The ferry system carried a total of 18.66million riders in 2023—9.69million passengers and 8.97million vehicles. WSF is the largest ferry system in the United States and the second-largest vehicular ferry system in the world behind BC Ferries. The state ferries carried an average of 43,200 per weekday in the fourth quarter of 2023. (Full article...)
Image 2Arizona - North America - Southwest - Interstate Highway System (4893585908) (from Road transport)
Image 3Bronocice pot with the earliest known image of a wheeled vehicle in the world, found in Poland (from Transport)
Image 4According to Eurostat and the European Railway Agency, the fatality risk for passengers and occupants on European railways is 28 times lower when compared with car usage (based on data by EU-27 member nations, 2008–2010). (from Rail transport)
Image 10Modes of road transport in Dublin, 1929 (from Road transport)
Image 11The Great North Road near High gate on the approach to London before turnpiking. The highway was deeply rutted and spread onto adjoining land. (from Road transport)
Image 12San Diego Trolley over Interstate 8 (from Road transport)
Image 41European rail subsidies in euros per passenger-km for 2008 (from Rail transport)
Image 42Swiss & German co-production: world's first functional diesel–electric railcar 1914 (from Rail transport)
Image 43Interior view of a high-speed bullet train, manufactured in China (from Rail transport)
Image 44Bardon Hill box in England (seen here in 2009) is a Midland Railway box dating from 1899, although the original mechanical lever frame has been replaced by electrical switches. (from Rail transport)
Image 45The Polish transport company Bedmet uses a special vehicle to transport two large silos. (from Road transport)
Image 51A cast iron fishbelly edge rail manufactured by Outram at the Butterley Company for the Cromford and High Peak Railway in 1831; these are smooth edge rails for wheels with flanges. (from Rail transport)
Image 54German soldiers in a railway car on the way to the front in August 1914. The message on the car reads Von München über Metz nach Paris ("From Munich via Metz to Paris"). (from Rail transport)
... that when Charles P. Gross became the chairman of the New York City Board of Transportation, the mayor told him that "if you think war is Hell, then you have something waiting for you on this job"?
... that a section of Mississippi Highway489 was designated as the Jason Boyd Memorial Highway to commemorate the MDOT superintendent who was killed while removing debris from the road?
... that United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg wrote an essay in 2000 on Bernie Sanders, his future competitor in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries?
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