Now that's a transit wayfinding symbol I hadn't seen before

eurasianet.org/azerbaijan-r... reports that the Georgia-Azerbaijan border reopens May 26! In combination with the occasional passenger-accepting Baku-Aktau freighters, this makes travel from Europe to East Asia without flying or crossing Russia or Iran possible for the first time since the pandemic.

Azerbaijan reopening land border, resuming rail connection with Georgia

Baku to keep other land border crossings closed.

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What places have you been with the most Coruscant/Trantor sorts of vibes (city on top of city on top of city, without a clearly visible ground level)?

Fun find this afternoon: In 1957, the Port Authority did the engineering work to link the downtown PATH to the Lexington Avenue subway local tracks.

Trying out the new GoVolta low-cost rail service from Berlin to Amsterdam. We found out two hours before departure that you're supposed to "check in" by four hours before, but got the website live chat to send us our boarding passes anyway.

Is this an April Fool's joke or just a data error?

What is this, Amtrak?

It's weird how Berlin's Ringbahn is among its most important passenger rail lines while Paris just abandoned theirs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemin_...

The Paris cable car is both a lot of fun and seems plausibly quite useful for people living in the area served. Daily ridership is apparently 12.5k, not huge but a good 3x the London cable car for example.

Updated for 2025: timeline maps of every metro system in the world transit-timelines.github.io

Rapid Transit Timelines and Scale Comparison

Maps every 5 years, 1840-2025

transit-timelines.github.io

@enf.bsky.social Do you still have the pdf that was once at trafficways.org/scans/1956-b...? Or any other information about the 1956 SF rapid transit proposal depicted in www.flickr.com/photos/walki...

San Francisco rapid transit plans (1956)

The San Francisco City Planning Department's response to the 1956 BART Regional Rapid Transit report. (The double-line routes are BART; the black lines are Muni.)

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Finally trying out electrified Caltrain

Furthest I've been (on land): N: 71.171°N Nordkapp, 1989; as an adult 69.715°N Nordpissen, Tromsø, 2025 E: Likely 176.378°E near Waimangu on a Wellington-Auckland bus, 2013 S: 65.065°S Port Charcot, 2020 W: 159.782°W or so in Kauai, 1988; as an adult 150.022°W Point Woronzof, Anchorage, 2013

Stephen Jacob Smith@stephenjacobsmith.com · last yr.

Furthest I’ve been: N: W. 4th Ave, Anchorage E: Probably in the Danube Delta (god forsaken place, stay away!), or if not then the Asian side of Istanbul S: Coyoacán, Mexico City W: Somewhere on the North Shore of Oahu probably

My favorite proposals (that I hadn't already seen elsewhere) from the "1 like = 1 passenger rail project" threads:

🦋 Is this public transportation?

1 like = 1 passenger rail project idea

ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️@ellenteapot.ca · last yr.

1 like = 1 passenger rail project idea

Today we are familiar with the enormous Chinese high-speed-rail network, but decades ago, it took a tremendous amount of work to build out the conventional rail network from its state at the proclamation of the People's Republic - mostly sparse, in ruins, and incredibly regionally concentrated

Travel threads I have posted: Antarctica-Boston without flying Nicosia-Lisbon without flying Boston-DC by local buses Berlin-Chisinau via Kyiv Austin-Quebec City without flying Berlin-Sicily by local/regional trains Berlin-Lagos without flying Berlin-Tromsø without flying

At Eidsvoll you can transfer directly from a 200km/h electric train to the 169-year-old paddle steamboat Skibladner en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiblad..., the world's oldest operating public transport vehicle.

This time I'm heading north, starting with the slow trains from Berlin to Hamburg (since they're free with Deutschlandticket and it turned out a hostel bed in Hamburg tonight was cheaper than an early fast train to Hamburg tomorrow morning).

Apparently it's hotter than usual in Hell right now?

It's currently difficult to get very far from Europe in most directions without flying (especially with a US passport). But one path remains open, so today I'm heading southwest from Berlin towards Tangier, Dakar, and beyond.

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.

Jon Worth@jonworth.eu · 2y ago

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.

What are the furthest points from Berlin/Europe currently reachable via publicly-available not-airplane-or-cruise-ship transport, and how would you go about reaching them?

Me at 21

Brendan Dawe@dawe.bsky.social · 2y ago

Me at 21

What's the most underrated city in the EU?

M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 2y ago

What's the most underrated city in the US?

⚠️ Achtung! Have a nice day.

What do STEM PhD dropouts do now that bigtech hiring is so much weaker than in the 2010s?

== Berlin to Pozzallo by local/regional trains == Vehicles: 32 trains, 1 ferry, 1 rail-replacement bus Distance: 2755km by train, 7km foot, 8km ferry, 100km bus In-vehicle time: ~40hr train, 20min ferry, 2hr bus Map: google.com/maps/d/edit?... Thread starts: staging.bsky.app/profile/lexa...

Enabled by Deutschlandticket (€49/month unlimited local/regional transit in Germany) & the Italia In Tour ticket (€29/3days unlimited Trenitalia regional trains), I'm planning to spend the next few days traveling from Berlin to Southern Italy entirely on local & regional trains.