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• TfL fast orbital bus routes have been rejected before: Will Sadiq’s Superloop fare better? (OnLondon) • 10-platform HS2 Euston design pricier than original 11-platform design (NatlAuditOffice) • Kay Hughes is HS2’s guardian of the design vision (RIBAJournal) • Lines of Duty – how Reg leaked a secret document & saved Britain’s railways: Podcast (BBCRadio4) … The post Friday Reads – 31 March 2023 appeared first on London Reconnections.
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• Flight passenger duty cut sparks surge in UK domestic flights (Independent) • It’s time to radically rethink London’s roads: starting w/ its Red Routes (OnLondon) • Likely impact of approved Highline project will have on Camden & pedestrian access (NewLondonArch) • Stockholm’s ghost metro train & abandoned metro station for the dead (AtlasObscura) • … The post Monday’s Friday Reads – 27 March 2023 appeared first on London Reconnections.
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• Attempts to restart the Western Rail Link to Heathrow (IanVisits) • 20 years after Congestion Charge began, let’s recognise TfL as a tech innovator (OnLondon) • Weirdest ride ever! Riding through London’s new, pre-effluent super sewer (CyclingWeekly) • Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars (Economist-£) • NY … The post Friday Reads – 24 March 2023 appeared first on London Reconnections.
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Just in case anyone thought this might be a whodunnit concerning a pair of minimal trousers, let it be known that its current use is to describe an apparently strange feature of the Crossrail timetable. One of the features of current and May 2023 timetables is a 2tph (trains per hour) service that runs in … The post The Mysterious Case of the Gidea Park Shorts appeared first on London Reconnections.
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• Elizabeth line is now the UK’s busiest railway (IanVisits) • The Beauty of Toilets: Southern Railway stations shine anew (BeautyOfTransport) • World’s longest cycle tunnel opens in Bergen Norway (Jalopnik) • New York has new Public Spaces Czar to de-clutter sidewalks from obstacles (CityLab) • Colouring the New York City Subway Map: Video (NYTransitMuseum) … The post Monday’s Friday Reads – 20 March 2023 appeared first on London Reconnections.
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• TfL going paper ticket free will leave Londoners behind (LondonTravelWatch) • The Short Story of London’s Trolleybuses: Video (JagoHazzard) • Reopening of abandoned Merseyside railway under consideration (AnonWidower) • Why Nancy is scrapping its magically bonkers monorail-bus-trams: Video (TimTraveler) • Detailed photos of Stockholm’s colourful cave metro stations: Video (RailPhotoArt) • Budapest has world’s … The post Friday Reads – 17 March 2023 appeared first on London Reconnections.
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• TfL data shows 20mph speed limits significantly reduce collisions & injuries (IntelligentTransport) • Underground perfection & imperfection, Tube Mapper’s Luke Agbaimoni: Video (RailNatter) • Vienna’s symphony of public transport: Video (UrbanCyclingInst) • The good, the bad, & the ugly about Brooklyn’s IBX proposal (Vanshnookenraggen) • Three architectural visions of a rebuilt NCY Penn Station … The post Monday’s Friday Reads – 13 March 2023 appeared first on London Reconnections.
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As previously announced we have changed our venue and day of the week that we have a pub meet. It still takes place on the second week of the month. For the reasons for the change see this post. Where and When We will now meet on Tuesday 14th March from 6.30 p.m. onwards at … The post TUESDAY Meetup 14th March at Crosse Keys appeared first on London Reconnections.
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• Parts of HS2, & the Lower Thames Crossing delayed two years due to soaring costs (Guardian) • Le Métro in Île de France: a new year retrospective (FabricOfParis) • Using a railway carriage as a bridge (EuroGunzel) • How airports & sea ports catch radioactive cargo, such as uranium at Heathrow (Wired) • The fight over … The post Friday Reads – 10 March 2023 appeared first on London Reconnections.
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Just occasionally, something good happens on the internet. Jon Brady, a reporter at Scotland’s Daily Record newspaper, tweeted that he’d unearthed a two hour MP3 containing all ScotRail’s automated station announcements. A coder named Matt Eason split them into 2,440 individual MP3s and invited the internet to help transcribe them in a shared document. It took less than two hours. You … The post Everything I learned from Scotrail’s automated station announcements appeared first on London Reconnections.
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• Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London (Forbes) • Abandoned UK railway links coming back into their own (NewCivilEng) • Evolution of a NA streetcar city into a modern metropolis: Video (UrbanCyclingInst) • Service disruption prevention – treat it as a science (RobMayo) • Challenges in designing metaphorical metro maps for info presentation … The post Monday’s Friday Reads – 6 March 2023 appeared first on London Reconnections.
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We are changing our pub venue and day of the week when we will meet. We will give more details nearer the time but for the moment please note that from March onward we will meet on the Second TUESDAY in the month at the Crosse Keys in Gracechurch Street in the City of London. … The post Meetup: Change of day and change of location appeared first on London Reconnections.
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• Bank Tube station’s new Cannon Street entrance has opened (IanVisits) • Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London (Forbes) • Almost 1 in 10 local UK bus services were axed last year (Guardian) • The evolution of railway watches & their importance to signalling: Video (RailNatter) • European design of Quebec City’s Future … The post Friday Reads – 3 March 2023 appeared first on London Reconnections.
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