A Transport Media Diet

So you want to be as well read as me. This is what rots my brain at the moment (hit or miss to be fair, I make no claims of completely consuming any of these feeds).

MASTODON

• Transport List – World

• Transport List – Australia

BLUESKY

• Transport Research Starter Pack

• Transport News Starter Pack

BLOGS

• Geoff Boeing

• Brad Ideas

• diamond geezer

• Geographies of Mobility (Tim Schwanen)

• Goodspeed Update

• Home Signal (Uday Schultz)

• London Reconnections

• Mobility Matters (James Gleave)

• Strong Towns Media

• Pedestrian Observations (Alon Levy)

• The Transport Politic (Yonah Freemark)

• Steven Can Plan

• The Transportist (David Levinson) – what you are reading

• Mobility Payments

• The Overhead Wire (Jeff Wood)

• Transit Maps

• Waypoint – The official Waymo blog

AUSTRALIA TRANSPORT BLOGS

• Daniel Bowen

• Charting Transport – Stats

• The Driven – EVs

• Fully Loaded – Freight (Australasian Transport News)

• Hot Rails

• The Iron Road

• JedSetter

• Melbourne on Transit

• StrategicMatters

• Sydney Ferry Blog

• Thomas the Think Engine

• Transport Sydney

• Waking up in Geelong

• WalkSydney

• @kypros1992

NEWSLETTERS AND SUBSTACKS

• Substacks

  • Along for the Ride | Sarah Barnes

  • Benedict’s Substack | Benedict Springbett

  • Christian Wolmar

  • Critical Density | Lewis Lehe

  • The Deleted Scenes by Addison Del Mastro

  • The Micromobility Newsletter | Team M

  • Modern Delivery | Curbivore

  • Next Metro. – by Reece Martin.

  • S(ubstack)-Bahn | SY Lee

  • Uncharted Territories | Tomas Pueyo

  • All About Trains | Alan Kandel

  • TransportLab Newsletter

  • Works in Progress (various)

• Not Substacks

  • Reason Foundation

  • The Transport Leader (Russell King)

  • The Transportist (David Levinson) – what you are reading. Is it a blog, or a newsletter?

YOUTUBE

• Roads

  • Streetcraft Shorts

  • Road Guy Rob

  • AI DRIVR

• London

  • SomeNorthLondoner

  • Geoff Marshall

  • Jago Hazzard

  • London Transport Museum

• Public Transport

  • Metro Liner

  • Alon Levy

  • Vanishing Underground

• Urbanism

  • Strong Towns

  • The Aesthetic City

  • City Beautiful

  • Not Just Bikes

  • ITDP

• Engineering

  • The B1M

  • Megaprojects

  • Practical Engineering

• Canada

  • RMTransit – YouTube

  • Tram McGill

• USA Academics

  • Wes Marshall

  • Matthew Kahn

• Sydney

  • Spanian (our leading YouTube export)

  • The Electric Viking

  • Building Beautifully (Sharath)

  • Chris Topher

  • CityMoose

  • City Connections

  • Jake Coppinger

  • Sydney Trains Vlogs

  • Transit Sydney

  • Transport Vlog

  • Abandoned Oz

  • BACKTRACKS.Trains

  • BackTracks.Channel

  • EcoTransit Sydney

  • 30Please

  • Big JayDog Adventures

  • Transport For NSW

• Melbourne (and otherwise Not Sydney)

  • Philip Mallis

  • MetroManMelbourne

  • Taitset

  • Aussie Wirraway

  • Moo Transit

  • Rail Rover

  • True Believers

  • Train of Thought (South Australia)

PODCASTS

• SmartDrivingCar

• Look Both Ways (Wes Marshall and David Zipper)

• Fast Forward (CoMotion)

• RideAI

• ByteSize (CompassIOT)

• Micromobility

• Talking Headways

• Strong Towns Podcast

• Autonocast

Honestly, while I listen to podcasts, and I have been on several of these, I have my limits, so on this page, this is the content I consume the least.

In any case, if you have media you think I (or others) should consume, leave them in the comments.

updated August, 2025

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