC) • Rising Paris Métro ridership is driving new solutions (CityLab) • NYC is spending …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 18 November 2019
• Lyft bikeshare shut out of London (Bloomberg) • TfL publishes tables of Tube capacity (CityMetric) • Rotterdam’s crowdfunded Luchtsingel pedestrian bridge (PopUpCity) • The future of transportation is the bus, bike, and elevator (Slate) …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 15 November 2019
• 2nd on-demand bus trial begins (TfL) • Can poor public transport explain Britain’s productivity problems? (CityMetric) • Decay & repair of the Dingle Overhead Railway Tunnel (ChrisIles) • For better transit for all, understand …
Continue readingLR Meetup at Royal Oak Pub, 14th November
It’s meetup time! This starts at 6pm. As always, these are informal affairs where the beer flows, offering an opportunity to put faces to the names of a few LR writers as well as regular …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 13 November 2019
• Underground to improve broadband speeds (IanVisits) • The end for the Cairn-Gorm mountain railway? (RailTechnology) • Boo! Who’s afraid of the pedestrian mall? (Curbed) • Gradials and the unreasonable road network (Transportist) • Sydney …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 8 November 2019
• Moleman of Hackney dug his own London tunnels (Londonist)• Montréal Métro station architecture showcase (MTLBlog)• Naples tram network reopening imminent (UrbanTransport)• Portland’s MAX LRT downtown tunnel study (OregonMetro)• Quito Ecuador’s new Metro opening next …
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