Here's how to make green #transit even greener. Put the tram tracks on a carpet of grass or sedum. 2 kms of track creates 1.5 football fields' worth of green space, reducing air pollution and urban heat island effect.
You don’t often see outward facing seats on transit vehicles, but being able to gaze out the window rather than at an ad across the aisle makes for a pretty enjoyable ride! (This is the Kuala Lumpur Monorail).
In the 1980s, the firm that had the contract for upholstery of BART seats paid people to slash the seats. People slashed in specific patterns so the company would know who to pay.
On Sol 1037 (three days ago) the Perseverance rover observerved this transit of Mars' smallest moon Deimos.
This timelapse shows the event at 10x speed.
The #MTA is off twitter! If you live in NYC or use the service
(including metroNorth, CT friends!)
Please contact the MTA and let them know they would be more than welcome on the fediverse. They could probably have their own instance "@mta.info" just the way it ought to be.
Tunnel Vision: An Unauthorized BART Ride is a documentary film by local timelapse photographer Vincent Woo. Embark on a journey with a camera secretly attached to a BART train and ride through the arteries of the Bay Area. A hidden world is revealed through intersecting passageways, flashes of graffiti, and sections of track only witnessed by BART operators:
>>...if you live in a single family house with a driveway and usually get around by car, imagine that there were an automated gate at the end of your driveway that only opened once an hour, on the hour. When it’s closed, you can’t get your car in or out. If that were your situation, your biggest transportation problem would not be traffic congestion, or how fast you can go on the freeway; it would be how to get this frigging gate to open more often. That’s how low frequency feels to a potential transit customer, and why frequency often swamps other factors, like speed, in determining whether transit is actually useful.<<
Today, the San Francisco Municipal Railway (@sfmta_muni) joins Bilbo Baggins in the small club of those who can celebrate their “eleventy-first birthday” (as Bilbo termed it). Unlike Bilbo, Muni managed to reach this milestone without the life-prolonging side effect of Isildur’s bane, the One Ring. On this day 111 years ago, Muni commenced streetcar service on its first line, Geary Street... https://www.instagram.com/p/C1aeDvnyOjV/ #transit#publictransit#transportation
#PyCon attendees who are flying into #Pittsburgh have a $2.75 option for getting from the #PIT airport to the convention center: the #28X#bus.
The ticket machine and door to the 28X are just past baggage claim L, on the left side. You can pay cash, buy a reloadable card, or buy a daily/weekly bus pass.
"The priority should not be to replace every car with its electric equivalent but rather to rethink #mobility in general.
"Placing so much focus on the automobile and even now the electric automobile is not the way that we solve our mobility problems, but rather it's time to invest in #transit, in #cycling, in walkable cities, to get people out of #cars altogether," they said."
Interesting analysis coming from Lexington, Mass.: by slashing the price of a year-round bus pass to $20 from as much as $260, the City gained ridership while retaining roughly the same revenue
This is the best overview of Montreal I’ve ever seen from an urbanism and transit perspective. Very well researched and an honest appraisal of the situation.
Looks like the Boring Company's Las Vegas tunnels are going about as well as you'd expect from an Elon project...
"The muck pooling in the tunnel at the north end of the Las Vegas Strip had the consistency of a milkshake and, in some places, sat at least two feet deep. ... At first, it merely felt damp. But in addition to the water, sand and silt—the natural byproducts of any dig—the workers understood that it was full of chemicals known as accelerants.
"The accelerants cure the grout that seals the tunnel’s concrete supports, helping the grout set properly and protecting the work against cracks and other deterioration. They also seriously burn exposed human skin. At the Encore dig site, such burns became almost routine, workers there told Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. An investigation by the state OSHA, which Bloomberg Businessweek has obtained via a freedom of information request, describes workers being scarred permanently on their arms and legs. According to the investigation, at least one employee took a direct hit to the face. In an interview with Businessweek, one of the tunnel workers recalls the feeling of exposure to the chemicals: “You’d be like, ‘Why am I on fire?’”"
Guy lit up a cigarette in the train and this woman starts yelling at him. “You don’t even look bold enough to hold a baked bean. Now you want to smoke in the train? Were you raised by wolves?”
Guy starts shrinking into a corner (and puts out his cigarette)
When I tell people that >20% of the population everywhere cannot drive, they always quibble about including children in that calculation. I think it says a lot about our car brained society that it's normal to think minors shouldn't have independent mobility.
Today I was in the 49 bus. A man started tripping, yelling and gesturing wildly. Some dude yelled at him and told him to shut up. The guy went quiet and sat down sadly. The shouting dude stopped shouting and said, ‘are you ok man? I know you want attention, but just turn down the volume.’ Then he gave him some money and got off the bus.
Biden administration announces largest passenger rail investment since Amtrak creation (www.cbsnews.com)
President Biden is announcing $8.2 billion in new federal funding for 10 passenger rail projects across the country.