I am taking a #Greyhound#bus today between Kansas City and St. Louis. It's been so long that I can't remember the last time I took an intercity bus. It hasn't changed a bit.
Most notably, it appears to still be true that the people on buses are mostly the people who can't afford to fly.
(Yes, I know, it's a generalization based on appearances. Don't come into my mentions harassing me about it unless you've ridden a Greyhound for several hours and seen it for yourself.) #transit
Filing this one away for the next time I hear someone say “you could never fit LRT on this street!” (side note: #Brussels has a brilliant tram system). #transit#urbanism#cities
Looks like Sydney Trains is going to drop the jargon from its PA announcements.
From the SMH:
"Commuters will soon be told to “get off” the train, rather than “alight”, after Sydney Trains resolved to overhaul its station announcements to favour colloquial language.
"The phrase “this train terminates here” is also being retired, due to concerns the word “terminates” is difficult to understand."
#Trajectools continues growing. Lately, we have started expanding towards #PublicTransport analyses. The algorithms available through the current Trajectools development version are courtesy of the #gtfs_functions library
A modest proposal for keeping people outside of #cars alive by Dan Marshall @streetsmn
"I’d start with installing Great Big #Bollards at all bus shelters. The fact that we don’t protect #transit shelters tells us everything we need to know about modern American morality... Streetlights, signs and stoplights are all built w breakaway bolts to protect drivers and minimize vehicle damage when hit"
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