12 month ago
jonhicks : Vintage Routemaster Destination Blind Light Box
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12 month ago
jonhicks : Vintage London Bus Special Destination Blinds
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12 month ago
jonhicks : Vintage Underground Sign Light Box
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12 month ago
jonhicks : Vintage Routemaster Number Light Boxes
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12 month ago
jonhicks : Framed London Routemaster Destination Blinds
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15 month ago
jonhicks : Poster and Artwork collection from the London Transport Museum - LMT have opened up their archive to browse online, and you can buy reproductions of the posters at A3/A4. Stunning!
Ethan Marcotte : Poster and Artwork collection from the London Transport Museum - Some damned beautiful work in here. Via Jon Hicks. #. [via]
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16 month ago
jonhicks : CBRD - Media - Photo Gallery - Old Signs
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16 month ago
jonhicks : Old Road Signs - mileposts, direction signs & road furniture
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17 month ago
nelson : New metro tickets - Paris changes to a one ticket for 90 minutes system
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19 month ago
Rod Begbie : meish dot org » Things my new commute has taught me #1 - I must confess that I have similarly designed heuristics and strategies for the T, as well as lane positioning on the Mass Pike, but I've never been geeky enough to write them down. [via] #
philgyford : Meish dot org » Things my new commute has taught me #1 - Meg Pickard on the hierarchy of positions in a Hammersmith & City Line carriage. It annoys me that I already know this stuff. I don't want to.
plasticbag : Meg Pickard on the natural heirarchy of seats on the tube... - I don't agree with some of what she says - the idea of being trapped by the end door with the window open in a train would appall me. Hard to escape. Otherwise though, desperately and depressingly insightful.
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21 month ago
plasticbag : There's a fascinating article on BBC News about the world's longest tunnel being built to bridge the Alps... - The villages and towns up in the Alps are both delighted and worried. They'll get less freight passing through their towns, but also fewer tourists. There may also be a station underground connected to the surface by the world's longest elevator.
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fastclemmy : YouTube - Treadmill Bike - YouTube - Treadmill Bike by fastclemmy The dumbest transportation mode ever? video dumb hotlinks transport Copy | React (0)
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26 month ago
plasticbag : Most fun ever: audio clips of the London Underground that you can play together to create your underground experience - This is such fun. Play a few together on a big stereo to create the truly claustrophobic and brain-rattling sensations that previously only the Underground has been able to produce...
philgyford : Freesound :: view pack :: london underground - I'm not sure why sounds recorded from the Tube are interesting, but they are. (via Plasticbag)
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27 month ago
plasticbag : My Society put up some beautiful travel heatmaps a while back that I wanted to talk about but haven't had time - One thing I'd suggest is to overlay maps where the starting location is different (either each major city or tube stop, or at the end of each square half mile). That should give you a sense of which areas in London are best and worst connected...
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29 month ago
plasticbag : According to Mr Hammersley, the Florence police are now running around on Segways - Awesome picture. I love Segways. I know it's not cool to love them, but they're just totally completely awesome. This one is particularly awesome.
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34 month ago
plasticbag : Incredibly useful for the Silicon Valley run: Cal's "I Am Caltrain" - Essential for those who commute to and from San Francisco to the major heavyweight Internet and technology companies.
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35 month ago
Simon Willison : London Underground geographic maps - Generated PNG/SVG files under the LGPL; GPS source data is available.
plasticbag : London Underground geographic maps from the Wikimedia Commons also include significant free geo information - If you're looking to do mapping projects around open geo data, then having a significant data source like the location of all London Underground stations has got to be useful...
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40 month ago
plasticbag : I've just started using Addison Lee for all my cabbing needs, and they're bloody awesome... - I know this sounds like an advert. I don't care. They make me feel special inside...
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44 month ago
jkottke : Google Maps launches in the UK with London Tube stations right on the map - Google, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please do the same for the NYC subway. Please?
plasticbag : Google Maps for the UK - This has to be the most blatantly obvious link of the day really. It's almost ridiculous that I'm referencing it at all...
kayodeok : Google Maps for the UK
Philippe Janvier : Google Maps UK - Google Maps for the UK. A quand Paris ! [via] #
Simon Willison : Google Maps UK! - That didn't take long. I can't wait for them to add satellite photos from Keyhole. (via) [via]
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45 month ago
jkottke : Riding Shanghai's maglev, the world's fastest train - "Four minutes of gravity-simulator-style acceleration later, in which the taxis on the parallel highway lose ground slowly, then quickly, then disappear as fast as if they were parked and you were whipping by at 220 miles per hour, you reach the peak
plasticbag : Riding Shanghai's maglev, the world's fastest train... - Sounds like a vaguely uninspiring experience, a waste of money and a tremendously impressive futurist folly. We need more of this...
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plasticbag : Guardian Review of "The Subterranean Railway" by Christian Wolmar - Thanks to the 2lmc-ers for mentioning this. Key quote: "This new book is an entry-level history of the Underground, and it becomes clear from reading it that the faults of the system were built into it from the moment the first sod was turned."
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49 month ago
plasticbag : Mr Biddulph goes to York - He takes a screengrab of his GPS/map position every thirty seconds along the way, and then turns it into an animated gif. I want one.
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