Sarah Vaughan - Black Coffee (Columbia Records 1949)
GIF: The Evolution of Metro Systems in China, 1990–2020 by Peter Dovak
In the USA, new transit takes time. Whether it’s Environmental Impact Statements that take seven years to write, or tunnel boring machines that take longer than expected to do their work, or lawsuits from people angry that light rail might take away one of their beloved exit ramps, or mayors who want to rip up new streetcar tracks after they’ve been installed… the list goes on.
China, however, is a completely different matter… as this great timeline GIF from Peter Dovak illustrates. Using his lovely “Mini Metro” framework, he’s created a year-by-year breakdown of the growth of mass transit in China… and the end result is certainly breathtaking. Watch out especially from 2010 onwards, when the number of systems (and lines within individual systems) just explodes.
Source: Peter’s website
(Source: pdovak.com, via transitmaps)
(Source: orwell, via melancholiceuphoria)
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Humphrey Bogart and Sidney Greenstreet
Dimitri Shostakovich - Prelude and Fugue in A major No. 7
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Spring (detail), 1894
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Riyadh Metro Project Saudi Arabia
What Riyadh’s New Metro Will Mean for Women:
http://www.citylab.com/commute/2017/02/what-riyadhs-new-metro-will-mean-for-women/515859/
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