photos by Steve Hymon One of the great things about being the benevolent dictator of The Source is that I get to choose which photos run each day in our “Art of Transit” posts — and I can even conveniently choose my own photos or other images that are more [continue reading]
photo by Pavel Trebukov, via Flickr Even by Chicago standards, the blizzard that struck yesterday was a big one — the third snowiest on record, which brought the city to a stand still. The above photo was taken on Chicago’s Northside at the intersection of Sheridan and Thorndale and the [continue reading]
photo by Vratislav Sabouk, via Flickr Wow. Talk about great composition and colors in a photo — this one has it all. It was taken in Prague in January of 2008. The most striking thing about the image is the depth of field — everything is in focus, allowing the [continue reading]
photo by Joe Lomas, via his Flickr photostream Go ahead and take a guess of where this nice black-and-white candid image was taken. Answer is after the jump. To submit a photo or photos of something transportation-related, post them to Metro’s Flickr group or email them to sourcemetro@gmail.com. The photos we’ve [continue reading]
© All Rights Reserved by Markus Bahlmann; used with permission Here is a great sunset photo from Shanghai showing a Metro Line 4 train arriving at the Baoshan Road Station. To submit a photo or photos of something transportation-related, post them to Metro’s Flickr group or email them to sourcemetro@gmail.com. The [continue reading]
photo by Jeff Johnston, via Flickr. Nice shot of the 134 freeway through downtown Glendale, taken by Jeff about 11 p.m. on New Year’s Eve. I like the red, white and blue lights in different parts of the image. To submit a photo or photos of something transportation-related, post them [continue reading]
This video shows a day in the life of transit in the greater Washington, D.C. area. Rahul Nair, a civil engineering Ph.D candidate at the University of Maryland, used the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) schedule and routing data to map out the movements of WMATA buses and subways over [continue reading]
photo by Steve Hymon Although we call it “the art of transit,” we like to run photos of all forms of transportation. In that spirit, here’s a photo of something that used to be a road — specifically, the fire road along the Arroyo Seco above Pasadena. The wildfires of [continue reading]
photo by Atwater Village Newbie, via Flickr The photographer caught this photo on the bike path along the Los Angeles River. The pedestrians were part of a walk to look at public stairways in the Glassell Park area as well as the bike path when the cyclists came by and [continue reading]
photo by Ilda Licón, via submission Ilda took this photograph last Thursday while waiting for the westbound Metrolink train at the El Monte station. Ilda is an administrative analyst in Metro’s Genersal Services Administration. To submit a photo or photos of something transportation-related, post them to Metro’s Flickr group or [continue reading]
