art of transit

The art of transit

photo by Thomas F-A, via his Flickr photostream I took a look at this image on Flickr and said to myself “I bet that’s the subway in [fill in the blank]” — and then looked at the keywords to find that I was actually correct. Go ahead and take a [continue reading]

The art of transit

photos by Washington State Department of Transportation, via Flickr All the rain and snow in California this past weekend, led me to a search for snow plows on Flickr and these fine photos of the annual scouting trip by Washington State transportation officials to the North Cascades Highway. The road [continue reading]

The art of transit

photo by Harold R. Senthee, via his Flickr photostream If it looks like something out of another century, well it is. This is the famous “floating train” of Wuppertal, Germany. It was built in 1900 and is actually a monorail; the idea was to find a transit system that would [continue reading]

The art of transit

photo by Kirill Surov, via his Flickr photostream A nice warm weather photo of a ferry on Lake Ontario in Toronto. I think this may be our first photo of a ferry — we tend to run a lot of photos of trains. I’ll have to remedy that, as there [continue reading]

The art of transit

photo by Jory, via Flickr If you guessed that’s the Gelson’s on Hyperion Avenue in Silver Lake, then you guessed correct. I like this photo because there is nothing fancy about it — it’s just a nice shot of a dude riding his bike in L.A. To submit a photo [continue reading]

The art of transit

photo by Patrick Boury, via Flickr Here’s a nice shot of the BART swooshing by in Cherryland, an unincorporated part of Alameda County in the Bay Area. The photo was taken with a Nikon D200 with a 1/25th shutter speed, f/4.8 aperture, 38 mm focal length and 100 ISO. To [continue reading]

The art of transit

photo by Alexandre Claude, via Flickr We recently featured a lovely photo of a long corridor in the Montreal Metro. Above is another photo, with a wider view of a station by photographer Alexandre Claude (here’s a link to his photo blog). I’m not sure how I feel about the [continue reading]

The art of transit

photo by Ilda Licon, via submission A very nice photo of the Gold Line crossing the 101 freeway in downtown Los Angeles taken by Ilda, who is an administrative analyst for Metro. The photo neatly follows the “rule of thirds” — meaning no part of the image dominates the middle [continue reading]

The art of transit

photo by Leticia Rivera, via submission A very nice photo taken on a recent morning of the Gold Line at the Atlantic Station. Leticia, who shot the photo, also happens to be a Gold Line operator. To submit a photo or photos of something transportation-related, post them to Metro’s Flickr [continue reading]

The art of transit

photo by fiftymm99, via Flickr This very cool photo comes from Singapore and shows the elevated tracks for both the city-state’s light rapid transit and mass rapid transit lines; here’s a map. This photo has a lot going for it — the lovely lines of the elevated tracks, the contrast [continue reading]