#i love you buses i love you trains i love you trams

[looselipssinkships-x]

okay but i forgot how ridiculously in love with public transportation i am?? like put me on a stupid little bus that only comes every half an hour if you're lucky and my silly little brain is still like yay!! adventure!! 🥰🥰🥰

it's pathetic really

[pasdetrois]

i love becoming proficient at using public transit systems i’m literally never going to see again in my life

[youssefguedira]

i LOVE public transport

[uncanny-tranny]

I love when people complain about dangerous drivers because... there are some dangerous drivers out there! However, the solution isn't, like, a surveillance state. The solution can be found (in part) in actually investing in free public transportation and a variety of transportation. The fact that we often live in a very hostile world for pedestrians and non-motorists is a travesty, and helps contribute to the mess that is driving.

You don't need to ban certain people from being able to drive. You need to pressure your local and state governments to actually invest in trains, buses, trams, taxis, public bicycles, well-maintained sidewalks and trails, and whatever may be best for your community. Banning certain people from driving isn't going to effectively keep drivers safe.

[bisonaari]

So!! How is Finland going so far for me?

If you've talked to me in the past days you've probably heard all of this so I'm sorry in advance, you can skip the post hahaha !

First of all: the temperature is the same as in Canada HAHAHA. Sure it's currently a bit colder, but nothing that would be unusual in winter in Canada. So we've been perfectly ok with our usual winter clothes!

We had troubles locating our airbnb when we arrived. But we've been helped by @katinkulta and @taidotonheiluja and everything went ok in the end! I have to admit that because of the stress, the lack of sleep, the fact that I don't speak finnish and the travel time, the first two days I REALLY wanted to just go back home hahaha. But I'm better don't worry. I'm just an anxious bean

The day after that, I've been helped by Elsa again (my saviour) and she went grocery shopping with me and my partner, so we finally got food! (I don't eat a lot when I'm stressed, but my partner is, surprisingly enough, a normal human being who needs to eat. Weird)

Elsa is absolutely lovely and I really adore her company. She's as much fun as she is on the internet! A blessing to have her as a friend <3

The day after that was UMK! We met with Elsa again and with @teal-skull to have breakfast together before the rehearsal started. WHY IS EVERY MUTUAL I MEET SO FREAKING NICE??? This will apply to every single person mentionned in this post because everyone is a sweetheart seriously!

This is also the moment where I realized that I just could… throw a "puhutko englantia" when speaking to employees at stores YES I KNOW IT TOOK ME TWO DAYS BUT I AM VERY DUMB WHEN I'M ANXIOUS OK so I did that and WOW SURPRISE!! The employees said yes and switched to english!! INCREDIBLE, RIGHT. Urgh I'm so dumb hahaha

The UMK rehearsal was incredibly fun, I've seen almost all the artists that I wanted to see in Finland good I can now leave and never come back (that's a lie). But like KUUMAA, Benjamin, Käärijä (with JUKKA !!! ON STAGE!! IN FRONT OF ME), Erika Vikman, Pilvi Hämäläinen (she counts ok), and all the UMK contestants were people who I wanted to see live so bad, and now it's done I'm super happy. I've seen Cha Cha Cha live!!!!

After the rehearsal we met with @omppupiiras @formulalakana and @smimon to go get food together <3 What is funny is that no one knew what the others looked like, but I'm so easily recognisable that we were able to find each other anyway lol

I'm so thankful for everyone that I've met so far. Also other friends that manifested in dms to help me if I needed it! Like @because-its-eurovision for example <3

Some things that surprised my partner and I in Finland so far:

I've said it to a lot of people but the trains are so silent??? Like in Québec, you can hear the metro a few minutes before you can actually see it arrived. Here we've been JUMPSCARED by sudden trains we didn't hear arrive???

Dish drying cabinets my beloved. How did I live before you??? This is SO useful holy shit

The food is so expensive ;A; I was expecting it to be more expensive, but not by that much hahaha. I guess we're gonna eat a lot of pasta during our trip hahaha

I love how pedestrian friendly the city is (I've only been in Tampere so far). The sidewalks are double the size I'm used to in Montréal! You can walk to anywhere, there are tons of trams and buses, this is fantastic (I'm too anxious to take the tram and the bus though lol)

See you in a while for another update!!

[slavicafire]

i saw your post about the old train and i really do admire your love for old bises and trams because they are lovely creatures to me too but i have to ask: what do you think of those new electric buses that are being implemented in many balkan cities right now? i feel like they are Not Creatures. too cold. too silent. maybe they will Become Creatures after many years when they have accumulated the dust of countless travels

they're caged birds. they wish they could fly and they long for the skies. it will take many kilometres spilled beers put out cigs and bags forgotten on their seats to domesticate them and make them thrive down here among the beasts of diesel and flesh

[the-heaminator]

If you don't mind mention where you are from and whether your area has what you epild consider to be a good public transport system. Public transport as like, buses, trains, trams, tube/underground/subway.

Any grievances with the public transport in your area I would love to hear.

[makerandbean]

Hi Maker! I've seen a couple of your posts before but just discovered your blog, highlight of my day :)

Omg your drop spindle is so pretty! I get such spinning envy seeing your posts about bus and train spinning, the mentality that spinning while travelling has always been a human thing is so true, might have inspired me to take a drop spindle out more often ahaha

Also I love your bean, I have a bean too!

omg! hiiiiiii bean 2. yours is a black bean and mine is a coffee bean… nearly we have a whole meal together…

and aaaa that is such a sweet thing to say!! re: my spindle, I feel that i gotta promo Kerryspindles on etsy bc their stuff is so gorgeous and so tactile… i know crafts are not abt having fancy tools, and i think improvised spindles are super cool (i learnt to spin on a chopstick shoved thru a little wooden toy wheel) i do also love the sensory experience of sth that looks beautiful and moves beautifully…

but also, i am DELIGHTED my bus spinning adventures may have inspired you!! i’ve had some people go “ick” about buses being dirty (my fibre doesn’t touch the bus! it’s round my wrist! also it’s washable lol) or be worried about social anxiety (i started spinning in public as a way of fighting back against my own social anxiety actually; and also in months of doing this i can count on One Hand the number of people who’ve commented to me on it. small children do stare quite a lot, but i find that charming and aspire to be the sort of person small children stare at anyway so). but i really really do love the sense of ~doing the same thing my ancestors would have done~, in a very loose sense of the word.

and also the sense of just like… i think being “weird” in public is vitally important, and i also like that i’m exposing the public to otherwise quite niche and endangered craft forms that they probably have no exposure to. there are probably hundreds of people who’ve seen me spin, now, who would otherwise never have seen the process of making yarn. i don’t think that Does anything vis a vis improving society, on a cosmic scale, but it does seem kind of neat.

anyway. long ramble aside, yes! take your (you specifically, but also anyone reading this) drop spindle places!! take it mundane places like on a bus or a tram! spin in public! have fun! bewilder some small children!! make yarns! experience joy! and if you take/post any pictures, tag me in them bc i’d love to see :)

[partywithponies]

I love you buses I love you trains I love you trams I love you underground systems I love you ferries I love you riverbuses I love you accessible public transport 💖

[headcanonsandmore]

I love you pavements, I love you cycle paths, I love you trains, I love you buses, I love you trams, I love you ferries, I love you infrastructure that doesn’t depend on cars. 

[stackslip]

love public transport. love that the only bus that takes me directly to (BIG CITY I NEED TO BE IN EVERY TWO DAYS) only passes once every hour and half the time they dont even take new passengers bc it's aready full so you waited ages for the bus and it just drives right by you and either you wait for another hour or you suck it up and take another bus to the train station where you either pay an exorbitant ticket to get where you need to on time or you take the other bus for an hour and a half and it brings you only to the very edge of the city so you still gotta take other trams and buses. the og trip is 30 minutes max btw

[public-transportation-tournament]

Transport Canberra Bus Network, Canberra, Australia vs Stagways, Hallownest (Hollow Knight)

Transport Canberra Bus Network: ok look maybe it's a standard not-too-great bus network to you. But hear me out. For a city with no trains and until recently no tram, the buses are all an autistic kid has to be super into. Our buses are iconic. Look up the 'action dinosaur bus' to see my favourite one. It's light blue and has dino skeletons on it and a message about reducing fossil fuel usage! For several years we had a couple of buses running around completely decked out in the rainbow pride flag! Our old bus shelters are iconic! They're big concrete things and I love them. You can buy merchandise of them, coffee mugs and such. I love the action/transport canberra bus network and so should you!

Stagways: It's this big stag beetle that gives rides through this huge tunnel network.

[lady-of-imladris]

🌻 If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your mentions, anonymous or not! Let's get to know the person behind the blog 🌻

Hii <3

1. I usually leave my Friday lecture half an hour early so that I can spend more time with my cat over the weekend🥺

2. I hate trains and buses, but I love subways and trams (what the fuck do people call them in English?)

3. I have a huge amount of pink stuff for my kitchen. Kitchen towels? Flamingo. Glasses? The old IKEA flamingo ones. Tupperware? Pink. Whenever my mom is on a Tupperware-buying-spree and sees something pink she buys it for me🥺

[mikimeiko]

Day 2 - Innsbruck (Austria)

I slept almost 12 hours XD tomorrow is going to be another intense day of travel, so today I'm taking things really slow.

It's raining, so I go get breakfast in a place near my hostel. They have so many options and I panic XD and end up ordering a breakfast option made entirely of sweet things ;_;

Everything was very good but it ended up being overwhelmingly sweet and I couldn't finish it.

It has stopped raining so I take a walk around the old town. It's still overcast but the light is a lot more lively and crisp than yesterday. Innsbruck is a very beautiful city.

I saw a priest on a scooter! (Not like a vespa-scooter, like a skateboard-scooter. His clothing was flowing in the wind and it was very funny XD)

Why is coffee so expensive outside of Italy? ;_;

The Hofgarten is very peaceful and lovely to walk through. Lots of biodiversity, gotta love that!

There's a funicular that starts underground on the outskirts of the old town and takes you up the mountain! Well, it takes you a bit up the mountain and then from there you can take two cable cars to get to THE TOP of the mountain. But I don't like cable cars and the top of the mountain is shrouded in clouds anyway, so I just go up a bit with the funicular :D

The Alps continue to be ridiculously magnificent.

Near the funicular station there's a small inn where I finally get to it the kaspressknödel (a fried "dumpling" made with potatoes and cheese - very similar to frico from Friuli now that I think about it), the one thing I really wanted to try here in Innsbruck. And I'm happy I did because it's SO GOOD.

I get down from the mountain by bus and, very happy with my 24h transport ticket, I engage in one of my favourite hobbies: taking random buses and trams out of the city centre. I find the prettiest small church, a second waterway (not sure if it's a river or a canal) and smallish park with a pond in the middle <3

I went to see the market, and the stalls that were closed yesterday, but neither was particularly interesting. I don't know why I always set my expectations so high on markets XD

I grabbed some food and went back to my hostel. Tonight there were actually people in the common area, and I had a nice chat with the other travellers before sadly saying my goodbyes - since tomorrow I have a SUPER early train to Salzburg ;_;

[ramenwithbroccoli]

i love you buses. i love you trams. i love you underground. i love you trains. i love you public transport. i love you walkable distances. i love you accessibility. i love you cities where it is not a bother to exist

[osrphotography]

Hi Asbjrna,

First, I love your photography. As an amateur wildlife photographer, I am always curious to know what draws people like yourself to photograph the things they do. In your case, you seem to love all forms of Transportation. What started your interest in trains, planes and automobiles?

Jonathan

Excellent question!

My interest began at home, my grandmother grew up in a town in the Chilean pampa called Zapiga. The town existed only because of the Nitrate Railways Co Ltd, and was built up around the railway station. Growing up I'd hear stories of how she'd watch the train go by from her house, and how every week on Thursday the train would lay up in the yard overnight. Stories like that were more than enough to get me into railways.

In primary school I met a kid who was really into aviation, we became friends and eventually I got sucked into it as well. Although I don't do too much av-spotting I still have friends in the community.

Buses and trams happened at the same time just 2 years ago in 2021, I met a guy working at Dockline Tramway, we became friends, I joined MoTaT (Museum of Transport and Technology) and now I spend most of my free time bus spotting.

Basically it's the social aspect that got me hooked, and the fact that I can be a history nerd with transport as well.