FerryLand
Boarding by G.A.I.N (cc by)
In Ask Metafilter, some very interesting answers to Why do so many Japanese ferries still exist?
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Posts tagged with transport
"Can't Get There From Here?"
Transportations by AlexRamat
Travel demand modelling is an entire (small) field, I've been doing it for 20 years... Homeboy Trouble with some great suggestions for someone looking for data and info on how people travel
Transport yourself
Lada Niva by Hugo90- (cc by)
daniel_charms tells the story of how my father bought a car when he was a farm worker in the USSR, others share memories of their own Ladas, and languagehat offers some more detail on the process in the Soviet car-buying thread.
It's so hot the railroad tracks are buckling! But not everywhere... vacapinta asks, why are railroad tracks okay in the heat in some places but not others?
oog and others remember driving the Nullarbor Plain (including the longest straight road in Australia): "I did this mind-numbing drive in March of 2005, alone. ... I thought I was prepared..."
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