General Public Transportation Thread

[Chudacabra]

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/03/2-notes-of-caution-on-americas-record-mass-transit-year/387349/

U.S. sets record for public transit usership in 2014, but most of it is in NYC.

[Nat King Dole]

I think something like a third of all US public transport journeys take place around NY.

[Nat King Dole]

Typography of the U-Bahn http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/mar/11/berlin-u-bahn-typography-history-city?CMP=share_btn_fb

[Chudacabra]

http://www.latimes.com/world/great-reads/la-fg-c1-ff-brazil-megacity-commute-20150313-story.html#page=1

Crummy transit in Sao Paulo.

[Chudacabra]

http://www.blogto.com/city/2015/03/behind_the_scenes_at_the_ttc_50_years_ago/

TTC subway yard in the mid-1960s. Some shots of the British-made subway cars that were used until 1990.

[Chudacabra]

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/03/san-francisco-gets-the-ridiculous-luxury-bus-it-deserves/388090/

San Francisco company introduces "Assholes-only," privatized bus service.

[Nat King Dole]

LOL

When I was there a couple weeks ago they were in the midst of a controversy around whether google should be able to use MUNI stops for their private bus to palo alto that allows young tech workers to live in (and gentrify) the tenderloin.

[Chudacabra]

http://torontoist.com/2015/03/scarborough-gets-an-rt/

Toronto suburb gets a rapid transit line in 1985. Much craziness ensues.

[Chudacabra]

http://www.blogto.com/city/2015/03/that_time_toronto_almost_built_the_subway_to_the_lake/

Scrapped plan for a massive redevelopment of Toronto's downtown waterfront, complete with a monorail and a CN Tower-esque sky phallus.

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