Iβve been to Lago di Garda in northern #Italyβspectacular! (olive trees and lemons on a blue lake with the Dolomites looming).
Seeing the bicycle route they've built since makes me want to go back.
𧡠global bike path #bucketlist
Submarine cycling.
In Limburg, #Belgium, the Bokrijk bike path takes you below the surface of a lake in a national park...from a distance, it looks like bike ridersβ heads are plowing through the water at speed.
Another Belgian stunner.
Fietsen door de Bomen, "Cycling through the trees," a corkscrewing bike path that takes you up to the treetops in a park in Limburg, #Belgium
A favourite in my own backyard! The 200 km P'tit Train du Nord in #Quebec's Laurentians. Here's 23 seconds of Zen from the last time I did it...
Come to think of it, we're due for another ride on the P'tit Train du Nord. Autumn leaves will soon be out!
Here's a feature I wrote for @WSJ Travel about riding it with my son... wsj.com/articles/bike-β¦
I'd definitely bring my #frostbike (my winter bike with studded tires) for this one.
Oulu, #Finland, where traffic signs are projected directly onto snowy surface of bike paths.
(Too bad all the travel editors of the world seem to have gone AWOL lately. A few years ago, these would have been the foundation for a great feature...)
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Iβve been in #Dublin for a few days. Yesterday I posted about how the re-design of their bus system has led to a 20% increase in ridership in 2023. Part of that is the new high-frequency βspinesββ¦ βοΈππ§΅
Though the high-frequency network, designed by @humantransit and his team, is being rolled out in phases. A more immediate factor is the fare systemβ¦
@humantransit β¦with a Leap card, fares cost about β¬2, which gives you 90 minutes of travel on buses, trams, DART commuter rail within the Short Hop zone which covers most of central Dublin.
First time on a new Siemens Venture train, leaving from #Quebec City, destination #Ottawa.
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β¦itβs astonishingly spacious inside. But feels a bit more like a plane than a good olβ @VIA_Rail train. (Mostly b/c of the jetliner-style seats).
The #Istanbul Metro has outsourced its fare collection, and the new ticket inspectors are very strict.
#Istanbul tried to use canine inspectors for a while, but they kept on getting distracted. Especially by the view of the Blue Mosque from the city ferries.
Cats stay focused.
Love of cats runs deep among Istanbullus.
There are cat-feeding stations in the metro, and cat hotels all over the city. (For real, photos from my last visit.)
By 1920, the network of interurbans in the US was so dense that a determined commuter could hop interlinked streetcars from Waterville, Maine, to Sheboygan, Wisconsinβa journey of 1,000 milesβexclusively by electric trolley.
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The tracks, and often the wires, extended deep into forest and farmland, making the railroads de facto intercity highways; after nightfall in the countryside, farmers would signal drivers to stop by burning a rag next to the track.
Streetcars and interurbans became the dominant mode of urban transportation in North America, carrying 11 billion passengers a year by the end of the First World War.