Tag: public transport
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Contactless Transport in London vs Paris
Paris is rolling-out contactless tap-in payments for its transport network. Sounds like London's... except that Paris's includes a "convenience tax" that seems to disproportionately target short-term visitors. What might this say about each city's relationship with tourism?
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Wikipedia @ 25: Presto Card
The Presto Card is Toronto and the surrounding area's equivalent of London's Oyster Card. I enjoyed learning about it, but I don't think it justifies a whole blog post of what-I-learned.
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Wikipedia @ 25: Rail transport in Indonesia
Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th birthday, and today I'm celebrating by discovering what the Argo Wilis is, along with a dive into a rabbithole about rail transport in Indonesia!
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Fellow folks at the interest-intersection of "public transport" and "queer activism" (I know you're out there!): I had an idea for a t-shirt.
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T-shirt design: a sign in the typographic and graphical style of British road signs, showing the words 'Trams rights at all times' on a background in the blue/pink/white of the trans pride flag, with an outline of a tram whose pantograph is reshaped to resemble the trio of the masculine, feminine, and combined symbols used as a trans symbol.
Do I print it? Or give up on graphic design and go back to backend programming where I belong?
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Found GCAJJP3 Kohtauspaikat - Virtual Reward 4.0
The younger child and I nipped across for a photo while we waited for our tram to come.
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Found GC1JA6P Töölön kirjasto
Very easy find for the kids and I after a delightful visit to the Tram Museum. We went to the coordinates and instantly saw the cache! SL, TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK.
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In the event of a fire on my bus, I'm concerned that the head of the man sitting in front of me is flammable.
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On a bus, back abs sides of a man's head. His hat has a label which reads "keep away from fire", but it's hanging out in such a way that it looks like it might be his head that's labelled.
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Clapham South Deep Shelter
This weekend I once again found myself underground beneath London; this time exploring the Camden South Deep Shelter with the help of the Hidden London folks. And it was pretty damn cool.
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Next stop, Istanbul!*
* not actually next stop; I've got a bus, a walk, a bus, and a plane left on this journey yet!
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Dan, a white man with a trimmed goatee beard and dyed-blue hair tied back in a ponytail, stands alongside a suburban bus shelter and throws a thumbs-up sign. He's carrying a backpack.
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Harswell Steel
My past self, receiving a copy of Transport Tycoon for his 14th birthday, would have his mind blown if he could see the kind of insanely-complex super-stations that are possible in (the open-source successor to) the game 30 years on...
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London Transport 25
Girl on the Net diverts from her usual sex blogging to write about taking a date on a 25-forms-of-transport tour of London, and it's delightful.
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llswater Steamers and the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway have introduced a season ticket for dogs. And it's called the "Rover" ticket. 😘🤌
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Found GCAJGEA Welcome to Amsterdam! (Virtual Reward 4.0)
This checkin to GCAJGEA Welcome to Amsterdam! (Virtual Reward 4.0) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. TFTC! I'm not carrying any tickets for UK transport, but I've got a (mildly defaced) British banknote and I found a tram (the number 13, which connected me to my hotel this week) and …
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London civil servant's bus odyssey sparks Twitter storm
In light of Jo Kibble's 24-hour local bus journey from London to Morecambe, Dan relates planning a similar journey with his father.
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Reply to @ADumbGreyHam
Dan replies to Adam's tweet about Dan's dad's public transport legacy.