Congratulations to kenrobinette for winning Photo of The Month for July 2024 with this amazing photo of this Sound Transit Gillig Phantom making a left turn from Stewart Street onto 2nd Avenue in Seattle, WA. This month’s theme was Gilligs All Around. All members of the discord server were invited to submit their photographs of…
Philadelphia, PA: Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority or SEPTA has made the first major step towards changing the transit system. Starting February 23rd, 2025, SEPTA will finally retire the lettered bus routes in favor of numbers. On this same date, SEPTA will officially begin using the SEPTA Metro branding thorough the system. To start, SEPTA is…
I am aware of the issue with OneDrive. I know that download links are mostly temporarily unavailable. Sometime in the mid-summer, Microsoft changed how direct linking to OneDrive files worked, and that broke many links on the site. So what can we do? Wait. I’m in the process of re-uploading all the files to the…
Congratulations to SatoruGojo for winning Photo of The Month for September 2024 with this picture of the New Jersey Transit Hudson-Bergen Light Rail. This month’s theme was “Reason’s to Ride NJ Transit”. All members of the discord server were invited to submit their photographs related to NJ Transit or any reason to ride the system, in honor of the…
Newark, NJ: For a historic first time, New Jersey Transit eliminates fares throughout the whole system for an entire week. This “fare holiday” as NJ Transit call it, begins tomorrow, August 26th, and continues through September 2nd. Fares will be required again on transit beginning September 3rd. On the back of a summer full of…
Congratulations to Nascarfan20105 for winning Photo of The Month for August 2024 with fairly detailed photo of two CTA Novas signed up for route 53. This month’s theme was “…at night”. All members of the discord server were invited to submit their photographs of any type of transit operating at night time, and the winner…
Philadelphia, PA Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, aka SEPTA, has announced earlier this week that Hitachi Rail STS will be building new Metro cars on SEPTA’s heaviest line. This is a base $724.3 million contract for 200 rail cars, with potential for an additional 40 cars. The pilot set of this order is due in 2029,…
Philadelphia, PA: After over four years of being out of service for repair, SEPTA’s fleet of historic Presidential Conference Committee (PCC) trolley cars have finally returned to the rails today, June 16th, 2024. In February 2020, SEPTA pulled all eighteen PCC-II trolley cars out of service due to, at the time, only 4 being in…
This is more of an update post to show what I’ve been working on. We all know the base routes of Cayuga USA Right? If not’ here’s the list: But what about routes like the 147 that existed in older versions of Cayuga USA? Ever wanted to drive them again but didn’t have the patience…
Detroit, MI – After approximately eight months of planning, Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) has finally revealed the “SMARTer Mobility Program” master plan which aims to revamp the entire SMART bus system. As this is a historic moment for SMART, we will discuss the changes proposed in this plan. Keep in mind this…
Congratulations to NeoplanTastic for winning Photo of The Month for June 2024 with this stunning photo of MBTA’s now retired trackless trolley bus at Harvard Station. This month’s theme was electric transit. All members of the discord server were invited to submit their photographs of any type of electric transit vehicle, and the winner would…
Philadelphia, PA: After years of revisions, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA, has finally approved the “Bus Revolution” which aims to revamp the entire SEPTA bus network, something that hasn’t properly been done since SEPTA was created. These changes will take place starting in June 2025, and continue through the fall of 2025. Contents• Eliminated Routes• Unmodified…
