back on the bus for the first time in awhile. mostly just didnt want to drive the whole way. Even cutting out the last 15km and getting to a little is worth it.
First day after the last day of classes at univerity so it's pretty empty.
back on the bus for the first time in awhile. mostly just didnt want to drive the whole way. Even cutting out the last 15km and getting to a little is worth it.
First day after the last day of classes at univerity so it's pretty empty.
The zine is up on my site!
https://nebulos.space/transit_vs_pollution.html
If you thought it was cool, you can print it out, fold it up, and give it to your friends!
(Also please appreciate my alt text too. It was non-trivial to produce.)
#transit #fuckcars #zine #urbanism
Bus passengers of the eastern suburbs - rejoice!
Despite breaking down again yesterday, it seems that the Box Hill Bus Station escalator is back up and running today.
Have updated the counter accordingly and hopefully I can now shut up about it: https://philipmallis.com/2025/02/07/the-box-hill-bus-station-escalator-saga/
Advocates give TTC station a makeover to spur city to fund new wayfinding system
Transit advocates gave a TTC subway station a makeover early Friday, posting their own signs and adding stickers to existing signs, in an effort to push the city into funding a new TTC wayfinding system.
#transit #city #advocates #funding #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ttcriders-king-station-makeover-new-wayfinding-system-needed-1.7508787?cmp=rss
Do any of my fellow #Portland (#PDX) #BikeTooter folk use #bike and #transit to get to Wilsonville from, say, downtown? Unsurprisingly there don't seem to be a lot of options to get that far.
█ Mor un ciclista atropellat per un turisme a la C-59, a Caldes de Montbui ▓▒░ L'accident ha estat a primera hora de la tarda, en plena operació sortida, i ha provocat algunes retencions
https://www.ccma.cat/324/mor-un-ciclista-atropellat-per-un-turisme-a-la-c-59-a-caldes-de-montbui/noticia/3346083/?ext=MASTODON_ONLINE
This will be a horrible scenario for Philadelphia:
Those and other cuts totaling 45% of SEPTA service would be implemented in two phases, starting this fall — if the Pennsylvania legislature doesn’t pass Gov. Josh Shapiro’s latest proposal to increase state aid for mass transit systems.
#philly #philadelphia #transit #pennsylvania #trains #urbanism
https://www.inquirer.com/transportation/septa-budget-announcement-bus-subway-cuts-20250410.html
I support incorporating Aerial Rapid Transit (ART) into our transit network where useful.
Who has been to La Paz, Bolivia? They have an extensive ART network.
Railway Ticket, Germany, DB, Drei Annen Hohne, Serial No 0516
03/09/1991, condition of ticket: very good, undamaged
From: Drei Annen Hohne
Company: Deutsche Bundesbahn (German Federal Railway)
Dimensions of Product: Height 57 mm and width 31 mm
Via http://www.gbticket.com/detalhe_produto.php?codproduto=3196&codcategoriaproduto=159 #trains #tickets #transit #travel
Caught the KC Streetcar testing by the Plaza again. Two today! #transit #kcstreetcar #photography
Platform Ticket, BTC(E), Tilbury (Riverside), 2d, Serial No 6364
20/11/1960, condition of ticket: very good, undamaged
From: Tilbury Riverside
Company: British Transport Commission
Dimensions of Product: Height 31 mm and width 57 mm
Via http://www.gbticket.com/detalhe_produto.php?codproduto=7748&codcategoriaproduto=44 #trains #tickets #transit #travel
Season Ticket, South Africa, BGT, Soshanguve - Akasia , Serial No 000256
1981, condition of ticket: good, creased
From: Soshanguve
To: Akasia Boom
Company: Batswana Gare Transport
Dimensions of Product: Height 81 mm and width 57 mm
Via http://www.gbticket.com/detalhe_produto.php?codproduto=2918&codcategoriaproduto=157 #trains #tickets #transit #travel
Experimenting with showing custom icons for stations. Inspired a bit from our highway shield rendered (derived from OpenStreetMap Americana)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/tree/wip/mlundblad/station-icons
It's making use of the "network:wikidata" OSM tag.
Currently rendering these icons in map view itself is not tested (this needs an extra addition to our planetiler generator for the vector tiles to be run in the next import).
This is what passes for a bus stop in Edmonton. Yes, you have to wait standing in that mud hole or the bus won't stop.
Where we're standing now? That's the only multi-use active transportation path that seems to go anywhere in the west end (and even then, it ends at 163 St when all the businesses are on 170 St and on).
As such, it is a heavily-used path which only becomes unused during a forced "off-season" when maintenance is neglected to the point of making it unusable, and users are forced onto the street where they are often run off the road by aggressive drivers.
The road the cars are driving on? Huge 4-lane road which even during rush hour has mostly empty space but traffic drives so fast and aggressively (with no traffic calming whatsoever), that it is very difficult for active transportation to get in, which they must do (or find a completely different route altogether) during the many long months when the heavily-used MUP is left unusable.
Even though there is SO much empty space on this road, if traffic gets slowed down for a split second (which generally only happens when somebody is turning left, and through traffic passes beside them), the horns come out on FULL BLAST. Tons of aggression and road rage on this street, largely contributed to by the autocentric "stroad" design.
This is a classic example of infrastructure and maintenance designed to force an end of active transportation supposedly by concentrating on automobile traffic, except that this focus on cars gives no actual benefit to them, except to make them feel more privileged.
Note: Despite its looks, this road is more dangerous for the drivers than others. I have seen so many near crashes on it when I used to use it regularly. The road is wide and straight, but that just means people can't get their foot off the gas.
Although they take their anger out on the rest of us, it's the people driving on the road who are most at risk. Driving does NOT make you safer.
Travel Ticket, BTC(E), Fakenham East - , Serial No 0429
Unissued, condition of ticket: very good, undamaged
From: Fakenham East
Company: British Transport Commission
Dimensions of Product: Height 31 mm and width 57 mm
Via http://www.gbticket.com/detalhe_produto.php?codproduto=7237&codcategoriaproduto=67 #trains #tickets #transit #travel
Railway Ticket, Spain, Renfe, Tarrasa - Rubi, Serial No 35261
12/07/19??, condition of ticket: very good, undamaged
From: Tarrasa
To: Rubi
Company: Renfe Operadora
Dimensions of Product: Height 57 mm and width 31 mm
Via http://www.gbticket.com/detalhe_produto.php?codproduto=2782&codcategoriaproduto=159 #trains #tickets #transit #travel
Railway Ticket, USA, Pennsylvania Railroad, North Jersey Branch, Serial No 25
Issued, Condition of ticket: good, undamaged
Company: Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Dimensions of Product: Height 57 mm and width 98 mm
Via http://www.gbticket.com/detalhe_produto.php?codproduto=778&codcategoriaproduto=172 #trains #tickets #transit #travel
Travel Ticket, LNER, New Basford - , One Dog, Serial No 090
Issued, condition of ticket: very good, undamaged
From: New Basford [GN]
Company: London & North Eastern
Dimensions of Product: Height 31 mm and width 57 mm
Via http://www.gbticket.com/detalhe_produto.php?codproduto=7146&codcategoriaproduto=66 #trains #tickets #transit #travel