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October 25, 2006
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Transport Blog is back
Brian Micklethwait (London)  Blogging & Bloggers • Transport

Transport Blog is up and running again, and I have agreed once again to write bits for it, now and again.

Specialist blogs like Transport Blog often get quite high traffic, provided everyone involved keeps at it. There are a lot of people in the world who are interested in and excited about transport, especially by trains, which just happen to be a particular interest of Transport Blog supremo Patrick Crozier. Almost everyone travels, or has travelled. Bloggers everywhere have the occasional moan about transport, and often also have stories to tell about how transport was good in one way or another, or about how it may soon be very exciting. So, emails to me or to Transport Blog itself (i.e. Patrick) about transport related stuff, either telling the story direct, or linking to where you or someone has already told it, will be most welcome.

Transport Blog will, just as it did first time around, find a quite distinct readership to that which reads things like Samizdata. So it makes sense to have a little competition here, and for me now to promise to repost the best comment(s) on this posting here during the next twenty four hours, over to Transport Blog.

Any good recent transport stories to tell? Terrible delays? Transport policy cock-ups? (Or triumphs?) Weird and wonderful pictures (a particular favourite with me – see below) of bizarre transport contraptions? Very nice transport experiences? Odd moments in transport history? Transport in odd places? It's a delightfully vast subject.

WeirdAirship.jpg

Picture from here. Hat tip: ASI Blog.

Comments

Airships are the future. I've always thought so. Either as high atmosphere wireless network nodes, floating apartment blocks, or cargo ships in the sky. The airship is the way to go. They also look quite cool, somehow serene and cloudlike.


Posted by mandrill at October 25, 2006 09:45 PM

Airships? Ptui! Flying Saucers! Using that design patented by British Rail in the 1970s.


Posted by Tim Hall at October 25, 2006 11:18 PM

Airships are the transportation of the future. And always will be...


Posted by Petronius at October 27, 2006 08:05 PM
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