March news of note
• One Bus Away, the user-friendly (or, at least, friendlier) version of MyBus, won "Best Use of Technology in the Government, Nonprofit, or Educational Sector" at the Washington Technology Institute...
View ArticleWhere everybody knows your name
From The New York Times (via John in The Market), a story of "Bus People" for whom commute = community.
View ArticleIf the shoe doesn’t fit…
My bus sightings seem to come in clusters. Back in the spring of 2008, it was animals. Next, musicians. Spring, 2010 is apparently all about footwear--minus the feet.
View ArticleIt’s a bus, it’s a train…
Bus Hero, Transitman, and The Human Bus Schedule notwithstanding, folks don't generally associate super powers with PT riders. But this cool post on Archie McPhee's Monkey Goggles blog (via: Coby)...
View ArticleThe bus life–in pictures
Slate's June 14th edition of Today's Pictures is all about buses--beautiful buses, and the beautiful people who ride them. Love. (via: Bus Nerd)
View ArticleMiss(es) Manners for transit types
The SF Muni ladies, who've been doing their part to reduce bus fouls in the Bay since '08, have compiled some of their most popular (or perhaps I should say, most necessary) bus and train behavior...
View ArticleOn writing and riding
If you've read this blog for any length of time, you know that I have many obsessions: libraries, Rosa Parks, Three Girls Bakery, Mount Rainier, and--oh yeah--buses. You might not know, since I have...
View ArticleA new bus hero
Congratulations to Marvin White (aka "Superman"), Metro's 2009* Operator of the Year. I missed the big surprise ceremony (again), and that's unfortunate; I would have liked to have had an opportunity...
View ArticleThe art of public transportation
The latest evidence that art and public transportation are inherently complementary (previous examples can be found here, here, here, and here): MoMA's London Underground poster exhibit. If you won't...
View ArticleSpeaking of old-school transit ads…
Back in the day, NYC subway ads were used to select beauty queens. Seriously.
View ArticleYou know you’re a bus chick if… (part III)
Your almost-three-year old daughter, while playing with some pig figurines that her grandma gave her, picks up the "mommy" pig and says, "She has to leave; she's going to a meeting."
View Article“The world’s first transit appliance”
I just returned from a transit nerd conference in Portland, where I spent some time experiencing transit envy--again (more later); some time hanging with my cousins-in-law, who now live in Portland;...
View ArticleA bus contest!
Think you ride America's best bus route? Submit a photo and brief description to this contest (sponsored by Good Magazine and NYC's Transportation Alternatives), and you could win a fabulous prize...
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