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Transit Adventures

HBLR, SIR and Walking Over Both Port Authority Bridges With Paths

Fromto to Today’s adventures took me from walking over both the George Washington bridge and the Bayonne and on the Staten Island Ferry. The day began a little after 9am with me leaving home and walking over the GWB to catch the NJT Bus Route 181 to Bergenline Ave on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail. The […]

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Transit Adventures

My Unlimited Ride Recap as I Continue My Quest

Today was the last day of my weekly Unlimited Ride MetroCard and I think I got most of my monies worth from it. Here is the rest of my week in recap. Thursday: Was a day of me forgetting my camera so I got practically nothing done. It began on the 1 train to 207 […]

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NYC Subway Transit Adventures

Upload: My Adventures Yesterday to Changed Stations in Brooklyn

First it was a trip down to Brooklyn to Jay Street–(3 photos). I then continued for some final photos of the temporary platform that can only hold four-car G trains at Smith-9th Street–(17 photos) before that station is closed for almost a year on June 20. Next I got on a R68! (since when?) G […]

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Transit Adventures

Adventures on PATH in Jersey City

Today I had about 4 hours between a lunch time commitment in Lower Manhattan and a dinner time commitment and no access to an Unlimited ride MetroCard (damn no more fun passes, I don’t want to by a monthly or a weekly to force my self to spend more time working on the computer side […]

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Transit Adventures

An Empty, Wet Great Plains and Crowded Eastern trip back from Colorado

Well I’m finally back in New York as of last night after 50 hours taking a Greyhound Bus, the California Zephyr, the Capital Limited, and a 9 car sold-out evening of Memorial Day train back to New York from Colorado Springs. The purpose of this trip was to move, after I graduation from Colorado Springs […]

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Rockies Region Transit Adventures

Missed $1 Crucero USA bus, and an early Sunset Limited Through the Night

Greetings from Los Angeles! I apologize for not getting more posts in this entire trip. I was staying in the most social hostels I have ever stayed in, in both Phoenix and San Diego and every time I got my computer out in an attempt to right a blog post I would get distracted in […]

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Rockies Region Transit Adventures

Amtrak to Phoenix-the Flying Southwest Chief and a Van Thruway Connection

Greetings from the Fair Trade Café just north of Downtown Phoenix! After the last blog post, my Rail Runner Train arrived at the amazing Belen station parallel to the main, high-speed BNSF transcontinental multi-modal rail line, although rail runner’s single stub track ends and there is fence so trespassers can’t wonder over to the area […]

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Rockies Region Transit Adventures

Greetings from the New Mexico Rail Runner!

5:30am Yes I’m currently in Albuquerque (well now a bit north of it), riding the Rail Runner Express (which has wi-fi onboard) got in just about a half hour ago on the night Autobuses Americanos from Colorado Springs and got on the train straight and by the time I take the California Zephyr this afternoon […]

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Transit Adventures

A Long Weekend of Colorado Skiing – great intratown and county transit, almost non-existent intercity transit

I got back on Sunday from four days of skiing with my father at the huge Colorado Resorts in the rockies, you might be wondering why I’d be talking about skiing on my website dedicated to public transit. The reason is two fold, firstly the High Mountain Colorado Counties offer an interesting quandary and nightmare […]

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Transit Adventures

Back to C Springs via Mass Transit on the Extreme Cheap – 5 Buses ($15.50 total), and a Plane

Well greetings from Cold Colorado Springs, I doubt there will be too many website updates for the next few months I have so many other things like my thesis to really make headway on, and have at least one brutal block. The entire journey today has made felt a bit bittersweet since it could be […]