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unusual facts about Public Transportation



Estimated time of arrival

One of the more common uses is in public transportation where the movements of trains, buses, airplanes and the like can be used to generate estimated times of arrival depending on either a static timetable or through measurements on traffic intensity.

Herbert Mohring

He is widely known for his identification of what was dubbed the Mohring effect of increasing returns in public transportation (see: Mohring (1972) for details).

Mass Transit Super Bowl

Mass Transit Super Bowl is a public transportation plan and marketing strategy conceived for Super Bowl XLVIII and Super Bowl Week, a series of events leading up to the football game on February 2, 2014 between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks.

Richard Beyer

It depicts six people and a dog waiting for the Seattle to Everett Interurban, a public transportation service that ended in the 1930s.

San Juan de Miraflores

Within Lima, particularly in public transportation terms, "San Juan" generally refers to San Juan de Miraflores; San Juan de Lurigancho, which is north of the Rímac River and is of larger size, is denoted by its individual sections, such as Zárate, Campoy, Mangomarca, Canto Grande, etc.

St. Louis Police Department

Traffic Safety - Mounted Patrol -SWAT - Canine - Public Transportation - Aviation In 1925 the Traffic Division was located at 208 South Twelfth in the Central District and Headquarters .

Swiss People's Party

Therefore, in its transportation policy the party endorses the expansion of the Swiss motorway network and is against the preference of public transportation over individual transportation.

White card

White cards have been used since the 1950s, when there was a shortage of public transportation.


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Agigawa Dam

If traveling via public transportation, take the Chūō Main Line to Ena Station, and then transfer to the Tōnō Railways bus going toward Tōnō Station, riding for about 15 to 20 minutes and getting off the bus at "Higashino Koujima".

Akimoto Lake

To access the lake via public transportation, take JR East's Ban-etsu West Line to Inawashiro Station or Kitakata Station and board the Bandai Toto Bus headed for Inner Bandai, get off at Akimoto Lake Entrance, and then proceed on foot.

Auden's Col

Returning from Ghuttu : Take public transportation or private jeeps to Guptakashi on Kedarnath National Highway 109, which has quite regular traffic going to Rudraprayag, and further down to Srinagar (Uttarakhand), Rishikesh, and Hridwar.

Beijing Qingnianhu Park

Public transportation can be used to get to the park, which lies just outside Ditan station of the bus lines 18, 104 and 108.

Centre Le Corbusier

It can be reached by foot (20 minutes from Bellevue) or by public transportation: Trams 2 and 4 and bus line 33 to stops Höschgasse or Fröhlichstrasse, or bus lines 912 and 916 from Bellevue to Chinagarten.

Christopher Lovelock

Christopher Lovelock attained a PhD from Stanford University, publishing his thesis on the topic of “Marketing Public Transportation”.

Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve

It thus offers direct pedestrian access to the park system, with connections to public transportation, from the lower-lying residential areas of Berkeley and Oakland.

Crewe, Virginia

In November, 2005, the Virginia Department of Rail and Public transportation provided an emergency funding for a bus route between Crewe and Blackstone in order to provide access to the Walmart, Food Lion, and other shops in Blackstone to those without other means of transportation.

Electric trike

The Asian Development Bank, with the Philippine government and the Department of Energy, hopes to transform the public transportation sector by widely adopting electric tricycles throughout the Philippines.

Forst, Switzerland

Forst is connected to the public transportation grid via Bus Line 51 Thun-Forst-Blumenstein of Verkehrsbetriebe STI.

Foung Hawj

His father was a military officer and public transportation official in Vientiene and Long Tieng.

George Manross

For example, his findings that predicted an overwhelming victory for Chuck Reed was scoffed at by the media until Reed defeated his opponent, Cindy Chavez, by 19 points to become the mayor of San Jose; and, a $1.7 billion sales tax measure dedicated to public transportation and public transit in Fresno County, which was driven by the "findings" from two SRI voter surveys, received 77.7% voter support.

Honan-Allston Library

The library is accessible on public transportation via the MBTA Bus 66 route, which stops directly at the building.

James Willis Sayre

Emulating Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg, in 1903 he set the world record for circling the earth using public transportation exclusively, completing his trip in 54 days 9 hours and 42 minutes.

Lazarus Joseph

Some of the issues affecting Joseph that were widely reported included keeping public transportation fares limited ten cents, and the attempted closing of WNYC to curtail budget constraints upon the City.

Lockdown

On 19 April 2013, the entire city of Boston was locked down and all public transportation stopped during the manhunt for Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the suspects of the 2013 Boston bombings, while the town of Watertown was under heavy-armed police and SWAT surveillance, as well as systematic house-to-house searches.

Long Beach Medical Center

Public transportation access is available through Long Beach Bus, with connections to Nassau Inter-County Express and the Long Island Rail Road.

Malang

The primary means of public transportation is by Microvan (most of them are Suzuki Carry) and has Blue color, called ANGKOT (from ANGkutan=transportation and KOTa=city) but mostly local people call it "Mikrolet".

North Wantagh, New York

Public transportation in North Wantagh is provided by the n54/n55 and n73/n74 lines of the Nassau Inter-County Express.

Northampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Though there is overwhelming support from a majority of residents looking for better public transportation options, several residents along Old Jordan Road in Holland have voiced NIMBY opposition to the reactivation of regular passenger service.

One Washington Park

It is near highways and public transportation, notably Interstate 280 and Newark Broad Street Station, where there is service on New Jersey Transit Morris and Essex and Montclair-Boonton Lines (including Midtown Direct service to New York Penn Station) and Newark Light Rail service to Newark Penn Station.

Oslo Spektrum

One of Oslo Spektrum's prime attributes is its location in the middle of Downtown Oslo, next to the Central Station, long and medium haul bus terminal, Jernbanetorget public transportation hub and only a short distance from international ferry terminals.

Packwood, Washington

The general aviation Packwood Airport is located three blocks west of highway 12 in downtown Packwood, and L.E.W.I.S. Mountain Highway Transit provides multiple weekday public transportation to Centralia-Chehalis, including connections to Amtrak and Greyhound.

Prague underground

Prague Metro, a subway, underground public transportation network in Prague, Czech Republic

Royal Gardens, Edmonton

The residents of the community have public transportation access to the LRT system at Southgate Station.

Sun Metro

Sun Metro Mass Transit System, a public transportation agency in El Paso, Texas

Tambling Wildlife Nature Conservation

Tambling Wildlife Nature Conservation, known as TWNC is a 45,000 hectare forest and 14,082 hectare marine conservation area located on the southern tip of Sumatra, in a remote area where no public transportation is available.

Torch Trinity Graduate University

Yangjae Station (양재역) is the nearest major public transportation spot serviced by both buses and subways.

Transpo

Clarence-Rockland Transpo provides a public transportation service to residents of Clarence-Rockland, a city in eastern Ontario, Canada.

Transport in Kiev

One more unusual mode of public transportation Kiev has is the funicular, that climbs up the steep right bank of the Dnieper River.

Undue burden standard

In a 7-to-1 ruling, Associate Justice Stanley Forman Reed fashioned an "undue burden" test to decide the constitutionality of a Virginia law requiring separate but equal racial segregation in public transportation.

Willows Shopping Centre

The centre is serviced by public transportation run by Sunbus Townsville.