Tag: transit

9 posts

Viaduct Wrapped '25

This year, I discovered viaduct , a service to track train rides. Since then, I've been tracking my train rides and I've imported most of the train rides I could remember or had some registry of. They now came up with a "wrapped" of this year and it's quite nice to look at!


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Henrique Dias
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Dec 16, 2025

Tracking Train Rides With Viaduct

It is no secret that I enjoy tracking things, whether it is books I read, things I watched, or places I have been. When I travel, I track my flights, and that is, as far as I know, something a lot of people do. It also means that there are many tools out there for it. But when it comes to trains, I have never found a very reliable solution... until now!


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Henrique Dias
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Jul 19, 2025

Recently in August '24

Uff, I wanted to write this before the end of August, but I'm still on time. August is over and it's starting to feel a bit like autumn to me. Quite excited, as it will become a bit colder, hopefully, and it's also one of my favorite seasons. Very colorful! But now, let's recap August!


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Henrique Dias
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Sep 2, 2024

Traveling to Vienna With the Nightjet

Over the past days, my partner and I did a small trip to Vienna - and also Bratislava. This post is not going to be about the trip and the cities themselves, but about the transport to and from Vienna: the Nightjet. This was our first time trying out night trains, so it was quite a journey.


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Henrique Dias
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Feb 27, 2024

A Deutsche Bahn Tale on ICE

Last month, I traveled from The Netherlands đŸ‡łđŸ‡± to Switzerland 🇹🇭 by train. More specifically, I traveled from Eindhoven to Engelberg, which is a small alpine town in the centre of Switzerland. When I wrote this post for the first time, it was mostly a rant, but now that some time has passed, I decided to rewrite it and finally publish it.


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Henrique Dias
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Feb 26, 2023

A Small Update On My OVPay Experiment

In the beginning of last month, I wrote a post about trying out the new payment system for public transit in The Netherlands, OVPay 💳. On it, I mentioned quite a few things regarding different operators. It's been around a month, and I've had the opportunity to travel again on Hermes 🚍 buses using OVPay. Here's the update.


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Henrique Dias
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Dec 3, 2022

Trying Out OVPay With Hermes and HTM

The Netherlands đŸ‡łđŸ‡± is testing a new payment system for the public transit called OVPay 💳. The gist is that you'll be able to simply check-in and check-out from buses, trams, trains, and every other kind of transit with your debit or credit card, without needing to either buy a ticket, or have an OV-chipkaart (the public transit card).


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Henrique Dias
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Nov 4, 2022

The Free Ride’s Over

For decades, ad-supported free daily newspapers defined commuting. But the Washington Post Express’ demise shows the model is headed towards the history books.

Sep 12, 2019

It’s Just A Swipe Away

Vintage technology has powered the innards of the NYC subway system for decades—and sometimes, it surfaces in interesting ways. This one’s for you, OS/2 fans.

Jun 13, 2019