WEJETSET would like to introduce a new feature entitled Carry On. Here we’ll regularly spotlight a few of our readers and find out how they travel, what’s in their bag and what inspires them. Since wejetset is all about the ecology of movement, we want to hear how you efficiently travel. What are your resources? What do you take with you? What is the one thing you can’t go anywhere without? Whether you’re commuting to work or traveling to Shanghai, we want to hear about it. Feel free to send us an email if you would like to share your ideas through Carry On.

Our first featured traveler is Tom Kirkby. His extensive travel and passion to experience the world peaked our interest. Whether he’s on his bike, hiking through the pre-Andes or walking through Shibuya – he remains focused on taking in the moment. Read more of our interview with Tom below.

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When it comes to work, our muse lives on trains and airplanes. It’s a weird phenomenon. You’ve probably experienced it too. For some reason it’s so easy to get focused and finish tons of work in these environments. If only we had the internet. Well, it looks like JetBlue is working on it.

As reported by MSNBC today, “JetBlue Airways Corp. will start offering limited e-mail and instant messaging services for free on one of its planes next week as airlines renew efforts to offer in-flight Internet access.” It’s not the full internet experience (no email attachments and access is limited to email & messaging from Yahoo Inc), but it’s a step in the right direction. We can’t wait to see this spread.

Spotted via MSNBC

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Would you move the poles away from the door? Would you make flip-up seats so there’s standing room only like they do in Japan? Or would you order more cars that are larger and faster? Whatever you would do, we all know what we want – dependable trains that get us to work on time.

Today the NY Times wrote an article about New York City Transit’s approach to improve the subway. Although they’re not exactly asking every rider what they should do, they are doing something close. “The agency announced plans yesterday to subdivide the octopuslike system and make the manager of each line responsible for everything on that line, from bunched-together trains to unintelligible public-address announcements.” Within this effort managers are asking riders what they think. The outcome could be interesting.

Read the article: Bigger Cars, Flip-Up Seats, Poetry: How Riders Would Run a Subway

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