After a very long time off the guideway, Pod 211 has returned to the Heathrow Pod system.

Also seen here are pods 219 and 203.

This was one of my favorite systems to bicycle. The construction of the old Northwestern Pacific, its ashes from which SMART is built, meant that most of the very small towns in the area had their density clustered right around the train tracks such that nearly all human density in the area is walkable to a station. Agriculture, terrain, physical isolation from the South Bay's sprawl, and heinous traffic on the 101 has largely kept this Peri-Urban zoning intact, making SMART an unexpected icon of car-free rural living. I cannot recommend enough paying it a visit!

Yet another instance of a flashover/fire on LAX people mover. Expect more delays to the LAX people mover. Will this be done by the 2028 Olympics?

11:20 video Bloomberg Originals

Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway is the most profitable transit system in the world. While subways tend to lose money everywhere else, the MTR funds its system through a real estate engine known as “land-value capture.” By directly integrating malls, offices and apartments into stations, the railway has created a self-funding loop that pays billions of dollars back to the government.

Now, the MTR is taking on a massive challenge: funding transport for the Northern Metropolis, a new tech hub aimed at better connecting Hong Kong with Mainland China. But as local real estate cools, construction costs soar and residents shift retail spending across the border to Shenzhen, the MTR is taking on record debt to fund the expansion. Will this ambitious project break the very rule that made Hong Kong’s transit a global marvel?

RTD Denver

Currently operating rapid urban transport systems that is not in other metropolitian areas

Excursion/Seasonal systems are excluded

Interactive Map - http://u.osmfr.org/m/1477078/
Ignore ‘completed’

Data from wikipedia

I recently visited Warsaw and traveled from Powiśle to Zachodnia, where I took a KM train. That got me interested, since KM trains seem to fill the same role as the SKM (S-Bahn-like) trains inside Warsaw, largely stopping at the same stops, even in the city center. Seeing how they fulfill such an important role in Warsaw's transit, I was really surprised to not find any transit diagram as SKM has. Sure, they do have a network map and the lines numbers are on Warsaw's city transit map, but else?

So, do any of you know any (self-created) transit map including Koleje Mazowieckie?

I also think it is really interesting how Mazovia apparently goes to opposite way of German transit branding. Instead of naming every train that stops at every station through the city center "S-Bahn", no matter how far out it goes and how bad the frequency on the fringes get, you have a system where half of the trains on your inner-city routes are designated S-Bahns because they don't go far and the other half is a regional train because it leaves the metropolitan area.

Rakes are said to be in 6-car formations with 80kmh max speed.

First two sets are to be delivered from China by January 2027 with testing and official passenger service to begin in phases from April 2027 onwards.

People were stuck in the trains for an hour while the train barely moved. It was said the fans and ventilators were turned off for some reason prompting people to walk on tracks.

It's called Metro Station Designer, I shared an early version here two years ago.
Here's how far it's come!

This map is excessive and definitely unrealistic. It includes regional rail, light rail(both existing and new additions), metro, and trollies. I started the buses but that’s still a WIP.

https://metrodreamin.com/view/c0hxU2V0MExsN2JseHE1RGgya0xiaFVzUmtzMXw4

By “completed” I mean having at least a section of it open to passenger service at or over 155 mph, not necessarily it being fully built out.
Personally, I think it’s gonna be Illinois. It would be cheap to build comparative to other HSR projects from an ROW perspective, and it exclusively runs through a state that is extremely supportive of rail projects and that has a well-funded high-speed rail commission with a clear timeline that (as of last year) gives us an optimistic potential timeframe of service in 10 years. After that, it’ll probably be Cascadia. I’d be intrigued to hear what you all think, though!

I live in the Netherlands and was wondering if I can find out where the doors stop on the platform so that I always have a seat on the train, and how does this work in your country?

Thanks in advance, I'm really curious to see if you can help me

I think there’s actually now a real chance I’m one of the only people alive to have ridden a suspended monorail, a hovercraft, and a submarine. Like, how many other people are there besides Tom Scott?

I live in San Francisco, and occasionally find myself taking buses in nearby San Mateo County. The original map was designed in 2005 and wasn’t bad for the time, but it’s also been modified so much by the operator that it’s gotten actively worse in the years since. I mean, look at it:

• No indication of frequency. Routes that run every 15 minutes all day are shown exactly the same as ones that have only a handful of trips a day.
• School routes are too prominent. These routes run once or twice a day primarily to take students between home and school. I don’t think they existed at the time of the original map, but either way, they do not deserve to be shown at the same level as all-day routes (as an extension of the above).
• Overnight routes are shown on the same map. The ECR Owl, 296 Owl, and 397 run overnight to replace the ECR, 296, and 292 respectively, and I think showing them on the main system map as if they ran during the day is misleading.
• One line for multiple overlapping routes, and the label placement is not great. Routes are impossible to follow, and this is especially important for a suburban area with many circuitous routes.
• No directional arrows for one-way routes. Well, they’re in the PDF if you look under the basemap, but they’ve been hidden in the many modifications since. There are also arrows and street name labels for routes that no longer exist.

So I figured I’d try my hand at a redesign, with both a daytime map and a separate (admittedly quite empty) overnight map. This is the exact same network that exists today, but presented differently. I’m not a designer by any means, just someone with a copy of Affinity Designer 2 and a little too much free time. I like to think I have a bit more design sense than the average programmer, even if it might be considered a bit basic.

• I started by converting the GTFS schedule data from SamTrans and adjacent operators into shapefiles, importing them into QGIS alongside basemap layers from OpenStreetMap, and exporting PDFs with the desired layout (for which I tried to match the official map as closely as possible, instead of north-up). Then I cleaned up and simplified the paths in Affinity, and shifted lines over to remove overlaps where needed before adding labels.
• I had to manually remove overlaps since Affinity’s PDF export is somewhat broken, but thankfully it wasn’t absurdly difficult, just took more time than I would have liked. Overlaps are fully removed for SamTrans routes, but I haven’t bothered to do so for adjacent operators since they’re not the focus of the maps anyway.
• Frequencies are indicated by line thickness and label size, but not colour. The thickest lines are for the most frequent routes, and thin dashed lines are for routes that only run a handful times a day, like school-oriented and commuter routes. 20-45-70 is a strange set of frequency tiers, but I wanted all-day service to show up as regular routes, and there were some routes that ran less than hourly but still all day.
• Each route has its own colour, arbitrarily chosen from a limited palette of 14 daytime colours and 4 overnight colours. I tried to pick relatively distinct colours for routes that ran close to or intersected with each other, somewhat inspired by my former home bus operator York Region Transit (Ontario, Canada)’s system map. It’s difficult to use some colours more because some routes are very long and run practically the entire length of the county. In theory I could have gone with a more conventional frequency-based colouring, but I figured I’d try this approach to improve readability, especially in areas with a lot of routes.
• Labels aren’t quite complete. I’m sure I could have filled the rest in if I spent a bit more time on it, but I think it’s more than good enough For Now to demonstrate the concept. I could have also missed some minor details.
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I even tried a second version of these maps in which I’ve renumbered all the routes: to remove the first digit which I’ve always felt was somewhat redundant, and to lengthen the numbers of the school routes to make them less prominent. The numbering scheme is explained in the last image.

I’d love to get your thoughts, both on the map design and the renumbering. Thanks!