Archive for buses
winter, in altitude
Posted in Kids, Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel with tags abbey, altitude, bay, buses, Channel, clouds, France, high tides, Manche, Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandie fort et vert, Normandy, Paris, RATP, Unesco World Heritage List, Winter is coming on December 22, 2024 by xi'an
Mahalanobis at the bus-stop [jatp]
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Bengal, buses, conference, India, Indian Statistical Institute, jatp, Kolkata, Mahalanobis distance, P.C. Mahalanobis, Statistics on January 3, 2018 by xi'an
Two bus-stops around the Indian Statistical Institute, featuring its founder, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis.
snowed-in Paris
Posted in pictures with tags buses, Fontaine des Innocents, Les Halles, Paris, RER, snow, trains, tramways, transportation system on March 17, 2013 by xi'an
Just like my astronomy colleague from Brighton, I do wonder why so little snow on the ground creates so much havoc on the transportation network. RER trains have been crawling at a snail-like pace, buses cancelled and trams inoperative for the past few days. I presume this is because there is no degree of freedom left in the way those public transportation systems are operated. They are bursting at every possible seam for lack of sufficient investment in material and people, and, as a result, cannot handle any event that would require any extra manpower (like running the trains all night long to keep the rails free from snow and ice…) The electricity company EDF has started relying on its (young) retirees in cases of major crises and I think the rail companies should do the same.
