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A really excellently made stop-motion papercraft animation set to the song “Østersøen” by French band Ödland. Directed by Vincent Pianina & Lorenzo Papace.
Come for the imaginative mise en scène, stay for the amazing detail.
But let’s consider this transport authority for a moment. It was set up two years ago as an independent regulator; independent of government, independent of the transport operators. So far so good. Except its Usain Bolt-style sprint to protect CIE doesn’t promote an image of independence, does it?
Perhaps you think I’m being hard in accusing the NTA of safeguarding CIE. But the NTA ‘fesses up on its own website, acknowledging cause and effect where it says the fare increases “follow from the reduction in funds available to subsidise public transport announced in the Dail”.
At a time of unprecedented focus on expenditure, in the midst of an austerity programme, the case for any increase has to be extremely persuasive. It has not been made adequately in this case.
The public has a right to know what the NTA’s objectives were in reaching the conclusion it did. Did it engage in rigorous analysis of data? How did it weigh this data?
Transport Providers Are Taking The Public For Ride (Martina Devlin, Irish Independent)
This mind-wateringly lovely tree train tunnel at Kleven in Ukraine is called the ‘Tunnel of Love’.
Photos by Oleg Gordienko.
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Like a scene from a longer film – this beautifully animated mini-shocker from animation studio Giant Creative – was made as part of the Animation Hub: a collaboration between staff and students of Ballyfermot College of Further Education and TCD.
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From Letters Of Note:
In 1909, an embarrassed, angry young man named Okhil Chandra Sen sent an unintentionally amusing letter of complaint to the Sahibganj divisional railway office in West Bengal. According to the Railway Museum in New Delhi, the subsequent investigation into the affair by the British Raj resulted in the introduction of toilets to all trains in the country; something that had been absent since the formation of Indian Railways in 1857.
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Admittedly more comfortable than travelling on the inside but still.
Kids, we take it you know what not to try at home.
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJpR9n-L680
Eight times a day, the vendors of a market in the Thai province of Samut Songkhram, about 70 km southwest of Bangkok, retract their awnings and counters as the commuter train – on whose track the market operates – passes through without stopping.