Movie Special: Transit Ads
Some transit promotional videos.
King County Metro ad: Metro Go":
Travel Community Transit with Rick Steves. This four-part series was published for Lynnwood Link's opening.
More videos below the fold.
Bus Doggy Dogg:
Eclipse, the Dogg, had her first solo bus ride in 2015. In 2022 she passed away at age 10. NPR obituary. Washington Post obituary ($, paywalled).
Four videos from Berlin. BVG operates the city's U-Bahn, trams, buses, and ferries.
- A short:
2. Berlin ist Gelb" (Berlin is Yellow), a book about the history of Berlin's transit in divided Germany and reunified Germany:
Alles gut" (everything is good) may remind you of Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?.
3. Job recruitment video:
4. A COVID-era ad. Wir fahren allein allein" - We travel alone alone" ... but soon we will be together again:
That might remind you of Counterpart, the TV series with a parallel world in the basement of a Berlin office building, a world that had a flu pandemic.
If those don't float your boat, West End Girls has a few clips of a London train station and double-decker buses.
This is an open thread.