Finding the unexpected in the everyday.
November 12, 2008 Operations fully began for a state-of-the-art terminal at Indianapolis International Airport. (This airport, which dates back to 1931, was originally known as Indianapolis Municipal Airport.) The new terminal was named after H. Weir Cook, one of the Hoosier State’s most prominent miliary heroes and aviation trailblazers. Cook had been born in 1892... Continue Reading →
September 6, 2014 In southwestern India’s state of Kerala, a bus station in the city of Kollam made its public debut. This station is specifically located in the city’s neighborhood of Tangasseri (also known as Thangassery), a densely populated area along the shores of the Arabian Sea. Tangasseri Bus Terminal was built in large part... Continue Reading →
August 8, 2011 In the Detroit metropolitan area, a newly built intermodal terminal station in the city of Pontiac was officially dedicated. The public officials on hand for this ceremony included Gary Peters, who was the U.S. representative for that region of Michigan at the time and now serves the Great Lakes State as one... Continue Reading →
April 16, 2013 A newly built railway terminus in Kurla, a suburb of western India’s city of Mumbai, was officially opened. (Along with being the most populous city of India, Mumbai is the capital of the country’s state of Maharashtra.) This terminus was the replacement for a smaller and dilapidated station complex that had long... Continue Reading →
April 12, 1997 A new and larger terminal for the international airport on the Spanish island of Mallorca (also known as Majorca) was officially inaugurated. Mallorca is the largest of Spain’s Balearic Islands, an archipelago in the western region of the Mediterranean Sea. The Mallorcan city of Palma is the capital of those islands, which... Continue Reading →
February 29, 2016 The newly built terminal for an airport in the north-central region of North Dakota first went into service. This airport, which is located two miles (3.2 kilometers) north of the city of Minot, dates back to the 1920s. Originally known as the Port of Minot, its first airstrip was developed on a... Continue Reading →
December 5, 2020 In the Canadian province of Ontario, an intercity bus terminal in the downtown section of Toronto was officially opened. The Union Station Bus Terminal (USBT), which is operated by the government-owned company Metrolinx, is connected via pedestrian walkways to Union Station (a major railway facility and Canada’s busiest transportation hub). USBT serves... Continue Reading →
September 25, 2009 In the northernmost region of Norway, a terminal at the airport serving the town and municipality of Alta was officially inaugurated. This dedication ceremony took place a little over a month after the terminal had first been opened for public use. Alta Airport first went into service on May 4, 1963, with... Continue Reading →
August 18, 2014 A new transit station between Terminals A and B at Dallas/Fort Worth (DWF) International Airport first went into service. DFW Airport is the primary international airport serving the metropolitan area known as the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex in north-central Texas. This airport, which is located approximately halfway between the major cities of... Continue Reading →
July 28, 2006 In the Republic of Ecuador, the inaugural flight at a terminal for an international airport took place. This airport is located three miles (five kilometers) north of the central part of Guayaquil, which is second only to the Ecuadorian capital of Quito as the country’s largest city. (Guayaquil also has the distinction... Continue Reading →
Transportation History 