Category Archives: Public Transport

Amtrak needs to see this

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Brian D. Butler

American journalist Charli James went behind the scenes with an extraordinary railway cleaning crew to document their amazing “7 Minute Miracle” refresh of the famed Shinkansen bullet train in Tokyo.

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But How’s The WiFi

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Brian D. Butler

With all of the time that travelers are forced to spend in airports these days, free and fast wifi has become even more important. The website Rotten WiFi has compiled crowd sourced speed test data on more than 130 airports … Continue reading →

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Travel Hacks

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Brian D. Butler

I’m a sucker for blog posts and websites that dangle the clickbait title of “travel hacks”, but usually it’s the same old common sense stuff any traveler should know. How many times do we have to see so called hacks … Continue reading →

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Seventy-one Square Miles Seeded With Hustle

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Brian D. Butler

The just launched Brooklyn from the Wildsam Field Guide Series describes the New York Borough as “…seventy-one square miles seeded with hustle and grit and leaps of faith”. As the product of more than a century of Brooklynites on both … Continue reading →

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The Art of Public Transit

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Brian D. Butler

During the last three decades, New York City’s Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA) has commissioned hundreds of original art works for its far-flung network of stations. Now, the New York Society of Illustrators is celebrating some of the wonderful posters, mosaics, … Continue reading →

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It’s Just Common Courtesy

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Brian D. Butler

We’ve covered “courtesy campaigns” from public transit agencies in Tokyo, London, New York City and Paris. Now we have a peek at the new poster campaign from the Chicago Transit Authority reminding Chicago’s 1.6 million daily bus, train and subway … Continue reading →

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Don’t Blame the Airline

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Brian D. Butler

For decades we have been maligning airline meals and blaming the carriers for serving us drek, now it seems that the horribly tasting food might just be the result of hurtling through the atmosphere in a really noisy metal tube. … Continue reading →

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Three Magic Words

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Brian D. Butler

What3words is an entirely new universal address system that may just transform how we navigate the world. It divides the Earth into 57 trillion 3m x 3m squares and assigns each plot a unique three word descriptor. For example this … Continue reading →

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Daily Life of Gods

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Brian D. Butler

Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov creates these wonderful mash-ups from classical paintings and street scenes in Kiev. In his series “The Daily Life of Gods” he photoshops cherubs, angels, goddesses, and historical figures into images of public transport, cafes and city … Continue reading →

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Underground Art

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Brian D. Butler

Montreal-based Canadian photographer Christopher Forsyth has been capturing the abstract beauty of his city’s underground system in a series of stunning images titled “Metro Exploration”. He has been sharing the process on Instagram over time using the hashtag #mtlmetroproject. Since … Continue reading →

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