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Look at this. Somebody has mapped the average speed of TTC buses and streetcars. Blue is fast, red is slow.
HOWTO drive the Disneyland Monorail
posted by Cory Doctorow at 5:47 am Thursday, Jan 19, 2012If you ever find yourself writing a historical novel about someone who goes joyriding in the Disneyland Monorail, I have a hell of a reference for you: the 1966 Disneyland Monorail Operator Guide. Disneyland Monorail Operator Guide (1966) (Thanks, Jeff!)
I’ve tweaked and posted few additional fav images from this lovely 1966 brochure…
Here’s some hardcore music I can get behind. From It’s Casual’s MySpace page:
when It’s Casual vocalist/guitarist Edward Solis leaves his eastern Los Angeles-based residence to make his daily hour-long commute to Hollywood, he’s able to form an entirely new perspective. Solis, a rare, unlicensed Angelino, relies solely on public transportation to make his way around. The bus routes and train line on which he rides meander on surface streets, cutting across both decorative and distressed neighborhoods.
Found at Dave at TriMet Diaries (who found it at Streetsblog Los Angeles).
SkyTrain overhead.
I admit I should have stuck around to try and get some beauty shots of one of the new SkyTrains, but with Sunday service, I had to wait too long for the next train to Surrey! Plus the snow was melting; I had to keep shooting! What a gorgeous day it was!
A weekly transit pass from BC Transit, 1947. It would be fun to see a wider range of transit passes through the years to see the progression and design continuity of the pass.
welcome to Canada, eh.
Can’t say we get this in Vancouver. But next time it snows, let’s do it. :)
Life is better not in pants.
Life is better on transit.
It therefore follows that life is best on transit not in pants. Or so No Pants SkyTrain Riders would have us believe.
(Are utilikilts considered cheating?)
Discover Vancouver on Transit, a BC Transit brochure, 1990. This was the 100th anniversary of public transit in Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, as the logo attests. Illustrations in the brochure were credited to Robert Dobie, Jim Koll, Klaus Ravn, and Paulo Venturi, though I’m not sure who designed precisely which illustrations.
Gorgeous vintage infographics about the London Underground
(via publictransitadventures)
