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| Monday Apr 21, 2008 | Time lapse video and article about a man stuck in an elevator for 41 hours. to Transportation by fool |
| Sunday Jun 18, 2006 | With the sudden increase in the price of gasoline, it may be a good idea to replace your rice rocket with a bicycle. to Transportation by caspian |
| Wednesday May 25, 2005 | The only things hurt in the making of
these car crash
videos are dummies and your insurance premium.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 26, 2005 | Part art car and part
dystopian mobile
panopticon, Harold Blank's
Camera Van is
covered with hundreds of cameras, some of which are still
working and can be used
to snap
candid photos.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 5, 2005 | Remember. Always practice what you preach. to Transportation by yoyology |
| Friday Dec 31, 2004 | While
flying cars will probably not appear on the
market any time soon, you can
instead slake your thirst for all things automotive with
this
fascinating collection of old car manuals.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Monday Dec 20, 2004 | The absurd Hummer H-2 + one Jeep convention + one small stump =
hilarity.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 26, 2004 | The
AMC Gremlin,
Pacer
and
Eagle
will live forever in the
annals of crappy, ugly cardom,
and also in the heart of
Arcticboy,
who has assembled a large collection of
AMC memorablia,
including
toys,
sound clips,
and
screencaps
of AMC cars in TV shows and movies.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Friday Oct 8, 2004 | If you watch only one first-person POV video of insane bikers racing through Manhattan
traffic this year, make it
this one.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Oct 5, 2004 | Jet engine + man =
THE JET-MAN PROJECT. to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Sep 22, 2004 | If Optimus Prime had a baby with the
International
Harvester CXT 7300, it would look like these
heavily modified
Japanese trucks.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Friday Aug 27, 2004 | If you're thinking that your Vespa scooter isn't QUITE nerdy enough,
then someone in Japan has
a solution.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Saturday May 8, 2004 | Wheelchairs are funky, macho, and very, very strange. to Transportation by fatherdan |
| Tuesday Apr 6, 2004 | Bored with your own commute? Then read the
bus blog,
documenting Kat Jungnickel's daily ride on
London's Route
73 Bus.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 24, 2004 | If you look hard enough, you can find
animals
all over the
London
Underground.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Dec 30, 2003 | Apparently,
the Google office in
Santa Monica has a problem with
Ben Affleck taking their
parking spaces. to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Dec 4, 2003 | In 1994, the ocean liner S.S. American Star
(formerly the
Chandris America,
the U.S.S. West Point, and eventually the
S.S. Australis)
became
stranded on a
remote beach
on the west coast of
Fuerteventura,
off the coast of Spain. Almost ten years later, she's
still sitting there,
rusting away.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Aug 30, 2003 | For the macho-conscious owner of an SUV or Hummer, I suppose Bumpernuts are an inevitable accessory. Hey, don't forget the kids! to Transportation by fatherdan |
| Thursday Aug 14, 2003 | Thanks to Rich, I want a Monster DeLorean. And a Convertible DeLorean. And a Hovercraft DeLorean. And so do you!
to Transportation by isosceles |
| Monday Aug 11, 2003 | Since its introduction in 2002, The MDI Air Car has been causing a small stir in the automotive industry. Its engine, for example, is almost entirely fossil fuel free. The design of the car is remarkably similar to the SMART car, or some of the smaller asian models, but they also make a truck, just in case people need to use it outside urban areas. With all the major engineering issues solved, the only major hurdle left for MDI is selling the car. Its expected that their unusual business model might help with that.
to Transportation by caspian |
| Sunday May 4, 2003 | The Pacer Page is dedicated to the adulation of the car immortalized in Wayne's World as "the mirth-mobile". Audio/Video clips include classic AMC commercials, and don't forget the Pacer collectibles and other goodies. to Transportation by yoyology |
| Thursday Feb 20, 2003 | Can't get up in the morning? Hook up your ride with whistle tips (WMV video). You should be up cookin' breakfas' o sumpin anyway. Woo wooo!
to Transportation by dnm |
| Wednesday Jan 8, 2003 | In 1955, John Fitch witnessed the worst racing accident ever, and eventually invented the familiar safety barriers we see on highways today as a result. to Transportation by fringehead |
| Sunday Jan 5, 2003 | Penn Station was designed by McKim, Mead, and White and erected in 1910 to serve as the centerpiece of the Pennsylvania Railroad empire. Sadly, most of the original Penn Station was demolished in 1963 to make room for the new Madison Square Garden despite significant public outcry to preserve it. Today, Penn Station is a transportation hub for the Long Island Rail Road, New Jersey Transit, Amtrak, and the NYC subways. Unfortunately, ambitious plans to return Penn Station to its former grandeur have been shelved. to Transportation by rich |
| Saturday Dec 21, 2002 | It is important to remember the importance of a
tight turning radius in urban combat situations.
to Transportation by scromp |
| Monday Dec 2, 2002 | TransOrbital, Inc. recently became the first company to announce it was sending junk to the moon, presumably as a precursor to future corporate ventures. Though states are banned from laying claims on the moon, corporations are not. You might want to check out some unsullied images of the moon (provided by the Clementine satellite) before it's too late. Will anyone write poetry about the moon when it's covered with Taco Bell ads? to Transportation by crikey |
| Sunday Nov 3, 2002 | Bring even the slowest car from zero to sixty in less than three seconds with Skydriving. to Transportation by fotbon |
| Friday Oct 25, 2002 | "Mommy! Daddy ran over my Big Wheel, so I need a new tricycle. Can I get a Merlin Roadster this time?" to Transportation by yoyology |
| Friday Sep 27, 2002 | If you absolutely must post about your joy-riding exploits, make sure it's in a forum the owner of the car doesn't read. to Transportation by roo |
| Monday Aug 5, 2002 | Are you jealous of the other SoccerMoms in the neighborhood because your current ride doesn't have the capacity to tote around the entire girls 11-and-under team? Don't pay attention to those environmentally-conscious Green Party nuts and their CAFE standards. Minivans are for bland wimps, not an independent-minded suburban warrior like yourself. If you think the new Hummer or Unimog are too pedestrian for toting the pre-teens to the mall, be the first on your block to own the next evolution in suburban assault vehicles. to Transportation by rich |
| Friday Aug 2, 2002 | Bicycles. Carpooling. Two seemingly contradictory environmentally-friendly commute strategies. OK, maybe you can get two people on a tandem, or even three on a triple tandem. But what if you want to move seven people on the same bicycle? That's where the Conference Bike comes in. Not so much a bicycle built for two, more a tricycle built for seven. Or if you fancy getting romantic with four more friends, try the Lovebike for size. to Transportation by elder |
| Monday Jul 15, 2002 | For the low price of $10 you can travel into the distant future.
to Transportation by onigame |
| Tuesday May 7, 2002 | Some vanity license plates require explanations, but some are self-explanatory. to Transportation by roo |
| Friday May 3, 2002 |
We can do you
extreme
mountain biking on
two.
Or maybe with
one.
But probably not on three. to Transportation by goboro |
| Wednesday Apr 17, 2002 | A Segway is not nearly as awe-inspiring as Spring Walker, as scarily unstable as Swing Bike, as buoyant as a WaterCycle or as terrifying as any of hundreds of other unusual and bizarre human-powered vehicles.
to Transportation by joshua |
| Thursday Feb 14, 2002 | Be more careful with your tugboat, ok? to Transportation by fringehead |
| Tuesday Jan 8, 2002 | Before Chicago had a subway,
it had a subway! to Transportation by shadow |
| Sunday Jan 6, 2002 | The belt
manlift is a living-dangerously relative of the escalator and
elevator. to Transportation by gator |
| It's another ten months until National Elevator Escalator Safety Awareness Week, so study up at the Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation's site. to Transportation by tregoweth |
| Saturday Dec 22, 2001 | There are many places you can find disused highways and some places you can find highways that were never finished but there are some relics left behind from the Nazi regime's grandiose plans.
to Transportation by shadow |
| Wednesday Dec 5, 2001 | The future potential of
Dean Kamen's
Segway
is frequently compared to
Preston Tucker's
Torpedo.
However, perhaps a more apt comparison is to
Clive Sinclair's
C5...
or Buckminster Fuller's
Dymaxion Car...
or Paul Moller's Skycar...
or Wendell Moore's
Rocket Belt...
or Glen Curtiss's
Autoplane...
or Waldo Waterman's
Arrowbile...
or Robert Fulton's
Airphibian...
or Moulton Taylor's
Aerocar...
to Transportation by joshua |
| Wednesday Sep 19, 2001 | Wanna be a federal air marshal? to Transportation by tregoweth |
| Tuesday Sep 4, 2001 | With its Donut Court and luxurious day spa, the Golden Gate Tunnel isn't just transportation...it's transportainmentTM!
to Transportation by tregoweth |
| Tuesday Aug 14, 2001 | You need to get to work, but are tired of the usual
subway weirdos. What do you do? Don't like the noisy gopeds? Looking for something a little more old-fashioned or simply badass?
Neither? The Skoot may be the alternative you've been dying for.
to Transportation by cain |
| Wednesday Aug 8, 2001 | Make your own paper replicas of the
trams of Brussels.
They include links to paper TGV models,
and trams of Stuttgart.
Make sure you visit the TGV pages, since they include more than just the TGVs, like the
Amtrak Acelas.
to Transportation by shadow |
| After first the
PCC streetcar design, and then many castoff streetcars from the United States found their way to Europe, the
National Capital Trolley Museum
has had the favor returned as
they
acquire a foreign example for their collection.
to Transportation by shadow |
| Sunday Jul 22, 2001 | The Sultan of Brunei likes his cars. to Transportation by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Jul 4, 2001 | "I would like to report an offensive personalized license plate (it is from Wisconsin). The plate says 'COPUL8'. That translates into 'copulate'. According to the dictionary, that means sexual intercourse.' to Transportation by succa |
| Tuesday Jul 3, 2001 | God bless American car culture. We've created the ultimate gothmobile. to Transportation by fringehead |
| Thursday Jun 28, 2001 | "The legend lives on from
the Chippewa on down to the big lake they call Gitchee Gumee..." The
mystery
of the Edmund
Fitzgerald's sinking
remains unsolved
to this day. That doesn't prevent an inordinately
large number of Midwest
artists from repeatedly
paying tribute
to Big
Fitz's final hours. You
can even build your own Fitz. Just follow
the instructions! to Transportation by fatherdan |
| Wednesday Jun 27, 2001 | Some have turned childhood cartoons, such as
The Transformers, into an all-consuming
obsession.
And some go far, far beyond.
to Transportation by joshua |
| Friday Jun 22, 2001 | Penn (Penn & Teller) Jillette and
Billy (ZZ Top) Gibbons
in
zero gravity!
to Transportation by tregoweth |
| Tuesday Jun 19, 2001 | Pimp yo' lawnmower, bizzatch. to Transportation by wheezer |
| Monday Jun 18, 2001 | Moving? You don't need to rent a truck -- all you need is a bike trailer and you'll be ready to move a refrigerator, a queen-sized bed, or just about anything else. (Strong legs not included.) to Transportation by sylvar |
| Saturday Jun 9, 2001 | I never understood how walking on the moon was a larger achievement than driving on the moon in Boeing's one horsepower eight mph Lunar Rover. Thanks to the internet you can watch astronauts drive recklessly in the Rover while listening to a lively banjo.
to Transportation by skallas |
| Thursday Jun 7, 2001 | There's another way to be invisible: try to get a taxicab if you have dark skin. Even Yaphet Kotto can't get a cab. to Transportation by sylvar |
| Tuesday Jun 5, 2001 | Dennis Tito wasn't the first person to buy his way to an earth orbit. Dr. Timothy Leary and Gene Roddenberry beat Tito by 4 years and are still up there and won't be coming down till 2004. Thanks to Celestis Inc you too can have a voyage of a lifetime, even to the moon, but there's one catch: you have to be cremated first. to Transportation by skallas |
| Sunday Jun 3, 2001 |
I'm still waiting for someone to write the an updated Kandy-Kolored
Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby that describes the
transition from Tom Wolfe's kar kustomizers to today's CPU overclockers. In the mean
time, I'm enjoying tales of computer-style hacks on the super-geeky Toyota Prius. Sadly,
the best list
I've found is members only, but there's plenty out there on hidden
to Transportation by gator |
| Wednesday May 23, 2001 | How nifty was the scale steam railroad at Walt Disney's house?
It has its own historical society! to Transportation by tregoweth |
| Wednesday May 16, 2001 | Explore New York City's transportation infrastructure virtually at OldNYC.com. What was and what could have been. to Transportation by borges |
| Monday May 14, 2001 | Hey stud, ever imagine what a steamy rendezvous with a clergyman might be like? Check out Steamingpriest.com for piston-thrusting priest action.
Woo-woooooo! to Transportation by fatherdan |
| Wednesday May 2, 2001 | Attention Frequent Flyers - Before you go to catch your next flight, do yourself a favour and check out Am I Going Down.com. By entering in information about your flight, you'll be automatically told the chances your flight might end up plummeting downward in flames. Passengers flying from Peru to USA have a one in 977,671.
to Transportation by kade |
| Monday Apr 23, 2001 | What have you done lately to promote monorail awareness? to Transportation by tregoweth |
| Through hard work and dedication, the employees of the
Miami Valley Rail Authority
hope to run the best darn public transport system in the continental United States.
to Transportation by joshua |
| Thursday Mar 29, 2001 | Wanna car? Don't wanna dodgy car? Wanna kit car? More specifically, wanna KITT car?
Now you can have one! to Transportation by elder |
| Tuesday Mar 20, 2001 | Keen to take up
bicycling but not really sure about that whole
balance thing? Well then, the
RhoadesCar is for you. to Transportation by skyhook |
| Wednesday Mar 7, 2001 | Depending on your point of view, there's Ballsy
Trucks or there's Ballsy Trucks.
But I'm not sure where that leaves
trucks with balls. to Transportation by skyhook |
| Thursday Jan 25, 2001 | Even if your scooter isn't rechargable, you can still get around town in extreme style.
to Transportation by joshua |
| Monday Jan 8, 2001 |
The everyday event becomes beautiful when you capture it properly. Mark Garfinkle, Boston Herald staff photographer, waited a year or two for this shot. Canon digital camera, 600mm lens with a 2x TC, an effective focal length of about 1800mm (with the digital magnification). More airplane porn here!
to Transportation by gen |
| Wednesday Dec 6, 2000 | Founded in Denver, Colorado in 1942 and sold to Budget Group Inc. in 1998, the yellow trucks belonging to Ryder TRS have a unique place in our nation's history. On February 26, 1993, terrorists drove a bomb-laden Ryder truck into the parking garage at the World Trade Center in New York City and detonated it, killing six people and causing millions in damage. On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh used a Ryder truck to deliver a bomb which destroyed the Murrah Building and killed 168 people in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Now, you can own a bit of history -- the Ryder truck that transported 462,000 Presidential ballots from Palm Beach, Florida to Tallahassee, Forida. to Transportation by rich |
| Sunday Dec 3, 2000 | With few, and admittedly borderline, exceptions (such as The
Munsters and Neil
Young), I had always thought that hearses were for dead people.
How wrong I was! to Transportation by dha |
| Friday Dec 1, 2000 | I love to fly, but I realize people are deathly afraid of doing so. To feed into your fears, AirDisaster.com will give you all the fodder you need to keep you awake all night. If you're just morbid, you might want to listen to a selection of black box recordings, or look through a simple table listing of the worst air disasters in history. AirDisaster.com has more complicated listings of disasters cross-referenced by year, manufacturer, or airline. to Transportation by mrradon |
| Wednesday Nov 29, 2000 | In the market for a vehicle? Why settle for a gas-guzzling SUV or a used car when you could have the best of both worlds? Buy a used bus and relive your school days -- or your twisted fantasies -- for just a few thousand bucks! to Transportation by sylvar |
| Monday Nov 6, 2000 | I'd much rather have firefighters damage my car in the rare instance that a hydrant is going to be used, instead of paying the $100 parking fine here in Chicago. Luckily there's an on-line guide to dealing with parking Nazis.
to Transportation by skallas |
| Friday Nov 3, 2000 | These days lots of cities are jumping on the rail transit
bandwagon, typically about 50 years after abandoning
streetcar service. Some cities actually abandoned subways. Two
such cities are Rochester, New York
and
Cincinnati, Ohio. The Cincinnati system was never completed,
but a similar system in Cleveland,
Ohio which had been started years early was completed,
indicating if Cincinnati had cared, they could have done
the same. to Transportation by shadow |
| Saturday Oct 28, 2000 | Human Powered Hydrofoils can be sometimes
graceful, sometimes fast, and at others very unsettling. to Transportation by goboro |
| Wednesday Oct 18, 2000 | Moving a lighthouse isn't all that different from moving a house, but how do you move an oil rig or a damaged
warship?
With really big boats. to Transportation by sam |
| Monday Oct 9, 2000 | Sometimes it feels like you're taking your life in your hands if you walk or ride a bicycle in San Francisco . Maybe all the drivers have been playing Microsoft's new game.
to Transportation by rsf |
| Wednesday Aug 30, 2000 | How about a
heritage trolley operation which is converting
a gasoline powered rubber-tired car built from remains
of an original electric car back to electric operation
for their line? to Transportation by shadow |
| Tuesday Aug 29, 2000 | Pssst. Wanna buy a rail car?
to Transportation by shadow |
| From the culture that gave us cricket and Quidditch comes something equally logical: The Magic Roundabout. to Transportation by che |
| Friday Aug 25, 2000 | For a mere $78 million you too can own your own 200 foot luxury submarine. Where might you go with that you say? Besides the obvious great barrier reef, you could spend a few nights at an underwater hotel. The Jules underwater lodge offers rooms for $250-$350 a night and is located just off of Key West. Remember, check out is at 11 am.
to Transportation by reid |
| Thursday Aug 17, 2000 | The official MTA of New York
City site has all the formal details of the NYC subway
system, like fares, schedules, and a city-wide
map. But the unofficial NYC
subway site has much, much more. There are a wealth of maps, including historical
maps and "what if?" maps. The FAQ section covers
everything from
abandoned tracks & stations, including the beautiful City
Hall station. (Another
site also tells you how to try to see some of the closed
stations.) There's information about identifying cars, what it's like
to be a transit worker, and even a subway glossary.
to Transportation by moose |
| Wednesday Jul 12, 2000 | The Online Guide to Accident Preparedness is
dedicated to helping people know what to do in the event of a car accident. They even
have a printable form for you
to fill out and keep in your car "just in case." to Transportation by jiberish |
| Tuesday Jun 27, 2000 | All of us remember the late 1960's cult classic cartoon Speed Racer. Sign up for
newsletters from the soon-to-debut official
website. Perhaps you'd like the chance to buy your own fully-functioning Mach 5 race car for only $61,000, or maybe
you'd prefer Racer X's Shooting Star?
to Transportation by rich |
| Monday Jun 26, 2000 | It started with a woman who wanted to buy a Honda. Elizabeth Fisher wanted to buy
a Honda Odessey but like other of us fat
folk she was too big for the seat belt. Most other car makers offer seat belt extenders so
that everyone can safely strap in. Some offer them for free, some cost
no more than $30. Elizabeth contacted Honda
who has told her they will not make extenders. Further research found
that while Hyundai and Subaru also do not make extenders, nearly every other car maker
does. Elizabeth is trying to petition the NHTSB to amend a
Federal US regulation that would require car manufacturers to make
seat belts or offer extenders to cover everyone, not just people who
weigh up to 215 lbs, as they do now. Ironically, the National Transportation Safety
Board is big on it's
Buckle Up America program which encourages seatbelt use and offers
statistics showing how many lives are saved!
And while you might not
agree with this or just think this is just a "problem" for fat
people and big sports jocks, you might also think about how this "problem" affects pregnant women.
to Transportation by moose |
| Tuesday May 23, 2000 | The Hiller Flying Platform, built in 1955, consists of a really big ducted fan mounted underneath a little tiny cage. to Transportation by joshua |
| Thursday May 18, 2000 | Nye Thermodynamics is the result of Mark Nye's need to build bigger, faster gas turbines and turbine jet-propelled vehicles. to Transportation by joshua |
| Tuesday Mar 21, 2000 | The National Transportation Safety Board maintains an excellent database of aviation accident synopses, containing everything from simple errors to deadly mistakes. to Transportation by imploded |
| Saturday Mar 11, 2000 | Aerovironment has been pursuing innovative
vehicle design (including human- and solar-powered vehicles) for years now.
Current projects and products include
the
Black Widow, a remote-controlled surveillance plane that launches from a briefcase,
the Pointer (a larger, hand-launched
surveillance plane), and the Charger electrically-assisted bicycle. Also
in development is the Helios
unmanned telecommunications relay aircraft, which would circle continuously
for months on end over a city to provide the equivalent of
a very-low-altitude telecom satellite. Paul MacCready is
the man behind the company, and has a history of unique engineering accomplishments
including the construction of the Gossamer Albatross,
the first human-powered airplane capable of sustained flight. to Transportation by xrayjones |
| Friday Feb 11, 2000 | The AOPA is one of the most recognized pilot associations. With it's great resources on learning to fly, honing your skills, and learning to deal with emergencies, it's web site is almost as indespensable as it's great services. to Transportation by imploded |
| Airliners.net has a great repository of aircraft / airline pictures. With pictures of 747's landing at dusk, to a Cessna 172 that forgot how to use it's nose gear, you can find almost any plane, from any airline.
to Transportation by imploded |
| Friday Jan 7, 2000 | The Daihatsu Naked --
apparently only sold in Japan, alas.
to Transportation by tregoweth |
| Thursday Dec 2, 1999 | Ever wonder who's responsible for all of those three letter air port codes? to Transportation by goboro |
| Monday Nov 22, 1999 | I found this great site about
cable cars while looking for information about
Seattle's
counterbalance, a unique feature of one of their
street railways after it was electrified. to Transportation by shadow |
| Friday Nov 5, 1999 | As the water continues to drop in the
Youghiogheny Reservoir, the historic
Great Crossings bridge should again be making an appearance.
to Transportation by shadow |
| Did your city ever have streetcars? If they did,
chances are
Dave's Rail Pix will have pictures of it.
This shot was taken basically right outside my office. to Transportation by shadow |
| George Elwood has collected a vast amount
of rail information and pictures on his
Erie-Lackawanna
and Other Fallen Flags web site. In fact he's picked up
so much other stuff that it dwarfs the E-L stuff he has, his
primary interest! I especially like the
Pennsylvania Railroad information he's collected.
A close second is the
light rail/streetcar info he has. to Transportation by shadow |
| If you live in the northeastern US and ever wondered
about those big blue beats you saw plying the rails
and the stuff they were pulling, the
Conrail Cyclopedia
will tell you about them and give you lots of pictures to help you figure out what's what. to Transportation by shadow |
| Friday Oct 22, 1999 | For those of you who are suicidal and/or lazy, check out the Rollerpup 900, an electric skate tow vehicle that promises to spice up your rollerblading sessions. to Transportation by jon |
| Thursday Oct 14, 1999 | I'm a driver, I put almost 1500 miles a week on my car. I speed, too. But, I have someone on my side - the National Motorists Association. Don't take a traffic violation laying down, again! to Transportation by imploded |
| Thursday Oct 7, 1999 | We live in an age of miracles. I wanted to know whether I-395 in Baltimore was the shortest interstate highway in the US. Well, this is 1999, and this is the Web, and there's someone out there who cares sincerely. (Footnote: for a further miracle, you could use the Web and this Memepool entry to deduce my identity. Please don't send mail. Just look smug.) to Transportation by belford |
| Tuesday Oct 5, 1999 | I have to wonder if Toyota's
"Is this Toyota?"
advertising campaign will lead to other interogative
ad campaigns like "Where's Audi?" and "What's the frequency, Kia?"
to Transportation by keith |
| Tuesday Sep 28, 1999 | People the world over love their Trabants. Read about
its
history, hook
up with other Trabby
fanatics, or just gaze
at a vision of beauty. to Transportation by crikey |
| Thursday Sep 16, 1999 | Perhaps the undisputed king of online cycling knowhow,
Sheldon Brown runs a cycling shop in the Boston metro area named
Harris Cyclery and has an amazing collection of
articles on a variety of cycling-related topics.
to Transportation by urog |
| Wednesday Sep 8, 1999 | Ah, people movers. There are vertical traveling ones, horizontal traveling ones, the ones that move you inside airports, and the ones that move you to airports (or ski lodges, or just about anywhere else).
Take, for instance, the German Project Elan, a 1970s "dolls ride for free" system, one of many supported automated peoplemover technologies. If you like your transport systems on the ground, maybe you'll like the Monomobile, (just strap on your car!) one of many suspended urban transit technologies. There are so many transportation options in development, and that already exist, after some time at the Innovative Transportation Technologies site, you might never want to step foot in a car again.
to Transportation by mrradon |
| Wednesday Aug 25, 1999 | ``Mark my word: A combination airplane and motorcar is coming. You may smile, but it will come'' -- Henry Ford, 1940. to Transportation by loothi |
| Monday Aug 9, 1999 | It's rather suprising what one can make out of
old Volkswagens:
trikes and
boats,
for a start...
to Transportation by goboro |
| Thursday Jul 29, 1999 | It's a spaceship! And it's
flying!
Only eight feet off the ground, granted. But it flies!
(Sans-frame)
to Transportation by belford |
| Tuesday Jul 20, 1999 | Into busses? Check out Bus
World, for insightful coverage of the world of commercial
bussing.
If you'd rather fix up
your own bus, there's a magazine
for that, too.
to Transportation by goboro |
| Monday Jun 21, 1999 | Why do sport sport utility vehicles suck? Has the popularity of SUVs meant the death of sports cars? Even Tom & Ray make fun of the Ford Excursion. Are you a poseur? to Transportation by gen |
| For those of us who appreciate traction or have to drive in bad weather, you'll want to read the Introduction to All Wheel Drive systems. If you're really geeky about traction you want the Torsen differential white paper.
to Transportation by gen |
| Friday Jun 18, 1999 | Deep geekery: the
Internet License Plate Gallery. to Transportation by tregoweth |
| Tuesday Jun 15, 1999 | From Antwerp to Yokohama, Barcelona to Washington D.C., you want maps of the subways of the world. Personally, I'd rather visit the Novosibirsk Subway virtually. More "Trainspotting"here. to Transportation by gen |
| Monday Jun 14, 1999 | It's somehow strange being in a rural area, and having the road suddenly widen out as if there were an interchange,
but instead find myself crossing a bridge over something resembling a pasture - there were animals grazing on it!
But this pasture looked a lot like an expressway, so I followed it one way and the other, and figured out
approximately what the intent had been. After a bit of research, I found that
it as an abortive attempt at an expressway, now locally known derisively as the "goat path".
The problems which led to it still exists, and Lancaster County
is still trying to figure out what to do; the issues no clearer now than they were when construction was stopped.
In the meantime savor this post-apocalyptic vision of an expressway covered with grass,
running from just shy of another highway to an interchange in the middle of nowhere.
to Transportation by shadow |
| Tuesday Jun 1, 1999 | From all over the world, what we all used before GPS.
to Transportation by goboro |
| Thursday May 27, 1999 | The
Aviation Saftey Network
contains everything a plane-crash obsessed ghoul could desire:
exhaustive crash
reports,
fatality and accident
statsitics,
and -- creepiest of all --
text transcripts and
.wav files from
voice-recording "black boxes."
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Monday May 3, 1999 | F 300 Life-Jet is an interesting conceptual road vehicle from Daimler Benz research.
to Transportation by faisal |
| Thursday Apr 29, 1999 | Psst. Anybody want to buy an airplane? to Transportation by faisal |
| If you are easily nauseated or don't like gross pictures, please, for god's sake
do not, under any circumstances, visit this web site about fatalities on and around train tracks.
to Transportation by peterb |
| The longtime web journalist
Anders Sandberg has a section on
space transportation. He's been at
it since 1995, so there's
plenty
more
where that came from. to Transportation by arkuat |
| Saturday Apr 3, 1999 | Aviation Week has an in depth discussion of the Roton.
to Transportation by faisal |
| Wednesday Mar 31, 1999 | Aspen, Colorado, is one of America's most-loved ski resorts. The best tour of Aspen is provided
by one crazy driver and his
1978 Checker: the world-famous Ultimate Taxi. to Transportation by jacquez |
| Sunday Mar 28, 1999 | Ancient Egyptians had flight? to Transportation by faisal |
| Ladies and gentlemen, I give you
Driveways
of the Rich and Famous!
to Transportation by crikey |
| Sunday Feb 7, 1999 | Are you ready for biker trash? The
Hell's Angels have
their own homepage, as does the
New York chapter. Biker
Trash magazine selected the
Houston Hombres
as having the best motorcycle club webpage; probably because of the
naked pictures of their
girlfriends.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 25, 1999 | When you absolutely positively have to have automatically reinflatable tires.
to Transportation by jason |
| Sunday Dec 27, 1998 | Ever sat in traffic and pondered the similarities between traffic flow and fluid dynamics? to Transportation by tregoweth |
| Monday Sep 28, 1998 | The most fun you can have in Ohio. to Transportation by jason |
| Friday Sep 25, 1998 | 240 horsepower, RWD, 6 speed transmission, 2 seats, a ragtop, perfect 50/50 weight distribution, meeting Low Emissions Vehicle
standards, and it's about $10k cheaper than its less powerful competitors. The new S2000 roadster from Honda.
to Transportation by akk |
| Thursday Sep 24, 1998 | The insurance industry publishes facts and statistics which they cleverly use to promote policy and legislation that increases these companies' profits and the traffic violation revenue of local goverments at the expense of reasonable drivers. There are also motorists working to protect their own freedom.
to Transportation by raia |
| information is power in the fight against selective enforccement of antiquated knee-jerk reaction
legislation! smash the state! or um, just avoid speedtraps.
to Transportation by akk |
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