Blogs about Public transport
12 blogs about Public transport.
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AirlineReporter
A Place to Share Your Passion for Airlines. Home of the AvGeek!
By David Parker Brown, et al. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Exploring interesting airports: BCB, Blacksburg, Virginia An aerial view of Virginia Tech/Montgomery Executive Airport in Blacksburg, VA. Photo courtesy of BCB Airport We usually cover specific events at airports, often relating to aircraft or airline events, but sometimes about milestones at …
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Articulated Bus Error
Occasional thoughts on public transit planning and the software of access measurement.
By Matt Laquidara. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Accounting for Elevation “Seattle hills” by chrisostermann is licensed under CC BY 2.0. I’ve recently improved my access analysis software to adjust walking speed based on change in elevation. The use of a constant walking speed, regardless of …
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The Beauty of Transport
Transport design, transport architecture, and transport's influence on art and culture. Part travelogue, part history, all transport (but sometimes tangentially so).
By Daniel Wright. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Never(?) Decreasing Circles (Railtrack/Network Rail major station logos, UK (continued)) One of the most enduringly popular articles on this website (at least in terms of clicks and re-posts) is a very early one, from 2013. It concerns the graphic identities created for Railtrack’s major stations …
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Cap'n Transit Rides Again
Here are some reasons to get people to shift from cars to transit….
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AirBnb can be really useful sometimes In the past several years I've seen a number of posts attacking the company AirBnb, which is fine, but often they go further and attack the general concept of short-term housing rental outside of hotels. …
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Still trying to fetch this feed, but last time we got ‘Connection timed out’.
Old photos from November 2014 Here’s my regular post of old photos from ten years ago. This time, it’s November 2014, plus a few from October 2014 that I missed last month. Another day, another train disruption. Plenty of unhappy …
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Human Transit
The professional blog of public transit consultant Jarrett Walker.
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San Francisco Bay Area: A Consistent Regional Mapping Standard? In the San Francisco Bay Area, the regional transportation planning body, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), has launched a major effort to improve the coordination between the region’s 27 transit agencies. One element of this, …
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London Reconnections
The leading source for independent news and analysis about transport in London and beyond. Award-winning coverage of transport infrastructure and politics alongside stories about the history of the Capital's transport networks.
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Friday Reads – 20 December 2024 • TfL updates staff uniforms with a new, brighter look (Rail UK) • Piccadilly line to remain suspended between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge until mid-January (Ian Visits) • Northumberland line: another success in the making …
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Melbourne on Transit
A blog about the service aspects of public transport in Melbourne, Australia.
By Peter Parker. 🇦🇺 More infoUpdated
Good buses, good politics and social media Members of parliament measure community sentiment by several means. It may be what they get asked about when in public, the volume of phone calls their office gets or the number of emails. Their staff …
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Pedestrian Observations
For Walkability and Good Transit, and Against Boondoggles and Pollution.
By Alon Levy. 🇫🇷 More infoUpdated
Consultant Slop and Europe’s Decision not to Build High-Speed Rail I’m sitting on a series of three trains to Rome, totaling 14 hours of travel. If a high-speed rail network is built connecting those cities, the trip can be reduced to about 7.5 hours: 2.5 …
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Transit Maps
A site devoted to the design and social impact of transit maps - subway maps, metro maps, bus maps, rail maps, ferry maps and more!
By Cameron Booth. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Submission – Unofficial Map: Tramways in Gdańsk, Poland by Arsen Mosiichuk, 2024 Submitted by Arsen, who says: Hello, this summer I with Sergey Steblina as art-director designed a transit map of Gdańsk trams. I am very interested what Transit Maps think about this. Transit Maps says: Overall, …
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Transit Sleuth
Transit sleuthing Seattle, Portland, and maybe a place near you.
By Adron Hall. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Unbelievable Luck: Recovering A Lost Wallet From The Bus On a bus to Redmond, a passenger found a wallet and returned it to the driver. Shortly after, the owner joyfully reclaimed it at the next stop. The unexpected reunion brought a sense of wonder …
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The Trolley Dodger
Musings on transit, past, present, and future.
By David Sadowski. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Back On Track The Chicago Surface Lines ran a fantrip on October 23, 1938 using PCC #4002, then just two years old. It toured the city carrying many railfans, and was credited as giving the fledgling Central Electric …