Ma.gnolia: Richard Eriksson's Bookmarks Tagged With "skytrain"

Noah took a photo of every SkyTrain camera that saw him during a three-station trip

sillygwailo — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:12:43 PDT

Commercial Drive as case study for describing the contemporary sound environment

sillygwailo — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:41:13 PST

"Although the sound of the SkyTrain itself [...] can only be heard in the immediate surroundings of the stations, the accompanying changes in the landscape and the soundscape, now filled with transportation noises including cars, buses, heavy trucks, a train and two SkyTrain lines, are for all participants signs of a deterioration of this neighbourhood."

Canada Line photos

sillygwailo — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:28:06 PST

Wish they were posted to Flickr, though, so people could comment on them and better link to them (and so they could add them to the Vancouver Flickr group).

Chris LaVigne on Young and Sexy's "The City You Live In Is Ugly"

sillygwailo — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:26:25 PST

The song is bookended with a sample of Vancouver's SkyTrain leaving and one arriving.

Google Map of Chapter 10 from SkyTrain Explorer covering the neighbourhood around Patterson Station

sillygwailo — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:19:55 PST

Based on the directions by John Atkin. As usual, I venture off on small detours, like I did today on this route.

Rivershed Society of British Columbia shares photos of its SalmonTrain launch on Flickr

sillygwailo — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:43:01 PDT

The local paper said they had a gallery at rivershed.com but I gave up after a half dozen clicks. All I needed to do, apparently, was watch the 'skytrain' tag like I usually do.

Gerry asks what is your favourite route, station or view on Vancouver's transit system?

sillygwailo — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:18:09 PDT

He's also working on a long-term project to collect photograph SkyTrain station specific photos.

Hiking by Transit

sillygwailo — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:43:39 PDT

I've used transit as an excuse to go on neighbourhood heritage walks thanks to John Atkin's book SkyTrain Explorer.

"[SkyTrain] attendants are answering questions about their control panels and even letting kids honk the SkyTrain horn."

sillygwailo — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:35:25 PST

Aww, no fair!

Discussion about TransLink and SkyTrain attendants shooing away a photographer

sillygwailo — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:42:36 PST

Ongoing at this writing. Click on the photo for the background.

My SkyTrain walks mapped out

sillygwailo — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:37:46 PDT

Courtesy GeoRSS and the GeoRSS module for Drupal. It doesn't seem to know how to correctly resolve relative URLs though.

SkyTrain stations between Royal Oak and 29th Avenue (inclusive) closed on Monday evening

sillygwailo — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:56:36 PDT

Keith Lim reports, and rants.

Photos from the Newmindspace Rise of the Robots SkyTrain party

sillygwailo — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:46:17 PDT

I didn't go, but it looked like fun.

Photographer told not to take photos at Burrard Station

sillygwailo — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:44:17 PDT

"He tells me I need a letter from Translink, and I inform him that I don't believe I do."

Japan Railway & Transport Review on SkyTrain

sillygwailo — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:33:37 PDT

One of the more technically dense writeups about the elevated light rail system, the PDF (linked from the text version) is better for looking at the charts.

Two men fight, find themselves in between SkyTrain cars

sillygwailo — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:20:42 PDT

Ryan Cousineau was on the scene, and took a photo.

2001 article in Vancouver Magazine about SkyTrain parties

sillygwailo — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:44:55 PST

Uncle John posted some mundane video of SkyTrain, but set to music

sillygwailo — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:13:59 PST

(Don't worry, "mundane" is a compliment.)

Matt Musselman on SkyTrain's podcasts (actually audio tours while inside the train)

sillygwailo — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:11:56 PST

I suggest in the comments that riders make their own, for free, and now instead of for $30,000 arriving sometime in the future.

Icenrye's SkyTrain geocaching video diary

sillygwailo — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:11:33 PST