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fart simpson posted:heres a real brt that's cool
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Jun 21, 2016 09:24
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pointsofdata posted:that should be a train
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Jun 21, 2016 13:31
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looks like they forgot to put the rails down tbh
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Jun 21, 2016 16:08
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BRTs popularity is due to the cost per rear end moved formula, but big investments in hugue flyovers or tunnels makes that formula not as favorable. all of the construction costs with none of the capacity or environmental benefits, basically
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Jun 21, 2016 17:59
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that's a terrible exaggeration a dedicated busway is as reliable as a train, and people will actually choose to ride it for reasons other than poverty/desperation yes it's very expensive to build, but it's cheap to operate and they work well
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Jun 21, 2016 20:55
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also with dedicated busways you can expand transit organically with the same fleet of vehicles to buy/maintain bonus points if you electrify your dedicated brt rights of way and use buses that can run both on electricity and fuel so the same fleet can serve smaller streets that don't make any sense to electrify
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Jun 21, 2016 21:07
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:that's a terrible exaggeration i didnt say they worked poorly, i said it gives away the primary benefit to running a BRT system in the first place, being construction costs, which is why you dont see too many huge investments in BRT like that in the western world really in the US, a 'big BRT' system like that wont even get through the alternatives analysis in the EIR. youll either end up building something smaller/cheaper as BRT or slightly more expensive as LRT
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Jun 21, 2016 21:54
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in the u.s. hardly any transit projects are worthwhile they poo poo out useless at-grade light rail systems that cost a fortune, and "dedicated" bus lanes that cost nothing but also don't improve service enough to matter the only dedicated ROW project i know of right now is LA's "light rail." does it really count as "light" rail if it is on a dedicated ROW and will actually have ridership and runs at more than 5 mph? lol
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Jun 21, 2016 21:58
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the only dedicated ROW project i know of right now is LA's "light rail." does it really count as "light" rail if it is on a dedicated ROW and will actually have ridership and runs at more than 5 mph? lol you can have a dedicated/independent ROW and run at-grade, including at-grade road crossings. all LA light rail except the Green Line is in that category if you mean fully grade separated, currently under construction is the BART extension, the 2nd ave subway in NYC, the purple line subway in LA, the 200th st, northgate, and lynwood extensions in Seattle, silver line extension in DC, the Honolulu HART, and some of the denver lines i think. i might be missing some
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Jun 21, 2016 22:29
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Cygni posted:you can have a dedicated/independent ROW and run at-grade, including at-grade road crossings. all LA light rail except the Green Line is in that category those are some drat nice transit facts son
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Jun 21, 2016 22:55
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we're building a mixed grade-separated (tunneled)/at-grade dedicated row lrt line for our eglinton crosstown line here in toronto. it's tunneled in the city core but at grade with at grade crossings (with signal priority, of course) outside of that. for some reason the original plan stops 2km short of the city's western edge, the airport, and connections to mississauga, our largest neighbour. so there's an extension plan in the works, but it's unlikely to be finished before something like 2025 the original plan to replace the rickety-rear end SRT out in scarberia also included at-grade dedicated row lrt. that's been changed a dozen times and the current officially unofficial "plan" is to spend three billion dollars to build a one-stop subway extension to a mall.
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Jun 21, 2016 23:03
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mishaq posted:those are some drat nice transit facts son thanks my man, i got lots more over here cause the thing about transit is that its cool but also good
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Jun 21, 2016 23:14
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Cygni posted:heres an old documentary about all the cool old transit systems in the bay area. gonna be fun having to spend billions to rebuild all this over my lifetime cause cars are bad v. cool
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Jun 21, 2016 23:21
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Cygni posted:thanks my man, i got lots more over here cause the thing about transit is that its cool but also good 
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Jun 21, 2016 23:28
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Cygni posted:you can have a dedicated/independent ROW and run at-grade, including at-grade road crossings.
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Jun 21, 2016 23:31
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Cygni posted:thanks my man, i got lots more over here cause the thing about transit is that its cool but also good i like things that are cool & good
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Jun 22, 2016 01:01
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https://twitter.com/dwresearch/status/745385774204489729
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Jun 22, 2016 01:16
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looks about right. i drove home and parked in what seemed to be the peak of the storm and stepped out into ankle-deep running water
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Jun 22, 2016 01:26
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some day the CTA is supposed to extend the red line past 95th, or so they keep promising seeing as it's mostly black people down there I'm not confident it's ever going to happen they closed down the entire red line south of Roosevelt for renovations a couple years back when they did the same improvements on the north side they were magically able to route around it and do it mostly on weekends
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Jun 22, 2016 01:36
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what exactly is wmata supposed to do about flash flooding to "unsuck"
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Jun 22, 2016 02:21
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mishaq posted:what exactly is wmata supposed to do about flash flooding to "unsuck" doesn't the NYC subway just Deal With It regularly? I seem to recall reading that water in the subways there is just a thing water pouring into the underground parts of the Chicago L is pretty uncommon though, I can't recall it happening even in amazingly torrential downpours blizzards tend to be different, though. http://www.chicago-l.org/mishaps/blizzard79.html the last blizzard we had went pretty well though, I was riding it around during it and it was all "whatevs" but I was on proper elevated parts of it; a good amount of the blue line runs more-or-less "at grade" in the median of the interstate
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Jun 22, 2016 02:28
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well, whatevs, excepting all the snow that blew into the car at every stop
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Jun 22, 2016 02:28
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Torontonians here's an an article to make you feel better about your crappy transit system http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-toronto-transit-getting-around-20160619-column.html chicago's mayor is bad, but illinois's governor is worse
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Jun 22, 2016 02:33
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i like how people are just going about their business like welp, escalator is a river again eh? at least we got (wrong cleveland) Cygni fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Jun 22, 2016 |
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Jun 22, 2016 02:59
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mishaq posted:what exactly is wmata supposed to do about flash flooding to "unsuck" nothing. unsuckdcmetro is just a lovely Twitter that complains about anything possible regardless of whether it's something that's actually wmata's fault or not.
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Jun 22, 2016 03:19
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Tatsujin posted:on the topic of 24 hour transit, that actually got me in trouble recently. im so used to blackout me stumbling onto a bus or train and knowing how to get home back in chicago, but im currently in san antonio and decided to go to a pool party/bbq over in austin. long story short blackout me couldnt change back into street clothes because the party got shut down so without phone/wallet I stumbled onto the metrotrain and ended up in Leander. By the time I sobered up I was trying to get back to Austin and sure enough the local cops threw my rear end into wilco county jail. gently caress wilco county Half-naked, drunk out of my mind, in the wrong city, no ID, and no friends, and these loving pigs had the NERVE to give me a cell to sober up in! e: suck my dick oxford comma Eugene V. Dubstep fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Jun 22, 2016 |
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Jun 22, 2016 05:22
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Tatsujin posted:on the topic of 24 hour transit, that actually got me in trouble recently. im so used to blackout me stumbling onto a bus or train and knowing how to get home back in chicago, but im currently in san antonio and decided to go to a pool party/bbq over in austin. long story short blackout me couldnt change back into street clothes because the party got shut down so without phone/wallet I stumbled onto the metrotrain and ended up in Leander. By the time I sobered up I was trying to get back to Austin and sure enough the local cops threw my rear end into wilco county jail. gently caress wilco county hi my favorite transit-anger: Austin Light Rail aka they had a chance to do something to deal with both their massive drunk driving problem and traffic issues but LOL NOPE I talked to a cop while riding one once about their opinion of it getting people off the streets or at least reducing the number of dangerous miles driven/pushing them out into less populated areas and his response was 'yeah I don't get what you're talking about and we don't care'
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Jun 22, 2016 06:02
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wow look at this guy trying to find an empathetic cop anywhere in texas
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Progressive JPEG posted:wow look at this guy trying to find an empathetic cop anywhere
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Jun 22, 2016 06:45
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Progressive JPEG posted:wow look at this guy wasting his life in a terrible state like texas
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Jun 22, 2016 07:01
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Jimmy Carter posted:hi my favorite transit-anger: Austin Light Rail so basically it was a combo of: - me shirtless (also no id no phone) - I didnt know where the gently caress I was (I remember blackout me getting on the train, but since I didn't have a phone I had no idea where I was) - I'm not from 'round here that was enough sass points for the local cop to toss me in jail. the funny part is that if i walked 30 minutes down the toll road I would have ended up in travis county where travis county sheriffs or round rock pd would have actually tried to help me
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Imagine how outraged you would be to find out that uncaring Texas cops had released some shirtless, homeless, lost drunk to walk down the highway to the nearest jurisdiction in the middle of the night. "Nobody cares about the mentally ill in this country! If he had been some rich white boy he'd have been chauffeured to the police station for coffee and a phone call!"
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Jun 22, 2016 10:19
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I guess that's true, I mean I am white. the best part about jail was the clearly manic dude who hit his g/f getting upset when they wouldn't tell him right away what he was charged with
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Jun 22, 2016 10:23
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https://medium.com/@adamsusaneck/bay-area-2050-the-bart-metro-map-ab83b22d3d8b#.3g21up8lx
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https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/06/24/transit-boondoggle-unfolding-before-our-eyes-james.htmlquote:How do you trust a mayor who looks you in the eye to say he’s saving you money by backing a new subway that just went up in cost by a billion dollars, or more than 30 per cent?
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Jun 25, 2016 03:12
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if you read the words 'boondoggle' or 'millennial', you legally have to stop reading the post or article its the law, and you just broke the law by reading past it above. congrats youre a criminal now youre going to jail pal
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Jun 25, 2016 03:21
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no he's cool, the thing being discussed is the literal definition of boondoggle
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Jun 25, 2016 03:24
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is it bad to switch to drive when you are still rolling backwards? if you hold down the brake and gas at the same time while at a stoplight what does it wear out on the car?
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lampey posted:is it bad to switch to drive when you are still rolling backwards? God, yes. You're hammering the teeth on your first gear with some multiple of the force of an entire car rolling backward. quote:if you hold down the brake and gas at the same time while at a stoplight what does it wear out on the car? You will probably gently caress up your power train first but it puts undue stress on pretty much the entire system from engine to brakes.
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