DID YOU KNOW? there are plans to build a seattle subway!
an absolutely enormous transit system spanning seattle and the surrounding areas!!! comparable in scale to the new york subways. the vision roadmap stretches so many years into the future!!!!! so fuckin cool
#KualaLumpur is a frustratingly annoying city from a #transit and #walkability perspective.
Perfectly nice, clean, on-schedule trains, lovely stations, surrounded by horrible connectivity and terrible pedestrian access. It's a system designed to fail, and there's no reason it should be this bad.
If this is going to work, it won't be enough to cover up the fareboxes and card-readers and wait for the buses to get faster.
I propose a new, more achievable slogan for NYC #transit in the latest HIGH SPEED blog:
Liziba Monorail Station, where the #trains go through a residential building! 🚈 (Which do you think came first? The answer: Both the station and the #building were actually constructed together!) Chongqing, #China.
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As I have somewhat tired of this script, I tidied it up and put it on github
average velocity of all moving TTC vehicles from GTFS feed — https://gist.github.com/scruss/cebe194f384910770dc38de466ff22ff
As I have somewhat tired of this script, I tidied it up and put it on github
average velocity of all moving TTC vehicles from GTFS feed — https://gist.github.com/scruss/cebe194f384910770dc38de466ff22ff
TTC Riders ( @ttcriders.bsky.social ) is hosting a ‘Save Our Streetcars Summit’ in Toronto on November 23. This is a free event with coffee, snacks, and TTC tickets upon request.
Register here:
https://www.ttcriders.ca/save_our_streetcars_summit?recruiter_id=16210
TTC Riders ( @ttcriders.bsky.social ) is hosting a ‘Save Our Streetcars Summit’ in Toronto on November 23. This is a free event with coffee, snacks, and TTC tickets upon request.
Register here:
https://www.ttcriders.ca/save_our_streetcars_summit?recruiter_id=16210
There's debate among #transit pros about free buses Zohran Mamdani is pitching in NYC.
2 points: much of infuriating "dwell time" at stops is over riders paying their fares.
Conflicts over fares are stressful + dangerous, and make driver recruitment hard.
The former is reduced, latter eliminated.
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I went outside again. Even took a train.
I went outside again. Even took a train.
This is how it went down, right?
A: "I have noticed that nearly everyone wants to travel the same directions at the same times."
B: "I have noticed this too!"
A: "There must be an efficient way to handle this..."
B: "I have an idea!"
A: "Me too. Let's say it at the same time!"
B: "High capacity shared vehicles on fixed routes on fixed schedules!"
A: "Individual vehicles owned and operated separately!"
B: "Aw nuts."
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