18 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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24 month ago
plasticbag : Beautiful graphic design in the Gloucester Road Underground station by Chiho Aoshima - I've seen the adverts for this all around the tube, but I didn't realise it would be displayed like this. I totally want to go and see this now. It looks sort of beautiful...
Jon Hicks : 'city glow, mountain whisper' - Gorgeous, stunning, underground art at Gloucester Road Tube [via]
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25 month ago
philgyford : Music: Pocketbooks: Indie-Pop | Nothing But Green Lights: A UK mp3 blog. - Loving this song. The first to feature an Oyster Card and London Underground fare boundaries? Sometimes it's like Sarah Records never went away.
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25 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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30 month ago
philgyford : London Tube Map With Distance Grids - The conventional tube map with geographic distortions shown by a bendy grid. (via Tom Carden)
Paul Hammond : London Tube Map With Distance Grids - it has a fine grid that shows how far apart the stations are in real life
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30 month ago
plasticbag : London Underground are experimenting with water-cooling and heat-exchange to chill the Underground - Air conditioning the Underground has proven impractical - the tunnels are so far underground...
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31 month ago
philgyford : LRB | Rose George : Diary - Subscribers-only or pay-for, but an interesting account of going into London's sewers. She's working on a book about human waste...
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34 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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39 month ago
kayodeok : London Underground Ad for Harrods Truly British campaign on Flickr - London Underground Ad for Harrods Truly British campaign
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40 month ago
jkottke : Subway maps for your iPod - Subway maps that you can put on your iPod. Currently available: DC, NYC, Boston, and Hong Kong. Good one for the 50 Fun Things To Do With Your iPod list. (via coolhunting) [via]
kayodeok : Subway Maps For Your iPod Photo - None for London yet
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41 month ago
plasticbag : London Underground accelerated time disruption map - Get past the post and click on the link to the Quicktime movie at the bottom of the page
Paul Hammond : Whitelabel.org » London Underground accelerated time disruption map - I wrote a script that grabs and saves the disruption map every 10 minutes
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41 month ago
plasticbag : London tube map traffic visualisation (guessed) by Rod McLaren - I guess the data we'd need would be amount of people travelling between adjacent stations. I wonder how you'd get that...
jkottke : Quick sketch of London tube traffic patterns - The spider that ate London.
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43 month ago
philgyford : LRB | James Meek : Crocodile's Breath - Fascinating book review of 'The Subterranean Railway', about the London Underground.
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plasticbag : G-Cans photos of Tokyo's massive underground flood and water systems - I was sure I'd posted this before, but I can't find it anywhere on delicious or on the main weblog, so I guess I didn't. Stunning pictures - like something from Quake...
cameron : Tokyo G-Cans project photos - Cavernous pipes for draining water during the typhoon season
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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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