Archive for 'Urban Transit' Category
New Montréal metro’s design unveiled
Lats week, STM (Société de transport de Montréal) unveiled the new design of the next metro after a poll letting users to choose among three different options. A consortium made by Alstom and Bombardier will design and manufacture this “next generation” rolling stock named MPM-10. From December 2010 to January 6, 2011, over 30,000 people [...]
Inspiro: a 97,5% recyclable subway car
Due to be used in Warsaw during the next EURO 2012 Football Championship, the Inspiro metro developed and manufactured by Siemens Mobility, designed by BMW Designworks USA has broken the hearts of several ecodesign supporters. Featuring an efficient soul, both in terms of energy consumption and maintenance costs (but this is a never clear benchmarked [...]
Around the Loop: riding the rocket in Toronto
< Around the Loop from Tyler Freedman on Vimeo. Around the Loop: a video by Tyler Freedman from a Rocket cab on the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) line Yonge-University-Spadina. A high-speed journey aboard a TTC train, as it travels from Downsview Station (NW terminus) to Finch Station (NE terminus), in the wee hours of the [...]
Are trolleybuses more sustainable than LRV?
Among the neverending list of blogs I follow, Low Tech Magazine is one of the most interesting and challenging, keeping in mind my predilection for railways. Some of the theses exposed in its posts goes sometimes towards the necessity of shifting to railway and high speed in particular. Therefore I consider this blog as a [...]