About Liinilood
Liinilood is an audio tour for Tallinn's trams, now in development. It will use the tram's own GPS to tell short stories about the places outside the window.
What it is
Each story is short: a building, a street name, a factory that's gone, gravestones that ended up in a sea wall. There's no app to install and no guide with a flag. You ride, you listen, you look.
Why trams
Trams follow the same route every day, slowly enough to see what's outside. Riders sit by a window with time on their hands. A story needs nothing more.
Why T2 first
T2 is Tallinn's longest tram line: 26 stops and 10.7 km from the airport through the city centre and the Old Harbour to Kopli. Visitors arrive on it and locals ride it to work, past Soviet factories, Kalamaja's wooden houses and the shipyards of Kopli.
How the tram's GPS will do the work
Tallinn publishes the live position of every tram. When you scan the code inside a tram, the tour will know which tram you're on and follow it. Your phone's own location won't be needed, so the stories can keep coming with the screen locked.
Roadmap
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Research
65 stories along T2 researched and checked against sources; 61 picked for the first tour.
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Script and audio
Turning the research into short scripts, then recording them.
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Pilot on T2
A first version on tram T2 for riders to try, built with our first partners.
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More lines
Other tram and bus lines, if the pilot shows people want it.
Who runs it
Liinilood is run by a new Estonian non-profit (MTÜ) founded by Tristan Priit Allik and Aaron Torm Peebo, who both sit on its board, with Ideelava MTÜ, a youth non-profit, as a founding member. Its purpose reaches beyond Tallinn: digital and educational projects about culture and heritage, with young people involved.
Founded with Ideelava
Team
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Tristan Priit Allik
Co-founder, board member
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Aaron Torm Peebo
Co-founder, board member