Photo by dbessam, via Flickr Very nice manipulation of buildings at the Wilshire/Vermont subway station. The answer is no — there are not multi-colored pyramids there. If you would like to a submit a photo or photos of something transportation-related, post them to Metro’s Flickr group or email them to [continue reading]
photo by Marciana Verquist, via Flickr It may be a freight train and not transit, but it’s still an awesome photo taken last month in the West Bottoms part of Kansas City. The vibrancy of the colors and the light on the brick buildings really caught my eye, along with [continue reading]
Photo by Ann Fisher, via Flickr We could probably run a great photo every day of the Chicago elevated lines. I liked this one because it’s an interesting angle and is a great photo even without an actual train in it. The photo was taken with a Panasonic DMC-FZ28, one [continue reading]
Photo by Meena Kadri, via Flicker The ‘art of transit’ makes its first visit to India in today’s photo of bus operator Jitendra Patel pulling into Kankaria Terminus. The bus is part of a new bus rapid transit system in the city of Ahmedabad. Meena Kadri, the photographer, has a [continue reading]
Photo by Will Shieh, via Flickr That’s I-25 and the Denver skyline in this 2008 photo I found while trolling on Flickr. As one commenter said, a lot of people try long-exposure shots of traffic but few execute it this well. I’d love to see more So Cal-centric traffic shots [continue reading]
Photo by Gary Haigh, via email submission Gary shot this photo of the Shinkansen bullet train in Tokyo. I like the lines in the photo and how Gary captured the train’s sleekness. This train looks like something that just wants to go really, really fast. If you would like to [continue reading]
Photo by Robert Patterson, via Flickr This beautiful sepia-toned image is of the old bridge over the Santa Ana River used by the Pacific Electric line between San Bernardino and Redlands. I spotted it on Robert’s Flickr page, which includes this terrific set of rail photos. There’s also another nice [continue reading]
Photo by Lindsay Wengler, via Flickr What’s not to like about this photo from the New York subway system. It’s a funny photo made even better by the capture of the tourist — and that has to be a tourist — taking of a photo of the dude in the [continue reading]
Photo by Christina Petridou, via her Flickr page Christina took this colorful photo on Penteli mountain just outside Athens, Greece, where she lives. As one commentor on Flickr wrote, “beautiful composition and light.” Check out some of Christina’s other photos at the link above. There is some mighty impressive work [continue reading]
Photo by Planetgordon.com, via Flickr After reading the New Yorker article on Moscow’s traffic woes over the weekend, I went searching for photos of the city’s bad traffic on Flickr. This is my favorite (from 2008), although here’s another one by the same photographer that shows cars that have been [continue reading]
