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Jimmy Carter posted:New York gives up and announces its futuristic ticketing solution: oh motherfuck, guess I'm not getting anywhere ever again
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Jan 9, 2016 02:14
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theflyingexecutive posted:oh motherfuck, guess I'm not getting anywhere ever again just wait for it to come to buses 
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Jan 9, 2016 02:27
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time to unleash the drunk bus posting demons then 
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If you're curious why transit is so poo poo in the USA here is an old link with part of the reason: https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/us-rail-construction-costs/ Tldr: quote:Second Avenue Subway Phase 1: $4.9-5.7 billion in 2007-17 for about 3 km of new tunnel. This is $1.7 billion per km.
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Jan 9, 2016 09:46
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shags lusts for a world that is devoid of bikes, buses, and trains
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Jan 9, 2016 09:58
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theflyingexecutive posted:oh motherfuck, guess I'm not getting anywhere ever again they should've put the camera on the ceiling with a zoom lens so you just set your phone facedown on the gate and someone steals your phone and ticket while it reads it
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Jan 9, 2016 11:22
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they should set it up so only a couple turnstiles use qr codes and keep the rest like ezpass lanes for the experienced
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Jan 9, 2016 16:26
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triple sulk posted:shags lusts for a world that is devoid of members of the working class
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Jan 9, 2016 16:35
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triple sulk posted:shags lusts for a world that is devoid of bikes, buses, and trains shags already lives in this world, it's called maine
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Jan 9, 2016 17:20
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Jimmy Carter posted:New York gives up and announces its futuristic ticketing solution: oh god you have to be making GBS threads me
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Jan 9, 2016 17:34
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also how is public transport in miami? my gf's parents are going to south beach for a few days and while i could possibly go pick them up and drive them to wherever they want to go (i'm visiting my parents for the next few days about an hour away from there) i don't really want to borrow one of their cars for that plus no way am i staying in their hotel room so i would have to commute back and forth to do so
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Jan 9, 2016 17:36
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didn't the aarp rate Miami as one of the most pedestrian-hostile areas in the USA? e:yep, number 4 http://www.citylab.com/commute/2014/05/the-most-dangerous-us-cities-for-pedestrians/371253/
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Jan 9, 2016 17:47
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Beeftweeter posted:also how is public transport in miami? you will need a car.
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Jan 9, 2016 18:15
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infernal machines posted:shags already lives in this world, it's called maine we have all of them and they're bad. the train could be good but it stops too much
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Jan 9, 2016 18:15
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haha there was a dude riding a recumbent bike out in the snow but it was like a weird taller recumbent bike and he had a go pro on lmao. bicyclists are the worst "people"
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Jan 9, 2016 18:16
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:you will need a car. well poo poo. carting around some old koreans that barely speak english for 3 days will be great unless it's possible for them to rent one? idk how that works for international people
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Jan 9, 2016 18:23
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lol if you plan a trip without thinking about specifically how you're gonna get around based on local availability of transportation
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Jan 9, 2016 18:33
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mishaq posted:lol if you plan a trip without thinking about specifically how you're gonna get around based on local availability of transportation well her parents came to visit her in nyc and she hasn't lived anywhere that doesn't have semi-decent public transportation (chicago, nyc, seoul & tokyo). i don't understand why they want to go somewhere after flying somewhere else but they originally wanted to take her to san francisco, although they didn't realize how far that is from nyc so she thought a visit to FL before i leave for new york would be a nice surprise even though i go back the day they go back. she has a habit of making last minute long distance travel plans though. so nice of her to tell me literally less than a day before they get here  this is getting a little too cls though
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Jan 9, 2016 18:47
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Beeftweeter posted:unless it's possible for them to rent one? idk how that works for international people it is usually pretty easy they might need international drivers permits (english-language translations of their driver's license data, not a license on its own). that varies state to state
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Jan 9, 2016 18:53
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it's Florida so I'm sure a photo taped to some cardboard counts
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Jan 9, 2016 21:27
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Our drivers licenses are international driver permits too, so there isnt a need for 2 of them, i am sure most eu countries are like that
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infernal machines posted:UPX is great, too bad it has less than half the minimum level of ridership needed to make it feasible. there's a reason snc lavalin backed out of the P3 to operate and manage the line, and metrolinx is loving stupid to think they were somehow going to manage 100% fare recovery and still have anyone ride it. i think i posted this before but my company is like a five minute walk from union and we have ~15 remote employees that fly in to pearson probably like 4-6 times per year. i am the only one who has ever taken upx and i was the only one who knew it existed until i stumbled across it on one visit and started asking my coworkers about it
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the talent deficit posted:i think i posted this before but my company is like a five minute walk from union and we have ~15 remote employees that fly in to pearson probably like 4-6 times per year. i am the only one who has ever taken upx and i was the only one who knew it existed until i stumbled across it on one visit and started asking my coworkers about it public transportation? but...that's for poors!
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Jan 10, 2016 02:04
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notorious made a good point that every missed. commuter buses + transit doesn't help people live without cars. for example it's good and easy to take the train or bus to the CBD for work here in sydney but trying to take the irregular, slow roundabout transit to go cross town to visit friends or do shopping is a major pain and driving is way easier and faster most cities need a good network instead of a CBD focused network that only caters to the 9-5 M-F crowd. i believe houston recently fixed their network to make it work for people who need to go other places than the centre of town and it sounds way better http://humantransit.org/2014/05/houston-a-transit-network-reimagined.html
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Jan 10, 2016 02:58
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also we only give buses priority lanes in peak hour so if you're on the bus on the weekend or during the day you're stuck in traffic and may as well drive. lmao.
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Jan 10, 2016 03:02
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http://www.trapezegroup.co.uk/article/the-pilots-of-our-roads-recognising-the-importance-of-bus-drivers Not that people have ever paid respect to members of a profession based on how demanding it is, but an interesting comparison none the less. Ultimately, planes are associated with travel, leisure, and business, where buses are associated with students, olds and poors. Operating an aircraft is something almost all of us will never do, but every middle class commuter feels entitled to opine as to the quality of every other motorist's driving. But there's a lot of truth here. People really overlook how challenging operating a bus can be. We expect bus operators to operate large motor vehicles to exacting schedules within frequently chaotic traffic and road conditions, all while maintaining composed and knowledgeable customer service, and we expect them to do it alone.
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Jan 15, 2016 18:18
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Jimmy Carter posted:New York gives up and announces its futuristic ticketing solution: one of the coffee shops i go to uses levelup for app-based payments. it's based on a little qr scanner hooked up to a cash register that scans a qr code on a smartphone. in practice, even if image quality is good you have to line your phone up with the scanner and it takes a second or two. so lol at using such a thing for public transit regardless of those factors you mentioned.
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Jan 15, 2016 20:42
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on my Microsoft Lumia 950 running Windows 10 Phone for WIndows Phones QR code reading is so fast you don't even have time to align the code before the phone finds it and reads it.
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Jan 15, 2016 20:48
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how fast is it on your iphone 6s?
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Jan 15, 2016 20:58
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they'll still issue paper tickets, probably, with the QR code printed on them, as NJ transit does it works worse than the old scanner tickets, but it doesn't immediately fail when you insert the ticket into the machine the wrong way (most typical issue)
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Jan 15, 2016 22:10
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the other issue with metrocards is people deliberately loving with them because people are assholes (whichll totally happen with qr too, prob scratchiti or stickers covering the scanners) last winter someone filled one card scanner by me with chewed gum, in freezing weather, that was cool
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Jan 15, 2016 22:11
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Share Bear posted:it works worse than the old scanner tickets, but it doesn't immediately fail when you insert the ticket into the machine the wrong way (most typical issue)
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Jan 15, 2016 22:30
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PhilippAchtel posted:But there's a lot of truth here. People really overlook how challenging operating a bus can be. We expect bus operators to operate large motor vehicles to exacting schedules within frequently chaotic traffic and road conditions, all while maintaining composed and knowledgeable customer service, and we expect them to do it alone. No one who has had to take the bus more than a few times (on vacation to some far-off European utopia, probably) expects bus drivers to do any of those things.
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Jan 15, 2016 22:33
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chicago used to use the same cars as MetroCards but did it with motorized readers that sucked the card in and spit it out at the correct speed to read them. i miss those readers 
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Jan 15, 2016 22:36
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qirex posted:in glorious nippon the readers work no matter which way you put the ticket in [although most people pay using nfc] at most city centers each gate is staffed by at least 2 people to help you out due to technical errors and human errors they're amazing when they work though
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Jan 16, 2016 00:17
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mishaq posted:lol if you plan a trip without thinking about specifically how you're gonna get around based on local availability of transportation this is one of the worst parts about america. her parents coming from korea might not think about this stuff because you can take a last minute trip to any major city in asia and worry about details like how to get around once you get there
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Jan 16, 2016 00:56
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fart simpson posted:this is one of the worst parts about america. her parents coming from korea might not think about this stuff because you can take a last minute trip to any major city in asia and worry about details like how to get around once you get there get a rental car BITCH
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Jan 16, 2016 01:04
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Share Bear posted:at most city centers each gate is staffed by at least 2 people to help you out due to technical errors and human errors in glorious japan, literally every entrance/exit gate of every station in the entire country has 1-2 people there to help.
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we can't afford that kind of expense in north america, because of unions you see
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