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You may remember a post I did - Public Transit Coming To Wake Forest - Getting Around Just Got Easier! - about a month ago and the excitement it generated providing ease and convenience getting around Wake Forest and into Raleigh. Well, I just found this GREAT tool that you can use to estimate how much money you can save by using Public Transit for commuting.  As you can see, this handy

I found this survey by following Volume One online. If applicable, please take the time to fill it out. :)Also, if you have not yet had a chance to, remember to fill out the Eau Claire County Budget Survey.

1. Introduction (Terry Kath) 2. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (Robert Lamm) 3. Beginnings (Robert Lamm) 4. Questions 67 And 68 (Robert Lamm) 5. Listen (Robert Lamm) 6. Poem 58 (Robert Lamm) 7. Free Form Guitar (Terry Kath) 8. South California Purples (Robert Lamm) 9. I'm A Man (Steve Winwood / James Miller) 10. Prologue, August 29, 1968 (James William Guercio) 11.

MetrO is a free BlackBerry application that lets you get public transportation information to over 400 cities offline. The application itself comes empty when you initially install it and then you can download information for any city you want. Although MetrO doesn’t include maps it has very detailed information about the route you should take and the most important thing is that the informati

- New Transit Connect SportVan to be priced at £15,325 - Performance Blue with white "Le Mans" stripes - Powered by 1.8-litre Duratorq TDCi 110 PS engine - On sale in September – limited edition of 300Read more...

Gas prices over the weekend before Canada Day were hovering around 1.35 per litre (5.10 per gallon for our American friends) and I've started to really think about whether it makes sense to use public transit or continue to drive my car.

Peniche " A Fenprof apela aos professores e educadores para que intervenham activamente no sentido de inviabilizar a constituição dos CGT. É um apelo que se dirige à sua consciência cívica e profissional. Seja quem for que integre os CGT, o seu papel, mesmo tendo uma posição crítica face ao modelo de gestão do ME, será contribuir para liquidar o que resta dos espaços de participação

The Town of Wake Forest has been discussing public transporation for a very long time!  YEAY, it would appear that it has finally materialized.  There will be two weekday bus routes that will serve Wake Forest.  One bus route will be an express route between Wake Forest, Triangle Town Center and downtown Raleigh.  The Wake Forest-Raleigh Express will operate M-F 5:00am-8:00pm e

Joburg’s bus rapid-transit prototype to be unveiled near Joubert Park later this year - The first prototype station of Johannesburg’s new bus rapid transport (BRT) system, named Rea Vaya, or “we are moving”, will be in place near Joubert Park, in the inner-city, by September. [Engineering News]

With a scarcity of free parking in Baltimore City, an increase in gas prices, and thus, an increase in public transportation, the Maryland Transit Administration has developed a trip planner in partnership with Google to help local travelers find the most effective and efficient public transportation. Check it out at The tool seems to [...]

Dopo la versione per S60 e Windows Mobile dei giorni passati, è appena stata rilasciato Google Maps Mobile anche per Blackberry e cellulari J2ME. La nuova versione, la 2.2, rispetto alla precedente,[...]

The newly updated Google Maps Mobile, which supports tons of non-iPhone cells, has incorporated transit schedules and directions for those times you want to get around without a car. The video above provides an excellent overview and suggests Google Maps Mobile’s new transit features may be just the ticket for saving a little cash on [...]

A APEDE (Associação de Professores e Educadores em Defesa do Ensino) afirma-se frontalmente contra o novo modelo de administração escolar que está a ser imposto nas escolas e apela a todos os professores que resistam a um cenário que vai destruir todos os mecanismos de democraticidade que, até há pouco tempo, ainda vigoravam nos estabelecimentos de ensino deste país. Este é o maior ataqu

Google added directions for public transportation in the latest version of Google Maps for Mobile. “This version of Google Maps for mobile even has a few tricks not yet available on the desktop version of Google Maps. For instance, you can find the last transit trips of the day (to figure out how late you [...]

Sales of condominiums located along elevated and underground electric mass transit routes in metropolitan Bangkok slowed markedly in the first quarter of this year, according to a new survey by the Property Assessment and Research Information Center. Vasant Kongchan, the centre’s managing director, said the total sales of condominiums in the city had dropped by 7 [...]

With gas prices out of control and Nashville traffic skyrocketing, what is Nashville city government doing to enhance mass transit services to bring us into the 21st century? Transportation issues, particularly in light of environmental concerns, escalating gas prices, and increase need to woo economic development to Nashville would dictate and increase in services offered. It is [...]

Sharon Stone has recently sparked criticism in China after claiming the recent earthquake could have been the result of bad karma. The US star made the remark while in Cannes Film Festival. Now Cosmetics firm Christian Dior – Sharon Stone’s employer – has dropped her from its local advertisements, marketing campaigns and commercial activities amid a public uproar in China. Sharon Stone h

As gas prices increase so does the use of public transportation amongst Americans. The increase is occurring in both places where commuters have largely been drivers like Charlotte, Houston and Nashville and in areas where commuters have traditionally used public transportation like Boston and New York City. Certainly, the nontraditional cities will have to expand their public transportation infrastructure. From the New York Times:“In almost every transit system I talk to, we’re seeing very high rates of growth the last few months,” said William W. Millar, president of the American Public Transportation Association.“It’s very clear that a significant portion of the increase in transit use is directly caused by people who are looking for alternatives to paying $3.50 a gallon fo

According to the Tampa Bay News Channel 10 (heard via Travelography) there might be something worse than having the airline lose your luggage. Oldsmar, Florida— Barbara Blewitt loves to travel and purchased a set of high quality Land’s End luggage last year. But on a recent trip to Atlantic City aboard Spirit Airlines she couldn’t [...]

Nike Women’s Merge Transit White Chronograph Watch #C0033-178 (Watch)By Nike Buy new: $129.00$49.99 First tagged “nike” by Mariela Barrios Customer tags: nike Technorati Tags: nike

Beautiful, inspiring post-rock reminiscent of This Will Destroy You and Sigur Ros, but in a league completely of its own. This is one of The Owl's top picks and an exciting hint of things to come.Artist - Petrograd In TransitAlbum - Lifesize Balloon Animals EpYear - 2008Genre - Instrumental, Post-rockDownloadPassword - SirensSound.blogspot.comTracklist01 - A Futon In The Office02 - Lexington And Concorde03 - Similar Vain04 - So Far Yet So Close 105 - The Pinkwater Memoirs 1if you like see HERE and HERE

DESPACHO INTERNOO Decreto-Lei n.º 75/2008, de 22 de Abril aprovou o regime de autonomia, administração e gestão dos estabelecimentos públicos da educação pré-escolar e dos ensinos básico e secundário, consagrando, em sede de disposições transitórias, a existência de um Conselho Geral Transitório com a especial incumbência de elaborar e aprovar o regulamento interno, preparar as eleições para o Conselho Geral assim que aprovado o regulamento interno e eleger o director, no caso em que já tenha cessado o mandato da direcção executiva e esta opte pela eleição do director, nos termos do n.º 4 do artigo 63.º do referido Decreto-Lei n.º 75/2008, de 22 de Abril, e ainda não esteja eleito o Conselho Geral.No n.º 1 do artigo 62.º, ficou igualmente estabelecido que os pr

Many Ann Arbor residents have been using alternative types of transport for yearsWith the rising cost of gas across the nation, some Ann Arbor residents may be one step ahead.  Many residents in the progressive city of Ann Arbor have been thinking "green" for quite some time.  Although society generally trends toward consumption, some Ann Arbor folks have found refreshing ways to give mother nature a break.  Many are making lifestyle changes that not only help them to save at the gas pump, but are smart choices for sustainability.  Buying smaller cars, walking, running, biking or taking the bus - all are viable replacements for transport.  One Ann Arbor resident says that riding his bike offers more than just a monetary savings, "it makes me a better

Google Analytics blog has announced that, they’ve rebuilt Measure Map as an integrated feature of both Google Analytics and Blogger. So they’re now mirgrating all Measure Map users to the new Google Analytics for Blogger reporting interface, which was announced by Jeff Veen. Here’s what Jeff had to say: “Many of you may remember when Google acquired Measure Map, [...]

by Dave MindemanOn Monday, the Lakeville city council has a vote to make on whether to join the Metro Transit Taxing District. To me that choice is whether to move Lakeville into a future of transportation choices or to stand still and let the rest of the south metro detour around them.Seems like a simple choice to make. For years, Lakeville community leaders have resisted joining the Transit Taxing District because the benefits weren't spelled out for them. They were "afraid" that other communities might benefit more from the pool of money they would contribute to -- while at the same time many of Lakeville's residents were pirating help from sister cities.Now, the Met Council has put it all in black and white. Spelled out a detailed plan of what would be available if Lakev

Quem leu o Decreto Lei 75/2008 verifica, facilmente, que tudo, nesse diploma aponta para a minorização dos professores, para a redução do seu poder nas escolas e para a criação de duplas tutelas que asfixiarão a liberdade e a autonomia pedagógica. Os professores vão passar a prestar contas a todos: ME, por via dos inspectores, presidente da Câmara Municipal e pais. Na constituição do Conselho Geral Transitório, está previsto que os representantes dos pais sejam de 4 a 6; os representantes do município, 3; os representantes da comunidade local, 3; os representantes do pessoal não docente, 2; os representantes dos professores, 7. Só quem não quiser é que não vê ao que é que esta representatividade vai conduzir. Convém ler com cuidado o artigo 60º e, em particular, o n

BelverPelo memorando do entendimento entre a Plataforma Sindical e o ME, a constituição dos Conselhos Gerais Transitórios (Artº 60º DO Decreto-Lei nº 75/2008) poderá estender-se até 30 de Setembro de 2008.No entanto, o artigo 61º do citado Decreto-Lei estabelece, que compete ao Conselho Geral Transitório “elaborar e aprovar o regulamento interno”, condição para preparar as eleições do Conselho Geral.Considerando ainda que, pelo estabelecido no artº 34º do Decreto regulamentar nº 2, as escolas têm o prazo máximo de seis meses para fixar no Regulamento interno todos os aspectos referentes à avaliação, nomeadamente o previsto no ponto 2 do artigo 14º, ou seja o calendário anual do desenvolvimento do processo de avaliação, até Julho, como poderá ser adiada a con

To contain Delhi’s growing air pollution and congestion, BRT is a step in the right direction -- says Bhure Lal of the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) and Sunita Narain, director, CSE.Read more...

Written by Environmental Graffiti As we all put our thinking caps on for this “save the environment” thing, and Americans begin to scream under the weight of rising fuel costs, one of the best ways around leaving a giant carbon footprint, or paying an arm and a leg, is to take the bus. Or the train. [...]

Environmental Grafitti writes a post that listed the 5 best Mass Transit Systems in the world. It places Hong Kong as the best ahead of New York, London, Paris and Chicago. The post posted yesterday has since attracted 160 over comments. Most of them debating the choice of the 5 listed. Some even recommending other systems.There are many, Singaporeans as well as non-Singaporeans, who voiced out that Singapore should also be in the list.singapore should be included. getting around in singapore, is very easy and convenient. Their train and bus system are linked. ~ indraSingapore is world renowned for its clean and efficient mass-rapid systems. Automatic driverless trains and suberbly designed stations all add to the experience. How they are not included in this list is a mystery. ~ BjornHow

"As we all put our thinking caps on for this “save the environment” thing, and Americans begin to scream under the weight of rising fuel costs, one of the best ways around leaving a giant carbon footprint, or paying an arm and a leg, is to take the bus. Or the train. Or a subway."[via environmental graffiti]

by Dave MindemanAttention...Attention. All mass transit haters, please take note. The train is leaving the station with EVERYONE aboard.From Star Tribune:Riders boarded Metro Transit buses and trains 19.2 million times in the first three months of the year, the highest January-March total for the Twin Cities system since 1984, transit officials reported today.Light rail fueled the increased ridership rate, with a one-year jump in the first quarter of 16.4 percent (2.1 million rides). It's the first time light rail ridership has topped 2 million in its four years of service.And it must still be pointed out -- we only have 11 miles of track in service!Maybe Exxon can fund a study that says those people really aren't there.Minnesota Republicans, you might want to take note.... your constitu

Verificam-se graves irregularidades nas normas transitórias que reposicionam os docentes, ao abrigo do novo ECD .Pergunto: Onde andam os gabinetes jurídicos dos sindicatos que apelam, em tantas situações, à igualdade de tratamento dos docentes, e, nesta não questionam sequer o aumento do número de anos de carreira que afectará ALGUNS (milhares) de docentes?Pergunto ainda: Dezasseis anos de serviço docente prestado são, afinal, remunerados - À LUZ DA LEI – pelo 3º ou pelo 4º escalão? Ou pelos dois??? Será que a Escola passou a ser uma espécie de CASINO, onde imperam os jogos de sorte e de azar?É tempo dos sindicatos acordarem para os efectivos e graves problemas e ILEGALIDADES deste estatuto e fazer alguma coisa pelos professores, sem se limitar a aplaudir a abertura do c

In Transit (Paperback)By Mary A. Agria Buy new: $18.00$18.00 First tagged “retirement” by Mary Agria Customer tags: older women, grieiving, retirement, northern michigan, camping, mothers and daughters, motor home, love, spirituality, transitions, [...]

- Stylish new Transit Connect Sport model completes Ford's family of sporty commercial vehicles - Available in Performance Blue with white bonnet stripes - Powered by the acclaimed 1.8-litre Duratorq TDCi 110 PS engine - Transit Connect Sport launched in selected European markets from May 2008 Read more...

The Google LatLong blog announced today that Google has partnered with the Chicago Transit Authority to bring Google Transit to the windy city. This will include data from 8 rail lines and 154 bus routes. Check it out at maps.google.com/chicago or you can watch the video that Google produced:

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On Tuesday, I was witness to a very unusual occurrence on the 8:30-ish New Jersey Transit train from Montclair to Penn Station. It wasn't that the train both left and arrived exactly on time, no. That would be a...

Westerbork      The community of Westerbork is situated in the northeast of the Netherlands in the province of Drenthe, 11 kms from the province capital of Assen and about 130 km (80 miles) north of Amsterdam. In a resolution proposed by the Minister of Home Affairs and approved by the Dutch cabinet on 13 February 1939, it was determined to construct a camp "to house the refugees from Germany that live in this country". Opened on 9 October 1939, the costs of constructing the camp, amounting to 1.25 million gulden, were charged to the Jewish Refugee Committee in the Netherlands. When the Germans invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, there were 750 refugees residing in the camp. Initially moved to Leeuwarden, capital of the province of Frisia, they were moved back to West

Ford, the leading provider of taxis in North America, its new fuel-efficient, nimble Transit Connect Taxi concept is revealed at the New York City, taxi capital of America, on the 2008 New York International Auto Show."Taxis are an important part of the urban landscape, and the Transit Connect Taxi concept represents a potential game-changer, given its small footprint, comfortable, spacious interior, fuel-efficient engine and affordability," said Mark Fields, president of The Americas. "We're interested to see how people react."Ford has been a leader in the taxi business for decades. The Ford Crown Victoria is the leader in the taxi market in cities throughout the U.S.Ford also was the first manufacturer to introduce gas-electric hybrid-powered taxis into North American fleets with the lau

Ieri (21 martie 2008), în cadrul unei ceremonii desfăşurate la sediul fabricii din Craiova, compania Ford a devenit acţionarul majoritar al fostului centru de producţie auto, Automobile Craiova.Preşedintele Ford Europa, Jhon Fleming, a anunţa că primul vehicul produs în România va Ford Transit Concept, urmând ca din din 2010 să se producă un model exclusiv (altul decât noua Fiesta) pentru fabrica de la Craiova. Deasemenea, Romcar, importatorul vehiculelor Ford în România, va continua să se ocupe cu importul de automovile. Fortofoliul Romcar cuprinde 14 modele de autoturisme şi autoutilitare. Asigurările au venit din partea John Fleming: "Avem un partener care îşi face bine treaba şi nu am luat încă o decizie privind preluarea activităţii de import pentru autovehi

Suite au virage vert de certaines villes américaines et a leur désir de se doter de flottes de taxis moins polluantes et moins energivores, Ford propose une adaptation d'une van 4 cylindres vendue en Europe et assemblée en Turquie: le Transit Connect Taxi. Equipe d'un ecran 13 pouces, GPS, internet haute-vitesse, etc.Des versions civiles et utilitaires seront aussi vendues en amerique. La version taxi roule deja en Turquie (derniere photo).Cliquez ici pour d'autres photos.

Suite au virage vert de certaines villes américaines et a leur désir de se doter de flottes de taxis moins polluantes et moins energivores, Ford propose une adaptation d'une van 4 cylindres vendue en Europe et assemblée en Turquie: le Transit Connect Taxi. Equipe d'un ecran 13 pouces, GPS, internet haute-vitesse, etc.Des versions civiles et utilitaires seront aussi vendues en amerique. La version taxi roule deja en Turquie (derniere photo).Cliquez ici pour d'autres photos.

If America is going to conserve energy and become more physically fit, a good place to start would be with the streets. Click Here to View Original Article Since at least World War II, streets have been regarded primarily as conduits for cars and trucks. But if streets and their sidewalks and intersections were handled in a more far-sighted way, they would serve a bigger slice of the population — pedestrians, bicyclists and mass transit riders , as well as motorists. Throughout the United States, a “Complete Streets” movement is emerging, causing more and more governments to broaden their outlook. According to a report last fall in the AARP Bulletin, 52 municipalities, six counties, 10 regional governments and 14 states have adopted Complete Streets policies. These policies r

Dopo essere stato attivato negli USA ed in Canada, parte in via sperimentale in Italia, primo paese europeo, Google Transit, il nuovo servizio di Google Maps che fornisce a navigatori informazioni sulla pianificazione degli spostamenti mediante i mezzi pubblici. Il servizio mostra all’utente tutte le tratte coperte, le fermate più vicine al punto di partenza e di destinazione e tempi di percorrenza. Google Transit permette di costruirsi un percorso che preveda l’utilizzo di mezzi di trasporto diversi: tram, autobus, metropolitana e treno.Al momento è disponibile per l’area metropolitana di Firenze (ATAF&Linea, AMV, ACV) e di Torino (Gruppo Torinese Trasporti). In seguito, il servizio sarà attivato anche per il Comune di Genova e nel territorio veneto, grazie alla collaborazion

Transit, spostarsi in città non è mai stato così semplice Google si inventa Transit, una versione particolare di google maps per potersi spostare con i mezzi pubblici. Per il momento il servizio è in beta-test ed è disponibile per Torino e Firenze. Tu inserisci il luogo di partenza a quello di destinazione e l'orario preferito e transit restituisce la mappa con indicazioni dettagliate circa

by Robert GillisBoston City paper 3/2008So, long MBTA horror story short, the blinking LED sign o’doom flashes that due to mechanical failure (quelle surprise!) the 8:16 will be late and adds that there are “crowded conditions.” So we happy commuters wait in the pouring rain as the sign soon changes to state that the “8:16 will not be excepting (sic) any passengers.” (Grammar isn’t big at MBTA headquarters, apparently, but hey, it isn’t on this site, either, so they get a pass on that one). The alleged 8:16 shows up at around, oh, 8:45, and for some reason STOPS, although it’s not “excepting” any passengers and no one leaves the train. The 8:47 arrives about 10 minutes later, and I’m only 50 minutes late for work. “Dependabili-T.” Hah!So as usual I go to the M

E’ disponibile il nuovo servizio “Transit” di Google, grazie al quale possiamo pianificare i nostri percorsi utilizzano i mezzi pubblici disponibili. Tramite “Transit” possiamo ad esempio vedere le fermate più vicine ad un determinato posto, i tempi di percorrenza dei vari mezzi ed addirittura gli orari di questi... [Continua a leggere l'articolo per intero sul sito]

Ads like the above have been appearing in bus shelters throughout the Greater Toronto Area. Another ad states "My son used to have his own ideas. Now he doesn't."This whole campaign seems like something out of a sci/fi movie like "The Stepford Wives" or "They Live".  Aliens take over the bodies of parents and start turning their kids into "The Stepford Teenagers." Very scary.Using drugs to produce docile easily controlled people, definitely sends a negative message to me. Most of the free nations of the world have fought against totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany that advocated unquestioning obedience to a superior power. 

I took a moment to read yesterday’s Seattle Times.  In The Eastside section, Ashley Bach reported on Sound Transit’s interest in the BNSF rail line.  It sounds as if Sound Transit is very interested in the eastside’s BNSF rail line now that Proposition One has been defeated.  So, it’s hard to know where we are [...]

by Robert GillisPublished on the front page of the Boston City Paper 1/2008A City Paper SaluteTO THE AMTRAK ANNOUNCERAT SOUTH STATIONAcknowledging that the commuter horror of last Thursday’s Nor’easter must NEVER happen again, I thought I’d begin today on a good note and say thank you to a remarkable man whose name I do not know.The regular Amtrak announcer at South Station in Boston has a sweet voice, and in addition to the regular departure / arrival schedule, he nearly always says some kind words for the harried commuters.Here was the offering this morning: “Goooood morning, good morning, all you beautiful people. It’s kind of chilly today, and it’s Monday, but it’s going to be a great day. It’s time to make the donuts, and somebody’s gotta do it, so have a great day

F*?CK!! I am panicking again. One of my colleeges told me that he had a transfer flight in the US and his wife had an old passport, and they had problems getting trough.I don´t have a transit visa, and I would not need to have one if I would have one of those new passports, but I have an old one, and I am not sure what the policy is with an old passport. I have been calling around all day and looking up info on the net, and I am getting mixed messages. The american embassy has not been open today, and they are the only ones who can give a definite answer.A transit visa should apperantly be issued immediately, so if I need one, I can hopefully get one on monday.Damn it! I am nervous about not being able to travel to Panama at all..... :/

Pics aren't clear..my apologies!Country Style ChickenWhat does one do when one is in transit at an airport and your flight is not in another 5 hours?a) doze (I couldn't because I had my 3 year old with me)b) observe people (how long? I did that for an hour!)c) Window shop (I did that!)I found my way blissfully into a bookstore! There was this entire corner at the store devoted to a treasure trove of books relted to cuisines from around the world. Since cooking and art are the books that interest me most and since the other people were more interested in fiction etc. , I had the entire space to me. Among the treasure trove, I found a very interesting book.. The cover was what attracted me to it! It had a smiling face of an elderly woman dressed in the Syrian Christian attire. The book referred here is Kerala Syrian Christian Favourites. I definitely bought this book and it contained lovely recipes and photographs. What i present here is Kozhi Piralen aka Chicken Curry Country Stylefr

With Oil approaching $100 per barrel, gasoline prices near $4 per gallon, and with Bay Area commutes among the longest in the nation…is it any wonder that new homebuyers are seeking shelter in the latest new housing trend…living in a transit friendly community? D.R. Horton, America’s Builder, is leading the way in responding to new Bay Area homeowners wishes to get off the road and into an amenity rich lifestyle in an urban setting, transit friendly community.  Elan at Dublin Station is located at the Dublin BART Station; a commute friendly thirty five minutes from San Francisco’s Financial District and within walking distance of shopping, dining and entertainment at Hacienda Crossings. Fifteen floor plans ranging from 1-3 bedrooms and up to 1,384 sq. ft. allow buyers to select the condominium that best fits their needs. But that is just the beginning. Elan homeowners have the most requested amenities at their beck and call: community room, game room, fitness center, and two o

With all the talk of climate change and global warming it's often mentioned how using mass transit can reduce your carbon footprint. At the same time, the cost of riding the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) buses and subways, just went up. Go figure.Cartoon published November 8, 2007"24 Hours" (page 6)http://toronto.24hrs.ca/pdf/cover.pdfcirculation: 354,000(c)2007 Johnny Ancich . Please take a moment to show your support for Past Expiry by using some of the following links.

Google Transit is now available in Vancouver, BC.. Since I currently live in Vancouver, and don’t drive, this is great news for me. TransLink is not the most popular organization in Vancouver, so this is a step in the right public-relations direction. For more info, see the Vancouver metblogs post. click to enlarge ---Related Articles at Simplehelp: Google Webmaster Tools Adds Subscriber Stats Feature My Apple Menu Bar Download: Google Analytics AIR widget Cool Dashboard Widget: Google Calendar Search Results For Simple Help

This is a musey post, you've been warned. I haven't posted much in months, mainly because I've been ridiculously busy trying to pay my bills. Now my seasonal job is ending and I ditched my office gig because it turned out sitting at a computer all day wasn't so great for me. As a result, I've had a bit more time to not only think, but also to write. Some of the things I've been thinking about will follow in separate posts. First:I live in a cold city. I recently bought a car (part of the unhappy bill paying stressy time) because transportation to one of my jobs was entirely unavailable and a car was required as shelter, and for the other job public transportation was unreliable and would mean two hours commuting time everyday or more if the bus didn't show up as expected. I don't like to

For a city that is clearly oriented around the automobile a feature of Charlotte that gave me hope was their soon to be open light-rail service, the new LYNX Blue Line. I was encouraged by this development because along the line you could already see transit oriented development going up in preparation for the line's opening. The benefits to neighborhoods such as The Southend will be significant because they already have some elements of a quality urban fabric but are missing the foot traffic to make them vibrant. Further the Uptown station has development along the tracks that include a Reid's Market and a couple of restaurants making it very convenient to shop or dine. What's great about this new service is that you could already see neighborhoods start to grow and maybe in the future Charlotte will have some vibrant neighborhoods worth exploring.To see more of Charlotte's new light rail system take a look at the flickr set LYNX Blue Line - Charlotte, NC

This trip was in the works since I bought my P1 ticket on Cebu Pacific last February. But the funny thing was I had not planned at all for this trip! I simply rode the plane to Tacloban and played everything by ear.I had informed my brods that I was coming over. But I didn't want to hassle them. I was already seated in the waiting jeepney when I texted my brods informing them that I had arrived. What surprised me though was a reply from one of them for me to wait at the airport since he would pick me up. So I got off the jeep and happily waited. It really touched me since we had never met before.He took me to the MacArthur Landing Site in the neighboring town of Palo. Just a few days before, on October 20, they had celebrated the anniversary of Mac Arthur's landing. We then had breakfast at the nearby MacArthur Park and Beach Resort, one of those classy resorts built during the Marcos days to house the Miss Universe candidates in 1973. It's supposedly a class "A" resort but service

Even tho I have never actually met DJB, Not that either of us remember anyway, I seem to have a good friendship with the lad, and we seem to have a joke about on the net and on google talk. Yesterday it took him the best part of a day to format and re-install windows onto a laptop (Even tho he is one of them geeky techno-types… altho he’s a developer not a designer as he’s told me before ha ha). Anyway… Back in march he did a blog post, talking about how much he wanted a Nintendo Wii, and how great he thought they were LINK. Anyway a good few weeks back he ordered one from the states or something, and it seemed to take an age to update the tracking info. Anyway after about 2 weeks, he found out it was in Amsterdam, and I joked that it was doing touristy things, like visiting the Red Light district, and to make sure he cleans his Wii when it arrives, for want of some disease Anyway thats the last he’s heard of it! The bloke at the other end has pro

As posted on the Google LatLong blog, some nice enhancements have been made to Google Transit over the last few weeks, including coverage for: Buses and light rail in Dallas, Texas The Las Vegas Monorail Humboldt County, CA Thousand Oaks, CA Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) As well as new transit stop icons in Google Maps for a bunch of cities in Germany: Augsburg Bielefeld Bochum Bunde Dresden Jena Karlsruhe Kassel Lubeck Mainz Rostock Trier I’m rarely a transit user, but this tool must be very useful for those that rely on transit.  Full details in that LatLong post.

It is very difficult for a mother to wean her infant baby from the bottle and transit to a sippy cup. Though it is difficult, it is very important to do for many reasons. It is hard to know when it is the right time to make this transition. Most of the children [...]

Smith Avenue Transit Station.  I was worried as I watched them build it.  I think it turned out alright.  It is hard to get a picture because of the traffic. The first picture was taken on a Saturday and the second on a Sunday.  The Smith Avenue Transit station located on Smith Avenue right off of Kellogg blvd.  So close to the Xcel center that Minnesota Wild fans must be noticing the cranes. The new transit center,  has a 600-car public parking ramp and sits on top of a Metro Transit bus layover station.   The project was supposed to cost 24 million.  I think it is safe to assume that it cost at least that much. The station takes up about half of the 4 acre city owned Cleveland Circle site.  Parking ramps are not the most attractive urban structures and there is only so much that can be done to make it look nice.  They kept it simple and that helps. For more information about public transportation in the Twin Citie

For those who missed it: journalist/writer friend Bas Vlugt presented his new novel last thursday in the Dutch city of Haarlem. The story is situated in West Africa of the now. It’s about... Read about the whereabouts of independent Africa Correspondent Arjen Westra. travelling the continent and reporting on things he sees and hears and.... smells.

When I arrive to a new city, the best thing that I can do is to find any information related to subways to see the connections between places, but now is possible take this information from home, at UrbanRail.Net you can get a general overview of each city's metro system, subways, or similar urban rail transit systems around the world, Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Oceania.Source & Image:urbanrail.net

If plans don’t miscarry, Cebu will soon have a modern, efficient and reliable light rail transit (LRT) system to keep pace with rapid population growth and economic expansion. Cebu Rep. Eduardo Gullas has filed House Bill 310, seeking the establishment of the province’s first LRT system, in order to ease heavy motor vehicle traffic congestion in one of the country’s fastest-growing urban hubs. (more…) Link: Share This

Budget condominiums near mass-transit lines and their planned extensions are expected to be hot sellers at the Thailand Condo Expo 2007, according to Atip Bijanonda, president of the Thai Condominium Association. He said that locations near the subway and the Skytrain including the latter's new extensions in the Onnuj and Taksin areas remained attractive. Others promising locations are along the planned Red, Blue and Purple light-rail lines.

Source: Bonnie Eslinger, SF ExaminerSAN FRANCISCO - Three different proposals for a new Transbay Transit Center all reached for the sky — at least 1,000 feet in the air — with a tower that included a hotel, shops, offices and residential units inside, adjacent to a rebuilt public transit terminal.On Monday, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority unveiled proposed design concepts created by three architect/developer teams for what they hope will become the “Grand Central Station of the West.” If built, the skyscraper would become the tallest building on the West Coast, according to Transbay Joint Powers Authority board officials.The revamped Transbay Transit Center is expected to unite regional bus lines, BART, and subsequently a Caltrain connection, together at First and Mission streets. Transit advocates also hope to eventually bring the state’s first high-speed rail line to the modernized public transportation hub. Each design

Why travel? Some people do it for business, love, money, pleasure. Why stay home? Others prefer to dream of distant places which never make it into their reality. Then there are artists. People who continually explore the horizons of the globe and their own imaginations. The current Den Haag Sculpture exhibition ‘De Overkant/Down Under’ celebrates this impulse and 400 years of connection between Australia and the Netherlands with the theme ‘Curiosity, Discovery and the Desire for the Unknown’. Royalty & Art: Yeah! At the opening ceremony the Ambassador of Australia, Stephen Brady, spoke about the intellectual and creative purity that gives art the capacity to “inspire and challenge us, and the power to lift us from the repetition of daily life.” Quoting Dutch intellectual Rob Riemen, he said: “If there is anything – other than love and friendship – that can give meaning to life, it is the beauty of art.” Ambassador Brady spoke of the role art play

Hairspray’s Brittany Snow revealed in the August issue of Vegas that her character, Sardoonah, basically wears nothing the entire movie and screws everyone in sight: Hairspray actress Brittany Snow has been a bad, bad girl. In the upcoming drama Black Water Transit, Snow breaks out of her wholesome box to play the role of a troubled prostitute. "Basically, I have sex with everybody in the movie. I wear nothing the entire time," Snow, 21, reveals in the August issue of Vegas Magazine, on newsstands August 1st. This is absolutely fine with us here at downity.com. As a matter of fact, we’re all eyes and all hopes that Brittany will actually appear nude in this movie, but it’s not likely to happen. With four films coming out in 2007/2008 she’s a hot Hollywood commodity at the moment and generally it takes either a career needing a spark or a career in the tank to see some titties up on the screen. Ah well, here’s what we’ve got for now. But catch

Something that people complain about these days is pollution and traffic. It is no secret that people prefer to bring their own cars to work or any place that they want to go to. However, it is the same thing that other people would want as well and add them all up and you have total discomfort overall. Add to that it becomes a chain reaction of sorts. Imagine going thru traffic and probably being late for work or a meeting. Sweating it out in the car and being exposed to the harmful fumes and gases which may even make you choke. Add all these up and you get total discomfort and forgettable lives. But there is a solution. Mass transit and other means of public transportation such as trains, boats and buses, allow the normal consumer to experience a comfortable way of travel. Among the factors that a person would dislike, using this alternative covers most of his bickering over environmental and personal concerns. It all just needs some practical thinking and everyone will be fine and h

This evening was the first time I have been really pissed off at the city. Well, not so much the city. Just its stupid mass transit system. As a Southerner with fading memories of the wide open roads and interstates of my former life, it is still so crazy to me that I can be less than 10 miles away from a destination, and I cannot get there in a decent amount of time.I missed my 6:26 p.m. flight to Charlotte, North Carolina, because of the sporadic incompetence of the New York City bus system. After a fresh manicure and pedicure at a nail salon on 125th Street, I was patiently waiting at the M-60 bus stop near Frederick Douglas at 4:45 p.m. Within the next 45 minutes, only one M-60 bus would arrive, and it was nearly full. I waited as an older woman boarded the bus, then I stepped aside to let a disabled man enter the bus ahead of me. But before I could lug my suitcase up the steps behind him, the driver shut the doors and waved the rest of us back to the curb.I watched at least half a

One necessity that most people need today is that of using alternative means of transportation. We have all been accustomed to using our own cars and vehicles to go to places where we want to reach but we forget that with every travel, we are burning and contributing toxic fumes in the process. With mass transit we are containing the said problem of air pollution and at the same time helping decrease the spread of toxic fumes. Maglev trains and mass transit means not only eliminates the standard use of fossil fuels, they help decongest the world as far as moving from one place to another faster is concerned. VideoJug: Mass Transit And The Environment air pollution, Eco Travel, fossil fuels, Green Transportation, maglev trains, mass transit, means of transportation, Video Clips

We are mostly packed and leave New Orleans on Tuesday for Cincinnati. We will take three or so days to drive there, our furniture will take a few more days than that, and the car we are transporting a few days more. Moving is harder than I remembered. For having been being wiped out by Katrina, we sure have a lot of stuff to move. For the last week or so we have had an intense "farewell tour," from Susan's retirement party to my family gathering. In between we have dined with different friends at Galatoire's and Commander's, Liuzza's and Brocato's among other places. It was nice of Mayor Nagin to report the state of the city just before our leaving. He did not have anything to say that would cause us to re-think the move. Does this make us part of the "brain drain?" Once we get settled at the other end, perhaps an "arrival tour" would be in order. We will need to find a guide to the finer restaurants in Cincinnati; we have already booked a few cultural attraction

Desde hoy funciona la información sobre los horarios de las redes de metro en Barcelona, consultable en los mapas de Google. Se trata de un servicio adicional llamado Google Transit y presente en algunos de los mapas de Google de EEUU y Japón desde hace un año y medio. Se accede con sólo clicar sobre los iconos que identifican una estación de metro. Barcelona es la primera ciudad europea en disfrutar de esta funcionalidad, pensada para que cualquier usuario pueda programar una determinada ruta metropolitana mediante una consulta en Internet. Otra cosa son las líneas de metro, que forman parte de muchos mapas de Google de ciudades europeas, pero que no muestran sus correspondientes horarios. [Dirson] Compártelo

I was able to get those "free" AirAsia tickets a few months back so I'm on the backpack trail again. As always, I have to transit in Kuala Lumpur. So from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport Low Cost Carrier Terminal (KLIA-LCCT), I took the SkyBus to KL Sentral for RM9. The airport is about an hour away from town and it's good they have these shuttle buses since taking a taxi will make a dent in your budget big time!From KL Sentral, I took an LRT to the Pasar Seni Station in Chinatown and after finding a place to stay for the night, I walked around. I had some Indian food (roti canai and Horlicks ais) for early dinner and then went back to the hotel to take a nap while waiting for my SSEAYP friends. I met up with Mariam from Singapore at about 11:30 p.m. Then we met up with the Malaysian PYs (Paktam, Az and Dayang) for some late night drinks.The next day, I passed by KLCC to take photos of Petronas Towers. Then I was off to the airport again for my flight to Jakarta, Indonesia. I

I was able to get those "free" AirAsia tickets a few months back so I'm on the backpack trail again. As always, I have to transit in Kuala Lumpur. So from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport Low Cost Carrier Terminal (KLIA-LCCT), I took the SkyBus to KL Sentral for RM9. The airport is about an hour away from town and it's good they have these shuttle buses since taking a taxi will make a dent in your budget big time!From KL Sentral, I took an LRT to the Pasar Seni Station in Chinatown and after finding a place to stay for the night, I walked around. I had some Indian food (roti canai and Horlicks ais) for early dinner and then went back to the hotel to take a nap while waiting for my SSEAYP friends. I met up with Mariam from Singapore at about 11:30 p.m. Then we met up with the Malaysian PYs (Paktam, Az and Dayang) for some late night drinks.The next day, I passed by KLCC to take photos of Petronas Towers. Then I was off to the airport again for my flight to Jakarta, Indonesia. I

(With apologies to whoever came up with the Latin phrase "sic transit gloria mundi" ("thus passes the glory of the world").)Now that the time has come, I can barely make myself type it: This will be my final post.There, I said it!!I was working on the computer a few weeks ago when my train of thought was interrupted by a voice in my head that said "You need to focus on expansion, not reduction." It came so out of the blue that it'd have been easy to attribute it to an outside source, but since there wasn't so much as a wisp of smoke rising from any of my bushes I accepted it as a message from my subconscious mind, one so major that it'd come bursting into my consciousness in this unprecedented way. Although I wasn't working on anything blog related when it happened, I knew instantly that it was a reference to how I'd steadily given up everything I used to do with my free time in order to be able to write decent posts, and that... that... I needed to stop blogging and go back

Major Transport Inc., a Minnesota-based dry van carrier, has sold some of its assets to a newly formed company called Major Transport of Indiana, it was announced today.The agreement was signed May 2.  The new company was established by the Oren family, which also owns Dart Transit Co.  The transaction makes Major’s freight and customer base available to Dart. According to sources at Dart, the new company, Major Transport of Indiana, is based in Sellersburg, Ind., as a driver fleet, and contracts its truck and driver capacity to Dart.  The two companies will operate as separate but cooperating companies. The old Major operated primarily in the 11 Mountain States with 250 company drivers.  Dart operates with 2,500 owner-operators, primarily east of the Rockies.  “The Dart and Major operating areas are very different, so the two companies complement each other very nicely,” David Oren, president of Dart, said.  “Major’s customer base gives Dart access to new freig

Talk about seeing the writing on the wall, but ignoring reality…Going back as far back as the mid-80’s, NY Transit cops now say they have been summarily discriminated against based on their race. For instance, Detective Marshall Mazyck (Black) asked for a 1984 transfer to an anti-crime unit, when a White commander came right out and told him “We don’t want ni**ers in this unit.” That should have been the first clue to talk to a lawyer. That’s direct evidence of racism!! Nevertheless, Detective Mazyck stayed on the job.Today, a group of minority transit cops, including Detective Mazyck, have filed a $12 million lawsuit against the Metro Transit Authority (MTA) for systematic discrimination. The cops say they were often subjected to racial slurs, were frequently passed over for promotions, and were even denied many overtime opportunities. For anyone who knows anything about these jobs, you can make a killing on the overtime alone. Overtime pay will SUBSTANTIALLY boost your ye

More people, more vehicles, more of everything means new ways of navigating our cities. In the six years I’ve lived in Los Angeles, four of them have been without a car. This wasn’t an accident. Rather, this was a conscious choice that I gladly made after weighing all of the options. For many, this decision would be tantamount to social suicide, especially in a town where everything is known to be “20 minutes away” regardless of actual distance or amount of traffic congestion. But it’s nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be. It was a simple matter of shifting my priorities and aligning my lifestyle habits to match them. So how does a metropolitan person in the 21st century go about ditching a car? The first thing I did was move closer to my job and along the path of a major bus line. This diminished my commute from 35 minutes of stressful driving to twelve minutes of blissful “me time” - I was free to read or write or listen to music or just enjoy t

... in which I explain why the right music is. Everything. He keeps his hands low. He doesn't wanna blow it. He's wet from head to toe and His eyes give her the up and the down.- Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades, Brand NewHe'd slept with many girls before. This would be his final conquest. The last one that would mean the end of everything. Mostly. And she didn't look too hard. She would be his. And he would love her. Till they woke up.It's like standing at the same place shuffling your feet a little and bobbing your head to an imaginargy beat. That's real. So what if people look, stare and laugh like they're superior somehow because they wear clean underpants and comb their hair the right way. I'll keep to myself, thank you very much. Wait till I get my friend though.She didn't look like she was enjoying the music. And she didn't look alone. But that hadn't mattered twice, maybe three times before. They always looked better when they were with someone else. He walks up

This month offers an ecliptic effect that coincides with some other significant transit-to-transit planetary relationships. I urge everyone with an eclipse or at least a sun or moon conjoin or opposition the nodal axis be more prepared with contingencies; also a sun/uranus relationship, particularly conjunction. Outside forces will impinge upon your accountability and knock your routine processes

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Funding for public transportation is woefully inadequate here in Canada. Outside of our major cities (and even in the suburbs of our largest cities), public transport does not receive enough funding.So when Stephen Harper pledged $37 million today towards public transit (part of a $80 million promise back in June), one would think that people of "non-blue" political stripes would be heaping praise on the Tories.Sadly, there is little to praise Harper about. All of the funding is to go to transport security. Not better quality public transport. Not more quantiful or convenient public transport. But "higher security" public transport.Stop me if I'm alone here, but this is the most ridiculous and unnecessary waste of money from a government supposedly obsessed with stopping government wastage.We don't have armed military on every Canadian street corner. Nor do we have CCTV installed in every nook and cranny of our cities, as the British do. So why spend so much money making publi