Posts Tagged ‘transit’

Trolley Ahoy

September 24, 2022

“Trolley Ahoy,” a 1936 Rainbow Parade cartoon by Van Beuren Studios, directed by Burt Gillett, with music by Winston Sharples. Based on a newspaper comic strip by Fontaine Fox.

______________
Short link: https://wp.me/p6sb6-A6j

Comments are welcome if they are on-topic, substantive, concise, and not boring or obscene. Comments may be edited for clarity and length.

Toonerville Trolley

September 17, 2022

“Toonerville Trolley,” a 1936 Rainbow Parade cartoon by Van Beuren Studios, directed by Burt Gillett, and Tom Palmer, with music by Winston Sharples. Based on a newspaper comic strip by Fontaine Fox. The bovine here looks suspiciously like Molly Moo Cow.

______________
Short link: https://wp.me/p6sb6-A6e

Comments are welcome if they are on-topic, substantive, concise, and not boring or obscene. Comments may be edited for clarity and length.

Facemasks

June 27, 2022

Facemasks

Still got facemasks? Good, because COVID isn’t going anywhere soon. When it comes to mask use, public policy now puts the burden of choice on you. Kimberly Mas reviews personal and community risks in this Vox video:

 

___________________________
Short Link:

Top photo (Subway poster, Farragut West Metro station, Washington DC ) by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

Comments are welcome if they are on-topic, substantive, concise, and not boring or obscene. Comments may be edited for clarity and length.

z

 

The Most Recognizable Voice in New York

October 20, 2021

The most recognizable voice in the Big Apple, the one that tells you to “stand clear of the closing doors” in the subway, is that of Charlie Pellett. A New Yorker video.

_____________
Short link: https://wp.me/p6sb6-xq1

Comments are welcome if they are on-topic, substantive, concise, and not boring or obscene. Comments may be edited for clarity and length.

Doors Closing

September 17, 2021

Subway car door closing annoucements from around the world, including New York City, New Jersey, Boston, Denver, San Francisco, San Diego, Portland and Seattle, Vancouver BC, London, and Tokyo. Video by Olton Hall.

_____________
Short link: https://wp.me/p6sb6-xnm

Comments are welcome if they are on-topic, substantive, concise, and not boring or obscene. Comments may be edited for clarity and length.

 

Infrastructure Week on Sesame Street

August 20, 2021

“Subway,” written by Sam Pottle, with lyrics by Grace Hawthorne, from Sesame Street, 1974. The visuals are pretty fuzzy, but so are the singing Muppets …. Youngsters: a “token” was a coin-like item used to access mass transit for a single ride.

 ___________________
Short link: https://wp.me/p6sb6-tBg

Comments are welcome if they are on-topic, substantive, concise, and not boring or obscene. Comments may be edited for clarity and length.

 

 

The NYC Subway Was Saved By A Typeface

June 9, 2021

The New York City subway system was saved by the Helvetica font, claims Christine Beldon on Cheddar.

More:

“How the NYC Subway Was Saved By a Typeface,” Christine Beldon and Lawrence Banton, Cheddar

_______________
Short Link: https://wp.me/p6sb6-wup

Comments are welcome if they are on-topic, substantive, concise, and not boring or obscene. Comments may be edited for clarity and length.

Gotta Drive. Why?

March 10, 2021

If they want to work, shop for groceries, or visit, most Americans have to drive. Why? Laura Bult explores. A Vox video.

___________
Short link: https://wp.me/p6sb6-wiu

Comments are welcome if they are on-topic, substantive, concise, and not boring or obscene. Comments may be edited for clarity and length.

Escalators: Walk or Stand?

March 18, 2019

JR East, the East Japan Railway Company, wants Tokyo commuters to stand on both sides of station escalators instead of reserving one side for impatient people who want to walk. A study found that most escalator accidents happen when walkers stumble over luggage or run and slip, so the all-standing policy is safer and more efficient.

Good luck with that. The policy was tried in Hong KongLondon’s underground and DC’s Metro, but it didn’t go over well. Standing to one side on escalators and walking on the other is too firmly embedded in urban behavior. In Washington, there’s even a song about it:

(more…)

My Metrocard

December 16, 2018

“My Metrocard” by Franchesca Ramsey and friends, 2009. Remake of the 1999 Le Tigre song “My My Metrocard.”

Franchesca Ramsey website

______________

Short link: https://wp.me/p6sb6-qQS

Comments are welcome if they are on-topic, substantive, concise, and not boring or obscene. Comments may be edited for clarity and length.