These are the metro (subway, underground) systems I’ve ridden. OK, I rode one (Pittsburgh) all of one stop, but a system’s a system. I rode two (Cleveland and St. Louis) because I attended the respective Revival conference of the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship. But a system’s a system.
Got at b3co.com!
Of course, the best […]
Londoners and visitors — whether or not they go to Sloane Square — can turn to a new site — walkit.com — for detailed point-to-point walking directions, calorie burnings and CO2 savings. Sometimes walking is faster and more convenient than public transit or even taxis.
The BBC has a 2006 story on it, too.
There’s less […]
As I mentioned, Hubby and I got back from the beach: Ocean City, Maryland, and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware specifically. We used a bus (yeah, transit!) to tool up and down the skinny island.
But it was a bit like I was being followed.
I wrote about Megabus’s US service a few months ago. NBC News ran a story about it tonight.
Good news Toledo, you’re being served this fall. OK, not so much about theology, but better these days than short-haul flying. Better than the Greyhound we know and don’t-love, and which degrades the popular appreciation of motorcoaches for […]
In Washington, D.C., when you ride a bus, you’re likely to see a letter-sized poster with a biblical passage taped up. They’re always the same (italic bold Times New Roman, landscape) and the passage comes without commentary, making me think this is the work of one person or group. This is a part of the […]
The American Public Transportation Association — in my neighborhood as it happens; y’all hiring? — are sponsoring National Dump the Pump Day on Thursday, June 8, as a means of promoting public transportation. They offer a few facts to encourage those who could use transit and do not. My favorite is
If Americans used public transportation […]
Washington Metro — the main subway and bus provider — is really trying to shape up its public image and service following the retirement of the last director, best remembered locally for his golden parachute.
The Express, the Washington Post’s free sibling for straphangers and office worker types has mashed together their info and Google maps to give us lots of helpful destination info near subway stations. Not perfect — it doesn’t put exits in the right places; there’s no subway stop in the middle of Dupont Circle — but […]
Today is Earth Day. Well, heck, as the price of gasoline continues to rise, every day in metro Washington is Earth Day. Transit ridership is very high and making news, in part because there’s no event associated with the upturn. Good.
This post, however, is for the tourists. I know you’re coming and you ought to […]
“Employee of the century” Arthur Winston died today peacefully in his sleep, aged 100. He retired last month after seventy-two years of service with Los Angeles’s transit authority. I don’t know what part of this story stuns me most.
Read details at his Wikipedia article.
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