So I caught the recruiting tram again and made more photos for all you dorks 😄
(This is a tram that runs in Budapest that has clear paneling so you can see the inner workings. They use it to recruit engineers and mechanics for public transport.)
>>...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.<<
For those unfamiliar with it, Lemmy is basically a federated version of Reddit, distributed across multiple servers like Mastodon. (For anyone who wants to delve further, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, and aussie.zone are three popular Lemmy instances.)
From Mastodon, you can follow any Lemmy group by following its handle, exactly the same way that you would follow a Mastodon account. Any new posts to that group will then begin appearing in your Mastodon feed.
Even better, if you start a thread on Mastodon, you can also post it to a relevant Lemmy group just by including its handle in your post. (Please note this only seems to work with the first post of a thread.)
I'm going to try a thing. There are two related phenomena regarding #cars and #PublicTransport that I basically never see discussed. I wrote an article about these two things which includes two very clear definitions. I want to see if I can get some reach to disseminate these two things like a mind virus.
Boost if you like. Or don't. I'm not your boss.
The premise: when you own a #car, it is cheaper to drive the car. But: we want to get people out of their cars, even while they still own cars.
The definitions:
Sunk cost discount: for as long as you own a car, it is cheaper relative to public transport to use that car for individual journeys, even though you would save money if you got rid of the car and exclusively used public transport.
Trip cost scaling problem: for each additional passenger taking a journey together, the cost per passenger becomes lower when travelling by car, but higher when travelling by public transport.
Check out this thematic app to help make it much easier for most folks: https://openstop.app
The app looks very friendly, and mapping these features will probably
be interesting and relevant for many @pinoy|s even if they aren't @osm contributors yet.
I guess we have a potential theme for the next #MapaTime thing. 😆
Hi Mastodon! I’m a brand new #PeerTube instance dedicated to #urbanism. I don't have much content right now; you can help! Let’s share videos to build more walkable, livable places. https://urbanists.video
This is what a failure to invest in & support #publictransport looks like.
Across the UK #cities fail to reach the accessibility level for #urban#community by public transport that are achieved across the rest of #Europe.
Once again it needs to be stressedL there cannot be a fully effective #greentransition without significant and wide-spread investment in public transport.
We need to recognise its value & its contribution to responding to #climatechange!
From an earlier post; air travel #emissions (per person) are much higher than travel by car.... but, to put that into perspective, here's a breakdown of #oil use:-
Now free for all to read... I've recently become more aware of accessibility while travelling. Then, after facing too many steps in Europe's Metros, I had a revelation:
This story from #Lancashire (via the BBC) emphasises why potholes are a problem & need dealing with... but this needs to be done with money not robbed from #publictransport investment.... cycling & trains should complement each other not compete from cash!
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?’”"
Do you think that Scottish buses should work for people and planet, not just profit?
In JUST 48 hours, local leaders will decide if Strathclyde should look into being the first Scottish area to end the Wild West free market on your buses.
You’ve got the power to influence them NOW. Wherever you are, please sign this petition to demand public control before we deliver it to their meeting on Friday.
Public transit is great because each morning while there's three lanes of traffic jam crawling towards the city next to them in the bus lane we just go nyoom