This map is excessive and definitely unrealistic. It includes regional rail, light rail(both existing and new additions), metro, and trollies. I started the buses but that’s still a WIP.

https://metrodreamin.com/view/c0hxU2V0MExsN2JseHE1RGgya0xiaFVzUmtzMXw4

After a very long time off the guideway, Pod 211 has returned to the Heathrow Pod system.

Also seen here are pods 219 and 203.

This was one of my favorite systems to bicycle. The construction of the old Northwestern Pacific, its ashes from which SMART is built, meant that most of the very small towns in the area had their density clustered right around the train tracks such that nearly all human density in the area is walkable to a station. Agriculture, terrain, physical isolation from the South Bay's sprawl, and heinous traffic on the 101 has largely kept this Peri-Urban zoning intact, making SMART an unexpected icon of car-free rural living. I cannot recommend enough paying it a visit!

Yet another instance of a flashover/fire on LAX people mover. Expect more delays to the LAX people mover. Will this be done by the 2028 Olympics?

11:20 video Bloomberg Originals

Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway is the most profitable transit system in the world. While subways tend to lose money everywhere else, the MTR funds its system through a real estate engine known as “land-value capture.” By directly integrating malls, offices and apartments into stations, the railway has created a self-funding loop that pays billions of dollars back to the government.

Now, the MTR is taking on a massive challenge: funding transport for the Northern Metropolis, a new tech hub aimed at better connecting Hong Kong with Mainland China. But as local real estate cools, construction costs soar and residents shift retail spending across the border to Shenzhen, the MTR is taking on record debt to fund the expansion. Will this ambitious project break the very rule that made Hong Kong’s transit a global marvel?

RTD Denver

The majority of LA transit systems do this, including Metro which is the largest transit operator in Southern California by most metrics. (images are from Metro, Torrance Transit, and Montebello Bus Lines).

Some of the municipal systems like Big Blue Bus and Long Beach Transit are the exception.

Personally, I'd exclude BRT or small infrequent shuttles that refer to them as "Red Line" or "Green Line" since they're trying to evoke the idea of a more high quality transit system. Systems in LA put "Line" before the route number (e.g. "Line 40" for the bus that runs from Downtown LA to Redondo Beach).

Hi all, I built an interactive website (https://minard.lsquared.cc/) that shows over 11,000 China Railway trains as they speed across the country.

A city view shows all the trains that flow from a specific city. The above example is Wuhan which has close to 700 trains departing every day (and it's not even the leader). I was inspired by Minard's diagrams of the French rail network, hence thickness of the line reflects traffic patterns. While a national view shows the whole country.

Things you can see:

• The busiest cities for rail in China
• All the trains that go between 2 cities and their routes*
• The exact stopping patterns and timetables of every train in China
• You can isolate a specific train and see it traverse the country

*Routes are determined by matching train timetables with OSM data on the underlying track. Each train is treated as a mini Markov model, each leg uses A* and Dijkstra to find the fastest path based on the service class (for example on G/D trains can use HSR lines).

Let me know your thoughts!

On the tech side claude / muse helped me write this, and I over engineered this with deckgl :p. Data scraped from 12306 (China Rail's national booking app)

Suppose there are several rail lines converging on a station. How would you arrange the station so it is best arranged for passengers? Since this is hypothetical, I will call each line by a radial instead of a real-world terminus.

When I call a line by a radial, I don't mean it literally only follows that line. This is the direction it leaves the station at and meets several stations. So if I say a line follows the radial 0 degrees, it means the rail line leaves the station at 0 degrees (which is due North) and meets 7 or more stations on the imaginary line of the 0-degree radial. If I say a line is on the 90 degree radial, it leaves the station due east and meets 7 or more stations due east of the station. It doesn't mean the line literally goes due east the entire line. And we will assume these lines are long (as opposed to NYC's Fraklin Avenue Shuttle which is sort by the virtue of being a shuttle) so 7 stations form a minority of the stations on each line.

The first line sits on the 90 and 120-degree radials. On the 90-degree radial, there is a triple tracked section, one for inbound traffic, one for outbound, and one for freight and trains to use as a backup when trackwork is done. All trains descend underground as they approach the city center long before reaching the station. Inbound track splits into one which heads towards the station and not-very-well used balloon loop on a non-revenue track that theoretically allow trains to swap to the freight track where they can in turn go back to the outbound track after a switch. The inbound and outbound tracks connect to the 120-degree right of way, a double tracked line. Passenger rolling stock are EMUs with overheat 24kV catenary compatible with the rail main line (like some German S-Bhan passenger trains) as opposed to metros incompatible with the main line (like Toronto's metros). Frequencies are every 3 minutes. Freight rolling stock are electric locomotives pulling freight.

The second line sits on 180 and 210-degree radials. On the 180-degree radial, there is a triple tracked section, one for inbound traffic, one for outbound, and one for freight and trains to use as a backup when trackwork is done. All trains descend underground as they approach the city center Inbound track splits into one which heads towards the station and not-very-well used balloon loop on a non-revenue track that theoretically allow trains to swap to the freight track where they can in turn go back to the outbound track after a switch. The inbound and outbound tracks connect to the 210-degree right of way, a double tracked line. Passenger rolling stock are EMUs with overheat 24kV catenary compatible with the rail main line as opposed to metros incompatible with the main line. Freight rolling stock are electric locomotives pulling freight.

The third line sites on the 270 and 300-degree radial lines. On the 270-degree radial, there is a triple tracked section, one for inbound traffic, one for outbound, and one for freight and trains to use as a backup when trackwork is done. All trains descend underground as they approach the city center. Inbound track splits into one which heads towards the station another balloon loop on a non-revenue track that theoretically allow trains to swap to the freight track where they can in turn go back to the outbound track after a switch. The inbound and outbound tracks connect to the 300-degree radial right of way, a double tracked line. Passenger rolling stock are EMUs with overheat 24kV catenary compatible with the rail main line as opposed to metros incompatible with the main line. Freight rolling stock are electric locomotives pulling freight.

On the 0-degree radial, there is a triple tracked right of way. This carries normal passenger trains on intercity rail and freight. Electrification is 24kV with overhead catenary. During morning rush hour, 7 trains come in a 60-minute period, then 6 trains in the next 2 hours. In the outgoing rush hour 7 trains leave in a 60-minute period followed by 6 trains in the next 2 hours. Every hour except midnight to 3 am there is at least one inbound and outbound train. Rolling stock are push-pull electric locomotives. Unlike a normal intercity train line, there are 7 other stations inside the main city limits the first inbound train and outbound train of both rush hours stop at every station on the line. Service goes 70 km outside the city, but it is connected to other rail lines. This service historically stopped at the surface, but if you can imagine a reason it should go underground, pretend the transit authority did have the money to do so.

So we have 3 passenger lines that are in some sense 6 lines that through run with high frequencies. The lines that follow the freight right of way go outside city limits like MBTA's Red line to Braintree. there is also 1 intercity rail line.

The fright lines are used every week and on some days a line might see 3 or 4 freight consists. The freight lines go beyond the termini of each metro line in a double track right of way. The tunnels are large enough for the giant freight consists.

All train lines connect to a right of way on the 60-degree radial that heads to the city's primary layover yard for their EMUs. The layover yard is just 3 blocks away. The rail continues to a freight terminal that allows cargo to be loaded on ships. There are no passenger service for the dockworkers.

The surface level of the station has a lot of bus lines converging on the station.

What's the best layout of this hypothetical station? My first through was to arrange the freight trains to be at a different level than the passenger platforms. Non-revenue tracks leading to the layover yard would also be on a different level. Then I imagined all the passenger platforms on a separate level and tried to think of the best way to arrange it. So, I thought of cross-platform interchange and tried to think of how I can get passengers from any line to any other line. I can't think of an arrangement. Maybe the secret is to take advantage of the fact that the platforms are underground and have them at different levels.

Edit: I could also ask If you could design Berlin Südkreuz station - Wikipedia in any way possible while keeping the same train lines (so ICE3 still needs to terminate there, S2 still needs to connect to Berlin Yorckstraße station and Priesterweg station while heading towards Blankenfelde station, S25 still needs to connect to Berlin Yorckstraße station and Priesterweg station while heading towards Teltow Stadt station, S42 still needs to connect Berlin-Tempelhof station and Berlin-Schöneberg station, S45 still needs be a terminus and go to Berlin-Tempelhof station heading towards BER Airport, RE8 still needs to connect to Berlin-Lichterfelde Ost station and so on) how would you design it? Any answer to this probably answers the original question about the hypothetical station, except adjust for the tracks to the layover yard.

I recently visited Warsaw and traveled from Powiśle to Zachodnia, where I took a KM train. That got me interested, since KM trains seem to fill the same role as the SKM (S-Bahn-like) trains inside Warsaw, largely stopping at the same stops, even in the city center. Seeing how they fulfill such an important role in Warsaw's transit, I was really surprised to not find any transit diagram as SKM has. Sure, they do have a network map and the lines numbers are on Warsaw's city transit map, but else?

So, do any of you know any (self-created) transit map including Koleje Mazowieckie?

I also think it is really interesting how Mazovia apparently goes to opposite way of German transit branding. Instead of naming every train that stops at every station through the city center "S-Bahn", no matter how far out it goes and how bad the frequency on the fringes get, you have a system where half of the trains on your inner-city routes are designated S-Bahns because they don't go far and the other half is a regional train because it leaves the metropolitan area.

I believe I saw it in either r/transit or r/utrecht. A website where you plan your own bus / tram lines on historic Utrecht maps. It only works on PC/laptop it said - I want to try it now but can't find it back. Does anybody know where it is? Thanks!

Currently operating rapid urban transport systems that is not in other metropolitian areas

Excursion/Seasonal systems are excluded

Interactive Map - http://u.osmfr.org/m/1477078/
Ignore ‘completed’

Data from wikipedia

Please point out any mistakes, I will correct them with map updates

Rakes are said to be in 6-car formations with 80kmh max speed.

First two sets are to be delivered from China by January 2027 with testing and official passenger service to begin in phases from April 2027 onwards.

North Holland and South Holland 🇳🇱

Huanggang Port officially started operation on October 12.

Original video: Out of Bounds YT channel

People were stuck in the trains for an hour while the train barely moved. It was said the fans and ventilators were turned off for some reason prompting people to walk on tracks.

It's called Metro Station Designer, I shared an early version here two years ago.
Here's how far it's come!