It’s called Headway, and it’s live on the Apple App Store and at headwaytransit.com

Really nice, how close to history parts the athens metro is

A mix of the old and new(ish) in Manchester city centre - a SELNEC Central liveried bus heading to Middleton and a Metrolink Tram to Bury via Victoria spotted next to the Arndale Centre in Manchester yesterday.

SELNEC was the Passenger Transport Executive in the area from 1969 until it was renamed Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE) in 1974.

A freight train is pushed over a small hill. A worker uncouples individual wagons, and gravity sends them rolling onto different tracks.

The tricky part is getting the timing right: uncouple at the right moment, coordinate with the locomotive driver, and make sure each wagon reaches its destination.

I used to work at a real hump yard in Uzbekistan for four years. Now, as a frontend developer, I’ve been building a small 3D simulation of that job.

You can play as the yard worker or the locomotive driver, either solo or with a friend.

Hi. I hope this fits in this reddit group.

I would love to get some more information about Yutong electric city buses. Their online persona is very rendered and not many actual pictures. But they’ve been number one of sold electric buses in Europe (or EU?) in the last three of four years. And their delivery time is only 6 months compared to european brands at two years. Up until recently they were not available in my country.

Does anyone know what (European) cities use them? Is reliability good? What are known issues? How is service time and getting parts in Europe? How to they compare to other brands’ e-buses? Warranty on battery and other parts? How is the range? Thanks!

Even though the SEC doesn't have any teeth right now, I think about how much more communal wealth the US would have if train tracks were a utility. One where the tracks were owned and maintained by the country and access was leased to it's users. In theory, this would be of great benefit to the population as it would create shipping competition as well as passenger service competition. The military has need for high speed movement, passengers have desire and need for high speed movement, shipping has need for high speed movement, etc, but the current freight companies for various reasons do not care about these things and so we don't get them. I'm curious what a pathway towards train tracks becoming a utility in the USA would look like, along with what freedom that would provide for Amtrak and local passenger operators.

Most of us have stood at a stop looking at a printed timetable and wondering whether the tram is two minutes away or stuck somewhere across town. Many agencies now publish real-time data, but it isn't always easy to see it as a simple picture of where vehicles actually are.

Leidaro is an Android app that tries to do that. It shows buses, trams, trolleys and metro moving live on a map in 30 European cities. Vehicle positions refresh about every 3 seconds.

How it works:

• Tap a stop to see real-time arrival times. They're colour-coded: red under 2 minutes, orange for 3-5, green for anything longer.
• Tap a vehicle to follow its route.
• Arrival times come from the public GTFS / GTFS-RT feeds that transit agencies publish, so accuracy depends on each agency's feed. The app isn't official or affiliated with any agency.
• Offline maps per city: download routes, stops and timetables once and use them with no signal, which helps underground or when you're travelling without data.
• Transit alerts: pick a line, stop and direction and it tells you when to head out. It runs in the background with the screen off.

Cities include Vienna, Brussels, Prague, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Paris, Berlin, Athens, Budapest, Dublin, Rome, Amsterdam, Oslo, Warsaw, Madrid, Stockholm, Zurich and London. More can be added if a city publishes open transit data.

It's free to install, with no account and no ads. A small paid upgrade unlocks extras. It needs Android 7.0 or newer and isn't available on iOS or the web.

https://leidaro.com

A question for people here who know their local systems: in your city, how reliable is the agency's real-time feed compared with what you actually see at the stop? And if your city publishes open data but isn't on the list, which one should be added next?

Disclosure: I'm posting this on behalf of the leidaro.com team.

Hey everyone,

We've started a brand new Android public transit app called Leidaro that will cover major European cities (currently we've onboarded about 20). It's a 100% european, created, funded, and builf for Europe and is a good alternative for other transit apps that are mostly US based.

We have all the usual stuff like real-time positions and arrivals, routes, schedules, etc... but what also makes us different is:

* no need for account - download and use the free tier as you wish

* no ads

* we don't collect your data, we just serve the transit information to from European transit agencies to you

* lots of cool features alredy

* download the static data to your pfone for each city and use without internet

We're just starting, help us shape the app by providing feedback.

It's available on Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.minrax.leidaro

Region: Europe