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• Blackfriars (road) Bridge repairs & history (BBC) • Southern Region Kent Electrification scheme 1958 film: Video (BennetBrookRy) • A spiral of motorway road signs at Somerset House (IanVisits) • New Yorkers are fed up with helicopter noise (CityLab) • The consistent design language of Sydney’s public transport: Video (T2Norway) • The covered walkway that … google.com, pub-4893662980971642, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0 The post Monday’s Friday Reads – 10 April 2023 appeared first on London Reconnections.
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Where and When Our second Meetup at the Crosse Keys pub located at 9 Gracechurch Street in the City of London will be on Tuesday 11th April from 6.30 p.m. onwards. The first meeting was regarded as quite successful for an initial meeting at a new location. The increase in numbers appears to show that … The post TUESDAY Meetup 11th April appeared first on London Reconnections.
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• ‘Women on the Footplate’ against unacceptable behaviour speech at Heritage Ry Conf 2021: Video (JoanneCrompton) • Wales launches 1st VivaRail Class 230 hybrid train into service (RailTechMag) • Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters (BBC) • Paris prosecutors open criminal inquiry into Métro air quality (Guardian) • Ghost stations of the Kyiv Metropoliten (EuroGunzel) … The post Good Friday Reads – 7 April 2023 appeared first on London Reconnections.
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In his 2021 London Mayoral Election Manifesto, Sadiq Khan proposed giving names (and potentially their own colours) to London Overground lines to give them a unique identity. “TfL’s London Overground network has grown considerably over recent years, and to reflect this I’ll launch a programme to name individual routes, giving each its own identity.” Sadiq … The post The Flowering of Overground lines & colours – How Soon is Now? appeared first on London Reconnections.
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• HS2 faces Euston tunnel dilemma after Euston station mothballed (NewCivilEng) • With EVs decreasing fuel duty, congestion & road user charges are the future (OnLondon) • Ingenious & life-enhancing tale of two new London footbridges (Guardian) • Snow – rail workers battle winter’s in this Oscar nominated short: Video (Aeon) • France to require … The post Monday’s Friday Reads – 3 April 2023 appeared first on London Reconnections.
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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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• Review of TfL’s recent rail & Tube upgrades (IanVisits) • Disabled campaigners are to thank for accessibility on the Elizabeth Line (TransportForAll) • Cardiff Council announces vision for Cardiff Crossrail (SWalesMetro) • Designer selected for Dublin Metrolink detailed design (RailwayPro) • Induced Distance: Studies look at drivers’ congestion costs but never walkers’ costs (Treehugger) … The post Monday’s Friday Reads – 27 February 2023 appeared first on London Reconnections.
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• Leicester railway station redevelopment & revamp renders released (BBC) • ‘15-minute city’: the mundane planning theory terrifying conspiracists (Guardian) • Cardiff tram-train route consultation underway (MetroReport) • Overnight train between London & Berlin to start May 2023 (IanVisits) • Canada’s remote north school trains (CBC) • Why North American buses are worse than other … The post Friday Reads – 24 February 2023 appeared first on London Reconnections.
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