• Birmingham Eastside Metro Extension Plans Brought Forward (Railway News) • Baltimore’s Red Line Should Be a Stadtbahn (Martha Lauren) • To Fight Fare Evasion, PATH Turnstiles ‘Speak Up’ (Railway Age) • Stockholm Plans to Ban Heavy Polluting Cars From City Center (Bloomberg CityLab) • G Class tram mock-up (Daniel Bowen) • Japan’s Oldest Monorail Permanently Closes Next Month (Sora…
It’s sometimes said that rail passengers want a ‘boringly reliable’ service. In other words, one where it’s unusual for a train to be late or, worse, the railway to be closed. Sadly, for a whole host of reasons, the railway isn’t boringly reliable at the moment. There’s the industrial relations. After last week’s welcome news of a possible breakthrough in…
Flying for work is all too common for some employees. But on some common routes like London-Amsterdam, traveling by rail over plane will reduce the employee’s carbon footprint by 93%. Yet, too few companies have embraced rail in their business travel policies, a new briefing by the Travel Smart Campaign finds. Business travel represents 15-20% of global air travel[1]. At…
Today And Then Like most American cities, Milwaukee is, in general terms, unrecognisable today when compared with, say, the 1930s. The public transport began with horse trams … … later to become an extensive electric network serving all of the city. There were some impressive frequencies as here on line 11. Note the first tram times and the last short…