Great Western Coffee Shop

I stumbled across this and do not recall it being posted here before, some may find it a pleasant distraction. Seems to be a live feed of various transport in Berlin and although I do not really know the city it is mesmerising.

http://fahrinfo.vbb.de/bin/help.exe/dn?L=vs_mobilitymap&&tpl=fullmap&tabApp=show&initialX=13354846&initialY=52478287&initialZ=3936&

That's fantastic - it's like a ground-based version of Flightradar24!

That reminds me of something that used to be on an obscure analogue Sky channel late at night (no, not that...). They used to just show continuous footage recorded from the front of trams across various European cities, mostly German I think. That also was surprisingly addictive to watch!

We're almost at the point of having something like this with London buses real time arrivals - the data just needs to be plotted out on a map. It would be quite useful/interesting for other forms of public transport.

There is this one for the UK - http://traintimes.org.uk/map/#bhm (http://traintimes.org.uk/map/#bhm)

Not quite the same - but if you chose a station it will show you where trains due to call are at the current time.

Berlin, I had a great time a month ago using the U-bahn and S-bahn to get around

They have a mobile app that lets you use your phone as your tageskarte (1day travelcard). I eventually decided not to use it because the terms and conditions state that you must carry recognised photo ID. I didn't have my driving licence and wasn't prepared to keep my passport on me either. A shame because the Berlin (and every other German city I have been to) S+U bahn ticket machines only take cash or German cards.