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• Elizabeth Line autumn target: through running & Bond Street opening (ModernRailways) • Lyon announces new express light rail project, cheaper than métro option (IntlRailJ) • Istanbul’s Sirkeci Station 45 years after the last Orient Express (RailTech) • The architecture of Montreal’s Metro masterpiece stations: video...

• London’s imperfect geometry from above: streets, buses, Tube entrances… (BernhardLang) • Victorian 3D paper concertina Thames Tunnel viewer for sale (IanVisits) • The invention of jaywalking (CliveThompson) • NYC speed cameras don’t operate evenings & weekends, leading to deaths (Streetsblog) • NYC MTA slowing buses...

• Grimshaw’s line wide Crossrail station design (ArchitectsJ) • TfL to expand contactless payments outside London (IanVisits) • Flatpack railway stations are coming down the line (TheTimes) • New battery-electric ultra-light trains designed & built for Southend Pier Railway (T&UT) • EV capital Norway wants citizens...

• TfL’s new property company to build offices & homes to generate transport cash (MyLondon) • TfL to expand contactless payments outside London (IanVisits) • The 5.20 from Kyiv restored suburban rail offers hope as clean up intensifies (Guardian) • Seattle expanding its LRT network fivefold: video (B1M) • Moldova’s...

• Northern Line Bank Branch to reopen Monday 16 May (IanVisits) • Fare caps might get transit out of the pandemic slump (NextCity) • US cities testing benefits of Universal Basic Mobility (CityLab) • 16 states sue US Post Office plan to buy 100,000s of gas-guzzling mail trucks (Verge) • Badly designed nudges on highway...

• Brno donating trams & trolleybuses to help rebuild Kharkiv, Ukraine (TheMayor) • Before there was Crossrail, there was Crosslink: video (JagoHazzard) • Harry Beck’s 1935 Imperial Airways diagram (TransitMaps) • Art Deco design of Antwerp’s St Anna’s Tunnel (EverybodyHatesATourist) • A European regional rail line...

Our next monthly LR meetups is on at the usual pub, The Royal Oak in Borough, in the Upstairs room starting from 6:30pm on Thursday 12 May 2022. All are welcome, and conversation is often as much general as it is transport-specific. If you feel comfortable socialising, then we very much look forward seeing you … The...

• HS2 under fire for Euston waste removal by road flipflop (NewCivilEng) • European cities urged to ban cars to stop funding Russia war (CitiesToday) • Romford-Upminster Line: Video of the successful, unwanted railway (JagoHazzard) • Sweden within easy reach of London by train (Independent) • Searching for lost 76th Street...

Unsurprisingly, the subject of Crossrail/Elizabeth line opening dates is a hot topic in the transport community at the moment. In this article, we address that big purple elephant in the room. The truth is that Crossrail’s opening date (Or the Elizabeth line, as it is finally becoming) is currently a moveable feast. This...

• A flash sale is not a transport strategy: What Is wrong with British rail (inews) • Pollution back to illegal levels on ex-zero emissions London street (Guardian) • Portland’s Tilikum Crossing longest US non-traffic bridge (SEGD) • American Airlines’ ‘bus-as-flight’ connections due to pilot shortage & fuel costs...

• London car parking permits are cheaper than bike storage (BBC) • Long before NYC’s High Line, there was the High Bridge (UntappedNYC) • Amtrak seeks control of Washington DC Union Station for expansion (Trains) • Parking harms businesses not bikes nor buses (NewsroomNZ) • E-scooters that stop if you speed or ride dangerously...