97 thoughts on “Transportation Maps”

  3. Melbourne trams, only city in the country that didn’t tear them up in the ’50s & ’60s. At 245km of rail it is now the largest in the world (not because any major expansions but because Eastern Europe has been tearing theirs up)The South-East has the best coverage; the North is okay but could do with a tram or two going across, the North-East has no coverage but that would be easy to fix by extending 24/48, 72, 16 and maybe 78/79; the West has piss poor public trasport of all kinds and could do with quite a few trams.I would also be interested to see if CargoTrams could operate on it.

  5. And the trains. Last time any expansion of this occured was in 1930. And it shows.Aside from increasing density along the established corridors, a train going North-East from Victoria Park Station would be in order (covering the same North-East I mentioned for the trams); a second from Huntingdale Station to Ferntree Gully Station should also be in order.But unfortunately since the late 1960s every Victorian government has been beholden to the automotive and development lobbies. The current is particularly extreme with intentions to expand suburban sprawl all the way out to the You Yangshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Yangs

  8. hooray! i’m a real city now! i got a new light rail system last week and gonna expand it over the next years. :3

  10. There’s the commuter rail that goes from Everett to Tacoma and in between but that only runs in the morning and evening to carry commuters!

  11. take my city, Melbourne for example:
    if I wanted to get from say Belgrave, Lilydale, Hurstbridge, etc to the City centre or the other side or somewhere pretty far away along the route then a light rail vehicle even if it were operating in its own dedicated right of way would be a very bad choice for such a journey- the distance passenger comfort number of passegers and so on, thats why trains are operatedif however I wanted to get around the city and inner urban area then the vehicle would be a tram or light rail vehicle as seen here:

  13. HEY MELBOURNE, HOW ABOUT YOU INVEST IN SOME TRAINS THAT DON’T BREAK DOWN WHEN IT RAINS FOR ONE OF THE WETTEST CITIES IN AUSTRALIA? Also trams are a bad idea if they just run along the train lines for the most part.

  14. no no no, the Comegs break down when temperatures exceed 35 degrees celcius – their air conditioning was built in the 1970s and has never been upgraded.While the Siemens have perpetually faulty breaks, sometimes rain is blamed and sometimes soot from bushfires is blamed, which requires speed restrictions and limiting it to three carriage service to ensure they do not overshoot stations and can stop in time if there is an emergency or accident.Even when they’ve been temporarily repaired the noise and smell of a six carriage set pulling into a station is overwhelming.>Also trams are a bad idea if they just run along the train lines for the most part.I find getting off at Box Hill and then catching the 109 to the Balwyn Cinema to far more enjoyable than having to get off at some further station and then having to walk all around a bunch of suburban streets for 30+ minutes. Also see the South East of the map which has the best coverage, cant do that with a train

  17. yup… you and every seattle person knows it. you can thank the conservitards for that.

  18. At least they want to expand it, unlike us :( And to think, we might have as many people as Melbourne, and no real system past the perimeter…

  19. well like I said here
    the suburbs have been sprawling well beyond the train lines since the 1960s, and they want a new round of outragous expansion

  20. oh yes. and to think seattle could have had the federal government pay for a much larger system with an 8th of the price it is now back when labor and construction costs were dirt cheap. but of course conservatives held firm reigns on seattle politics until 2008.so now we gotta play catchup with portland, a smaller city than seattle.

  21. Not to mention the "Eastside yuppies with SUVs" constituency.Seattle could have had what Atlanta got.

  22. and atlanta doesn’t appreciate what it has either!this is what seattle would have got if it took the money<—if this got built in the 70′s, imagine how advanced it would be today! we wouldn’t have the worlds largest parking lot every morning and evening occupying I-5

  23. Wow, I’m shocked to hear ANYONE talk positively about what Atlanta’s done because we could and should have done so much more if the outer counties hadn’t been filled with rednecks who blocked everyone from building a decent system. We could have built a great commuter rail system on top of what we had intown, but Gwinnett, Cobb, and Claytn counties would rather pay MARTA tax and still keep the system out than have access between inner-city Atlanta and the "white" suburbs.

  24. cargo trams? lol wut? oh and Go back to Rail page, right, now that thats out of the road. Xtraps are shit cos i dont use them, comegs u cant run from one end to the other so they suck, simiens would be win sept u have to press a button to open the door, i have arms for a reason yo. Frankston line is best. i <3 cheltenham cos it has a dead end 3rd platform, mordi is retarded cos it has a streight though center track in a dual track section of the network… vic goverment is shit cos they pulled up old lines that would be used again now. like the outer loop. anyone who sugjests a kew line or a roviewl line is a faggot. oh and that caufield to melb tunnel is the worst idea ive ever heard sir. Faggot.

  25. and dont get me started on Myki hoho. shit sux that its not a mifare classic chip, cos that can be hacked, they had to get a desfire which has 128bit AES so cbf waiting a million years to crack that shit. but say that the machine can only make 10 handshakes cos of 4KB on the chip. so i just keep recording scans on and off, and replicate the handshake of disabled ppls cards that register no fare. oh yes, save money. fucking $3 day conc when this myki shitcomes out.

  27. Fuck yeahr, barcelona, grew up there, going there for university, in august.Meanwhile: Mexico City.We used to have trams once, but with many lines you can’t argue that their removal was unjustified, they were replaced with subway lines that follow the tram lines precisely, only the one line that ran east-west in the south was not. An east-west line in the south is in dire need.

  35. Cargo Trams, using the tramline to transport freight. Either taking the freight to its destination or to a distribution centre wher light electric trucks deliver it to its final destination.They’ve been experimenting with it for a few years in a couple of European cities

  37. >Mexico City>Trams>RebuiltGWAAAHAHAHAHAHA. Good one.Because of the lack of funds they recently replaced a planned subway line with something else, get this: A "high-speed" bus line, with it’s own ROW, elevated Stations, and (this is the best part) FUCKEN DIESEL BUSES. Yeha, more buses. Not trolleybuses, not a tram, both of which can accelerate faster, look more modern and are cheaper to operate, no, DIESEL BUSES. The line runs along an important avenue, average speed 20kmh. The traffic lights don’t even change to give those buses a green light, you see them standing there waiting for the green light. Fail planning is fail.We DO have one light-rail line, it was built as a replacement for the last tram line which ran until 1984, it was all double tracked and ROW, but it was still using the 30-something year old PCCs (Yeah, we had PCCs, we even had the only ever newly-bought PCC outside of the US, bought in 1947 =) ) so they modernized the line and put a light rail there, actually quite decent.But I seriously doubt trams will ever be built again, city officials would rather spend huge amounts of cash in paving new roads with concrete for these "high-speed" bus lines, it was supposed to hold for like 10 years, they had to start repairing it after MONTHS. Yeah, really economical guys, buses with a 5 year life span, a road with about the same, ever-rising fuel costs… Definitely better than a tram line.

  40. I told you, nothing like that is gonna happen. There was a plan, but it was completely scrapped, the problem was that in the center city it’s prohibited to put up wires, and the technology for a tram without overhead wires is too expensive. I don’t know why they don’t just build a conduit system, but what ever, it would have been a useless waste of money anyway.Clear enough for you?

  41. Reppin’ my hometown. It ain’t much now. But with money, it could go all the way to the Airport. Or at least the Emerald Queen Casino if the red man will ante up as he said he would.
    I feel Dutch just looking at that map.
    ‘Bout time you wine-slurping yuppies got the clue.Of course it’s California; someone’s gonna bitch about something.

  43. That map makes me want to smoke a blunt and fuck a whore, then hop on a train to go to the next town and do it all again.

  48. Hurstylinefag here. Can’t be fucked getting off at Heidelberg then busing it home, so I drive to Fairfield and train it from there.

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