Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Image / tompagenet PAYG is not even the end of today's exciting transport news! Siemens , who are bidding to supply the trains on the Thameslink route between Bedford and Brighton, say they would implement the first 'intellligent trains' of their kind in Europe. The Desiro City model can count the number of passengers in each carriage to control the air con flow, and also sends crowding ...
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Get Bossed About By Your Train (Londonist)
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Photo by [Kwasi B.] via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Despite a recommendation from a city council committee (.pdf) to once again run trains into the wee hours of night, late-night subway service this holiday season will not happen. The culprit? The economy, of course. According to Councilmember Jose Huizar's office, the economic atmosphere was just to rough to raise the capital needed to run ...
More here: No Late-Night Subway Service for the Holidays this Year (LAist)
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
The Phillies' slugging first baseman became a nutritional nut after realizing only the fittest survive in baseball.
More here: Ryan Howard refused to eat away his career (Yahoo! Sports via Yahoo! Sports)
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Yeah, we know what you're planning to do tonight: Stay at home and listen to Philip Glass records while you work on that Majesty of the Seas modeling kit you just got in the mails. Maybe you should save that activity for when it gets really cold, eh? If you agree that you should postpone gluing your fingers together to get out and explore life some, then consider the following activities: The ...
Continue here: Things to Do Tonight That Don't Involve Model Ship-Building (Chicagoist)
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Sunday, October 4th, 2009
This week acclaimed director Steven Spielberg, maker of Jurassic Park and Schindler's List, will return to Philadelphia, his boyhood playground, to collect another award for a crowded mantel.
Continue here: Honoring real-world Spielberg (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
Environmentally friendly travel is one selling point
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Going by bus is catching on (The News Journal)
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Here's a toy Boris we knitted earlier . Hornby, creator of nerds' playthings (and we mean that in a fond way), are to market a series of action figures and toy vehicles themed around the 2012 Olympics . The first products will be available later this year and include: " model London taxis and London buses, die-cast figurines, model trains, Airfix models of the Olympic Stadium and Scalextric ...
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Hornby To Produce 2012 Olympics Toys (Londonist)
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
In the latest addition to "brilliant ideas that China likes to try ," Spring Airlines is now considering selling standing-only tickets to passengers on their flights. The budget airline currently has only 13 planes in their fleet and cannot meet growing demand for more flights from more passengers. In the new model, passengers would be sitting on something resembling a bar stool with seat belts ...
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Spring Airlines wants to make flying even less comfortable (Shanghaiist)
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
Photo by JLK1979 & Mr. Johnson Good morning, Washington. Metro put the Red Line back in full service this morning , with trains traveling between the Fort Totten and Takoma stations in both directions for the first time since last week's fatal crash. Things aren't totally back to normal, of course. Peak trains are only operating every 12 minutes, for one, leaving rush hour trains packed to the ...
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Morning Roundup: Gone to Pot Edition (DCist)
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