• Touring the Rebuilding Old Street Station: Video (Hidden London Hangouts) • The Streets with no Game – they bore & stress pedestrians (Aeon) • Incorporating Art, Wayfinding, & Culture in Urban Rail Stations: Video (Transit Mapping Symposium) • Van Hool: Swansong for a major bus manufacturer (Urban Transport Magazine) • Cruise self-driving cars were suspended in California. It could affect the whole industry. (Slate) • Pedestrian safety is not a two-way street (Carbon Upfront!) • Going Deep on the Modern Art of the New York City Subway (CityLab) • I Took a Cruise on The World’s LAST O ..read more

• ‘Nervous of its own boldness’: the (almost) radical rebirth of King’s Cross lands (The Guardian) • This TfL AI experiment reveals how Tube station capacity could be increased – without building anything new (James O’Malley) • Why the world is running out of sand for infrastructure (BBC) • The World’s Most Recycled Material – Asphalt: Video (Practical Engineering) • Haneda Airport Access Line to Open 3 New Express Routes Into Central Tokyo (Japan Station) • Invest in Transit the Right Way (Vital City) • How Toronto is winning the public transit pursuit (Economist Impact) • Study Links Prefere ..read more

• 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: Video (Jago Hazzard) • When Thameslink Trains Went to Guildford: Video (Geoff Marshall) • Kuala Lumpur: A big metro system with few riders? (Reece Martin) • New private rooms on Tokaido Shinkansen change the way we travel from Tokyo to Kyoto (SoraNews24) • The Architectural History of the BART System Exhibition (Archinect) • How to Read Renaissance Maps (The Collector) Industry News – updated every business ..read more

• ‘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 travel (Rail UK) • The Unlikely New Bike Lanes Gracing the Scottish Capital (Bloomberg) • Highbury & Islington North London Line Station – History of a north London icon: Video (Rebuild Highbury) • How China’s buses shaped the world’s EV revolution (BBC) • Car tires pollute, & regulators are finally doing something about it (Slate) • US Seeks to Heal Community Scars from Interstate Highways, but it’s mostly B ..read more

• 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-Political, Plan is Powerful (Reece Martin) • An old rail track in Northern California could become a 300-mile hiking trail (LA Times) • Rochester’s Inner Loop Project Shows What Happens After a Highway Dies (CityLab) • These Cities Are Trying to Drive SUVs Off Their Streets (Next City) • Kitchen on Rails – Ukraine’s Food Train Rides: Video (The Gaze) • 11 transport fantasies that never got off the ground (The Gua ..read more

• ‘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 initiative to help neurodiverse passengers build travel confidence (RailUK) • Amtrak’s Profitable Auto Train is picking up more passengers (Axios) • Brightline, End to End (Railway Age) • MTA to spend $100M to revitalize 2 grimy, historic NYC subway stations (Gothamist) • The Midwest’s other subway/light rail – St Louis: Video (Heartland Urbanist) • Cream & railways: The rise and fall of the Devon split (Vittles) In ..read more

• £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 shelters in Ukraine & London (London Transport Museum) • Eclipse Special Runs into a Cloud (Railway Age) • What other cities can learn from Washington DC’s transit recovery (Vox) • Mexico City’s Metro is Sinking Fast. Yours Could Be Next (WIRED) • Guerilla Bus Benches are Spurring Berkeley to Step Up for Bus Riders (Next City) • VIA Rail’s Ocean from Montreal to Halifax: Video (Miles in Transit) Industry N ..read more

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 1980s a sign appeared the planned Manchester service depot sported the sign « Le Eurostar habite ici » to advertise the coming Eurostar Regional and Nightstar trains. Similar signs appeared at Glasgow Central station. We last looked at sleepers in The (Caledonian) Sleeper Awakes; this time we investigate a bold wagon lit gambit that failed, and where and how the trains are operating now. The UK entered ..read more

• 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 Tram network updates (Urban Transport Magazine) • Why Harry Styles fans are on pilgrimage to a viaduct (The Guardian) • Crosstown Linkline, Ancestor of the Overground: Video (Jago Hazzard) • Indianapolis: The new US BRT gold standard (TheFox&TheCity) • Survey Says: American Walking, & Walking Data, Is Getting Worse (Streetsblog) • Bier Restaurant workig model railway, w/ sidings for every table! Video ..read more

A quick reminder to those interested that our next meeting of 2024 is on Tuesday 9th April at the Crosse Keys pub in the City of London. Normally at least a couple of us are there by 6.30 p.m. Join us anytime in the evening. For more details click ‘Monthly Meetup – 2nd Tuesday Evening in the City‘ at the top of the home page. If you wish to join our small cozy, select group then see you there! The post Tuesday LR pub Meetup 9th April appeared first on London Reconnections ..read more