All aboard!

Thanks for stopping by! I'm starting this blog to share all the interesting transportation tidbits I come across that I don't see on other transportation blogs. I especially love transportation things that reference popular culture, examine social life and norms, and document transportation worlds through photography, art, film, and audio. I'm also planning to talk about (and decipher, if necessary) more academic work that considers transportation in a variety of non-transportation planning ways - by drawing from the emerging and interdisciplinary field of mobilities as well as cultural studies, visual studies, and literature.

I hope this becomes a fun and engaging hodgepodge of transportation-related items.  I would love if this collection helps planners think in alternative and innovative ways about measuring, understanding, and engaging transportation worlds, and helps non-planners appreciate the complexities of this aspect of everyday life. There's just more to transportation than discrete choice modeling and asphalt versus concrete debates. A lot more.
  
To kick off this blog, here's a photo I absolutely love that brings together my last name, a pugsley, and public transit. (You will see in the links to the right that I'm mildly obsessed with anything involving animals and transportation.)

Thanks again for coming along on the ride!

(via I Can Has Cheezburger)