Hopping Today The Hop, also known as the Milwaukee Streetcar, is a modern streetcar system in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The system’s 2.1-mile original “M” line connects the Milwaukee Intermodal Station and Downtown to the Lower East Side and Historic Third Ward neighborhoods. In October, 2023, a 0.4-mile Lakefront, or “L” line, to the still under-construction high-rise development The Couture… … began…
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It’s sometimes said that rail passengers want a ‘boringly reliable’ service. In other words, one where it’s unusual for a train to be late or, worse, the railway to be closed. Sadly, for a whole host of reasons, the railway isn’t boringly reliable at the moment. There’s the industrial relations. After last week’s welcome news of a possible breakthrough in…
Flying for work is all too common for some employees. But on some common routes like London-Amsterdam, traveling by rail over plane will reduce the employee’s carbon footprint by 93%. Yet, too few companies have embraced rail in their business travel policies, a new briefing by the Travel Smart Campaign finds. Business travel represents 15-20% of global air travel[1]. At…
Today And Then Like most American cities, Milwaukee is, in general terms, unrecognisable today when compared with, say, the 1930s. The public transport began with horse trams … … later to become an extensive electric network serving all of the city. There were some impressive frequencies as here on line 11. Note the first tram times and the last short…
Hopping In UK And USA Leicester’s Hop Grows The FREE city centre circular service, which started back in April goes from strength to strength with a record ridership in September of 1600 passengers in one day. The on-line graph only runs to the end of September, so expect more broken records as Christmas approaches. You would make that a success…
The Watlington Mystery – A Big P.S. Back in the day, Watlington had its very own bus and coach company, namely House’s, usually dubbed House’s Watlington Buses. With many thanks to correspondent Julian, fbb can bring you the company’s timetable for its service to Reading. Tow timetables are shown, one for a Wednesday and Sunday service … … and one…
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The brainchild of French entrepreneur Adrien Lelièvre, the Pi-Pop e-bike uses a supercapacitor to store energy rather than rely on batteries. If riding a bike on a daily basis is too much of a challenge for you, you might be tempted to opt for an e-bike. The issue with those is that the production of the batteries consumes a lot…
… sounds like a Poirot story! In a way it does require a bit of detective work. Here is the picture which started the whole mystery off. It was from the inquisitive camera of Roger French. Now fbb’s agile memory drew him to a route 122 not far from Reading. But Courtney (now Thames Valley) 122 … … doesn’t run…