I’m not going to say anything. Sometimes nature deserves the respect only silence affords. See the rest of the images in the series here, and read the story behind the images here.
No matter how stressful your job is, it probably doesn’t compare to the stress Swiss acrobat Freddy Nook voluntarily puts himself under. This past weekend the 45 year old Nook tightrope walked across 5,300 feet of cable car rope at an elevation of over 10,000 feet above sea level. And to top it off: He...
I had planned a new Thought Experiment for today’s post, until I came upon this: The 8 Most WTF Ideas In the History of Transportation via one of my all-time favourite websites, Cracked.com. For obvious reasons I had to preempt today’s post. I’m quite sure all the transit geek’s out there will love it, if...
I wonder what Jarrett Walker would say about this: Obama Replaces Costly High-Speed Rail Plan With High-Speed Bus Plan
If I told you that the best prosciutto you’ll ever try comes from a small producer two hours south of Toronto, what would you say? You’d probably ask where Toronto, Italy is. But after I corrected you by saying Toronto, Canada, what would your reaction be? There’s no such thing as Canadian prosciutto! is a likely...
Watch the following excerpt from this 1958 episode of Disneyland TV and contemplate it for a few minutes: Now ask yourself: How many of these inventions and innovations did the narrator virtually guarantee we’d see in our lifetimes? And how many of them – more than a half a century later – have been realized?...
It ain’t cable transit, but who cares? You know you’d ride it if you had the chance. Presenting, the Fantasticable:
One of my favorite websites in the world is the satirical newspaper, The Onion. Its commentary is such a spot-on accurate depiction of how the world works, it’s oftentimes a more reliable source of news and commentary than our traditional sources. An absolute favorite article (from 2000) is titled Report: 98 Percent of U.S.Commuters Favor...
For your amusement (at around 2:25) . . . In Technicolor! And for the record: When I talk about Cable Propelled Transit, this is not what I mean.