Coloring Books Red Book, Yellow Book, Green Book Stay within the lines. The Red Book There’s a specification that Phillips published in 1981 , for optical digital en...
The Importance of Public Traffic Data Today a number of folks are talking about the importance of public transit data as Apple tries to shift from Google’s historic integration of public transit...
Unsolicited Testimonial: ZipCar What It Is : ZipCar is a car sharing service, which lets you rent (or share, if you prefer) a variety of cars by the hour for a low fee that includes ev...
Unsolicited Testimonial: LimoLiner What It Is : LimoLiner is an executive-class bus service from New York to Boston (or vice versa) that gets you from the center of one city to the other...
Draw the Map, Draw the World The Sunday New York Times ran a fantastic article by Alex Mindlin, Win, Lose, Draw: The Great Subway Map Wars that details a battle that has brewed, off and...
The Best Subway Stops in the World This fantastic series of photos of subway stations really makes me appreciate mass transit in a way that I haven’t in ages. Look at Stockholm! Any space wh...
Part of the reason I Part of the reason I know Crans is cool is because he likes the new 6 trains, too ....
So, personal transportation has come So, personal transportation has come up as a topic in my office again, leading me to advocate the PowerSkip once more....
Cars vs. People; A Triumph of the Feet "The vitality of a city comes from its pedestrians, not its cars." Tampa Bay Online has a dramatic series of photographs illustrating an article...
UPS truck-based package drop-offs I don’t know how recent the addition is, but I’ve noticed in the past few weeks that increasing numbers of UPS trucks have drop slots on the side for peopl...
MTA commuting Today and yesterday I have used the Metropolitan Transit Authority ‘s trains to go to work. I have been a big believer in public transportation , as long as...