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blugu64 posted:moral to the story sounds like buses are unreliable and will never get you to places like interviews on time what will, cars?
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mishaq posted:no one lives in washington state or oregon but seattle and portland somehow manage to be less sprawled out shitholes that texas or lovely midwestern cities ??? seattle has a nice center but if you think it isn't surrounded by endless suburban sprawl that is only accessible by car then boy do i have a surprise for you
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if you actually care about the interview, don't plan to get there only five minutes early 
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rjmccall posted:seattle has a nice center but if you think it isn't surrounded by endless suburban sprawl that is only accessible by car then boy do i have a surprise for you all american cities are but texas/kansas city etc are a different level of badness
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Bbbbut Kansas city has light rail* now!! * Single 2 mile streetcar line, often stopped due to cars parked too close to track
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hackbunny posted:ybuspos yeah this is the worst, london buses don't have rt traffic based timing  ((((
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citymapper is pure ownage tho
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i used to live near this one bus route that was always like 4-8 minutes later than the schedule. i didn't take it very often though, so by the next time i took it i would forget about this, then at like 0:03 after it doesn't show up i would remember "oh right". not taking it often also meant i CBA to write an email to transit about it, so it's probably still busted like that
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:DFW was two pancakes that were plopped down too closely and welded together this is a perfect analogy
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Progressive JPEG posted:Highway lane miles per capita (miles per 1k people) where is the source list for this i want to see where good cities rate
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Bloody posted:where is the source list for this i want to see where good cities rate google is hard http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=198942
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That forum is getting those lists from some defunct blog working with a US DOT highway data publication. The blog writer just took the spreadsheet column for "estimated freeway lane miles" and divided it by the "estimated population" column. I'm skeptical if the resulting figure really shows insight into much, because it doesn't take into account the percentage of total roadway miles that are freeways, population density, and the fact that lane-miles are only counted as an estimate and only for freeways (i.e. not for all road types). Another thing I'm curious about is that that DOT report defines metros in terms of "federal-aid urbanized areas", which I'm not familiar with. I'm a bit dubious of this because when you look at the data table, it breaks down these areas based on which states have territory in that urban area, and the numbers look funny to me. For example, it shows the "New York-Newark" area as having territory in NY, NJ, and CT, and it lists the "total roadway miles" in the CT portion as 4. Yes, four whole miles. And this seems funny to me because the MSA and CSA areas for NYC don't line up with this at all, the smaller one (MSA) not having CT at all and instead including an entire county in PA.
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FRA has posted draft rules to allow European regulation trains in the states, aka the thing that everyone has been begging for the last 30 years. would potentially shave millions off of rolling stock orders for commuter railways. ty obama! http://usa.streetsblog.org/2016/11/30/federal-regulators-will-let-u-s-railroads-run-faster-more-efficient-trains/
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Cygni posted:FRA has posted draft rules to allow European regulation trains in the states, aka the thing that everyone has been begging for the last 30 years. would potentially shave millions off of rolling stock orders for commuter railways. ty obama! in before shagger says this will cause more deaths
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mishaq posted:in before shagger says this will cause more deaths I'm 60/40 between that and something about people having to use them to die on them
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fewer structural elements means that the bike cars will have greater capacity it will be a natural next step to improve bicycle facilities in the vicinity of stations
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mishaq posted:in before shagger says this will cause more deaths There was a train crash in Britain in the 80's where an old train hit the buffers at about 10mph 2 people were killed and 542 injured
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c-transit-s 1) took a ride on the train the other day. suddenly, the PA announcement of "no smoking allowed" began to play repeatedly. then i started to smell the weed smoke. after a bit, "the police are responding to an incident on this train". um ok, i didn't actually see the cops come in so it must have been quick. fun fact this was on the GREEN line lol 2) clearly intoxicated morons who tried to merge into my car despite not actually needing to merge. i lay on the horn and this is rewarded with them throwing out many flaming cigarettes, and one dude hanging his rear end out of the minivan passenger window so he can raise his middle finger real high toward me as they speed off going 20-30% over the limit 3) this morning on my commute home i pass custom plates of NODRUGS and RAWMILK
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MikeCrotch posted:There was a train crash in Britain in the 80's where an old train hit the buffers at about 10mph ah yes, the soft-brexit
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:fewer structural elements means that the bike cars will have greater capacity next thing you know cyclists will be demanding to ride their bikes on the rails with the trains
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LA becomes the third US metro after boston and chicago to order subway cars from chinese govt owned CRRC, mostly because they are so cheap. bodies will be built in Changchun, China, then shipped to Massachusetts for assembly. combining high quality chinese materials with american assembly quality, what could go wrong. the first CRRC cars on US lines should show up in 2019 on boston's red line, followed by chicago and LA in 2020. hold on to ur butts.
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Cygni posted:LA becomes the third US metro after boston and chicago to order subway cars from chinese govt owned CRRC, mostly because they are so cheap. bodies will be built in Changchun, China, then shipped to Massachusetts for assembly. combining high quality chinese materials with american assembly quality, what could go wrong. lol
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tmesis posted:next thing you know cyclists will be demanding to ride their bikes on the rails with the trains lol
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Cygni posted:LA becomes the third US metro after boston and chicago to order subway cars from chinese govt owned CRRC, mostly because they are so cheap. bodies will be built in Changchun, China, then shipped to Massachusetts for assembly. combining high quality chinese materials with american assembly quality, what could go wrong. I think you'll find that American trains are actually the safest in the world.
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There's some stat about more network rail workers in the UK dying driving between stations than on trains/tracks
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pointsofdata posted:I think you'll find that American trains are actually the safest in the world. its hard to die on a train you cant ride because its out of service for maintenance, like those CRRCs probably will be !!
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that's fine though, since nobody rides the train it doesn't matter if they're in service or not
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i rode the light rail from seattle airport to downtown and it was cool and good and only cost $3
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Shaman Linavi posted:i rode the light rail from seattle airport to downtown and it was cool and good and only cost $3 nice
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Cygni posted:LA becomes the third US metro after boston and chicago to order subway cars from chinese govt owned CRRC, mostly because they are so cheap. bodies will be built in Changchun, China, then shipped to Massachusetts for assembly. combining high quality chinese materials with american assembly quality, what could go wrong. lollll the red line and orange line here have been alternating catching on fire every week. https://twitter.com/StuartLong81/status/791381865009668096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw its v scary+sobering to know that the MBTA is the number TWO service in the country and this is the state of affairs
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theyre just gettin yall prepared
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Munkeymon posted:I'm 60/40 between that and something about people having to use them to die on them blugu64 posted:that's fine though, since nobody rides the train it doesn't matter if they're in service or not low rent train shaggar but I'll take it
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Casual Encountess posted:lollll the red line and orange line here have been alternating catching on fire every week. dc metro is just as bad guess we can all just start biking
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i like to imagine that houston and san antonio, the #4 and #7 most populous cities in this great nation, grow like how pancake batter acts when you plop it onto a griddle if you model LA population density as a 3d object it really does look like a pancake (with mountain ranges running through it but sure)
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Cygni posted:LA becomes the third US metro after boston and chicago to order subway cars from chinese govt owned CRRC, mostly because they are so cheap. bodies will be built in Changchun, China, then shipped to Massachusetts for assembly. combining high quality chinese materials with american assembly quality, what could go wrong. could be worse: they could have hired bombardier
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Chris Knight posted:could be worse: they could have hired bombardier guess who the CTA hired for their last round of trainsets before this CRRC set  http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/passenger/rapid-transit/bombardier-resumes-cta-car-delivery.html?channel= http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-08/news/ct-met-cta-train-probe-20120308_1_cta-contract-cta-customers-cta-officials
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Welp between visiting Japan in 2008 and just returning from spending a week in Taipei I can't say I'm at all impressed with any American transit system
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meatpotato posted:Welp between visiting Japan in 2008 and just returning from spending a week in Taipei I can't say I'm at all impressed with any American transit system eastern european major city buses are better than most american transit
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