The Best of April 1 Transit News (ongoing)

Self Driving Cars Likely to Restore 70% of Lost Faith in Humanity.  (Planetizen)

Google Netherlands (who else?) Invents the Driverless Bicycle  (Excellent YouTube Video of Dutch people being adorable as usual.)

With typical tech-bro grandiosity, inventors promise that Duck Rapid transit will abolish that old fashioned subway system in Washington DC.  (Greater Greater Washington).

Community Transit (Everett, WA) will celebrate 40th Annversary by running its 1976 network on October 4.  Helpful diagram:

Oct 4 routing map

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4 Responses to The Best of April 1 Transit News (ongoing)

  1. SounderBruce April 1, 2016 at 11:49 am #

    Community Transit in Snohomish County, WA is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year by reverting back to its old route structure from 1976.

  2. Moaz Ahmad April 1, 2016 at 12:13 pm #

    TTC introduces their new POP system https://youtu.be/yVYcxI2S3Yg

  3. Moaz Ahmad April 1, 2016 at 12:17 pm #

    York Region Transit introduces the Hover bus
    https://twitter.com/YRTViva/status/715887247665590273?s=09

  4. Max Wyss April 3, 2016 at 3:27 pm #

    A bit late, but RATP renamed 13 stations: http://www.ratp.fr/fr/ratp/v_149039/metro-rer-la-ratp-renomme-13-stations/ . Note that some of the renamings require some knowledge of the French language to become really understandable and fun.