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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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