Spotted the new Mark V type Skytrain being tested at Commercial-Broadway Station! It appears to be shown on the schedule as normal, the doors open, but the inside is fenced off so no one is permitted to board.

Caught the KC Streetcar testing by the Plaza again. Two today! #transit #kcstreetcar #photography

Here is a great video from Transit Tangent about Aerial Rapid Transit (ART).

ART is growing in popularity around the world.

I personally support the proposed Dodger Stadium gondola/ART project.

Once it is operational, people will want more of these in various places.

https://youtu.be/D1UvVu9EmQU?si=bT0GAjK6lArIqQAF

Interim Metrolinx CEO keeping quiet on Eglinton LRT opening date
Metrolinx interim CEO Michael Lindsay deftly stickhandled questions from reporters about an opening date for the Eglinton West LRT which is years behind schedule.
#transit #politics #transportation #Canada #EglintonLRT #Metrolinx
https://globalnews.ca/news/11121626/eglinton-lrt-metrolinx-opening-date/

Interim Metrolinx CEO keeping quiet on Eglinton LRT opening date
Metrolinx interim CEO Michael Lindsay deftly stickhandled questions from reporters about an opening date for the Eglinton West LRT which is years behind schedule.
#transit #politics #transportation #Canada #EglintonLRT #Metrolinx
https://globalnews.ca/news/11121626/eglinton-lrt-metrolinx-opening-date/

From Translink

E-bike and e-scooter parking now available at Coquitlam Central Station

New designated parking stalls improve connections to #transit services

https://link.etranslink.ca/v/443/61496305bc86358c0b67a86cf205873b24b98893a48c639a23f1f694ea285081

TransLink and the City of Coquitlam are partnering to launch mobility hubs for customers using shared e-bikes and e-scooters at Coquitlam Central Station. Located outside the fare gates of both the SkyTrain and West Coast Express stations, the hubs make it easier for riders to connect to transit

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“First passage of the REM through the Mount Royal Tunnel” https://rem.info/en/news/first-passage-rem-through-mount-royal-tunnel-and-start-dynamic-testing-area

#Montreal #transit #REM
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Running trains successfully through the tunnel for the first time is a massive project milestone.

When did vintage transit roller destination signs begin to be used as decor? For all of my adult life, you could find reproductions of the white on black signs in a Brooklyn loft. But where did that trend come from in the 20th century?

Philly city gov’t is negotiating with the #transit system about a benefit it has offered its employees for two years: free transit passes. (City wants to pay less for the passes.) But here’s an odd fact: 15,000 employees get passes but collectively take only 330,000 a month. That’s an average of one ride per work day. So before negotiating, how about figuring out why such a valuable benefit isn’t used more often? https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-city-worker-commuter-benefit-septa/

“New tech on the Elizabeth line shows which carriages are quietest” https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/new-tech-on-the-elizabeth-line-shows-which-carriages-are-quietest-80301/

#London #transit #ElizabethLine
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Hope this info is available to third parties and will appear in various apps.

https://neoregonpassengerrail.substack.com/p/the-proposed-oregon-department-of #oregon #transit #rail #bus

#Trimet is on a quest to ruin even more bus lines. Ridership is fed up! Perhaps if you did more about the reason ridership is down instead of destroying routes your existing ridership relies upon, you wouldn't be in this fix. People still don't feel safe and comfortable so people are driving or sharing rides like #Uber #Lyft Changing/ ruining our treasured routes won't bring them back. I feel for the #homeless and #mentallyill but they make people with choices, take other #transit options

Not that I disagree with the sentiment, but before we bother building more trains, we need to build more mixed-use apartment buildings in town and city centers. No point in trains if there aren't concentrations of populations to use them. #urbanism #architecture #planning #transit #transportation

Experimenting with showing custom icons for stations. Inspired a bit from our highway shield rendered (derived from OpenStreetMap Americana)

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/tree/wip/mlundblad/station-icons

It's making use of the "network:wikidata" OSM tag.

Currently rendering these icons in map view itself is not tested (this needs an extra addition to our planetiler generator for the vector tiles to be run in the next import).

This is what passes for a bus stop in Edmonton. Yes, you have to wait standing in that mud hole or the bus won't stop.

Where we're standing now? That's the only multi-use active transportation path that seems to go anywhere in the west end (and even then, it ends at 163 St when all the businesses are on 170 St and on).

As such, it is a heavily-used path which only becomes unused during a forced "off-season" when maintenance is neglected to the point of making it unusable, and users are forced onto the street where they are often run off the road by aggressive drivers.

The road the cars are driving on? Huge 4-lane road which even during rush hour has mostly empty space but traffic drives so fast and aggressively (with no traffic calming whatsoever), that it is very difficult for active transportation to get in, which they must do (or find a completely different route altogether) during the many long months when the heavily-used MUP is left unusable.

Even though there is SO much empty space on this road, if traffic gets slowed down for a split second (which generally only happens when somebody is turning left, and through traffic passes beside them), the horns come out on FULL BLAST. Tons of aggression and road rage on this street, largely contributed to by the autocentric "stroad" design.

This is a classic example of infrastructure and maintenance designed to force an end of active transportation supposedly by concentrating on automobile traffic, except that this focus on cars gives no actual benefit to them, except to make them feel more privileged.

Note: Despite its looks, this road is more dangerous for the drivers than others. I have seen so many near crashes on it when I used to use it regularly. The road is wide and straight, but that just means people can't get their foot off the gas.

Although they take their anger out on the rest of us, it's the people driving on the road who are most at risk. Driving does NOT make you safer.

The GA State MARTA station was packed when we left the rally at the capitol. A lot of people riding who were obviously not used to it.

A guy played the ukulele and got the whole train to sing "This Land is My Land".

Public transit is freedom

“Japanese railway line closes, company keeps trains running for residents” https://soranews24.com/2025/04/05/japanese-railway-line-closes-company-keeps-trains-running-for-residents/

#Japan #transit
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Always sad to read about the closure of any railway, but it this case it’s understandable.