Alexander Chan is a musician, artist and and employee of Google Creative Labs in Brooklyn, New York. He’s also created one of the most magnificent interpretations of a subway map I’ve yet to ever see: ANY CHARACTER HERE
Most of us can’t afford to drive a BMW everyday to work. But what if you could ride a BMW everyday? The Siemens Group recently commissioned BMW’s subsidiary Designworks USA to design a new kind of subway train. Dubbed the Metro Inspiro, it is a train the likes of which you’ve never seen: Cork floors,...
Gondola Project reader Sean sent me a link to the above image. It dates from the 1950’s and comes from Vancouver’s regional transit authority, Translink, and was plucked from their archives. Even 60 years ago transit authorities recognized the need for grade-separation and rights-of-way for transit: “freeing the limited street space for commercial vehicles and...
… is bound to be fraught with perils. Lacking the sufficient pitch, people are bound to imagine whatever they feel like. And there’s a very good chance that the image they conjure in their heads will be the exact opposite of what you desire. Tell someone you can use gondolas as transit and they might...
I think it fair to say that most North Americans are conditioned to believe there are only a handful of transit modes in the world: Car, Bus and Train. And I’m not so sure most transit planners are any different. It’s not intentional conditioning. There’s no one brainwashing us, it’s just what we’ve grown up...
Ryan sends a link to an op-ed piece in the Waterloo Record: “Truly innovative ideas for public transit are needed to make progress. . . A zipline is a version of a ropeway. They originated to cross valleys and gorges because they are safe, easy to operate, and inexpensive to build.” The author goes on to...
Quick! Hands up if you own an iPad! (Good, now hold that thought because I’ll get back to it at the end of this post.) A comment on a recent post over at Human Transit caught my eye: The post was titled All Aboard The Canadian Hydrogen Overhead Monorail Express and dealt with Canadian Inventor...
The following is a guest post by Wellington Cycleways’ Matt Thredgold. Steven asks us what we can learn from elevators. He notes that they are the world’s most used form of public transit. It is perhaps stretching the definition of public transit a bit to include elevators, but in some places in the world elevators...
I don’t know if this is insane or inspired . . . Swedish architect Mans Tham recently proposed we enclose highways with solar panels. Specifically exploring the concept as it pertains to Los Angeles’ Santa Monica Freeway, Thams’ idea “would see 24km (15 miles) of LA’s Santa Monica Freeway covered in solar panels – with...