Found On The Mobile Web #194
Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2063 mobile...

If You Don’t Have Skis
Photo by PoPville Flickr user Rukasu1From DC Gov’t:“Metro Bus reports they will resume very limited bus service in D.C.The lines that will run include 70, 90, S, L, V8, 30, X2, 80s, 50, A6, A2, W6, W8, and W2. No service will resume yet in VA or...

Pak-Afghan Transit Trade Talks Today
Both the countries are mulling over removing stumbling blocks in achieving the trade agreement (ATTA) in the three-day negotiations.

Finding Your Way Back On Track
After a long night of debauchery I attempted to board the train with one goal in sight: making it home. That is great and in all until you sit down and get comfortable. My eye lids became so heavy, so I ended up putting my head in my lap. Before I knew...

Mayor threatens transit lockout
This situation will arise in summer 2011, after the next election, so it might not actually happen. But Mayor Larry O'Brien is saying he'd rather lock out ATU 279 workers in the summer rather than face another winter strike.“If we’re in that...

How To Properly Use Google Maps: A Satirical Narrative
With all of the new Lab features included in the latest version of Google Maps(3.3.1), it’s very easy to feel overwhelmed. You may ask yourself, “How could the terrain layer possibly assist me in getting me where I’m going?”, “How does knowing...

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success? — HBS Working Knowledge
The concept of personal rapid transport, or PRT for short, has been percolating since the mid-1950s and is finally gaining ground, according to HBS professor Benjamin G. Edelman. Business and communities small and large are increasingly aware of PRT as a...

City-Go-Round
"Bus schedules, train schedules, trip planners, transit maps, and public transit apps."

The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » Columbus: Fantasy Transit Maps
There’s a sort of genre of urbanist creativity out there of fantasy transit maps. These are maps of transit systems that don’t exist and usually aren’t even proposed yet, but rather just express some dream of the creator, often quite epic in scope.

The Granville Street effect
There was a story on the CBC News last night that I would have liked to link to. Unfortunately it is not on their web site so I will have to summarise it from memory. When the Canada Line opened, bus service along Granville Street was significantly...