• HS2 confirms Euston tunnels construction has been put hold (RailTechnology) • UK’s not so Smart Motorways have been cancelled (Roads) • TfL is pushing on with the DLR extension to Thamesmead (IanVisits) • The all white design of Karlsruhe’s new light rail tunnel (ArchDaily) • Private jet emissions in Europe rocket 855% since start of pandemic (Quartz) • The…
Monday’s Friday Reads – 24 April 2023
• UK Orient Express dropped due to border hassles (RailTech) • ScotRail removing peak rail fares for six month trial (RailTechnology) • Rotterdam opens last extension of Line B, to the beach! (RailwayPro) • The $7BN plan to save New York’s hated Penn Station: Video (B1M) • North American parking reform is snowballing (CNU) • The derailment dangers of long…
Superloop: Analysis, hopefully not paralysis
Someone at City Hall found the box of crayons. On the 28th of March, Transport for London unveiled a map of a new transport proposal. It featured a colour scheme to rival the New Jersey Transit disco stripes, a stylised loop around outer London, and a name that brings a certain ABBA song to mind. But what exactly is a…
Friday Reads – 28 April 2023
• Euston, we have a problem (RailwayNews) • Île de France new tramway accomplishments & developments (FabriqueDeParis) • The incredible 1950s flywheel powered Gyrobus: Video (Megaprojects) • The Transit Tour Guide of Boston (TrainsBusesPeople) • Why you can’t go directly to the Amtrak platform to wait, not explained (Vox) • Parking lots across North America are being turned into housing…
Monday’s Friday Reads – 1 May 2023
• Kentish Town Tube station to close 26 June for a year for essential improvements (RailAdvent) • Active travel is more than bikes, it include accessibility devices, wheelchairs &c (AccessibleLink) • Absurd 200 foot railway dismantled after court closes shipping loophole (TheDrive) • Boston subway lines ran at half speed in March because it lost paperwork (Vice) • The global…
Cover Story (Workington Bus Station, Workington, Cumbria, UK)
Sometimes you seek out transport architecture, at others transport architecture is thrust upon you, just as it was when I accidentally ended up in Workington a couple of months ago. With poor weather forecast on one of the days of a trip to the Lake District, I spent the day hopping buses on what turned […]
Cover Story (Workington Bus Station, Workington, Cumbria, UK)
Sometimes you seek out transport architecture, at others transport architecture is thrust upon you, just as it was when I accidentally ended up in Workington a couple of months ago. With poor weather forecast on one of the days of a trip to the Lake District, I spent the day hopping buses on what turned […]
How Serifs Lost the Road War but Won the Streets
It is 1961. At Benson Airfield in south Oxfordshire, a test car driver employed by the Roads Research Laboratory is revving the engine of his Morris Oxford and preparing to release the handbrake. With his car (unbalanced atop due to the addition of a large road sign attached to its roof) aiming towards a small […]
A Sense of Place (White Hart Lane Station, London, UK)
You will remember that my knowledge of football can be transcribed onto the reverse of a postage stamp, possibly with room left over, and that what knowledge I do possess is thanks to my other half’s family being Portsmouth FC supporters; an emotional rollercoaster, it has to be said. I hope this will explain how […]
A Fearsome Beauty (Cambridge North station, Cambridgeshire, UK)
When engineering and design company Atkins presented the city of Cambridge with a sparkling gift, it must have felt rather pleased. It had simultaneously provided a brand new station and answered the question of how to ensure that same station embodied the character of the local area even though there was barely a ‘there’ there […]