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Risky biscuits | Prospect Magazine
"According to Transport for London (TfL) figures, the number of journeys taken on the Tube in the year to April is expected to reach 1.1 billion—a bit over one seventh of the world’s population. So 164 accidents means that—if my sums are right —0.0000164 per cent of those journeys end in an embarkation/debouchment-related owie." On TfL's Tube poster campaign.
london  transport  tfl  poster  statistics  safety  from instapaper
8 weeks ago by blech
A Fantasy Transit Map for San Francisco | The Atlantic Cities
"SPUR asked Stokle to draw two transit maps for them (full disclosure—I edit SPUR’s monthly magazine, The Urbanist), with the intent of demonstrating how a single, unified transit map might provide greater accessibility and ease of use and to stimulate conversation about how transit decisions are made." The maps are interesting but I think flawed. More later, perhaps.
sanfrancisco  sfba  publictransport  map  mapping  transport  bart  muni  bus  from instapaper
8 weeks ago by blech
How We'll Get Where We're Going Tomorrow | NASA
On the new US air traffic control infrastructure, imaginatively named NextGen. "Leighton Quon, project manager of NextGen Systems Analysis, Integration, and Evaluation at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., answers eight questions about what NASA is doing to help improve air transportation for all of us in the future."
us  atc  airtrafficcontrol  airport  transport  infrastructure  from instapaper
9 weeks ago by blech
Ambient bus arrival monitor | John Graham-Cumming
Using a Linksys WRT54GL, a Sparkfun 7-segment LED block, and a slightly dismembered model of a Plaxton Pointer single-deck bus to make a display of when the next bus is due. Nice.
uk  london  transport  bus  buses  display  datavis  ambient  via:russelldavies 
9 weeks ago by blech
The American bus revival | BBC News
The BBC on US coach travel: "Rising petrol prices and a new breed of British-owned discount operators, based in the densely populated north-east corridor, have made the coach a viable alternative to the car, plane or train for a growing number of travellers." "Inter-city bus travel grew by 7.1% in 2011, compared with 1.5% for air and 1.16% for rail, according to DePaul University."
us  transport  bus  coach  stagecoach  firstgroup  via:antimega 
february 2012 by blech
Supersize superport: London Gateway | Evening Standard
The character of the landscape out east, beyond the M25, is extraordinary. Just half an hour's train ride from the city, you are in deeply unfamiliar territory. It is a stretched landscape, with a feeling of insufficient building to cover the endless, flat land of the flood plain.
london  shipping  transport  container  infrastructure  via:@iamdanw  from instapaper
february 2012 by blech
In San Francisco, Buses Become the Police | The Atlantic Cities
"By early next year the city's entire fleet of 819 buses will be equipped with forward-facing cameras that take pictures of cars traveling or parked in the bus and transit-only lanes." A good look at how to enforce bus lanes and why you need to: "While an empty bus lane is actually a functional bus lane, an empty car lane is a wasted car lane, so drivers are quick to capitalize on what they view as a transportation inefficiency."
sanfrancisco  transport  publictransport  buses  cctv  from instapaper
february 2012 by blech
Tory AM: Most Londoners don't use public transport | Adam Bienkov
'"It is a fact is it not that relatively few Londoners use London transport in any way. Most people don't use London transport with any sense of regularity."' 'Transport for London's statistics show that the majority of trips are made by private transport although the majority of "journey stages" are made by public transport'
london  transport  politics 
february 2012 by blech
What the Eurostar's Success Means for California HSR | The Atlantic Cities
"Dutch researchers Christiaan Behrens and Eric Pels analyze the passenger market between London and Paris from 2003 through 2009. The primary competitors in this corridor are conventional air carriers like Air France and British Airways, low-cost carriers like easyJet, and the Eurostar high-speed rail service. Over the course of the study — which looked at roughly 9,500 business and 18,000 leisure trips — the Eurostar has been far and away the dominant travel choice."
theatlantic  hsr  eurostar  trains  travel  transport  california  from instapaper
january 2012 by blech
The Unlikely Event, Avi Steinberg | Paris Review
"For those of us who occupy that metaphysical middle ground between the in-flight magazine and the barf bag, there’s the airline safety card." "A [1960s] Air France card directs passengers to the closest axe—no further directions are given." A delightful piece about safety instructions, how they've changed, and their parallels with art.
transport  aeroplanes  design  art  safety  instructions  via:straup  from instapaper
december 2011 by blech
Don’t Zone-1 It When You Can Boris Bike It | Suprageography
"Ever thought what the tube network would look like if you took out the expensive Zone 1? Me neither, until this morning, when I was wondering if it was possible to utilise my current “Boris Bike” bikeshare 24-hour membership to save a bit of money on commuting in to work."
london  bicycle  transport  tube  map  hacks  via:straup 
december 2011 by blech
Every death on every road in Great Britain 1999-2010 | BBC News
"A total of 36,371 people were killed on Britain's roads between 1999 and 2010."
uk  transport  traffic  cars  fatalities  bbcnews  roads  death  maps  visualisation  via:preoccupations  via:@joemoransblog 
december 2011 by blech
HCI Diary: Observation of public transport | Tom Hume
uk  trains  transport  interface  from instapaper
november 2011 by blech
Exhibition - Sense and the City | London Transport Museum
"Always on your smart phone, or still asking a policeman? Sense and the City: smart, connected and on the move, which runs until 18 March 2012, explores how emerging technologies are changing the way we access and experience London and compares this with past visions of the future." Closes 18th March 2012. Also: "The travel posters of artist and illustrator John Burningham"
london  transport  museum  todo  urbanism  informatics  from delicious
september 2011 by blech
The genius who lives downstairs - Alexander Masters | The Guardian
An extract from a book about Simon Phillips Norton, mathematics, group theory, buses, riding trains, Cambridge, and community.
mathematics  book  extract  guardian  cambridge  transport  via:@robinhouston  from instapaper
september 2011 by blech
The diverging diamond interchange | Slate Magazine
Tom Vanderbilt on a new kind of intersection that's being used a lot for new roads in the US, where drivers apparently have a morbid fear of having to either stop, or wait for more than a single phase change. Still, it's interesting.
us  traffic  transport  road  design  infrastructure  via:iamdanw  from delicious
august 2011 by blech
Catch the Underground with Maps | Official Google Blog
"Starting today, you can get public transport directions for London within Google Maps. One of Europe’s largest metropolitan areas, London is a major destination for both business travelers and tourists. More than 1 billion passengers are serviced by Transport for London (TfL) every year across over 18,000 bus stops and over 250 Underground stations." Good. Questions: Does this mean TfL has a GTFS feed, or that Google converted the data? Is there any way of getting data back out?
london  transport  tfl  google/maps  directions  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
With Weekends Not Sleepy, Subway Faces a Test | NYTimes
"Weekend trips have doubled in the past 20 years, far outpacing the growth of ridership during the workweek. Last year, the subway had 5.36 million rides on average during weekends, one of the highest counts on record." I wonder if the same thing's happening in London; there's certainly always grousing at weekend engineering works.
newyork  newyorkcity  nytimes  subway  transport  trains  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
Californian freeways: Carmageddon | The Economist
"For 53 hours, workers will shut a portion of “the 405”. The stretch is not long—ten miles northbound and four miles southbound—but it is strategic." "A European might ask why people don’t bicycle instead, or take a bus or train." Oh, those silly Europeans!
economist  us  california  losangeles  roads  traffic  cars  transport  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
The American suburbs are a giant Ponzi scheme | Grist
"our own history -- let alone a tour of other parts of the world -- reveals a different reality. Across cultures, over thousands of years, people have traditionally built places scaled to the individual. It is only the last two generations that we have scaled places to the automobile."
urbanism  development  cars  transport  politics  economics  us  from delicious
june 2011 by blech
The impact of transit maps on path choice | The Transportationist
"the map effect is almost two times more influential than the actual travel time. In other words, underground passengers trust the tube map (two times) more than their own travel experience with the system."
london  transport  underground  maps  diagram  via:straup  from delicious
may 2011 by blech
A New Subterranean Map of London | LT Museum
From Stephen Walter, who drew The Island: "When London Transport Museum came to me for a new idea, I thought of it straight away – An Underground map of London where I could finally include those lost rivers and develop my own tube map. I am currently developing the ideas for this subterranean map of London and entries to this blog may contribute to its development." Possibly worth watching.
london  transport  museum  map  art  from delicious
may 2011 by blech
Hidden Harbor Tours | Working Harbor Committee
"The primary activity of WHC is the sponsorship of tours of New York and New Jersey's working waterfront – places that are normally hidden from the eyes of most area residents and visitors."
newyork  newyorkcity  infrastructure  transport  todo  from delicious
may 2011 by blech
NYC for people who like transportation | Bagcheck
Subtitled "a Travel bag by Britta Gustafson", this is a pretty good list of things for me to do. (I've visited the transit museum before, but I had a rubbish camera, and it was years ago, so I'm happy to go back.)
newyorkcity  transport  museum  history  travel  todo  via:britta  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
FareBot: read from public transit cards | codebutler
"I’m happy to announce FareBot! Currently FareBot can parse and display balance and trip history information from Seattle’s ORCA card, and can dump raw data from any other MIFARE DESFire card including San Francisco’s Clipper card. FareBot is open-source and designed to be flexible so that hopefully other developers will add support for other types of cards." For the Nexus S. Interesting.
android  rfid  nfc  transport  oyster  via:iamdanw  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
Travelling Cross-Country by Train.
As someone who has travelled long distances by train at least six times, I have some advice that perhaps you will find useful. A series of fourteen train tips follows.
us  travel  train  transport  tips  via:britta  from instapaper
february 2011 by blech
The Tunnels Of San Francisco | Reed Smith
San Francisco and the Bay Area don't have any major underwater tunnels (like the Mersey or Dartford tunnels in the UK), but there are plenty of others around. This seems to be a good overview.
sanfrancisco  geography  transport  tunnels  engineering  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
Redesigned | BART Ticket Kiosk
"We redesigned the BART ticket kiosk. Our goal was to improve the user interface software within the limitations of the existing 8-button, ATM-style physical interface. We believe our design offers major usability advantages, especially for infrequent riders." Interesting.
design  bart  usability  interface  transport  via:iamdanw  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
Study: Roads are safer in urban areas | USATODAY.com
"The safest places to drive in the USA are Washington, D.C., and Massachusetts. Among the most dangerous: Montana, Wyoming, Louisiana and Mississippi. Those conclusions are based on federal data of traffic fatalities per 100,000 population and per 100 million miles driven."
us  traffic  cars  transport  safety  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
Conductor in progress video | Alexander Chen
"Tentatively titled Conductor, it recreates the New York subway system as a musical instrument. It’s currently built in HTML5 + Javascript. SVG was very useful, as I could create the design in Illustrator, then import the coordinates into Javascript." "I decided to use Vignelli’s beautiful 1972 subway map as a starting point for the design."
nyc  newyyorkcity  subway  transport  music  html5  javascript  svg  audio  visualisation  video  map  @shashashasha  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
Brooklyn’s Underground Zoetrope | MRod
"Board a Manhattan-bound Q or B train from DeKalb Avenue in Brooklyn (or on weekends, currently due to constructions, the R train runs on this track as well) and look out the right side just before the train emerges out of the tunnel onto Manhattan Bridge." Nice.
newyorkcity  nyc  animation  transport  trains  subway  via:britta  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
Streetcars vs. Monorails | Slate
Subtitled "The future of urban transportation looks a lot like the past", this Tom Vanderbilt piece is well worth reading.
transport  publictransport  monorail  streetcar  trams  us  infrastructure  via:mondoagogo  from instapaper
january 2011 by blech
A brief history of the bus shelter | Joe Moran's blog
"Bus shelters were once boringly functional affairs." Then advertising got involved.
uk  transport  bus  infrastructure  mundane  from instapaper
january 2011 by blech
BAA says December's cold weather cost it £24m | BBC News
"BAA said it had handled 7.2 million passengers at its six UK airports in December, down 10.9% from a year ago." Also, Virgin Atlantic is witholding fees because of the "slow reaction" to snow. Fun times.
bbc  news  business  baa  airport  heathrow  snow  travel  transport  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
The Thames Gateway Arises | London Reconnections
Subtitled "Why London Needs to Stop Nobblin' the GOBLIN", this (long) post looks at the container ports in the south east of England, their rail links, and in particular, what the Mayor of London should be doing with the orbital railways in the city to support the new container terminal on the Thames.
london  railway  overground  container  shipping  transport  planning  infrastructure  via:davehodg  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Why do south London trains suffer in snow? | BBC
"Why are trains in south London more affected by snow than those elsewhere?" Short answer: the third rail ices over, which makes it stop working. Overhead cables (used north of the river) aren't affected, while the DLR's third rail connects underneath (not above) the rail, so that's OK too. It's good to see the article note that the old Southern Railway actually converted away from overhead to third rail in the 1920s.
london  transport  railway  trains  infrastructure  engineering  via:candacep  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Suffolk train crash tanker driver jailed | BBC News
"The driver of a sewage tanker which collided with a train in Suffolk has been jailed for 15 months."
suffolk  railway  news  transport  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Travel: Amtrak adventures | The Observer
'Some said it would be slow, boring and expensive, but spending 15 days covering 6,511 miles on an epic Amtrak journey across America's heartland was "soul calming"' - Anna Pickard on the jounrey around the US.
trains  us  writing  annapickard  transport  holiday  from delicious
november 2010 by blech
Miracle on 33rd Street - NYTimes.com
What has been forgotten in this hysterical nostalgia is that our current Penn Station is also a miracle: pitiless and comically jury-rigged, sure, but miraculous.
newyork  newyorkcity  trains  architecture  transport  publicspace  from instapaper
november 2010 by blech
The Works - Kate Ascher | Penguin Group (USA)
"Using New York City as its point of reference, The Works takes readers down manholes and behind the scenes to explain exactly how an urban infrastructure operates." If it hadn't have been for this book, I'd never have realised there were still steam networks (naturally, NYC's is the largest, but apparently Paris has one also).
infrastructure  book  newyorkcity  energy  transport  from delicious
november 2010 by blech
Bike-sharing project expected to begin next year | SFGate
"The $7.9 million pilot project would provide bikes in San Francisco and along the Caltrain corridor in San Jose, Palo Alto, Mountain View and Redwood City for use by registered subscribers." Interesting, but Londoners complained about only 3000 bikes. 1000 for that area seems worryingly minimal.
sanfrancisco  bicycle  sfgate  news  transport  via:@joshuanguyen  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Mayor confirms 2011 fares | Transport for London
TfL's fare rises. This is interesting: "One new initiative to be introduced in January is that during the evening peak, all Tube journeys into Zone 1 will be charged at the off-peak rates, as opposed to the peak fare currently charged." Also: "Tube cash fares are now used by under two per cent of Tube users."
london  tfl  fares  pricing  oyster  rfid  transport  tube  via:iamdanw  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Train fares: From him that hath shall be taken | The Economist
On the likelihood of fare rises for British rail. "Railways have enjoyed a renaissance over the past decade. Passenger numbers have surged and are now at their highest since the second world war." "Yet rail travel is a niche interest. It accounts for just 7% of all journeys."
economist  trains  uk  rail  fares  transport  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
Transport funding: Collision course | The Economist
Speaking of TfL: "With only a few months until publication of the government’s spending review, which will decide which parts of government live and which parts die, the lobbying is in full swing. Particularly fierce arguments are raging around the Department for Transport (DfT), which must make cuts of 25% or more in its budget. That is provoking rows, both nationally and locally." Complete with that old chestnut, Crossrail vs the Tube.
economist  london  dft  tfl  crossrail  tube  transport  uk  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
Public transport: End of the lines | The Economist
"The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transport Authority (MARTA), which runs the city’s buses and trains, is facing a $70m deficit next year, and will eliminate 40 of its 131 bus lines. It is also raising fares for weekly and monthly passes, cutting rail services by 14.2% and laying off around 300 people." This seems incredibly short-sighted, but that seems to be America for you. (The UK is threatened with 25%-40% funding cuts, but the idea of cutting 20% of bus lines seems unimaginable. But then, TfL has what would be in American terms an almost unbelievable amount of power over a region's transport.)
economist  us  transport  buses  atlanta  marta  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
Fixing the Bus System | Artsy Techie
"As a puzzled, stressed and curious newcomer, whether I quickly and fully embrace a system, or whether I avoid it for a long time is an interesting measure of how “usable” the system is." An interesting look at some issues that put people off buses. (I'd say London does reasonably well on these, assuming you speak English, but it's far from perfect even so; nobody knows about the five bus maps you can get, for example.)
transport  technology  bus  cities  urbanism  design  via:antimega  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
American railways: High-speed railroading | The Economist
The eye-catching lede - "America’s system of rail freight is the world’s best. High-speed passenger trains could ruin it" - is just the first of many interesting parts of this Economist briefing. Well worth reading.
economist  us  railway  freight  transport  trains  politics  economics  via:iamdanw  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
clipper futures | tecznotes
"[MTC have] begun to provide free personal monitoring services to users of Clipper. It's now possible to access to a complete, up-to-the-minute stream of your own card usage (including the geographic location of each beep)". This for Oyster, please. The Bay Area may be slow to start but they're getting that bit right early.
sanfrancisco  bayarea  transport  informatics  data  ubicomp  information  rfid  oyster  via:iamdanw  via:antimega  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
Bruce Davidson (Room 8) | Explore Tate Modern
"Bruce Davidson's Subway series documents life in the New York subway, recording the animated energy of train carriages and station platforms across the metropolis." It's only a room, but it's in the free part of the museum, and you never know when things are going to move. Might make a nice taster for Exposed, too.
london  newyork  newyorkcity  subway  transport  photography  todo/done  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
Heathrow Free Zone | Spillway
"What we have here is a readymade zone – an area held slightly apart from the rest of the city, with unusual hazards and unusual advantages. This area is ripe for experimentation." Some interesting propositions.
london  heathrow  urbanism  development  transport  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
That crass and overly commercial cycle hire logo | MayorWatch
"I’m sure we’re all very grateful to the shareholders of Barclays for spending some of their marketing budget on slapping their logo all over the bikes and uniforms of staff but frankly this new roundel brings crass commercialism crashing down to whole new levels of bad and for that we have to blame Team Boris."
london  cycling  cyclehire  boris  mayor  barclays  sponsorship  branding  tfl  transport  via:antimega  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
NY Subway System Is Getting a New Map | NYTimes.com
"Next month, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will unveil a resized, recolored and simplified edition of the well-known map, its first overhaul in more than a decade." First reaction: it's a lot less cluttered. Looking back, the MTA's subway map has veered a lot more since '68 than the London diagram, but this is way better than the '79 nadir.
nyc  newyork  mta  subway  underground  maps  diagram  design  transport  information  from delicious
may 2010 by blech
City Railway System | ZEROPERZERO
From the page at the Kemistry Gallery's site: "For South Korean design studio Zero Per Zero’s first exhibition in the UK, Kemistry Gallery presents new versions of their well-known City Railway System series, including LED display panels, hand-drawn maps, paintings, and acrylic pieces."
london  maps  exhibition  art  subway  transport  todo/done  from delicious
may 2010 by blech
TfL secures Oyster brand | Transport for London
"Transport for London (TfL) today confirmed that it has purchased the Oyster brand from the TranSys consortium." TfL cancelled the TransSys contract early and there was a worry that they'd lose rights to the brand, but apparently it's all worked out ok in the end, with the machinery (but, oddly, not ad rights) also being TfL-owned now.
london  transport  rfid  branding  oyster  tfl  pfi  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
Banyan: New Silk Roads | The Economist
"Roads, railways and pipelines are redefining what we mean by Asia" - an interesting comment piece from the Economist's Asian column comparing that continent's recent maritime focus with its determination to create land links (such as the much-publicised Chinese high speed railways).
economist  asia  china  railway  transport  geopolitics  india  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
National Public Transport Access Nodes | data.gov.uk
"NaPTAN is a GB national system for uniquely identifying all the points of access to public transport in GB. It is a core component of the GB national transport information infrastructure and is used by a number of other UK standards and information systems. Every GB station, coach terminus, airport, ferry terminal, bus stop, etc., is allocated at least one identifier."
uk  data  government  transport  bus  railway  data.gov.uk 
march 2010 by blech
Reportage - The challengers to London’s black cabs | FT.com
On Addison Lee, and minicabs vs taxis. Unfortunately, not enough's made of this introductory piece about GPS data: "The data track the movements of Addison Lee’s [London] cars during a three-year period [and has been used to] create a grid-like model that predicts how long a given journey should take at different times of the day." Still, interesting stuff.
london  taxi  transport  data  gps  maps  via:iamdanw 
march 2010 by blech
Clive Thompson: Park the Car, Take the Bus | Magazine
"We should change our focus to the other side of the equation and curtail not the texting but the driving. This may sound a bit facetious, but I’m serious. When we worry about driving and texting, we assume that the most important thing the person is doing is piloting the car. But what if the most important thing they’re doing is texting? How do we free them up so they can text without needing to worry about driving? The answer, of course, is public transit."
sms  culture  us  europe  transport  wired  comment 
february 2010 by blech
Iran to ban airlines not using 'Persian Gulf' | BBC News
"The Iranian transport minister has given foreign airlines 15 days to change the name to Persian Gulf on their in flight monitors. If they failed, they would be prevented from entering Iranian airspace, he warned." How are they going to know? Still, another interesting example of names being touchy. (I note the BBC's map says 'The Gulf'.)
news  politics  geography  geopolitics  names  transport  airlines  maps  bbc 
february 2010 by blech
Thames river transport: Ordeal by water | The Economist
The Economist on river transport and its prospects in London, noting Thames Clippers, the 30 knot speed limit west of Wapping, and the tangle of pier ownership. "For the moment, Thames Clippers’ civilised catamarans to and from Waterloo... remain a secret pleasure for the cognoscenti".
london  transport  tfl  greenwich  woolwich  thames 
february 2010 by blech
City Planning with the Bressey Report | Ptak Science Books
"Bressey didn’t really try to 'kill' London, of course, though parts of his Greater London plan for redirecting and accommodating increasing vehicular traffic certainly would’ve destroyed some great beauty" "Trafalgar Square as a triple-decker parking deck. (What can one say?)" A curiously British pre-war approach.
london  architecture  cities  planning  future  motoring  failedfuture  transport  via:mondoagogo 
january 2010 by blech
LT Museum Launch Film Archive | Londonist
The Londonist post announcing the London Transport Museum online film archive. No doubt this'll prove distracting.
london  londonist  transport  tube  film  trains  via:antimega 
january 2010 by blech
Automatic fare collection and you | Film collection, LTM
A slightly crazy jazz-soundtracked film + animation about the exciting new world - for the 1960s - of automatic ticket barriers, from the London Transport Museum. This was on as part of a series of free films in Trafalgar Square in November, and it stuck in the memory; it's great to be able to share it.
london  transport  history  ticket  barrier  animation  catchphrase  information  psa  ltm 
january 2010 by blech
anti-mega: the informational city | Chris Heathcote
Notes from a previous talk from Tim Fendley, this time with the addition of Erik Spiekermann of Meta fame. Some repeated points but also some other ones.
london  map  wayfinding  transport  re:chrisdodo 
january 2010 by blech
North doesn't matter | Tom Roper's Weblog
A very good writeup of a Tim Fendley talk about Legible London, which is slowly spreading from its West End trial area. I should keep an eye out for this chap speaking again; seems like it'd be an interesting talk.
london  map  wayfinding  transport  via:zimpenfish 
january 2010 by blech
End of the line for the tube map? | guardian.co.uk
"an Oyster-generation map will need to show all the routes available to card users, the design has become too limited in its scope. Mapmakers have had their work cut out trying to fit all the information into a legible sheet of paper. For years, there have been maps on platform walls of the Overground mixed up with the Underground, yet these are scrappy – even ugly – things in comparison with the classic tube-only map." Slight ahistorical (it doesn't mention Beck's all-London maps, or the fact the Connections map dates from 1976) but Glancey still has something of a point.
london  design  map  transport  diagram  underground  tube  trains 
january 2010 by blech
New Haven Solari train board | Ask E.T.
On a Solari board being retired in the US. "NPR reports that New Haven's LED display will have a simulated click click click."
solari  design  product  transport  display  information 
january 2010 by blech
Partnership with location-based service Foursquare | BART
"Bay Area Rapid Transit has become the first transit agency to partner with the location-based mobile network Foursquare, with the goal of encouraging public transit use."
bart  transport  trains  foursquare  lbs  via:antimega 
october 2009 by blech
New Johnston | Eiichi Kono
Eiichi Kono's account of his work redesigning Johnston for Banks and Miles and London Underground in the late 1970s. Part of the source material for the London Reconnections post.
london  typography  design  signage  history  underground  transport  tube 
september 2009 by blech
A Typeface for the Underground | London Reconnections
"London Underground approached various graphic design agencies and consulted on the subject. Many recommended dropping [Johnston] completely in favour of other faces (Helvetica was considered, as was Univers Bold) but ultimately one agency – Banks and Miles – stepped forward and suggested an alternative:- Rework Johnston into a proper, fully extended, typeface." I never realised that LU had even considered this. Thank goodness they went with the redesign.
london  typography  design  signage  history  underground  transport  tube  via:@martindeutsch 
september 2009 by blech
Better bus information on the way | TfL
"Mobile and web information should be available by the beginning of 2011, and the roll out of new Countdown signs will begin a few months later." Seems annoyingly slow.
london  transport  tfl  information  data  travel  buses 
september 2009 by blech
it's out | diamond geezer
An exhaustive, well-written and readable look at the new poster and folder versions of the London tube map, complete with a comment thread featuring Max Roberts, author of Underground Maps After Beck.
london  underground  transport  map  design  blogcomment 
september 2009 by blech
What's on a baggage tag? | John Graham-Cumming
A bar code that's only good for a million items per airline, apparently, which is less than useful when a big carrier gets through that much in a few days. Of course, this is because baggage tags aren't for you: they're for the airlines, to stop another Lockerbie-style attack. (See BBC Four's excellent Secret Life of the Airport.)
transport  aviation  barcode  information  design  terrorism  blogcomment 
august 2009 by blech
Cyclists in bid to avert tunnel chaos | Wharf
"Greenwich Foot Tunnel, which links south of the Thames with the Isle of Dogs, is likely to close for renovation in the autumn for up to 10 months. With Woolwich Foot Tunnel also due to shut it leaves the nearest viable crossing an awkward detour to Tower Bridge." "One of the options is for the DLR to relinquish its ban on bicycles [but] DLR and Transport for London both say it is against health and safety procedures for bikes to be allowed on board."
london  greenwich  transport  cycling  trains  dlr  planning 
august 2009 by blech
Hovercraft still afloat 50 years on | BBC News
A BBC News story on the 50th anniversary of the hovercraft's public debut (coinciding with the hovercraft museum open day, too). Includes video of a prototype hovercraft flying down the Thames past the Houses of Parliament.
hovercraft  bbc  news  transport  failedfuture  london  video 
july 2009 by blech
Germany: Deutsche Bahn slashes Berlin's transport services | WSWS
For some reason, by far the most detailed English-language report on the S-Bahn fiasco I've found is from the World Socialist Web Site. Less surprisingly, once they get past the technical issues, there's a big critique of the way Deutsche Bahn has been running the S-Bahn in the run-up to its IPO.
transport  berlin  germany  sbahn  trains  politics  economics 
july 2009 by blech
Poor, sexy and incompetent in Berlin | The Local
Commentary from a local on the Berlin S-Bahn fiasco, particularly focussing on the role of the mayor.
transport  berlin  germany  sbahn  trains  politics 
july 2009 by blech
Gulliver: Berlin's S-Bahn shambles | Economist.com
"for the first time in its 85-year history the S-Bahn has been forced to cut its service dramatically—by 70%—for technical reasons"
transport  berlin  germany  sbahn  trains  economist  via:antimega 
july 2009 by blech
The Late Arrival Of The Fast Trains | New York Magazine
An article from September 1968 about the two planned trainsets for high speed rail from Washington to Boston. Acela still pays the price for the failure to lay new track forty years ago. Choice quote: "A single rail track [has] been shown to have the same hourly passenger capacity as 24 lanes of expressway auto traffic."
transport  railway  1968  magazine  newyorkmagazine  history  future  via:antimega 
july 2009 by blech
London’s Lost Tunnel | IanVisits
"While tunnel affectionados will be familiar with the “Mail Rail” that runs under London, fewer know that it was in fact the second such system, and an earlier tunnel had been built to carry mail from the Post Office’s national sorting centre – by today’s St Pauls tube station – up to Euston Station" described further in an article from The Windsor Magazine of April 1900.
london  history  underground  mailrail  transport  railway  royalmail  postoffice 
july 2009 by blech
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