• Sound Transit launches Bellevue-Redmond Line 2 light rail service (Trains) • Why Norway is rethinking its reliance on electric cars (Vox) • Can car-loving LA sell riders a future on rails...
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2024/mondays-friday-reads-29-april-2024/
• TfL running shorter DLR trains to keep the fleet running (IanVisits) • Calls for answers after train on fire rolls through downtown London, Ont. (CBC) • History of British Rail Symbols: V...
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2024/friday-reads-26-april-2024/
• ‘Uncomfortable, unpleasant, unsafe’: How London’s Euston Station became hell on earth (The Independent) • New findings show trains are up to 80% cheaper than planes for domestic trave...
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2024/mondays-friday-reads-22-april-2024/
• Mexico City’s metro system is sinking fast, as are others: What to do? (Grist) • Long Island Rail Road’s over 100 year Track Record (Urban Omnibus) • Building Transit on a real, non-P...
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2024/friday-reads-19-april-2024/
• ‘Russia trying to sabotage European railways,’ says Czech transport minister (Brussels Signal) • Hammersmith Bridge to get a long-term cycle lane (Ian Visits) • TPE launches initiativ...
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2024/mondays-friday-reads-15-april-2024/
• £100m plan to electrify London’s buses announced (E+T) • New commuter-style map features all of London’s epic walking & cycling routes (Timeout) • Echoes of the Blitz: Underground sh...
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2024/friday-reads-12-april-2024/
What may this mean.That thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel,Revisit’st thus the glimpses of the moon. Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4 To Sleeper Train, Perchance to Dream of Europe In the late 19...
• London’s abandoned underground tunnels are red-hot right now (Sydney Morning Herald) • Line 4 automation complete on Paris metro (Int’l Railway Journal) • Cairo Metro & Alexandria Tra...
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2024/mondays-friday-reads-8-april-2024/
• Tube strikes called off after TfL and train drivers reach London Underground deal (MyLondon) • Alstom ‘runs out of time’ as it confirms plans to mothball Derby site (Business Desk) • ...
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2024/friday-reads-5-april-2024/
There has been a lot going on behind the scenes at LR Towers in the last few months. We have a new Friday / Monday Reads Editor, Daniel, who carries on the tradition. And we … The post LR Upd...
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2024/lr-update-april-2024/