Category / Travels and Traversings

by Adron

In Denver, Finding Amtrak…

Today is Friday, the last day of the engineering meetup I came to Denver for, but the first day of city, coffee, transit explorations and finding my egress point from Denver, Amtrak. Currently Amtrak isn’t using Denver’s grand Union Station because it is being worked on and renovated for multiple rail lines, transit connections and other things as Denver’s upcoming intermodal hub. The station is without doubt absolutely beautiful. Here’s a photo of it with the Oxford Hotel sign in the forefront, my residence while staying in Denver this week.

Union Station, Denver

Union Station, Denver (Click for the large image)

I made a short video of my expedition to find the Amtrak Station.

Finding Amtrak in Denver from Adron Hall on Vimeo.

Stay tune, I’ll have more videos, photos and information on Denver real soon. It’s a beautiful city with a lot of upcoming potential. The downtown is booming, even when it’s freezing. Overall I’ve been impressed. You’ll be hearing more about Denver here on the Transit Sleuth real soon.

by Adron

San Francisco Trip in Photos, A Little MUNI, PCC and Trolley Buses

San Francisco from Bernal Heights

Bernal Heights

Bernal Heights

Bernal Heights

Bernal Heights

A Corner Store

A Corner Store

…and now for a few transit shots.

MUNI Light Rail / Streetcar

MUNI Light Rail / Streetcar

Passengers Departing & Arriving for Caltrain

Passengers Departing & Arriving for Caltrain

Coming and Going on the T Third Line

Coming and Going on the T Third Line

Classic PCC

Classic PCC

Route #49 Trolley Bus

Route #49 Trolley Bus

Route #49 Trolley Bus

#49s Stacked Up

#49s Stacked Up

#49 Inbound

#49 Inbound

…and ending with one final city shot.

San Francisco from Bernal Heights

San Francisco from Bernal Heights

by Adron

Musicians in the NYC Subway

NYC, and I’m not kidding, has some of the best musicians in the world playing the Subway. It’s impressive how good these musicians are. Here’s a few short videos I’ve made while traveling around this last week in NYC. Some of these are a little noisy, but if you play music, you’ll get the idea of how good they actually are.

 

by Adron

San Francisco…

I wanted to write more about this trip, but that just didn’t happen. So instead of writing anything I’m going to just post some of the pictures from the trip. Cheers!  🙂

PCC Streetcar (Click for full size image)

PCC Streetcar (Click for full size image)

Philadelphia Arrow Lines

Philadelphia Arrow Lines

by Adron

The Rides I’m Looking Forward To… Top 10

There are numerous transit systems that are building out, even in spite of this recession/depression era we exist in. Overall, things are looking bad for transport, transport freedom, and many of these things. But also the winds of change, the attitudes of people, and the human characteristics that we have are starting to come forth and change this outlook!

These rides I’m looking forward to are on some of the systems that will slowly begin to change things for the better. That will help us move forward toward complete streets and better livability! If you know of others I’ve missed, please let me know!  🙂

NOTE: These aren’t particularly in any order of priority, just on the list. The biggest element of these is that they are being built, are already funded, and clearly have a completion in sight or are already done!

  1. Portland Streetcar – East Side Loop.
  2. Portland Milwaukee Light Rail & Transit Only Bridge Crossing.
  3. Seattle Sound Transit Link Light Rail University Extension.
  4. Seattle First Hill Streetcar (and finally being able to enter that city in a classy way via the renovated King Street Station + Streetcar to the coolest place in the city (Cap Hill, etc)).
  5. New Orleans Streetcar Extension from Union Station to Canal Street Streetcar.
  6. San Diego Streetcar/Light Rail.
  7. High Speed Rail in Europe or England – to anywhere, I don’t mind which one. 🙂
  8. Little Rock Arkansas Streetcar – I have a fascination with this streetcar, since it is in such a red state with an oddly small city/downtown.
  9. Paris Light Rail & Subway – Nuff’ Said.
  10. TBD – I know there is something out there that I need to put higher on my priority list, but am keeping it open for now. Any suggestions?