More Than Transit

20/06/2024

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Remember: Pride was and always is a riot!✊

11/05/2024

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03/05/2024

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27/04/2024

https://youtu.be/jkPZlhf2W3M?si=-7GKrSy7E776Z6UC
New YouTube video is out!! Check it out!

This video is a review of the newest rapid transit line in Canada - the Edmonton Valley Line Southeast. The line was finally opened in November 2023, and I f...

06/04/2024

Public Transit is the backbone for people's movement, and it should go hand in hand in any conversations about new development. Designing and planning transit services should follow the demographics and development of a neighbourhood, creating a balance between supply and demand to satisfy transit equity, accessibility and connectivity. Come check out my new video about how to include transit in new neighbourhoods of cities!

Before watching this video, I highly recommend you checking out my previous video on this topic: https://youtu.be/TikFa_lzpaE?si=Tyi0inWd_Jf6qHmh Public tran...

03/03/2024

Check out my new video on YouTube!

If you find my content to be helpful or entertaining, please feel free to check out my Patreon and Buy Me a Coffee for a small donation. I highly appreciate ...

03/02/2024

New video on YouTube! Check it out!

Transit can be accessible and attract riders in many ways. However, there is one factor that will help build a first impression from riders to transit that i...

06/07/2023

Watch full video here ➡️ https://youtu.be/ljWS3RlTkt8

23/06/2023

📸Photo Friday, EP20:
When the train passes, the city comes to a standstill

📍Idylwyld/25th rail crossing

Railways are an important component in moving people and goods regionally and intercity; in fact, both Canada and the US were built on railways. However, as population grows and new conflict points emerge, it is generally important to upgrade the infrastructure or provide reasonable crossing time to not disrupt traffic movement of city services, like transit!

2015 Novabus LFS.
Saskatoon Transit no.1505 on Route 7 to City Centre from Dundonald.

21/06/2023

So I recently started a series of walking tours videos. Hope you'll enjoy it!

Welcome to Walking Tours Wednesday. This is a series where I film walking videos in different routes, pathways, and neighbourhoods of cities, with some backg...

09/06/2023

📸Photo Friday - EP19
Protection

📍Hermannstraße

Cities often talk about the need for active transportation infrastructures, but how they implement them is another different story. Many places in the US and Canada implemented them as a checklisted item and then wondered why no one uses them. The answer is simple; if it's not safe, it's not usable.

This bike lane from Hermannstraße in Berlin is a good example of a low-cost and quick way to add a safe bike lane to the street. Don't need fancy concrete, just some concrete and steel bollards that can damage cars and stand still if vehicles hit them. This allows basic separation and vehicles would not invade bikes' spaces.

06/05/2023

📸Photo Friday - EP15
Under the Bridge

Highways shouldn't exist within city centres and inner-city neighbourhoods, but transitways for buses are an exception.

📍Hilliard Street Pedestrian Bridge
2018 Nova Bus LFS.
Saskatoon Transit no.1803 on Route 15 to Downtown Terminal. This route is considered the shuttle bus of all transit operators since it connected the bus depot to downtown where they can start and end their shifts. It used to exclusively serve only transit operators and city's staff when it opened in 2015, but now serving the general public.

24/04/2023

Nope, no reels or videos today because I want to talk about this "itzy-bitzy-tiny-troubly" part of short-form content, as I've been creating them in the last 1.5 years! They are fun and entertaining, but they're not that educational, even if you did learn something!

But, don't stop watching them! They are a good way to gauge your interests about certain topics!

14/04/2023

📸Photo Friday
EP13: Cities and Colours

Do you realize our cities are having fewer colours? From buildings, to street surfaces, to brands' logos, things are kinda sharing the same tone. They are quite close to a grey-ish colour, which was literally defined as "the colour without a colour".

The decline of public arts and diversity of paint colours come from various reasons: from budgets, to building codes, to vandalism; and it can negatively impact the well-being of cities.

Public art may be seen as a luxury especially when cities are struggling financially, but it is an important component for the creation of public spaces and spheres.

17/03/2023

Photo Friday: Bearded

The black stripe underneath the windshield really made this NFI look like it has a beard. Feels like a mature bus here!

📍Winnipeg
2009 New Flyer D40LFR
Winnipeg Transit no. 739 on Route 17 to Amber Trails.

Besides the Transitway, this 2009 NFI was another discovery I want to see for myself in this city!

09/03/2023

Happy Women's Day! 💁‍♀️👧

Today we're celebrating women in all diversity! 💁‍♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️This is a day to remind us that we need to build safer and more convenient transit environment for female and women riders!

I wish all of you ladies never miss your bus for your commutes!

03/03/2023

Photo Friday: Lining Up

Whenever I see bus terminals having parallel platforms like this, the buses stopping to load and wait parallel to each other like this give me a feeling like they are lining up getting ready for a busy race.

📍Southgate Station
2004 New Flyer D40LF (left)
Edmonton Transit Service no.4417 on Route 6 to Davies (9:29 am departure)

2007 New Flyer D40LFR (right)
Edmonton Transit no.4740 on Route 6 to Davies (9:45 am departure).

10/02/2023

Photo Friday: A Quick Turn

I'm not good at literature enough to be an English teacher, but I can tell how precipitate the life of a bus and its driver can be from this photo, especially when it was taken at a rush hour!

📍Downtown Terminal
2008 NFI D40LFR
Saskatoon Transit no.804 on Route 12 to River Heights via City Park.

27/01/2023

Photo Friday: Rolling through the busy corner.

📍Yonge-Dundas
2019 Bombardier Flexity M-1
Toronto Transit Commission no.4526 on route 505 to Broadview stopping at Yonge and Dundas Square

Toronto Streetcar is a decent high-capacity light rail system in downtown Toronto, or more like Old Toronto. With 9 streetcar routes moving almost half-a-million people per day, the system carries the highest per-capita ridership of any light rail system in Canada

21/01/2023

Photo Friday: Boarding...🚏🚌

📍Century Park Station.
2018 NewFlyer XD40.
Edmonton Transit no.7041 on route 708 to Southgate Station.

The subruban buses run on one-way loops collecting and connecting passengers to LRT stations. In my opinion this seems pretty limited if someone living far enough from the terminus points needs to go on the opposite direction of the loop!

14/01/2023

Late to the party but here's Photo Friday: The old within the new.

Regardless of cities, the old New Flyers had sparked my love for transit and the creation of this blog, and I'm really intimidated to see this 2001 NFI in Vancouver! And it's nice to see it's blending in with the new architecture and buildings around!

📍Yaletown
2001 NFI D40LF. This is one of the four remaining 2001 fleets active!
Translink (Coast Mountain Bus Company) no. V7438 on Route 6 Davie.
10/1/2022 - Yaletown.

P/s: don't tell that I was distracted from the transit race bcuz of this👀

06/01/2023

Photo Friday: Taking a break 🚌💤

📍Nanaimo
2013 NFI XN40 (CNG energy)
BCTransit (Regional District of Nanaimo) no. 1030.

Most XN40s of BCTransit are quite alike, until you look at their interiors!

01/01/2023

Happy New Year from More Than Transit! I hope your year will shine bright like these lights!

30/12/2022

In case you didn't know, two-day marks this blog 2nd birthday (ba dum tsss for the bad pun)

I can't thank y'all enough for all your love and support. It has been a great ride and I finally get to meet some of you in-person and create some really good friendships! Hopefully the next year will be rock!

30/12/2022

Some transit fun facts:

You can walk from Opéra Station to Saint-Lazare Station on Paris Metro Line 3 and technically still be in the same building

14/11/2022

Back at it again with "Ride of the Day". This is the oldest fleet of Saskatoon Transit as of right now. For this reason, it was nicknamed Elder Bus by me!

Some fun facts: all of these units are add-ons to a 2002 order from Edmonton Transit. For this reason, if you go to Edmonton and ride these 2002 NFIs, they look the exact same as ours!

08/11/2022

Snowdy beach ❄️

08/11/2022

Back at it again with "Ride of the Day"!

Some fun facts: this is one of the last 2 units of 2008 Hybrid NewFlyers that is still active in Saskatoon! Hybrid buses used to be the most advanced fleet we had in the late 2000s when the DART Transit network was launched, but as time goes by, they are becoming more and more deteriorating, sadly!

06/11/2022

Let's see if I can cover all fleet types of Saskatoon Transit through this little series!

21/10/2022