Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Pacific Electric map, Los Angeles, 1920, “the largest electric railway system in the world”. [Flickr]

Pacific Electric map, Los Angeles, 1920, “the largest electric railway system in the world”. [Flickr]

Posted at 10:42 AM 4 notes Tags: transport railways los angeles
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
“Public transportation’s been on the rebound for decades, after bottoming out in the early 1970s. But it didn’t really begin booming until the economy caught fire in the mid 1990s. Part of the story is population growth. Part of it’s the revival of American cities. But that recovery stalls every time the economy falls out from under it, which is exactly what happened in 2008. Last year, there was a significant turnaround. And that’s another indication that the economy is really, truly improving: Public transportation usage is back on the rise — in a significant way.” End Of An Era: Why Public Transportation Is On The Rise (TPM)
Posted at 9:38 AM 8 notes Tags: transport
“a proper ‘street for living’ needs to be coextensive with either a sizeable district of a city, an entire town centre, or a whole village, so that drivers entering the area need to have psychologically reinforced the idea that they are no longer on the open road.” Will Self
Posted at 9:31 AM Tags: Hans Monderman streets transport

The City of Mobile Services Blog

Posted at 9:27 AM 1 note Tags: transport
Friday, January 13, 2012
Angelenos practice an air raid drill in the former Pacific Electric subway in 1958. Nathan Masters, Lost Tunnels of Downtown L.A.

Angelenos practice an air raid drill in the former Pacific Electric subway in 1958.

Nathan Masters, Lost Tunnels of Downtown L.A.

Posted at 5:23 PM 8 notes Tags: los angeles tunnels air raids warfare transport
Monday, January 9, 2012
“The streets beneath our feet are getting smart. Pavements are melting into the roads and traffic lights are disappearing. Inspired by the work of scientists and engineers in Holland and Japan, this is a revolution in urban design. Part of it is a movement known as ‘Shared Space’, which promises to dramatically change the way cities look and how we experience them. In Thinking Streets, Angela Saini asks if all these ideas really fulfil the promise of making us all safer, happier and more efficient?” Thinking Streets (BBC Radio 4)
Posted at 2:40 PM 5 notes Tags: streets transport Cars Hans Monderman shared space urban planning
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
People creating their own bike lanes in Mexico City. (This Big City)

People creating their own bike lanes in Mexico City. (This Big City)

Posted at 9:53 AM 109 notes Tags: Mexico City bicycle lanes transport
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Rooftop airport, by Paul Frank, Amazing Stories (1928). More (Ptak). [via @UnlikelyWorlds] 

Rooftop airport, by Paul Frank, Amazing Stories (1928).

More (Ptak). [via @UnlikelyWorlds] 

Posted at 11:28 AM 73 notes Tags: airports future cities transport
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
From “Sense and the City”, an exhibition at the London Transport Museum [via Paleofuture]

From “Sense and the City”, an exhibition at the London Transport Museum [via Paleofuture]

Posted at 6:17 PM 15 notes Tags: transport future cities
Friday, August 5, 2011
The new western concourse at King’s Cross Station in London, designed by John McAslan + Partners. More at the Inde

The new western concourse at King’s Cross Station in London, designed by John McAslan + Partners. More at the Inde

Posted at 9:45 PM 5 notes Tags: railway stations transport london
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
“A lot is said about the fact that this is the car capital of the United States. Everybody has seen we can get out of our cars every once in a while and survive.” Carmageddon - LAT 

“A lot is said about the fact that this is the car capital of the United States. Everybody has seen we can get out of our cars every once in a while and survive.”

Carmageddon - LAT 

Posted at 8:47 PM 17 notes Tags: carmageddon transport los angeles cars
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
“The government of the Spanish city of Murcia has launched an initiative that gives people lifetime passes to public transport in exchange for their old cars. The move is part of a campaign to reduce the number of cars in the city. The government invited citizens to register by the end of June for a lifelong ticket for travel on the city’s newly built tram routes in exchange for their car. The only requirement was that the car worked and had the equivalent of an MOT. These cars were then displayed in public.” Wired
Posted at 6:11 PM 3 notes Tags: transport spain cars
“From inside the bubble, the futuristic EN-V feels like a living organism as it slowly rises from a crouching position, before balancing on two wheels as if they were legs.” General Motors shows vision of urban mobility (BBC)

“From inside the bubble, the futuristic EN-V feels like a living organism as it slowly rises from a crouching position, before balancing on two wheels as if they were legs.”

General Motors shows vision of urban mobility (BBC)

Posted at 6:09 PM 1 note Tags: transport
Monday, July 4, 2011
“David Yoon is a writer, designer, photographer, and ‘self-confessed urban planning geek’ based in Los Angeles. For fun, he takes photographs of Los Angeles’ wide streets and digitally edits them to make them narrower.” Read more at Magical Urbanism | http://www.davidyoon.com/magicsquare.htm

“David Yoon is a writer, designer, photographer, and ‘self-confessed urban planning geek’ based in Los Angeles. For fun, he takes photographs of Los Angeles’ wide streets and digitally edits them to make them narrower.”

Read more at Magical Urbanism | http://www.davidyoon.com/magicsquare.htm

Posted at 12:26 PM 4 notes Tags: transport los angeles streets photography art
“How much congestion at the heart of London would you prefer? Access with a car regardless of the consequences sounds like you consider automobiles to be some sort of essential prosthetic device. Walking around London is actually quite nice.” Comment on Sam Staley’s piece The Right to Travel for the NYT.
Posted at 12:23 PM Tags: transport North America