#buses (9 links)
If you are fortunate, a fantastic way to share your fortune is to gift a friend the cost of travel with you. You both will have a great time.
Via benterrett.
- FormidableLabs/react-music github.com
Make beats with React!
- Live Bus Departures | Transport for London countdown.tfl.gov.uk
Please don't shut this down, TfL.
Via shrinkwrapped.
- HubLog: On A Bus hublog.hubmed.org
More info re. On A Bus: "Enter a route number to display the stops (and switch between alternate routes in the sidebar). A click on a marker or a stop name will show a blow-up map for that location (which can be maximised to show a StreetView of that location, or at least it would if StreetView was available in London). A selection of Wikipedia items near that stop will also be displayed, so you can use this to explore locations along the route; again, these maximise to show the whole Wikipedia page inline."
Why do double decker buses have windows? I’m not talking about the big windows we look out of, but the small letterbox shaped windows above that we can open and close? The answer, obviously, is so that passengers can regulate temperature and ventilation, but they come with a major problem: for half the year, they make passengers on the bus ill. At least, that’s my theory.
- Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | On the buses guardian.co.uk
The bombing of the underground was widely interpreted as an assault on the symbol of London. But for many it was the wrecked number 30 bus - cheap, jolly, universal - that truly represented the capital's wounded spirit.
It's not the end of the road for the world-famous double-deckers. They are finding homes with lifelong fans - friends in search of fun, middle-aged men who should know better, even schoolgirls too young to drive.