Blogs about Public transport
20 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. 🇺🇸Updated
From the Taxiway: Spotting at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport A Condor Airbus A330 with Mt. Rainier in the background. It is one thing to smell jet fuel (which we did), but we also enjoyed the smell of burning rubber after each aircraft touched down. …
Feed Roughly 19 posts per year. Started in .
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Articulated Bus Error
“Occasional thoughts on public transit planning and the software of access measurement.” By Matt Laquidara. 🇺🇸Updated
The Aftermath “Shattered” by Wade Rockett is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0. On September 2nd, King County Metro enacted its plan to suspend or reduce the frequency of 20 routes. Faced with a shortage of operators and …
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THE BEACHBURG SUB
“Thoughts and musings about a lifelong fascination with railways.” By Michael. 🇨🇦Updated
Summer Observations in Ottawa Over the course of the summer in Ottawa, there have been a few railway developments worth noting. Happily, we won't have to dwell on the city's ill-fated Confederation Line light rail service terribly long. Those …
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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. 🇬🇧Updated
Chemical Attraction (Hackney Wick station, London, UK) It is hard to overstate the impact Hackney Wick station makes on a visitor, as well as the unexpectedness of it doing so. Reopened in 2018 after a complete rebuild, it is one of the …
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BusAndTrainUser
“Journeys around Britain by bus and train.” 🇬🇧Updated
Seen around Saturday 30th September 2023 Another month’s miscellaneous musings not worthy of a full blown blog from my travels in September including the lovely Helsby Junction signal box and still very much in use (above). Oxted …
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Caltrain HSR Compatibility Blog
“This blog exists to discuss compatibility between HSR and Caltrain, integration issues, and the impact on adjoining communities.” 🇺🇸Updated
First Look at Electric Service Caltrain's proposed weekday peak serviceCaltrain has started to pull back the curtain on their fall 2024 service pattern, when the electric fleet will (finally!) enter service.The peak service pattern is depicted at right from a …
Feed Roughly seven posts per year. Started in .
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Cap'n Transit Rides Again
“Here are some reasons to get people to shift from cars to transit….” 🇺🇸Updated
Land trusts, co-ops and imperfect representation The site of the Champlain Towers South partial collapse in Surfside, Florida. Photo: National Institute of Standards and Technology. Last month the New York Times ran an article by Claire Fahy about community land trusts. …
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Daniel Bowen
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Still trying to fetch this feed, but last time we got ‘Connection timed out’.
Andrews’ transport legacy Daniel Andrews has resigned as Victoria’s Premier. It’s hard to think of bigger changes to Melbourne’s public transport infrastructure in recent decades than what we’ve seen since 2014 when he became Premier. Dozens of level …
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Green Caltrain
“Friends of Caltrain Blog.” 🇺🇸Updated
September: Caltrain considers electrified schedule – faster, more frequent service, weekend silence The schedule for electrified Caltrain service is being planned now, for decision by the end of this year. Electric service is scheduled to go live in September 2024, as construction nears completion and testing is …
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Human Transit
“The professional blog of public transit consultant Jarrett Walker.” 🇺🇸Updated
Santa Cruz County: A Growing Transit Agency in a Beautiful Place While you’ve heard plenty about big US agencies facing a “fiscal cliff,” some agencies are doing well and expanding their offerings as their staffing permits. That includes Portland and Dallas, where we’ve been working, but …
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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.” 🇬🇧Updated
Friday Reads – 29 September 2023 • Secret MI6 spy tunnels being turned into London tourist attraction (SecretLondon) • ÖBB & DB to double sleeper train traffic by 2030 (RailTech) • Can the Messina Bridge project cross the divide to Sicily? …
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Melbourne on Transit
“A blog about the service aspects of public transport in Melbourne, Australia.” By Peter Parker. 🇦🇺Updated
UN 164: Better transport in Mulgrave (6 point plan) This week's resignation of Daniel Andrews as premier since 2014 and member for Mulgrave since 2002 creates an opportunity for improved public transport in an area that has never had very much. The opportunity is …
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Pedestrian Observations
“For Walkability and Good Transit, and Against Boondoggles and Pollution.” By Alon Levy. 🇫🇷Updated
Our Webinar, and Penn Reconstruction Our webinar about the train station 3D model went off successfully. I was on video for a little more than two hours, Michael a little less; the recording is on YouTube, and I can upload …
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Preserved Traction
“News and Updates to the Preserved North American Electric Railway Cars (PNAERC) List.” 🇺🇸 -
Prince Street
By Chris Mears. 🇨🇦Updated
Video 6: glue-paint-napkins-jute Up early and first coffees on. There’s an energy in me that feels of a curious nature and can’t be calmed in the pages of this week’s books. There’s always something to do on the …
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round the rails we go
“capturing Britain's railways, one station at a time.” By Scott Willison. 🇬🇧Updated
Melancholia I could steal that bag.The thought popped into my head, entirely unbidden, even surprising me. I was stood in the doorway of a train as it slid into the station at Penkridge. Two women, early …
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Traingeek – Trains and Photography
“I am a photographer who specializes in trains and grain elevators. I like to tell stories through my photos and my blog.” By Steve Boyko. 🇨🇦 -
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. 🇺🇸Updated
Historical Map: Sydney Railway Layout, c. 1940 Unearthed on Twitter (It’ll always be Twitter to me, no matter what Elon says) by @crossing_lights, this is quite an extraordinary find. Long-time readers may have seen the 1939 version of this diagram (and the …
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Transit Sleuth
“Transit sleuthing Seattle, Portland, and maybe a place near you.” By Adron Hall. 🇺🇸Updated
The Early Week in Pittsburgh On Day 5 of my visit to Pittsburgh, I embark on a scenic commute from South Side Flats to Gasoline Street Coffee and then into the downtown office area, noting the pedestrian-focused environments of the …
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The Trolley Dodger
“Musings on transit, past, present, and future.” By David Sadowski. 🇺🇸Updated
North Shore Line Rarities, Part Three Silverliner 773 is northbound at Belmont. At left, you can see part of the platform the CTA added in 1953, used only by southbound NSL trains. This was to prevent such riders, upon exiting their …
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