The Dallas light rail line includes a spur that goes to Fort Worth that is over thirty miles away-that's why it stretches out so far.

Is that image available as a poster-I would so consider buying it-it's really beautiful.

Mexico City's is huge (like the city itself) - and it's only 2 pesos (20 cents) a ride.

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Yes, but it's more if you don't vanish before getting off at the other end.

Mexico City's is huge (like the city itself) - and it's only 2 pesos (20 cents) a ride.

I posted some New York rail thoughts on my blog today:



I was out at the Atlantic Terminal Mall today, which has a somewhat pleasing rail motif.

However, I noticed - as I have before - that the vintage train photos they have in some of their windows are of New York Central trains, while the LIRR's affiliation was with the Pennsylvania Railroad (its one-time owner) and Penn Station.

Cornelius Vanderbilt's Grand Central Terminal was home to his New York Central Railroad and as far as the rivalry between New York/Grand Central and Pennsylvania Railroad/Station went, the situation was very much one of "ne'er the train shall meet". In fact, the MTA is only now (purportedly) about to finish building a Long Island Rail Road connection to Grand Central.

When that's finished, perhaps the photos at Bruce Ratner's Brooklyn terminal will be rendered legit. Also, New York Central and the rival Pennsylvania merged (under financial duress) into the Penn Central Railroad during the 1960s, so that could be seen as a legitimizing factor of sorts.

But I don't think any of these justifications count.

The pictures are wrong. They're perfunctory; the result of the kind of ignorance that comes from not caring.

Does it matter? Of itself, probably not. But it represents lapses of social memory that really are troubling.

Apparently there was never a subway in Dayton, Ohio. They have electric trolley buses, which are buses, but powered by ovehead wires and not combustion engines. And apparently there is a Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority that runs things there.

Check out Buffalo's little ink smudge. I lived there when it was built. What a waste.

San Francisco's definitely wins for miles you are able to cover - you can now get all the way from the SF Airport in San Mateo county all the way over to Dublin in the East Bay I believe. Sweet!

Most people don't know that Los Angeles used to have a mass transit system that rivaled NYC. Check out the old subway/trolley system map: http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/historic/redcars/redcar_map.jpeg & http://www.erha.org/pesystem.htm

Right after WWII I think GM & Michelin bought the system and tore it down so people would buy cars......

Sadly, the Dayton Subway, aka Miami Valley Rail Authority, no longer exists.

it does. one of the great things about the american public transportation system is that you can get to san diego from dallas on the subway.

there are a lot of light rail routes shown in this mis-titled map

What's the deal with that Dallas line? It looks like it reaches all the way to San Diego.

And BART in the Bay Area also does (does anyone know if you can use DC Metro farecards there and vice versa, I heard a rumor you could), as well as SEPTA and PATCO in Philadelphia, and there may be others.

"(not including systems ... where fare is calculated by distance...)"

Except that the DC metro charges by distance.

But a cool map nonetheless.

I really don't see how a "dedicated busway" can be included with subways and light rail systems. All it is is one bus on a dedicated road, which is marginally faster, but it is still a bus which means fewer people can ride it compared to most rail based vehicles. Ottawa's "Busways" are a joke and less environmentally friendly (you are in fact building roads) than say a light rail line like they have in Hudson and Bergen counties in New Jersey.