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#publictransport

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

We're back in our digs in Shanklin.
It's been a very pleasant day. The buses worked out extremely well.

The bus services on the island with names (eg Island Coaster) don't accept old people's bus passes, which is fair enough as they are scenic, seasonal buses and the day tickets allow travel on all named routes for 24 hours.
(And frankly, if you can afford to stay on the island, you can afford to pay for the bus. #unpopularopinion)

Deeply unimpressed by the way the Needles Attraction has been developed, but The National Trust are doing a good job of looking after the Battery and the headland.

I normally enjoy bus trips, but 90 minutes was beyond my limit on winding, hilly country roads!
The bus drivers are seriously heroic.

Pizza for tea I think.

#PublicTransport#IsleofWight#holiday
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AJ Sadauskas

@virtuous_sloth @notjustbikes I'm pretty sure Melbourne doesn't have single-point switching ( @railmaps, @danielbowen or @philip please correct me if I'm wrong on ghat one).

But otherwise, Melbourne's tram network is basically a bigger version of Toronto's streetcar network.

And it has many of the same issues across large parts of the network. That includes passengers boarding from the footpath in many places; a lack of dedicated lanes; a lack of traffic light priority.

While some sections of some lines run along pedestrianised streets, most notably Swanston and Bourke, most of the rest of the network is in mixed traffic.

Likewise, while there's island platforms at many CBD stops, that's not always the case once you leave the inner city.

Both Toronto and Melbourne could have world class light rail systems with some cost effective upgrades and extensions.

#vicpol #auspol #tram #trams #PublicTransport #UrbanPlanning #Urbanism #Melbourne

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Michal Bryxí

One of mandatory conditions to have delightful public transport experience: Ease of use.

This is Swiss SBB Easy Ride interface. You arrive to any bus stop, train station, gondola station and swipe right. From there your phone automatically checks where you're going through and at the end of the day will automatically buy you the combination of tickets that would be the cheapest for you.

#SBB#Switzerland#PublicTransport
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Austin Huang ❤️

Some #Montreal #metro stations are boring. Place d'Armes, uncomfortably embedded under the Palais des Congrès, unfortunately falls into that pile. This #StainedGlass #artwork - added in 2017 - is the only decoration in the station (other than the unlit archaeological displays on the platform) and, having taken an #infoviz class, I knew exactly why I took a photo of it - the glory of colour scale! ...and the sun.

#PublicTransport#photography#StreetPhotography
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Mar

Here are some pictures of our pilgrimage to the Hot Rat Summer mosaic.

We took transit: bus and light rail.

Obligatory pause for lament:
"Why, oh why, are they taking so long to extend the Rail",
"When, oh when, will it make it to town".

The view from the top of the double-decker bus is not bad, though, and easy to get the top-front seats during non-commuting hours. Attempted to explain "carpool" to Little Kid, who looked at me in disbelief as there was no visible "pool".

#PublicTransport
ÉricMSM🇧🇪🥾🚆🚊🌼🐑🐞📷

Scannées il y a quelques semaines déjà, ce soir, on reste dans les tramways et on repart en avril 2001 à Manchester au Royaume-Uni.

A l'époque, le réseau était encore embryonnaire, j'ai été surpris en faisant des recherches pour retrouver le nom de certains lieux où j'avais fait les photos de voir comment le réseau avait évolué.

Quelques impressions de ce réseau à l'époque pour clore cette journée.

Passez une bonne soirée.👋

#tramways#trams#1jour1Souvenir
Steven Heywood

If you're wondering why there's a need for investment in additional track infrastructure in Manchester, there's been a problem with signals this morning and there's an hour's worth of trains waiting to go across that single track line between Piccadilly and Oxford Road and a 57-carriage freight train has just gone through.

#PublicTransport
Marcus Lundblad

Today's plan was to try out the new trial runs with the electric hydrofoil ferry in Stockholm. Unfortunately I was a couple of pax after they drew the line of the max number of passengers. So after a few hours the plan was to try my luck on the next run, but then the ferry had been taken out-of-service for the rest of the day. So ended up taking the regular afternoon commuter ferry out to Tappström.

#Nova#hydrofoil#ferry
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波鉄 (Hatetsu)

@smveerman ...Why is the loop on Surinameplein next to the Surinameplein stop even called Curaçaostraat?

Anyway, there's something similarly head-scratching in Wrocław right now - the two branches to Tarnogaj and Gaj are cut off from the rest of the network, and four of the five lines serving them were connected into two pairs switching line numbers at the "Gajowa" (Gaj St/Grove St) stop… Which is nowhere near Gaj. Neither is it where you change to the replacement buses.
Adding to the confusion is that, when the route to Gaj was opened, the existing bus terminus located along the new line, but two stops away from the new tram terminus, remained known as "Gaj (pętla)" (pętla means loop), where the tram and other bus stops are called "Morwowa", and this is where the replacement buses terminate.
Oh, and despite decent bus services in the area, they decided to run a tram between Gaj and Tarnogaj (using a normally disused curve). And because they decided they couldn't spare any of Wrocław's few bi-directional trams, they went for a classic Polish solution: the "duposczepy" (my best translation would be sth like "ass-couplers") - sets of 105N series trams coupled back-to-back, leaving only the front one usable at any given time, but allowing easy reversing without a loop.

Official announcement: wroclaw.pl/komunikacja/przebud

Pics:
phototrans.pl/14,1334222,0,Kon
phototrans.pl/14,1334357,0,Kon

Wroclaw.pl · Przebudowa ulicy Bardzkiej: duże zmiany w kursowaniu tramwajów na Gaj i TarnogajBy Bartosz Chochołowski
#Wrocław#PublicTransport#105Na
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