@samsterby @baggetun To be honest, this track was very useful for me to commute to work and back. You could jump on at the station at the end of my road and then hop off directly in the city center. It's very good at serving the local towns surrounding Manchester City Center.
I liked that it ran the older trains too. They were a little dirty and, like most of Manchester, needs a good clean, but it gave it a little more charm.
@samsterby @baggetun If my memory serves me correct (its been a while) there are two "main" trains you can get from Manchester to Liverpool Lime Street.
There's the one pictured above that departs from Manchester Oxford Road stops at every station along the way and takes (I think) about 1.5 to 2 hours.
And there's another that goes a lot faster and has just a handful of stops, taking about 1 hour from "door to door".
Just one of those coincidences that makes a huuuuuge difference.
(Taken on Nikon D3000; ©Nilabrata Sanyal/NLBRT, CC-BY-SA 4.0 or later. Alt text courtesy of @contrapunctus)
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two Mercedes eCitaros in process of swapping buses at the pantograph charger at the bus loop in Gdynia
Nikon D5300 + AF Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6
#photography #urbanphotography #bus #publictransport #gdynia /forcepub
Analyzing #GTFS Realtime Data for #PublicTransport Insights
In today’s post, we are going to dive deep into how to analyze public transport data, using both schedule and real time information
http://anitagraser.com/2025/03/10/analyzing-gtfs-realtime-data-for-public-transport-insights/
Radio presenter refused taxi ride, abused by driver in Adelaide
Media personality Ali Clarke has shared how she was verbally abused and refused a ride by a taxi driver in Adelaide.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-07/ali-clarke-abused-by-taxi-driver/105022358
Taking #PublicTransit in American suburbia can require some adjustment and planning, but these are the conversations you start having if you can pull it off.
Also an excuse to show off my Signal background.
In praise of British Trains (hopefully the new name for a re-nationalised service). So I took 3 journeys recently that Ive never done before, which can be stressful if they are time dependent. All three were a joy, easy to change and nice seats. We don't have trains in Malta, we only have an overused and generally badly planned, inadequate bus service. So being on trains was lovely. I do wish we had those swivel direction seats theyve had in Japan for years though.
"To pay or not to pay: the role of fares in public transport"
Join us on March 20th for the final event of our 5-year project on #FareFreePublicTransport (FFPT), at LISER (#Luxembourg).
We'll bring together the state of the art of research into FFPT in Luxembourg, Europe and beyond.
Program & registration: https://www.liser.lu/to-pay-or-not-to-pay
If you’re not around, you can still join the opening and closing keynotes online! (Register to receive the link later)
This tram is carrying more people than could be moved in all of the cars pictured on the side of this tram. #Melbourne #PublicTransport
Scottish Greens Co-Leader Patrick Harvie, rightly stresses the need to invest in public transport to reach net zero targets:
'With real investment in public transport, we can make it cheaper & accessible to all whilst protecting out planet. With new rail routes, reliable buses & integrated ticketing, we could end the reliance on private cars. This investment in public transport infrastructure would benefit us for decades to come';
But what we get is a new runway at Heathrow!
Lots of good arguments for car congestion pricing in this video by Streetfilms. I especially liked seeing the older lady on a bike.
I made a mistake once, about 20 years ago, to drive through Manhattan (in a minivan, with my family). It was a nightmare. If I left a car length space in front, another car would change lanes and take it, almost immediately. The average speed was less than walking.
“Most Uber and Lyft trips replaceable by public transit, says study”
“A new study led by the University of Michigan reveals that while rideshare services like Uber and Lyft offer convenience, most trips they serve could be handled by public transit—if transit were more accessible.”
https://cities-today.com/most-uber-and-lyft-trips-replaceable-by-public-transit-says-study/
"If the government really wanted to invest in fuel resilience, it would be investing in electrifying our vehicle fleet as quickly as possible."
@norightturnnz, 2025
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/02/investing-in-stranded-asset.html
Especially electrifying public transport. As well as improving the UX of services, eg linking them up across regions, and the whole country. So they become practical and pleasant to use, instead of being the transport equivalent of wearing a hair shirt.
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