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Smythe posted:yea thatd be p deece i guess. should put a trolley or whatever like they have at the grove down it Broadway already has a subway that stops every 4-6 blocks under it and plenty of bike share stations. manhattanites are so spoiled for transit and still all my uber drivers will bitch to me that they'll call a car to go four blocks
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fart simpson posted:maine is bad
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yard salad posted:I went to Maine for vacation. We ate lobster and went sailing. It was good. it was good because you left
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we got a streetcar line and it's a comically mismanaged joke that's barely useful. but at least it's free for a bit, so i guess there's that
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fun fact if you're ever in shenzhen you can ride the bus for free because im pretty sure the drivers dont have authority to physically remove people from the bus. i used to see a family that just boarded and never paid and got into an argument every time but never got kicked off
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this is true for NYC too. as long as you're not crazy about it, it's not worth anyone's time to throw you off. the driver just hits a little "person didn't pay" button and goes about their business
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i've been on busses in london where the person has refused to pay and the driver just turned the engine off until they left rofl
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infernal machines posted:yeah, it's a different use case my city burned all the streetcars in the 50's in a massive bonfire. the only one remaining was used for a Spaghetti Works, but now that's been dismantled and scrapped too. ed. found a pic of it. 
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there are companies that are going to start making updated PCCs from scratch because so many cities are starting heritage streetcar lines thats really funny to me
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theflyingexecutive posted:this is true for NYC too. as long as you're not crazy about it, it's not worth anyone's time to throw you off. the driver just hits a little "person didn't pay" button and goes about their business same for the CTA. if you listen you'll hear a little cricket-like chirp noise when they hit that button it's great when Ventra goes offline because the driver has to hit that button for every person.
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Cygni posted:there are companies that are going to start making updated PCCs from scratch because so many cities are starting heritage streetcar lines old streetcars have a cool style
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lol at this vile swine http://www.laweekly.com/news/thrillist-publishes-then-quickly-takes-down-anti-expo-line-screed-6960431 quote:There's no question that this new train is going to be bringing new people to Santa Monica — and that raises the possibility of crime, accidents and the pitfalls of mass amounts of tourists with access to a part of the city that was at least geographically difficult to access before. Yuck! Imagine all those unsavory beaners coming into *in sexy Latin voice when pronouncing spanish words, which are all of them* SAnta Monica
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Smythe posted:lol at this vile swine every bit of that article is incredible. sounds like a caricature from bonfire of the vanities
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infernal machines posted:... i don't even the most ridiculous claim in that video is the one year approval to opening time
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well it's china, presumably they're not going to be slowed by inconveniences like safety testing
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We're laughing at some stupid Chinese proposal but it's still way better than the hyperloop
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Smythe posted:lol at this vile swine public_transit_investment_in_america.txt
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Every day that thing would hit some overloaded truck. I like the slightly unrealistic bending on corners.
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theflyingexecutive posted:Broadway already has a subway that stops every 4-6 blocks under it and plenty of bike share stations. manhattanites are so spoiled for transit and still all my uber drivers will bitch to me that they'll call a car to go four blocks reminder: you can kill someone with your car in NYC and the police will, at most, write you a ticket.
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The MTA's latest idea to get people to use the bus: put wifi and chargers on them.
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Jimmy Carter posted:The MTA's latest idea to get people to use the bus: put wifi and chargers on them. as someone currently on an mta bus I endorse this. also that loving car thing is atrocious. you can be filmed making an illegal turn into a family going over the speed limit on a suspended license and get a ticket. a ticket you can dispute and win 
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as a new york pedestrian I have made my peace with the fact that I will be killed by a van
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theflyingexecutive posted:also that loving car thing is atrocious. you can be filmed making an illegal turn into a family going over the speed limit on a suspended license and get a ticket. a ticket you can dispute and win 
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the number of people who ride bikes in NYC wearing a gopro facing backwards to record their own snuff film is increasing at a scary rate
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pointsofdata posted:We're laughing at some stupid Chinese proposal but it's still way better than the hyperloop agreed, but that still doesn't make the chinese overtrainbus even remotely practical.
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oops https://twitter.com/NEWSFORWORLD/status/736324540683452416/video/1
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fart simpson posted:fun fact if you're ever in shenzhen you can ride the bus for free because im pretty sure the drivers dont have authority to physically remove people from the bus. i used to see a family that just boarded and never paid and got into an argument every time but never got kicked off depending where you are inc hciago the other passengers might remove you for holding up the bus if you refuse to pay
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my stepdads beer posted:the train doors used to be manually operated in sydney and I can remember this happening a few times. apparently lots of people died? they still have pasenger operated doors on some trains in england. they call em 'slam doors' and its real funny to me but englands history with trains is filled with weird dumb stuff like that the best part is a lot of them had to be opened from the outside, so you would have to fuckin put the window down, stick your arm out and open the door. i guess people on the platform used to get hit by flying elbows and poo poo. incredible Cygni fucked around with this message at 01:43 on May 29, 2016 |
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I want to say this has happened on the L before and i have to imagine it's rather terrifying on an elevated line
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better that they kept the train moving than holding it up/making everyone get off and wait for a new one
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minivanmegafun posted:I want to say this has happened on the L before and i have to imagine it's rather terrifying on an elevated line i don't know if you noticed, but the train was crossing the viaduct there, it's about 130 feet above the river valley
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theflyingexecutive posted:Broadway already has a subway that stops every 4-6 blocks under it and plenty of bike share stations. manhattanites are so spoiled for transit and still all my uber drivers will bitch to me that they'll call a car to go four blocks my sister's neighbor is a decrepit shut-in hoarder who can barely make it down the two floors to the street, as in she throws her cane down the stairs and uses both hands to hold herself up while edging sideways down the stairs. she calls a cab to go a couple blocks and will never move because of rent control and paranoia she also gets mad when people get worried enough to call the landlord to see what's stinking up the hallway while she's disappeared to the hospital occasionally (it's garbage she can't remove from her place herself)
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I found shaggers offsite altquote:Hmm. This is a tough one Londoners. Although, looking at the options given there, 99% of which are some form of “tax or price controls”, this might be a little tougher for Londoners to get.
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nah, shaggar lives in maine. living 30 miles from your place of work would be close.
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I live like 10 miles from work.
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