public transportation
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2014 was a record year for transit, but that’s not as rad as it sounds
We'll give you an E for effort, America, but New York City gets most of the credit.
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This bicycle barometer makes deciding how to get to work super easy
Turn it on, and it indicates which mode of transportation—subway or bike—is likely the best choice
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Jay-Z took the subway, so now nobody can say it’s not cool
Jay-Z condescended to take the subway from Canal Street to Atlantic Ave for the last of a series of concerts at the Barclays Center.
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This French commuter train looks like an 18th-century palace
Leave it to Paris to put together the most luxurious rail car you've ever seen.
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Kobe Bryant and LeBron James use public transit at the Olympics
If the American men's Olympic basketball team can use public transportation, so can everybody else.
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19th-century London had a train line just for dead people
Back in mid-19th century England, public transportation was popular enough that even dead people had their own railway. P. D. Smith writes: The London Necropolis Railway station was constructed by the London Necropolis & National Mausoleum Company, specifically to serve their Brookwood Cemetery, 25 miles away in Woking, Surrey. The Company’s logo was, somewhat ghoulishly, […]
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Photos of train tracks and airplane runways melting in the heat
Last weekend’s heat played havoc with transportation in the D.C. area, but at least we got some cool photos out of the chaos. The heat-buckled highway was just a heat-buckled highway — they’ve been all over the country this summer — but check out this plane sinking four inches into the tarmac at Reagan National […]
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Transit workers stop train to save toy bunny
Casey Carey-Brown, a Boston woman who blogs about her daughter “Roozle,” has chronicled a harrowing story about childhood trauma narrowly averted by big-hearted transit workers. It concerns Roozle’s toy bunny Nummy, pictured above. (Roozle is the human child, Nummy is the bunny. I just don’t want you getting confused and thinking this was almost way […]
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The best subway map tattoos
There are people who like public transportation, and then there are people who want to rub public transportation all over their body parts — or at least get it permanently inked on them. Here are some of our favorite transit-map tattoos from the internet. Here’s a nice-looking Chicago El map, done large enough that you […]