Gacked from sbisson: Detailed rail maps for a lot of places in Europe, including London's underground, showing the real layout rather than a stylised map ( Read more... )

For story purposes various characters are aboard a shuttle bus transporting passengers from Newark Airport to Grand Central Station in New York. It needs to be a regular service, not a chartered bus. Two of the passengers intend to kidnap a third - my tentative plan is to crash the bus and have the kidnapping take place in the confusion that ( Read more... )

Hi everyone, first time poster here! I'm writing a story in which the main character works in the subway. i haven't fully decided yet if he's going to actually drive or have some other job (possibly maintenance related?) but my basic problem is that the only thing I know about the subway is how to ride it. So I was hoping someone could come to my ( Read more... )

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I'm seeking information and anecdotes regarding travel by Greyhound bus in the United States, specifically in 2007-2008, but more generally post-9/11 and post-Patriotic Act and subject to various TSA regulations.

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Looking for some information on the history of the MBTA (Boston), most notably ( Read more... )

All right guys, I've done the relevant Wikipedia research for the first question (I looked up articles about public transport in LA County and information about the Metro specifically because it seemed the most likely), but it's fairly subjective.  For the second I've done some Google fu, search strings being various permuations of +address +search ( Read more... )

Character is a 13 year old boy ( Read more... )

My protagonist has been given a paper Metro card with a specific amount of money on it to lead him to a specific Metro station in Washington, D.C. My question is, can he trace that card and where it's been through some kind of computer system, or is he just going to have do a little deductive work and a lot of footwork ( Read more... )