[URBAN NOTE] Two mass transit links, from awkwardly rising London to Robert Moses in New York City

[rfmcdonald]

• In The New York Times, Michael Kimmelman reports on the Crossrail mass transit line in London. It sounds promising, even in the era of Brexit.


• Emily Nonko at Curbed argues that the underfunding of mass transit in NYC by Robert Moses is the cause of the current crisis.

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[ffutures]

My house overlooks the West end of Crossrail, the Royal Oak portal where the trains actually go underground - it's about 80 yards north of me. Unfortunately there's not going to be a lot to see since they're still in a cutting at that point and don't get to the surface for a couple of hundred yards. Living so close does mean that I got to see quite a lot of the early stages going on, including some of the industrial archaeology and the big tunnel boring machines moving in. If you follow this link there are some pictures - unfortunately some are being blocked by Photobucket and it may be some time before I sort it out:

http://ffutures.livejournal.com/tag/crossrail