It was warm out today, one of the first really warm days we’ve had this summer. I was walking up 14th St NW and noticed a vehicle in the bus lane.
“I think I’ll take the bus the rest of the way’, I thought.
I got into the vehicle and greeted the driver politely. The air conditioning was a great relief. I didn’t see a place to tap my Metro card but maybe the reader was broken.
“What the [EXPLETIVE DELETED] are you doing in my car?” The driver said, rudely.
“Oh!” I exclaimed. “I think you’re mistaken. See the red paint underneath us? This is a bus lane, so this must be the bus.”
Am I the only one who regularly fantasizes about this? It’s normal, right?
I read in a newspaper article about my neighborhood: "The Tenderloin is the center of the fentanyl crisis in San Francisco and is known for squalid conditions, homelessness, crime, drug trade, and prostitution."
(And delicious food, cheap rent, the most diverse working class communities, the only part of the city with real city density, with access to all public transit)
The city #transportation system at each end of the #trains is as much a part of the #InducedDemand as the service itself. If you get there and require a car for #mobility, maybe needing to take slow, infrequent #transit to an airport on the edge of town to get a rental, the train has lost its edge vs #shortHaulFlights in time, if not expense. Taking a folding bike on the train is an okay workaround for some, ridehail/taxi activity at train stations suggests a need for bikeshare + #cargoBikes
“Getting to Green”: If you believe #transit is important for cities and people should use it, here’s a way to lend a hand. Help people learn to navigate bus routes and enjoy the ride. Your project could start with a video about reading bus maps, paying on board and good rider etiquette. But once the basics are covered, tell people what they can experience along the way. In Philly, that means highlighting buses that take you to … great city parks. https://billypenn.com/2024/04/25/philly-parks-map-getting-to-green/
RT @samiliebman MTA is adding additional weekday service on 6 express bus routes to coincide with congestion pricing: SIM1C, SIM4C, SIM23, BM2 and BM5. Cost: just over $800k, coming from the Outer Boro Transportation Acct. This is something Samuelsen wanted. #transit
While NY budget didn’t extend Fair Fares to commuter rails, MTA is piloting a monthly City Ticket with a 10% discount for LIRR & MetroNorth within NYC (unclear if that includes free transfers to bus/subway)
So many San Francisco icons in one shot! F-line Muni pulling into the Market Street/Castro stop near the iconic 1960s-style Safeway supermarket. Sutro Tower in the background.
Yes, that's some serious lens flare top right. On the Olympus PEN cameras, the IR filter is also the anti-reflective layer over the sensor, so removing one removes the other.
#Olympus PEN E-PL5 converted to #infrared with M.Zuiko 17mm F2.8. ƒ/5, 1/1250sec @ ISO 250.
Photographed yesterday, April 2024. Thank you for looking.
"The biggest threat to the exciting transformation of Bay Area transit isn’t voters’ willingness to fund it — it’s a focus on local control among some existing transit agency staff and elected officials at the expense of better system coordination."
> A short history of Colorado lawmakers’ magical thinking on RTD reform
> State leaders have spent decades tinkering with transit system’s operations — while doing little to give it more resources
I love when business owners protest bike lanes and street changes to newspapers. Then I can do the thing they say the changes will do to their business: stop people from getting to them. Because I won’t be going there anymore
Especially if you’re protesting changes to a street that got an entire family killed by an SUV and all you care about is still cars.
lol workers from Transit Worker's Union Local 100 refused to bus protestors from a Seder in the streets of New York to the precinct, so the pigs had to do it themselves. Power to the workers!
Huh, the new Bears proposal for a stadium is... wildly different than I expected :otter_peek: I really like what the renders did with the old Soldier Field columns (and frankly, the UFO they landed inside of it was always a massively ugly waste of money). I feel mostly ambivalent on the proposal I think, provided taxpayers aren't on the hook for it.
If this proposal actually happens, civic leaders from the south side really should lobby hard for the CTA to revisit the Gold Line proposal to take part of the existing Metra electric right-of-way and turn it into a rapid transit corridor. If the city really wants to revitalize the lakefront and drive tourism, they should focus on increasing access between the lakefront parks (the stupid bean/Millennium Park, Grant Park, etc), the Museum Campus (the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Planetarium, Soldier Field), McCormick Place, and Jackson Park (the Museum of Science and Industry and the new Barack Obama Presidential Library). Plus the Gold Line could be used to bring a valuable link for south lake shore communities between the Loop all the way down to South Chicago. :vg_puro_shrug: Seems like a win/win to me.
Side note: Also, boost the Green Line back to Jackson Park like it used to be :neofox_what: It'd make for a great transfer point for people between the Gold Line and the Green Line.
Transit Cookie (so glad I get to have more rides with her! Looks like she’s come out of the critical period and is making a miraculous rebound to health)
(Pics from recent train rides before her hospitalization)