Which means of transport do you use usually?
Berlin is a city of great transport system. It has two types of subway: S-Bahn and U-Banh, trams and buses go all over around the city. And really good point is everything comes just on time. Ok, we have small problem here – a lot of reconstructions take place some time. But you easily can switch one to another because usually they are all connected somehow, especially in the city center. You need to get used to the system and how it works, but when you learn everything it will be really easy to get any where.
Also Berlin has good system of bicycle roads.

Why do you use it?
I use public transport because first I don’t have a car, but I don’t care about it, because in such a city as Berlin it is even easier to go with tram or subway.
Second is when you go with a car you can’t see as much as when you go with public transport. For example you can have a good tour just using ring subway, because it doesn’t go underground but across the city.

Which is your favorite means of transport?
But my favorite type of transport is my bicycle. Love it).

Why?
I love to travel with my bicycle because I can stop where ever I want. it’s cheaper, just by a it one time, you can buy a second hand at one of the floh-markets. And bicycle roads are everywhere. You can park your bike near subway station or go with it there, but in that case you need to buy extra ticket for bike.

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Tags: Berlin, bike, Germany, metro, public transport, S-Bahn, subway, train
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The New York City Subway is the fourth busiest rapid transit rail system in the world. There are 26 subway lines with 468 stations. Not an easy thing to visualize.* In 2010 a major design relaunch tried to improve the maps’ readability. But subway map design has a long history.

1931: The London Underground, Harry Beck
In 1931 Harry Beck, an electrical draughtsman at the London Underground, was the first to produce a diagrammatic map. According to the New York Times this map would “go down in history for its graphical ingenuity”. Beck based the map on the circuit diagrams; the result was an instantly clear and comprehensible chart. This revolutionary design has survived to the present day. Beck also made some drafts of diagrammatic maps for the Paris Métropolitain.

1972: New York Subway, Massimo Vignelli
In 1972 Massimo Vignelli reduced the boroughs of New York to white geometric shapes and eliminated most of the topographic details and the level of visual noise by using gray (not green) to denote Central Park and beige (not blue) to shade New York’s waterways. This new and more comprehensible design was radical and often criticized. In 1979 Vignellis map was replaced by a more traditional topographical version, including the New York City street grid and blue color for the waterways.

2010: New York Subway, The Weekender
The new subway map for New York, introduced in 2010, was said to be a huge improvement but is still struggling to serve two purposes: the aim was to comprehensively represent the streets and to help navigation through the New York underground. There was, however, a great digital improvement: ‘the Weekender’, a little online guide to service interruptions.

Source: Fastcodesign.com, New York Times, Transport for London

Tags: London, NYC, subway
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By swiping the Oyster card in London’s subway you can be part of “Chromaroma”. The app combines traveling and location based gaming. The Chromaroma player earns points for every access to the city’s underground, all journeys are visualized in technicolor. The tasks vary: Users can join a team to help “capture” a station, complete missions by checking in at special places or just spice up their daily commute.

Source: Chromaroma

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Why do you use it?
In Paris it’s a lot easier to go around by using the Metro (subway). Using a car is quite difficult because parking slots tend to be occupied and if you get one you have to make sure that you don’t pull the hand break. As Paris is lacking parking space people usually push your car a little bit forth or back to fit in the small slots. That is why most cars in the city are old and covered with bumps and scratches. (like on the second picture)

Which is your favorite means of transport?
I occasionally take the Batobus, which is a public boat line that connects the most important sights along the Seine.

Why?
It’s a great trip and you can watch all those tourists enjoying their stay in Paris. I happend to sit next to a group of some American girls celebrating their bachelor party in funny dresses. I love this nice and funny moments… You’ll have to try it yourself.

Tags: Bus, metro, Paris France, public transport, subway
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At the moment trains remain probably the last unconnected space in NYC – but they don’t have to anymore. The “L Train Notwork”, a digital experiment/stunt/art project from the creative agency WeMakeCoolSh.it, launched on New York’s subways Monday, allows commuters to chat and flirt via their devices.

In certain cars on the L Train, the favored line of hip New Yorkers zipping between some of the city’s hippest neighborhoods WeMakeCoolSh.it established something looking quite like a www connection at first sight. But users are linked to fellow riders in a chat room instead. To keep the conversations going the digital agency also provides the users with webby-looking visual and literary content.

David Zax says in his Fast Company report: “If the World Wide Web is a Borgesian, universal library, then the L Train Notwork is an intimate art gallery.”
We think it could make a daily commute at least more enjoyable.

Source: Wemakecoolsh.it, FastCompany.com

Tags: NYC, public transport, subway, US
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Which means of transport do you use usually?
I usually take the bus.

Why do you use it?
It’s the cheapest way to get around.

Which is your favorite means of transport?
It would be great if they would finish the metro. They started constructing it in the 1980s – but the opening is scheduled for 2017.

Why?
Chelyabinsk is a quite big city but it’s an industrial city. I think the 3 planned metro lines would make it more comfortable to get around.

Tags: Bus, Russia, subway, trolleybus
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Which means of transport do you use usually?
Usually I use public transportation – subway preferably.

Why do you use it?
It’s fast and effective mean of transportation. The greatest point being it doesn’t get influenced by traffic situation. Thanks to smart layout of the subway network you can save a lot of above-ground transportation by using sub.

Which is your favorite means of transport?
For me, it’s definitely my own legs. I walk by foot as much as possible.

Why?
In crowded cities when you need to reach not so far distances it is usually as much effective as public transportation – you can avoid problems with traffic, you can go shorter or not so overused ways. It’s quite effective means of transportation in overcrowded cities like Prague is as long as the distances are not way too far. Plus, you can get some pretty sightseeing as well as keep your condition up. And… the only thing you need is decent shoes.

Tags: Czech republic, Prague, public transport, shoes, subway
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