Ever wonder what it’s like to fall on the third rail? Just ask Andy Morris, who was thrown onto the tracks in East New York: “He first started twitching and then you started seeing smoke coming from his head.” Ouch.
Passengers on the London Tube barely escaped with their lives when a defective train with no driver broke away and sped through six stations without stopping. Circle around and hear the harrowing tale of London’s ghost train of death.
There’s a lot to dislike about New York City’s new subway map (shadows, ugh). But making a map for New York City with 468 stations and 26 lines is, like, difficult – as Eddie Jabbour reveals, explaining his process for designing KickMap. [O'Reilly]
Not only will New York’s subway stations be rigged to support your handheld electronic devices, but chatty citizens will be allowed to make calls in between stops, too. Is there anything worse than this?
This tunnel-boring machine has been boring subway holes in the tough New York dirt for 30 years now, and has been brought into action again on Second Ave. Isn’t it a beauty?
