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Are you ready for four-color traffic lights?
Are you ready for four-color traffic lights? The first traffic light, which controlled horse traffic on the Westminster Bridge in London, consisted of semaphore flags and red and green lights. A...
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Why the Sheffield stand is the best bike rack
Faced with a surplus of metal pipes, the city of Sheffield in England held a contest to decide what to do with them. Thus was born the standard bicycle rack, with two bends and perhaps a crossbar. Many...
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Actual San Francisco bus driver's fantastic tweeted review of the Shang-Chi...
Mc "Mack" Allen is a bus driver for San Francisco's Muni public transit system. Watching Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which takes place in San Francisco, Allen was compelled to Tweet his...
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Documentary on NYC's new real-time interactive subway map
"The Map" looks at the history of the famed MTA subway map in New York City and describes their process in creating a live map that shows train locations, temporary reroutes, and other real-time...
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A NYC subway ride to Coney Island in 1987
The New York Subway isn't like this anymore, but the sheer decrepitude and negligence of it in the 80s is always amazing to behold. This video shows a ride to Coney Island in 1987. Londoners like me...
View ArticleChinese law professor's social media denunciation of facial recognition in...
Lao Dongyan is a professor specializing in Criminal Law at Tsinghua University; on Oct 31, she posted a long, thoughtful piece to their public Wechat account about the announcement that Beijing's...
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Maps of the lost streetcar and subway systems of North America
Jake Berman writes, "I've drawn a series of maps showing the lost streetcar and subway systems of North America." He's selling them as prints.
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BART map inspires poster of The Fillmore's upcoming shows
Click to embiggen image Designer Jose Garcia at Zoca Studio Inc. used a familiar Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) map to showcase the Fillmore's 50 upcoming fall concerts. Ironically, you can't take BART...
View ArticleThe empirical impact of Lyft and Uber on cities: congestion (especially...
Mike Moffitt sums up the empirical work on the impact of rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft for cities: an increase in congestion, especially downtown, especially during "surges" (Uber and Lyft...
View ArticleLondon cops switch off wifi in the tube to make it harder for climate...
This morning, the British Transport Police has ordered Virgin Media to switch off the wifi to some undisclosed London Underground stations in a bid to make it harder for climate protesters to organise...
View ArticleStudy blames Uber/Lyft for San Francisco traffic, Uber/Lyft blames Amazon,...
A new report from the San Francisco County Transportation Authority attributes the majority (51%-73%) of the prodigious 2010-2016 increase in San Francisco traffic congestion on Uber and Lyft; the...
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Credit bubble a-burstin': wave of bankruptcies sweeps subprime car-lenders
The subprime car-lending industry -- charging exorbitant rates for car-loans to people least suited to afford them, enforced through orwellian technologies, obscuring the risk by spinning the debt...
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Learn to speak like a New York City subway conductor
As anyone who travels frequently by bus, plane or train can tell you, important service announcements are best when they're utterly incomprehensible: being able to hear and understand that your gate...
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The elite belief in Uberized, Muskized cities is at odds with fundamental,...
The appropriately named Jarrett Walker is the author of Human Transit, a seminal text on transportation and cities that draws on his decades of experience in urban planning; he has the distinction of...
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This "book-lined" Beijing subway car is an audiobook library
Beijing's subway system now includes some experimental cars decorated to look like fanciful, book-lined rooms; scan the QR codes and you get free audiobook downloads for popular Chinese novels. (more…)
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The London Underground thinks it can sell travelers' attention and wifi data...
Since late 2016, the Transport for London has been running a pilot scheme, providing wifi to passengers while logging and retaining all the wifi traffic coming in and out of its access points,...
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British Columbia government forces Vancouver dad to end his kids' free-range...
For the past two years, Adrian Crook's four eldest kids (aged 7-11) have ridden Vancouver's public transit to school together, traveling as a group from the bus stop in front of his condo to the bus...
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Oakland elementary school students resist Caltrans' insistence on taking...
Rogue archivist Rick Prelinger writes, "Oakland students planned to paint a mural on a dark freeway underpass in their city. The project is stalled because Caltrans asserts copyright to murals on its...
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Wedway PeopleMover: Disney's retrofuturistic transit system
The Disney Parks blog is featuring some fine opening-year 1975 photos of the Wedway PeopleMover, a "mass transit system"-cum-ride in Tomorrowland that is affectionately called the "PeopleCrusher"...
View ArticleNYC subway rider with rat and spaghetti
This video highlights the colorful experiences to be had as a NYC subway commuter: in this case, it's an eccentric gentleman who rambles incoherently while eating spaghetti and petting a tame rat on...
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