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
A new era for Icelandair: flying the inaugural revenue service on their first-ever Airbus Icelandair’s first A321LR, TF-IAA, at a gate at Stockholm Arlanda Airport following its inaugural revenue flight from KEF Icelandair has, other than their domestic/feeder airline, long had an all-Boeing mainline fleet consisting of 737 MAX-8 …
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Articulated Bus Error
Occasional thoughts on public transit planning and the software of access measurement.
By Matt Laquidara. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
How Replaceable are Seattle's Transit Routes? “Seattle AM General trolleybus downtown, 1986” by Steve Morgan is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Ridership-based route productivity measurements—those which compare a route’s average number of riders to its cost of operation—are common within transit …
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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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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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Monday’s Friday Reads – 20 January 2025 • TfL aims to use more AI to improve platform safety (BBC) • UK’s 20mph speed limits ‘are cutting car insurance costs’ (The Guardian) • Underfunded and Overwhelmed: The Struggle for Public Transit Funding in …
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Melbourne on Transit
A blog about the service aspects of public transport in Melbourne, Australia.
By Peter Parker. 🇦🇺 More infoUpdated
[UN 193] Top PT priorities for Prahran and Werribee Victorians in Prahran and Werribee will elect their new state Legislative Assembly member of parliament in by-elections to happen on Saturday February 8. This is due to the resignation of Greens MP Sam Hibbins in …
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Pedestrian Observations
For Walkability and Good Transit, and Against Boondoggles and Pollution.
By Alon Levy. 🇫🇷 More infoUpdated
Quick Note: the Experience of Train Stations I was at a ReThink event about Penn Station the other day; it didn’t talk about through-running but about Penn Station redesign, as Richard Cameron presented options for rebuilding the station in-place, of course without …
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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 – Official Map: Madrid Cercanías Rail Network, December 2024 Submitted by Juan, who says: I send the new version of the Renfe-Madrid Cercanías network. It seems to me that it has improved quite a lot the previous version. This previous version had crossroads, angles, …
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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 …