Blogs about Public transport

A Sun Country 737 Departs MSP on a frigid morning. – Photo: Nick Benson / JetTip.net Inaugurals, brand new airlines, airline sunsets, new planes, unique planes. What do these all have in common? They’re a …

“KCM 6971 with Mariners advertising at Convention Place Station” by SounderBruce is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Whenever I talk about the way that I measure transit access, I run into a problem. The numbers …

So farewell then, Havant station’s 1930s railway toilets. It is doubtful whether many passengers will mourn their loss, but they are another piece of railway heritage that has slipped beyond grasp. If you care about …

Tuesday 21st March 2023 It’s not often a locally based community led climate action campaigning group puts its money where its mouth is and starts up a brand new route to encourage motorists to leave …

Link21, the nascent megaproject to beef up the Bay Area's passenger rail network, features at its core a new underground transbay passenger rail crossing between Oakland and San Francisco. One of the major dilemmas facing …

Alexander asked on Twitter about the series of posts I did on farebox recovery ratios reported to the United States National Transit Database from 2007 through 2010. The Federal Transit Administration has continued to publish …

AFL opener at the MCG had a big crowd: 88,084 people. Here’s a quick timeline of the immediate period after the game, and the trains to the northeast. 21:54. Game finishes as scheduled 21:54. Scheduled …

In late February, the BART board held its annual board workshop. Major themes this year were financial stability and improving customer experience to regrow ridership. The need for a sustainable funding strategy including new funding …

A while back I wrote about Ada Palmer’s glorious science fiction series Terra Ignota, which I really do recommend to anyone with the slightest interest in philosophy, politics, or history. But I called out one …

Just in case anyone thought this might be a whodunnit concerning a pair of minimal trousers, let it be known that its current use is to describe an apparently strange feature of the Crossrail timetable. …

Do you know the name Paul Younis?If you don't recognise it, he's the secretary of the Department of Transport and Planning. In other words he is, on paper, our top transport bureaucrat. His roles include …

When Andrew Cuomo was compelled to resign, there was a lot of hope that the state would reset and finally govern itself well. The effusive language I was using at the time, in 2021 and …

We often describe ourselves, in this hobby, as “lone wolves” because our vocabulary is biased toward narrating our experience in only terms of our output, the models we make and the stuff of our collections. …

This is a warning.If you come to this blog for railway-related reasons, this is about as good as it gets. I went to Long Buckby station and, because it is miles from anywhere, I didn't …

I was recently asked for some advice on railfanning near the Trans-Canada Highway between Winnipeg, Manitoba and Regina, Saskatchewan. I’m sharing a portion of this route here. Feel free to chime in with your own …