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Thanks to geography, Washington D.C.'s subway system has more escalators — 588 — than any other system in North America. Which also means D.C. has more broken escalators, such as this one that experienced runaway Toyota-itis last fall. H/T Demon-Xanth! More »
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Cars, buses, subways, and trains; Pretty much the extent of high-speed publicly-accessible mass transit. Now the Chinese have dreamt up a new mixed-up alternative, the traffic-straddling bus. It rides above roads, with cars passing beneath and costing little to implement. More »
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Programmer Matthew Somerville has created a clever little map displaying the approximate whereabouts of every train in the London Underground in real time. More »
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Popular AM-radio personality Rush Limbaugh wants civil rights set back at least fifty years, saying "we need segregated buses" in "Obama's America" after an Illinois bus fight between black and white students police say wasn't racially motivated. [obviously biased MediaMatters] More »
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A yellow-cab SUV jumped the curb and struck the subway entrance at West 72nd Street and Broadway on Manhattan's Upper West Side just before 4 p.m. today in an incident of uncomfortable-transportation on uncomfortable-transportation violence. (Hat tip to Allison!) More »
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Yes, the New York subway is slow, crowded, and abrasive. But it would take 167 lanes of traffic to match its capacity, and we'd have to pave the East River to park. [Frumin.net] More »
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Two monorails collided on Sunday at the Disney World park in Orlando. Witnesses say a single train was stopped at the Ticket and Transport Center when a second train rammed it from the rear. More »
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An Amnesty International anti-domestic abuse ad in a German bus stop is the first to use a camera to determine when someone is actually looking at it, allowing it to change the ad content as needed. More »
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Yesterday's terrifying crash of an at-speed Red Line Metro train into a stopped Red Line train in Washington, DC left nine dead and 75 injured. A gallery from the scene below. Warning: a couple shots are somewhat gory. More »
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Stumbling across this map of the New York City subway system from 1948 served as a cool reminder of what used to, and in some cases still does, lurk below the streets we drive on every day. More »
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We've all seen Air Force One. We've even seen Marine One. Is this bus, seemingly shot somewhere in New York, auditioning for the role of "Ground Force One"? [via Mike Hudack] More »
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A group led by researchers at UC Berkeley have successfully tested and developed a bus that steers itself using magnets built into the road. While the driver still controls the acceleration and braking, and can take over steering, a computerized system is responsible for the direction of the bus. As simple as it sounds, this development could have a large and positive impact on transit in the future. In stand-alone form, the system will help guide the bus within a centimeter of the curb accurately and predictably, thus reducing the time taken for stops. Additionally, the precise movements mean that bus lanes can be narrowed by two feet. The most important use of this system, though, involves Bus Rapid Transit. More »
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From the Ministry of Brilliant Ideas comes this doozy of a whopper of a notion: build ten new English "Eco Towns" to combat climate change. These town would provide 20,000 homes and—here's the rub—be largely devoid of automobiles. Let's set aside for a moment some of the obvious political footballs: building additional developments creates urban sprawl, which loads up strain on the underlying infrastructure which leads to higher taxes and so on. What we're really interested in is how this is going to affect cars. More »
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London's Heathrow Airport is set to install the world's first Personal Rapid Transport system. The PRT is a fleet of 18 driverless pods for business passengers flying out of Terminal Five, with installation scheduled to be complete in less than two years. Traveling at up to 25mph, the pods will ferry passengers rapidly between their cars and terminal check-in. The airport claims there will never be more than an 18 second wait, no delays due to congestion and no need to consort with the rest of the riff-raff from steerage. It's likely this new PRT system will be the first of many, as local governments seek to replace car use within city centers.
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