if you need help understanding Boston’s train… Super MBTAworld!!
![Mapnificent: How Far Can You Travel via Public Transport in a Given Time?
Mapnificent [mapnificent.net] by Stefan Wehrmeyer reveals the specific geographical area one is able to reach by using public transport from any point in a city, and within a given time. The service is currently available for most major cities in the U.S., and for quite a few other cities worldwide. One simply chooses a specific location, or places a draggable pin on the online map, selects a specific time span, and the reachable zone is highlighted on the map.
Interestingly, these time- and location-based queries can also be combined with a ‘traditional’ search for local services, like ‘coffee places’ or ‘musea’. Accordingly, one can figure out a good restaurant that is located within 15 minutes travel time of a public transport bus, for instance.
For those interested, the service is conceptually closely similar to Mapumental.
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Mapnificent: How Far Can You Travel via Public Transport in a Given Time?
Mapnificent [mapnificent.net] by Stefan Wehrmeyer reveals the specific geographical area one is able to reach by using public transport from any point in a city, and within a given time. The service is currently available for most major cities in the U.S., and for quite a few other cities worldwide. One simply chooses a specific location, or places a draggable pin on the online map, selects a specific time span, and the reachable zone is highlighted on the map.
Interestingly, these time- and location-based queries can also be combined with a ‘traditional’ search for local services, like ‘coffee places’ or ‘musea’. Accordingly, one can figure out a good restaurant that is located within 15 minutes travel time of a public transport bus, for instance.
For those interested, the service is conceptually closely similar to Mapumental.
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Myrtle Avenue E: photographs from the personal collection of Patrick Cullinan »
I lived in Fort Greene, Brooklyn at the corner of Vanderbilt and Myrtle Avenue for nearly two years but it was only when searching for old images of subway maps for this poster that I learned about the Myrtle Ave El.
Conservatives used to be in favor of a civilized way of doing things. Board a train and you don’t have the TSA groping you. If you think our greatest vulnerability is a dependence on foreign oil, here’s a way to get around that can run on coal or electrified rails.”
— William Lind, the director of the American Conservative Center for Public Transportation, quoted in Slate’s excellent article on conservatives’ dislike of American rail projects
National Traffic Scorecard has released it's list of the 100 most congested road corridors »
yay, New York is on at least 1/10th of it! pride!
A new report from the Political Economy Research Institute says that bike and pedestrian projects create 11 to 14 jobs per million dollars spent, while road construction only creates 7 per million.”
— Bike Projects Create More Jobs Than Road Projects | Planetizen (via jxnblk)
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