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Simon Harris can't bear the thought of adding four minutes (maximum) to people's car journeys for the sake of frequent and reliable public transport.

Apparently this is madness.

The issue at stake is the closure of a minor access road from the N11 to Bray. There are other access roads less than 1km away to the north and south.

https://irishcycle.com/2025/06/13/tanaiste-calls-key-element-of-n11-m11-bus-priority-interim-scheme-crazy-but-campainers-call-his-intervention-is-disappointing/

Sydney Rd Accessible Tram Stops campaign is getting ready for another rally on the 28th June 2025.

The Victorian Government is in breach of the commonwealth Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport, which required all states and territories to make their public transport infrastructure fully accessible by the end of 2022.

They are delaying on this for no reason. They've had 13yrs notice.

https://www.facebook.com/SATScampaign/

https://www.europesays.com/2155991/ Smaller Western European cities are better for your health – POLITICO #AirPollution #cars #Cities #ClimateChange #cycling #EU27 #Europe #infrastructure #LivingCities #PublicHealth #PublicTransport #SocietyAndCulture #sustainability #Transport #UrbanLife #UrbanMobility

https://www.europesays.com/uk/177284/ Smaller Western European cities are better for your health – POLITICO #AirPollution #Cars #Cities #ClimateChange #Cycling #EU #EU27 #Europe #European #infrastructure #LivingCities #PublicHealth #PublicTransport #SocietyAndCulture #Sustainability #Transport #UrbanLife #UrbanMobility

Rachel Reeves makes her pitch to Britain’s left-behind voters – POLITICO https://www.byteseu.com/1093878/ #Airports #AngelaRayner #BorisJohnson #Cities #Department #development #England #GeorgeOsborne #GreatBritain #Growth #industry #INFRASTRUCTURE #investment #KeirStarmer #Mayors #NigelFarage #PublicTransport #RachelReeves #Research #SadiqKhan #Security #skills #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom

https://www.europesays.com/uk/174554/ Rachel Reeves makes her pitch to Britain’s left-behind voters – POLITICO #Airports #AngelaRayner #BorisJohnson #Britain #Cities #Department #Development #England #GeorgeOsborne #GreatBritain #Growth #Industry #infrastructure #Investment #KeirStarmer #Mayors #NigelFarage #NorthernIreland #PublicTransport #RachelReeves #Research #SadiqKhan #Scotland #Security #skills #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales

For those interested in such things, here are aggregated bar chart visualization showing timetabled departure-from-origin British train passenger service count by train operating company for week 8-15 June 2025 in 15-minute bin.

Goodbye CityMapper

My latest piece for the Irish Examiner examines the implications of the recent Congestion Cost report on the future of transport planning for Cork city.

If the report has taught us anything it is that we need a lot more ambition and a greater sense of urgency in the delivery of public transport and active travel infrastructure. We need to plan for the future we want, not just mitigate against the future we might have.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41647838.html

Meanwhile in Ireland, bus stop signs (where they exist) show random numbers to confuse travelers. Neither 376 nor NG03 go anywhere near this bus stop, neither even come through the town. On the other hand, route 600 and 717 do stop here. How are we supposed to map #GroundTruth ? #OpenStreetMap #PublicTransport

San Francisco greeted me with this masterpiece - a ticket vending machine. It looks about thirty years old, at least: over the years it has "acquired" new technologies, physical patches, crutches, and a whole collection of instructions. As a result, I, a person with a technical background, stood there for about fifteen minutes and still couldn't figure out how it works on my own.

In the end, a nice Spanish-speaking guy saved me, who seems to know the sequence of clicks by heart - he selected the right ticket for me and helped pay the required amount. Both in terms of physical interface and UI/UX - this machine is absolutely non-intuitive. For example, to add $3, you need to press the corresponding button, and to add $9 - press the same button three times in a row. Logic!

Let's consider this machine just a museum exhibit. Fortunately, in the city center, I already saw new, modern machines - intuitive, without unnecessary quests.

UPD. Added an exra image

Isochrone.ch: Reachable areas using public transport: From Aubry Cholleton comes isochrone.ch. Using #opendata, this website lets you find all areas reachable by #publictransport from any point in #Switzerland within a given amount of time and other parameters of your choosing.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/06-08-isochrone-ch-reachable-areas-using-public-transport/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Perth's first east-west rail connection opens after 18 months of disruption
By Cason Ho

The Thornlie-Cockburn link and adjacent rail elevation in Perth's south-east is part of WA Labor's flagship infrastructure project Metronet.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-08/thornlie-cockburn-link-opens-as-part-of-metronet-project/105386618

‘Cleaner, greener and absolute reliability’: #trams make #UK comeback | #Road/transport | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/07/trams-uk-light-rail-transport-chancellor

Solving the traffic problem, advertisement 1927
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#PublicTransportation #Advertisement #Trolleys #Retro #Vintage #PublicTransport #UrbanPlanning

Are Trams finally coming back to Leeds?

I have trams (or 'light rail' as it's called in the game) everywhere in my SimCity 4 metropolis. A recent update allows for more pedestrianisation, the original game was so 'American' but 20+ years of content and mods from around the world have made it the wonder it is today!