London: Michael Brein's Travel Guides To Sightseeing By Public Transportation
Another most unusual and also very clever guidebook to come into the marketplace, is "Sightseeing by Public Transportation." In all my years in travel, I've seen some offbeat things, but when I got a copy I was hooked, fascinated and wondered why no one's done this before.  --On the Road with John Clayton, July 16, 1999Know Before You Go with $5 Transit Guides. Detailed maps of public transit systems are often hard to come by until you reach a destination. The guides cost $5 each and include a list of a city's 50 most popular places, as well as walking maps. The big maps are the schematics used by the cities themselves. The series began with the Oahu bus system. The publisher, Michael Brein, has added London, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Madrid, Munich, Prague and Sydney. Amsterdam, Washington, D.C. and Vienna will be added this spring.  --San Jose Mercury News, January 16, 2000Off the Map. If you want to get to know a city like a local, it helps to travel like one, and free public transit maps don't tell you how to get to the fun stuff. For $5, try one of Michael Brein's double-duty city transit maps.  --New York Post, August 24, 1999Sightseeing by Public Transportation Map Series. Assiduous and budget-minded trip- planners might want to include these maps as reference materials for their next trip  --San Francisco Examiner, August 9, 1998Subway Series. The Metro, U-Bahn, Underground and other modes of public transit star in a new series of guides created by Michael Brein, a Ph.D. in social psychology with an interest in affordable travel.  --Consumer Reports Travel Letter, November 1999Travel Advisory: Taking public transit? These maps will help. For those who want to know where a subway will take them, there is a new series of public transit maps packed with information.  --New York Times, January 16, 2000