Latest Stories in Public Transportation
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Amtrak replaces 30-year old locomotives with high-efficiency 8,600 hp electric models
A bit late for National Train Day, Amtrak is getting some nice new high-efficiency toys.
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May 11th is National Train Day!
May 11th, is the 6th annual National Train Day in the US! Time to celebrate!
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Dear Subaru: It's a bad idea to call your target audience a bunch of smelly loud bums
The car company has been stereotyped for years, but that hasn't stopped them from peddling every tired cliche about transit.
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NYC's subway track geometry car blends high- and low-tech
Beneath the city that never sleeps, MTA's "track geometry car" worms it's way through New York's subway tunnels, using a menagerie of sensors and cameras to inspect the tracks.
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What if all subways in North-America were connected?
Just for the heck of it, Randall Munroe, mastermind behind the geek-favorite webcomic XKCD, has created a map showing all of North-America's subways connected, from Canada to Mexico.
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Here is a good idea: The Personal Subway Car where you can do all those horrible things in private
It is an April Fools gag from Toronto's Transit Commission with a serious message: get along and don't be disgusting.
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Yes, that's Pope Francis aka Jorge Mario Bergoglio on the subway
It remains to be seen how green (or not) new Pope Francis aka Jorge Mario Bergoglio will be, but this photo of him riding the subway in Buenos Aires, Argentina, certainly makes a good ad for public transportation.
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Are LNG locomotives the way to deal with natural gas flaring?
Freight rail is a very efficient way to move goods over long distances, moving a ton of freight around 500 miles on a single gallon of diesel. But railroads still burn around 3.1 billion gallons of diesel a year just in the U.S.
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Could a subway swipe & read scheme for smartphones boost visits to public libraries?
Subway riders could take advantage of an "underground library" that lets smartphone owners swipe a poster to get a free digital reading sample from the New York Public Library.
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'Best Bus Stop Ever' (Video)
Do we need better marketing for public transportation? It's a question worth asking.
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Walkonomics: How walkable is that street?
No, Walkonomics is not a new blog by Steven Levitt. Rather, it's a new entrant to the field of walkability rating, joining the current leader Walk Score, but taking a different approach.
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Map Shows What US-Wide High Speed Rail Might Look Like
The dream of high speed rail in the United States is very, very slowly moving forward. But what if we permit ourselves to dream. What would such a rail network look like?
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Vancouver Crowned Most Walkable City in Canada
Walk Score has published its first top 10 ranking of Canadian cities for walkability. They also have information about specific neighborhood. This is very useful to anyone who's thinking about buying or renting in these areas.
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Timelapse Train Journey Travels Through the Four Seasons
A gorgeous video shows what it looks like to travel on this train's route as the seasons change.
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First Converted Hybrid Train with Regenerative Braking Could Be a Game Changer
A "Desiro" diesel locomotive retrofitted with batteries recharged by braking takes the tracks. This could be a game changer.
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How Fast Could You Travel Across the USA in the 1800s? (Check Out These Old Maps)
In this age of fast travel and instant digital communications, we tend to forget that not so long ago, distances were subjectively very different.
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Italian Rail Integrates Bike and Electric Car Sharing
They don't just get you there fast, they think about how you will get around at your destination
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Is Mass Transit Bad for the Environment?
Freakonomics fires off another contrarian missive. This time, on mass transit, there are some important points to be considered.
