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capntransit

@capntransit@urbanists.social

Climate advocate, queer, ranting against bullshit for over a decade.

Here are some reasons to get people to shift from cars to transit:

Reducing pollution
Increasing efficiency
Reducing carnage
Improving society
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tess, to random
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After spending the weekend in Portland (a bunch of it on transit) I am thinking more about how we talk about the scourge of homelessness in most American cities.

It's insidious because the people who suffer the most are also the most visible symptom of the problem and therefore end up the targets of policy instead of the actual underlying causes.

How do we (and how do politicians) talk about homelessness in a way that makes people see the homeless as victims rather than the problem?

sunny, to random
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The Weekendest iOS app is now live on the App Store!

The user interface has been redesigned to focus on getting your nearby train times with 0 taps. Service notices are more visible, and you can view transfer connection times at upcoming stops of a trip.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-weekendest-nyc-subway-map/id6476543418

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openstreetmap, to random
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OSM data powers new and ongoing research all over the world. For example, The United States Census Bureau has developed a socioeconomic profile of the commuters affected by the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, in Baltimore, based on OSM data and OSRM.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2024/05/key-bridge-commuters.html

bourgwick, to nyc
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the recent crackdown on unlicensed #nyc #cannabis bodegas has ushered in a massive overnight vibe shift from over-the-top garish to hilariously anonymous. the next phase in weed bodega aesthetics, already a topic for street art documentarians. (photos by a pal, but expect to see it in my neighborhood soon.)

frosted glass store front with new sign hanging on awning reading CONVENIENCE

capntransit, to random
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New blog post: There's an approach to climate change that focuses on "Making Polluters Pay" for the cost of carbon pollution. But who counts as a polluter? Why are they so insistent that it's just a handful of corporations?

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2024/05/making-all-polluters-pay.html

kkavee, to random
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The other day I saw this short video from @StrongTowns about the business on a street that's hard to cross to the other side and car infra act as a walking barrier. This is what my last year paper was all about and I'm researching exactly this as my PhD.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A2MTnpY7xTk

davidho, to random
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This thing where they don’t tell you what platform your train is on until the last minute is one of the dumbest parts about taking a train.

tmstreet, to random
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38.4 million will be on the road this weekend. The carbon footprint must be really impressive. This all announced breathlessly as we are driving even more than last year. TBH, however, i wouldn't be driving even if there were no climate impact. It does not sound like a good time to me regardless of the destination. So many great things to do at home.

Andres4NY, to random
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There's plenty of research out there showing that when you add a protected bike lane, a street becomes safer for ALL road users.

However, I'm not convinced that the traffic calming effect that made it safer actually continues to work if you don't bother to maintain the "protection". I fear it's actually the opposite; without the protection, drivers see just a clear lane and drive faster than they did before (where parked cars used to slow down cars, prior to PBL installation).

Alon, to random
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Pedestrian Observations: Militarized and Other New Capital Cities https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/05/24/militarized-and-other-new-capital-cities/

Andres4NY, to acab
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Ah yes, the problem is that judges have too much personal information online. Not that is an overfunded mafia with zero oversight. 🙄

ternbicycles, to random
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This is how an electrician ⚡️ chooses to

📸: @upcyclinggent

urbangr, to Michigan
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🐷 BEWARE FLYING PIGS!!! 🐷 The Michigan Department Of Transportation (MDOT) has made an economically sound and environmentally superior choice: no highway expansion for US-23!!! Responsibility and MDOT, a rare combination. Congratulations to all the citizens of Ann Arbor who courageously fought against the beast. 👊 Let it be known to all Michigan communities, victory is possible.
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2024/05/highway-expansion-options-cut-from-big-us-23-project-in-ann-arbor.html

davidho, to random
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The fact that “alternative transportation” just means you’re not in a car tells you everything that’s wrong with our transportation system.

enobacon, to random
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If people in the US had a decent set of options for , a bit of car trouble wouldn't blow a giant hole in your week.

enobacon,
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What is it going to take to get through to elected officials and progressive transportation planners, that they're working with a machine that's been designed to build freeways through poor neighborhoods and coerce anyone who could afford it into cars? A machine made of and which then accreted a century of CYA, cultural, legal, and bureaucratic armor against change? Giving the DOT more money for safety won't ever get us out of . It's designed to not.

grvsmth, to random
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I'm sitting at an outdoor cafe right now trying to write, and there's a steady stream of 10-30 second clips of music and/or talk coming from the phone of a guy sitting nearby.

He looks like a nice guy, but I'm baffled that it doesn't occur to him to use headphones.

I'm also surprised that more people aren't talking about how TikTok, Instagram/Facebook Stories, Twitter video and YouTube whatevers degrade the auditory environment for anyone else, whenever they're used without headphones.

davidzipper, to random
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If you're American, I have some bad news: You're probably thinking about fuel economy all wrong.

In Vox, I explained why.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/350382/gas-mileage-fuel-economy-mpg-gphm-gas-guzzlers

johncarlosbaez, (edited ) to random
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When global warming gets bad enough to create millions of refugees, just imagine how nasty the EU and US will become. They may just send people out to the desert to die.

Oh wait, you don't have to imagine! It's happening already:

"A year-long joint investigation by The Washington Post, Lighthouse Reports and a consortium of international media outlets shows how the European Union and individual European nations are supporting and financing aggressive operations by governments in North Africa to detain tens of thousands of migrants each year and dump them in remote areas, often barren deserts.

European funds have been used to train personnel and buy equipment for units implicated in desert dumps and human rights abuses, records and interviews show. Migrants have been pushed back into the most inhospitable parts of North Africa, exposing them to abandonment with no food or water, kidnapping, extortion, sale as human chattel, torture, sexual violence and, in the worst instances, death."

The full story is here: https://archive.is/1tEgl

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Karstan, to fuckcars
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"The ultimate test to prove what cars have done to the American psyche only requires that you walk out your front door. Take a photo with your phone. Now highlight in red the places in which it would be fully legal for a car to strike and kill you. Now highlight in yellow the places in which a car could strike and kill you and you would have to make a legal case that it was not your fault. Now highlight in green places where you believe you are safe from cars." - Dan Sheehan

ggwash, to random
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Opinion: Bring back the W&OD as commuter rail. (He said what he said.): https://ggwash.org/view/93711/bring-back-the-wod-as-commuter-rail

streetsblogmass, to random
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The state "conservation" agency that maintains two freeways along both banks of the Charles River is suddenly concerned about protecting the riverbank from a rowboat race, via @universalhub https://www.universalhub.com/2024/dcr-says-its-time-figure-out-how-improve-head

tml, to random
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Happiness. I can now reveal that I was stupid and left my iPad in the bus from Toledo to Madrid two weeks ago (on a Saturday). I followed it in Find My and saw that it returned to Toledo and stayed there. I went there the following day, but of course the ticket office wasn’t open on Sundays and even if I saw it was some metres away I couldn’t get it... I eventually got a reply from that they do have it there and I can fetch it on a weekday so here I am now and yes I got it back. Whew.

tml,
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If was really clever, it would notice that you are in bus/train/etc and ping your nearby devices/ items frequently once you stop, to be able to tell you right away “dude, you left your iPad/hat/bag in the bus, go back now and fetch it”.

Hey , feel free to implement this.

It did tell me now that I left the iPad, but too late. We were already hundreds of metres away, in the metro station, and it took like five minutes to go back and by that time the bus had already left.

Andres4NY, to random
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what if NYC but without all these stupid fucking cars?

TheLIRRToday, to random
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ICYMI from last week: LIRR's 2023 station ridership shows a strong correlation to fare incentives and service improvements. Stations where fares were lowered or service boosted saw ridership increase; while many others languish and are falling behind. https://www.thelirrtoday.com/2024/05/2023-station-ridership.html?utm_source=LIRRToday-Mastodon&utm_campaign=follow-up&utm_medium=social

Nondriver, to random
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Unbelievable that we are still seeing job postings from transit agencies for outreach positions that require drivers licenses
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/kingcounty/jobs/4498315-0/project-program-manager-ii

Nondriver,
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Fixed! DL requirement removed. Please encourage transit riders you know to apply!

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