Red line through Wrigleyville. (at 3639 Wrigley Rooftop)
Apparently, WMATA has not updated its trip planning tools (or at least their marketing) since using a pay phone was a common practice.
I’m not sure if this is better or worse than the Washington Post, which only recently (in the last year or two) updated the newspaper cover adorning its newspaper boxes from the mid-Clinton administration.
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Yikes!
No One Knows When New York’s Subway Will Reopen
As residents and officials survey the damage to New York City this morning, one thing is clear: it is the worst mass transit crisis in city history.
“The New York City subway system is 108 years old,” MTA chairman Joseph J. Lhotasaidin a statement last night, “But it has never faced a disaster as devastating as what we experienced last night.” Seven subway tunnels were inundated, Lhota said. Photos showed flooding in stations from Bay Ridge, at the foot of Brooklyn, toHarlem, in Upper Manhattan. The PATH station connecting Lower Manhattan to New Jersey alsoflooded, Kubrick-style, as did the World Trade Center construction site.
According to New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor, Lhota told CBS the situation was worse than the worst case scenario the MTA had envisioned. There have been rumors the system could be down for a week, but the MTA has refused to speculate about a timeline.
Read more. [Image: Reuters/Andrew Kelly]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcpma2Kreo1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Yikes!
No One Knows When New York’s Subway Will Reopen
As residents and officials survey the damage to New York City this morning, one thing is clear: it is the worst mass transit crisis in city history.
“The New York City subway system is 108 years old,” MTA chairman Joseph J. Lhotasaidin a statement last night, “But it has never faced a disaster as devastating as what we experienced last night.” Seven subway tunnels were inundated, Lhota said. Photos showed flooding in stations from Bay Ridge, at the foot of Brooklyn, toHarlem, in Upper Manhattan. The PATH station connecting Lower Manhattan to New Jersey alsoflooded, Kubrick-style, as did the World Trade Center construction site.
According to New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor, Lhota told CBS the situation was worse than the worst case scenario the MTA had envisioned. There have been rumors the system could be down for a week, but the MTA has refused to speculate about a timeline.
Read more. [Image: Reuters/Andrew Kelly]
NJ Transit buses seen at a truck stop in Virginia. Seems like a big wrong turn taken on the way to the Elizabeth, NJ IKEA.
Amtrak Proposes $7B overhaul of Union Station in Washington, DC
Amtrak is proposing a $7 billion to upgrade Union Station in Washington to turn it into a high-speed rail hub for the Northeast.
The Washington Post reports that a plan to be unveiled Wednesday afternoon calls for doubling the number of trains the station can accommodate. Amtrak would add new platforms, tracks and stores. Six tracks for high-speed rail would be added. There’d also be a 50-foot-wide, 100-foot-long glass-enclosed main concourse.
A developer is also planning a $1.5 billion complex of offices, residential towers and a hotel that would be built on a deck over the tracks behind the station.
Union Station, which opened in 1907, is the second-busiest station in the country.
No mention of how they’ll pay for it, but the design is certainly exciting!
I am sure reactions to this will show up on literallyunbelievable in 5, 4, 3, 2…
CLEVELAND—As part of an ongoing effort to rejuvenate its public transportation system, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority announced Wednesday that it had signed a three-year, $32 million deal hiring Academy Award–winning actress Charlize Theron to ride the city’s light-rail lines eight hours a day, Monday through Friday. “Each work week, Ms. Theron will bring the glitz and glamour of a Hollywood movie premiere right to Cleveland’s own RTA Rapid Transit trains,” spokesperson Ted Reardon said of the agreement, which will also require the 36-year-old Hancock star to use Cleveland’s public buses for 14 consecutive hours on the third Saturday of every month. “Who knows? You might just see Charlize on the Red Line, the Blue Line, or sleeping on a wooden bench in the Tower City station!” This latest initiative reportedly builds on the Cleveland water service’s recent awareness program, which largely involved paying Alfred Molina to swim laps in the central reservoir.
Mass transit maps can be a big part of the visual culture of cities. The more iconic the map, the more likely it is to be turned into a t-shirt, an umbrella, even a shower curtain. Here’s a look at 20 different subway system maps that serve as a window into the culture of their respective cities.
Interesting, if a bit wistful, re-adaptation of an architectural design.
People wait at a bus stop called “Eye over Brno” in Brno, Czech Republic. The stop is a scaled-down copy of a proposal for the National Library in Prague. An audacious design for a national library by world famous Czech architect Jan Kaplický, which was shunned during his lifetime has eventually taken shape in the country’s second city, Brno - as a bus stop.Picture: RADEK MICA/AFP/Getty Images (via Pictures of the day: 22 September 2011 - Telegraph)
This morning, the District Department of Transportation announced the locations of 32 new Capital Bikeshare stations around the District of Columbia, the first major expansion since the program was launched in 2011. As part of the installation, an additional 265 bikes will supplement the current stock. (via Latest Round of Bikeshare Expansion Plans Revealed: DCist)
The addiction continues. Although they won’t be adding the proposed station that would be 1-1/2 blocks from our house, I’m pretty excited about the new destinations (and connections). Bikeshare turned me into a cycling commuter — though now mostly on my own bike — and getting more folks on bikes has so many positive effects, including possible congestion reduction, health, and environmental benefits. Plus it’s a great way to interact with your city.
![This kind of thinking is needed to get DC’s Metrorail through its escalator problems.
caro:
kenyatta:
Dutch Railway Installs a Slide To Get To The Train
It’s officially called a ‘transfer accelerator’ by Dutch railway maintenance company ProRail, but everyone else would say it’s a slide. An awesome slide. Installed next to a stairway at the newly renovated railway station Overvecht in the city of Utrecht, the slide offers travellers the opportunity to quickly reach the railway tracks when they’re in a hurry.
Be sure to click through for the video
via The Pop-Up City
“[The designers] brilliantly foresaw that such a playful urban intervention can generate large-scale positive spin-off for a disadvantaged neighborhood like Overvecht, and that’s exactly what happened.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lokh384jHf1qz53j7o1_r1_500.jpg)
This kind of thinking is needed to get DC’s Metrorail through its escalator problems.
caro:
Dutch Railway Installs a Slide To Get To The Train
It’s officially called a ‘transfer accelerator’ by Dutch railway maintenance company ProRail, but everyone else would say it’s a slide. An awesome slide. Installed next to a stairway at the newly renovated railway station Overvecht in the city of Utrecht, the slide offers travellers the opportunity to quickly reach the railway tracks when they’re in a hurry.
Be sure to click through for the video
via The Pop-Up City
“[The designers] brilliantly foresaw that such a playful urban intervention can generate large-scale positive spin-off for a disadvantaged neighborhood like Overvecht, and that’s exactly what happened.”
This largely hits the spot re: the Metro system in DC, except that in reality, ridership has been steady or increasing, at the same time as the loss of support and funding and the cutbacks in service.
