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Toronto subway etiquette posters
Canada's National Post has created a set of printable subway etiquette posters for the Toronto Transit Commission, where, apparently, people don't know any better. A TTC etiquette campaign the TTC...
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HOWTO graft the RFID from a payment-card onto your phone
Hardware hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang is living in Singapore, and he's finding it difficult to board the public transit system because he habitually carries so many RFID-embedded cards that the...
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Secret Brooklyn Bridge subway station revealed
Kalaisha sez, "A once abandoned (or, rather, off limits) subway station from 1908 in Brooklyn is now accessible to the public. And it is beautiful. Beautifully preserved too!" The city closed the...
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FareBot: an Android transit-card sniffer
Eric Butler's Android app FareBot uses the RFID reader built into the Nexus S Android phone to sniff RFID-enabled transit cards, some of which carry unencrypted ride histories, making them vulnerable...
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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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"...
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Sack Boris campaign's Oyster card sleeves help Londoners express their...
The Sack Boris campaign, which seeks the ouster of London Mayor Boris Johnson, has a nice line of brightly coloured Oyster-card sleeves that can be yours for a mere £3 donation. The mayor has...
View ArticleFCC seeks comment on who should be allowed to shut down cellular service and...
Concerned by the San Francisco BART system's decision to suspend cellular service to frustrate coordination among protesters angered by the fatal transit police shooting of an unarmed passenger, the...
View ArticleExciting boring video
This video from Herrenknecht AG shows the operation of the enormous tunnel boring machine that will conduct the deep tunnelling for San Francisco's new subway lines. The machine obviates the necessity...
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Implanting a London Oyster card transponder in a ring
Dhani Sutanto removed the transponder from a Transport for London Oyster card (a RFID-based stored value card used to pay for rides on public transit) and implanted it in a ring, making a lovely bit...
View ArticleHistory of subway accidents in NYC
Kyle Chayka offers a history of deaths and injuries in the NYC subway system, from Victorian tunnel collapses to gang warfare and commuter-pushing psychopaths. [Animal]
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Radio circuit board laid out like the London tube map
Yuri Suzuki's "London Underground Circuit Maps" is being shown at the London Design Museum until next January. It was developed through the museum's Artist-in-Residence programme. responding to...
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Yarn bomb transit protest in Edinburgh
An unknown yarn-bomber has taken to the streets of Edinburgh with a political message, opposing the tramway expansion underway there. Yarnivore Rose says, "Actual political speech in yarnbomb form,...
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Prank signs for the London Underground
An anonymous -- but inspired -- prankster has affixed some helpful addenda to the usual London Underground official signage on various tube-trains, as are documented in this Imgur photoset. London...
View ArticleCity buses across America now covertly recording passengers' conversations
City buses across America increasingly have hidden microphones that track and record the conversations that take place on them. It's easy to see the reasoning behind this: once it's acceptable to...
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Spooky Hungarian tram-terminus
This spooky photo appears to depict the 1970s-era Tram 58 terminus in Zugliget, Budapest, Hungary. The original source isn't clear to me (if you know it, please note it in the comments so I can...
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Performance artist frosts and shares cake on NYC subway
Performance artist Bettina Banayan has conducted a number of interventions on the NYC subway, but this one, in which she frosts, decorates, and shares a cake with her fellow commuters, is my favorite....
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Mini Metro: fun game simulates planning and running public transit system
Mini Metro is a video-game from New Zealand's Dinosaur Polo Club in which you create public transit systems in order to improve the lives of virtual citizens of an imaginary town. It does a really...
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Commie bus stops were awesome
Wired has a nice article up today about bus stops built in the Soviet Union, as photographed by Chris Herwig. Some of them look beautiful, some of them look like dead robots, and some look positively...
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Atheist ad on a bus in Madison, Wisconsin
The Atheists, Humanists, & Agnostics (AHA!) group at the University of Wisconsin at Madison has bought these rather good ads on the local city buses, inviting people for whom "religion has stopped...
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