Dating back to the construction of the Kaohsiung MRT back in 2005. The O5/R10 interchange is now the Formosa Boulevard station, widely regarded as one of the most beautiful metro stations in the world. I’m not even going to pretend that I understand what the colour-coded gophers are for, but they sure are cute! Source: ailb/Flickr – link no longer active
A look at another stalled attempt to get rapid transit up and running in Seattle, this time from 1970. A lot of the proposed alignments look very familiar, but they are often constrained by Seattle’s difficult geography. I see that they were thinking of running rapid transit over the I-90 floating bridge – quite the engineering feat even now, let alone over 40 years ago. Even now, it’ll be the first light rail track travelling […]
Welcome to FCB Island! Or something like that… I’d love to have listened in on the design brief for this project: Make it an island! Yeah, an island that looks like our crest! With lots of subway lines going everywhere and converging at the stadium! But none of them will go to the airport! Ha ha! Hilarious! I know, make the subway lines spell out “FCB” in the middle!!! Great! And it’s gotta have ALL the […]
Submitted by scnartup, who says: Similar stuff to the video of a day in the life of London’s Underground in Budapest. Metro line M4 is not shown since it opened in 2014 and the video was made in 2012. One dot represents one vehicle [as opposed to the London video, where 1 dot represents a single rider – CAM]. Legend: white dot: night bus blue dot: bus red dot: trolley bus yellow dot: tram bigger dots: metro […]
Submitted by Mikko, who says: Helsinki Regional Transport Authority’s (HSL) draft map of rapid transit and trunk bus lines, published for comments on 16 February 2015. There are multiple errors and readability problems with this version, e.g. the commuter train designation letters are too small to be read, some Swedish-language names are wrong etc. Some notes: names of stations and stops are in Finnish and Swedish (officially bilingual country) the so-called Ring Rail Line (Kehärata) […]
Pretty much as soon as I finished my monumental Highways of the United States project last year, people started asking me why I hadn't included the two non-contiguous states of Alaska and Hawaii, both of which do actually contain federal highways in one form or another. So, here's Hawaii with all its Interstate goodness.
