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The second place winner in the recent VisionWorks competition, which sought new ideas and technologies to help create and sustain better living conditions, was an unusual proposal by Philipp Hermes that involves using track-mounted containers to ship objects, documents and goods around the city. Though the project, dubbed Urban Mole (pictured), sounds expensive, the beauty [...]

Bus stops are interesting street furniture items. Everybody’s got them, nobody’s are the same (although New York’s new corporate steel ones are strikingly generic) and we pretty much all use them at least a few times every year.So why do they tend to be so poorly designed and boring?
As Toxel’s listicle of 15 Unusual and [...]

Around the time we turned 16, buses went from being the preferred mode of transportation to being a surefire ticket to social outcasting and ridicule within the space of about six months. Everybody had turned 16 and suddenly were driving each other to school. Maybe tha’s why we’re such vehement believers in public transportation.
At any [...]

With so many public transportation networks on the edge of bankruptcy or about to enact astronomical fare hikes (or both), the effects of cost-cutting measures are becoming increasingly hard to conceal. The proof is in the pictures compiled by Gothamist of New York City Transit’s Top 10 Typos. The one at right really helped brighten [...]