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🔸澳州10开奖记录: Proposed Personal Rapid Transit Demonstration Site, Denver, 1972

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Long before the current idea of putting Teslas in tunnels and calling it rapid transit, there was PRT, or Personal Rapid Transit. The idea was that many small carriages on guideways could take people directly to their intended destination anywhere along the route – described as a “horizontal elevator” by John Volpe, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation at the time. In the early 1970s, Denver beat out 29 other cities around the U.S. and was […]

Submission – Paris Métro Map for May 11, 2020 from “Le Parisien”

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Submitted by Timur, who says: France is starting to reopen after its COVID-19 shutdown. This map shows the Métro stations that will be closed on reopening day. It seems the criterion in selecting which stations will be open and which ones closed is to try to avoid overcrowding. Map from Le Parisien, based on this map from the RATP (link no longer active – Cam). 澳洲10开官网开奖 says: While I appreciate the intentions of the […]

🔸澳州10开奖记录: British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) “Transit Map” Newspaper Ad, 1947

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Submitted by Jack, who says: This is an ad for British Overseas Airways Corporation in the old Australian newspaper The Bulletin, September 17, 1947. I found it while digitizing the paper at work! 澳洲10开官网开奖 says: This is a glorious find, and one that @airlinemaps would certainly be very interested in. Compositionally, the diagram is very interesting, with a dead straight line linking Britain to the Antipodes (somewhat mitigating the fact that the line represents […]

Un168澳洲十开奖网: Proposed Delhi Metro Expansion Map in the “Hindustan Times”

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I know this just a quick in-house diagram to illustrate the proposed additions to the Delhi Metro system, but does it have to be so incomprehensible and ugly? Type is flying around at almost every possible angle, some lines are geographical, others are diagrammatic… I need a lie down. Source: tanoy_raj/Flickr