You need to know little about urban railways’ cartography to know the name Harry Beck, …
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In Pictures: Overground Class 710s Enter Service
After what can only be described as a painful gestation, the first of London Overground’s new Class 710s have now entered service.
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 20 May 2019
• Hammersmith Bridge closes to cars & traffic evaporates (TwitterThread) • Birmingham Snow Hill Tunnel sidings (RailBusinessDaily) • Finland constructing its first intercity tram line (RailTech) • New Belgrade Centre station as city building (NYTimes) …
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• Network to monitor Thames cruise ship air pollution (AirQualityNews) • Grand Paris Express tunnelling video (FranceTVInfo) • Lyft fights to avoid Disabilities Act (Politico) • Why free public transport doesn’t work (Atlantic) • 80 …
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• More possible options for a Euston-Canary Wharf express tube (CityMetric) • French rural railways await possible M. Beeching (RailwayTechnology) • Bus stations don’t have to be second rate (TreeHugger) • Two abandoned Milan rail …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 10 May 2019
• Mind the Gafs at Kentish Town (HydeParkNow) • 8th European TramDriver Championship in Bruxelles (RailwayNews) • Glasgow calls for new urban rail network (IRailJournal) • A day in the life of a NUMTOT (Curbed) …
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• Re-regulate Manchester buses to improve the air (AirQuality) • Seven new electric ferries for Copenhagen (Cruise&Ferry) • Small town’s UberBus imperfect solution (CityLab) • NYC bus lanes sped up service with minimal driver impact …
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• Birmingham Moor Street expansion part of One Station strategy (RailEngineer) • More deaths in Leeds from transport-related air pollution than Shanghai (AirQualityNews) • Brussels celebrates its Tramiversary (Indie) • Sweden’s flight shaming movement (PRI) …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 29 April 2019
• Building over Moorgate station (Building) • London electric car charge map (MappingLondon) • Tottenham Court Rd cuts both ways again (HydeParkNow) • Musk’s DC-Baltimore car tunnel idea worse than pointless (Jalopnik) • New trains …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 26 April 2019
• It’s the Beadles’ (& Burlington Arcade’s) 200th anniversary (HydeParkNow) • Dublin public transport use up, car use down (IntelligentTransport) • Toronto’s transit de-devolution battle (Spacing) • Railways and literature (NYReviewOfBooks) • Crowdfunding reduces bikelash …
Continue readingSSR: Towards the Proposed March 2020 Timetable
At London Reconnections we don’t want to appear to always be bringing bad or disappointing news but events over the past year meant that we rarely have good things to write about. It makes a …
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• Tube map of London roads (DiamondGeezer) • Homes England to winch homes onto London rooftops (EnvJ) • Trolley canal boats and canal railways (LowTechMag) • Cycling tunnels under the Tyne dug by hand (Guardian) …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 19 April 2019
• Analog Tube map prototyping (EsriArcGISBlog) • Paris to trial all night Metro & Tram lines (MetroReport) • Uber admits directly competing with transit (Jalopnik) • Story of Toronto streetcars’ bullseyes (SeanMarshall) • Old NYC …
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• The Shipping Forecast podcast (BBC) • Noah’s climate train travels across Europe (RailwayTechnology) • The 6 types of urban tribes (CityMetric) • Inside 45 year old 2nd Ave Subway tunnel (NY1) • Vancouver Greenways …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 12 April 2019
• Why are fewer people riding the Tube? (TheDeveloper) • £2 Tube coin design evolution and details (HydeParkNow) • Nottingham Park commuter tunnel mis-spec (AtlasObscura) • Salford students built Great War tank tram (USalford) • …
Continue readingULEZ: Why The (Slightly) Lower Emission Zone Matters
00:01 hours on Monday 8th April 2019 saw the introduction of the so-called Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ). We look at the past, present and future of low emission zones in London, what is trying …
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