Finding the unexpected in the everyday.
January 28, 1978 Operations began for St. Clair West station on the Yonge-University-Spadina Line (now called Line 1 Yonge-University) of the Toronto subway system. This station, which spans the block north of St. Clair Avenue West, was built as part of the 6.2-mile (9.9-kilometer) line extension between St. George and Wilson stations. St. Clair West... Continue Reading →
January 12, 2015 A dedication ceremony was held for the second line of Mexibús, a bus rapid transit system in the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City. This area is located within the State of Mexico, one of Mexico’s 32 federal entities. The Mexibús Line II, as it is officially known, was the second Mexibús line... Continue Reading →
January 7, 1946 On New Zealand’s North Island, a railway station in the city of Lower Hutt was officially opened. (At the time, New Zealand was still a dominion of the British Empire; it achieved full autonomy the following year.) This station serves Lower Hutt’s suburbs of Naenae and Avalon. The Naenae railway station, as... Continue Reading →
December 30, 1904 The East Boston Tunnel in the capital of Massachusetts was formally opened to the public. This tunnel became a key link in a streetcar route that originated at Court Street in the downtown area of the city, then coursed under Boston Harbor, and ultimately ended at Maverick Square in East Boston. (A... Continue Reading →
December 15, 1950 New York City’s Port Authority Bus Terminal -- owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey -- made its formal debut. The new facility, which the New York Times proclaimed to be “as revolutionary as it is large,” was constructed to consolidate all of the private bus... Continue Reading →
December 10, 1950 On a Sunday morning, regular operations began for a trolley bus system in the city of Hamilton in Canada’s province of Ontario. These vehicles became the latest form of public transportation launched by the Hamilton Street Railway (HSR), a company that had been serving the city for 77 years by that time.... Continue Reading →
December 4, 1933 Operations officially began for trolleybus system in the town of Huddersfield in northern England. The public officials who took part in the brief ceremony marking this transportation milestone included Albert Hirst (1865-1941), who had become mayor of Huddersfield earlier that year and would serve in the position until 1935. The Huddersfield Daily... Continue Reading →
December 1, 1982 Nearly nine decades after it was opened, a railway station in the town of Brevik in southeastern Norway was closed. (That town has officially been part of the municipality of Porsgrunn since 1964.) The station was built as part of the Brevik Line, a 6.2-mile (10-kilometer) railway in that region of Norway.... Continue Reading →
November 21, 1983 Regular operations began for the Baltimore Metro SubwayLink, a rapid transit line serving Maryland’s largest city and its northwestern suburbs, early that Monday morning. Rick Hirsch, reporting for the Miami Herald, highlighted both the significance of this line and the overall route it encompassed. Hirsch stated, “The Baltimore Metro -- America’s first... Continue Reading →
November 4, 2023 A light rail line in Edmonton, the, capital of the Canadian province of Alberta, was officially opened. This route is called the Valley Line and it is part of Edmonton Light Rail Transit, which is widely known in that region as the LRT. Unlike the other trains used elsewhere within the LRT,... Continue Reading →
Transportation History 