We have oft shared articles from these bloggers and writers in our Monday's Friday and Friday Reads columns - they produce high quality public transport analysis and observations, often from a different perspective.
We have collected some lesser known and sometimes underappreciated links here in this Honour Roll. Most anything that they write and create is interesting, and generally stands the test of time (this not meant to be exhaustive - mainstream bloggers & creators in most cases aren't listed here):
London & UK
Ian Visits | Comprehensive listings of transport news in & around London, plus analysis of current schemes & dives into historical transport.
Jago Hazzard: Video | Victorian rail enthusiast's videos of London's transport history & present, delivered with a dry wit.
Transport Matters: Video | Features transport stories of the West Midlands, produced by the former BBC Midlands Transport Correspondent, Peter Plisner.
Paul Whitewick: Video | Transport history in the landscape in Britain
Design
The Beauty of Transport | An exploration of beauty of transport vehicles, stations, & designs across all modes.
Now let's be clear | Blog about information design, human factors, and how real people interact with the systems that make up our world, usually transport systems.
Mark Ovenden's CATCH-cast: Podcast | Online radio show & podcast discussing transport and design history.
Europe
Italian (Urban) Letters | Analysis & history of Italian urban and intercity railways from architect, urban planner, and PhD Marco Chitti.
Fabric Of Paris | Great writing on all modes of Parisien public transport. Unfortunately the site is moribund.
Global
The Transit Brief | Reece Martin's in-depth analysis of public transit, infrastructure policy, & the forces shaping transportation in our cities.
RMTransit: Video | Reece Martin's expansive video channel covering transit & related urbanism issues around the world.
The Flying Moose | Long-form content to complement the The Flying Moose YouTube channel in which Hudson Yuen visits cities and discusses their transit.
CityMoose: Video | Kyle looks at how our urban environments work - and the way major transportation projects shape how we move about them. Good coverage of Australia & New Zealand cities and trains.
Infrastory | Blog about the infrastructure that built the modern world and the history, economics, politics, and engineering behind it.
S(ubstack)-Bahn | SY Lee's detailed writing on Japan, Korea, and California public transport & railways.
Tanner: Video | Videos about Japan's public transit in English.
Maps & Railway Cartography
Transit Maps | A collection of official and unofficial transit maps from all over the world, current and historical, that welcomes reader submissions. All maps are reviewed as to design, usability, colour, and style.
Vanshnookenragen | Maps, New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, & urbanism. And an advocate of Queenslink, a proposed London Overground-type conversion of a freight railway in Brooklyn.
Transit Mapping Symposium | An annual international gathering of transport network mapping professionals, with videos of the presentations.
Urbanism and transport
Oh The Urbanity!: Video | Traverses cities by foot, bike, and public transit in informative & entertaining videos combining streetscapes and demographic data.
Human Transit | Articles & talks about public transit networks, frequencies, maximising utilisation, from consulting transit planner Jarrett Walker.
Industry Associations
New Civil Engineer | Online magazine of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), with considerable content on public transport infrastructure and issues.
Railway Engineering Institution (RailEI): Video | formerly the Permanent Way Institution (PWI), their YouTube channel features interesting videos on permanent way and electrification elements.
US
The Overhead Wire | Daily news on transit, urbanism, policy, & research, plus a Podcast: Video on YouTube.
CityNerd: Video | Ray Delahanty's channel analysing all things cities and transportation, with wry commentary.
Transit Arias: Video | Weekly North American public transport exploration, with urbanism commentary.
Banks Rail: Video and Banks Rail News: Video | Not your average urbanist YouTuber, covering transit in US cities, inter-city rail, & related news and issues.
Alan Fisher: Video | City planning, transit, and the rail industry.
Pedestrian Observations | Writings on good transit, boondoggles, walkability, and pollution.
Home Signal | Thoughts on transit, urbanism, and industry in New York and beyond.
Call for other best of bloggers & vloggers
If you know of a great blog or video creator for the following countries & regions, in English, and underappreciated, do let me know at Mike at London Reconnections dot com:
- Germany
- France
- Benelux
- Scandinavia
- Other regions you find interesting
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