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nm posted:One of our suburban cities has piloted an on-demand ride system with small buses (that charges regular bus fares). Its a pretty cool system and really helps with that last mile (or 5) problem. This is called "paratransit" and has been around since the 70's. The most common implementation is the small-bus service for people with disabilities - which many jurisdictions created so that they would be ADA compliant without upgrading their entire bus fleet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratransit
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Devor posted:This is called "paratransit" and has been around since the 70's. Yup, we have that in addition to the regular bus system. It helps, and the bus company does do it's best to cover the parts of town that need coverage the most. But with such long routes, many stops gets serviced only once every 30 minutes. Some of the more popular routes do get a second bus, which brings service time down to once every 15 minutes. The bigger issue for me personally is the length of the routes. My trip to work in the morning would be: 1. Walk a half-mile to the nearest bus stop. 2. ride the bus for 25 minutes before reaching transfer point #1, a mile from where I was picked up 3. ride a second bus for 25 minutes to transfer point #2, 3 miles from transfer point #1 4. ride a third bus for 5 minutes to the bus stop where I work, a half-mile from transfer point #2 Even if they put on extra buses to decrease service time at the bus stop to 10 minute intervals, I'd still spend almost an hour on three different buses to go less than 5 miles. It would honestly be faster for me to walk the whole way.
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Jul 9, 2019 21:10
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That thing would probably try beating the truck down the road at 30.
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Jul 9, 2019 21:17
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Devor posted:This is called "paratransit" and has been around since the 70's. This is open to all.
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Jul 9, 2019 23:32
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https://i.imgur.com/xeBCblB.gifv
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Jul 10, 2019 22:23
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This is why the "vanishing point" method is hammered into the brains of MSF BRC students.
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Jul 10, 2019 22:26
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Some giant prick wrecked this guy's car: https://twitter.com/NorthwestFire/status/1149002361701986310
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Jul 11, 2019 13:07
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nm posted:This is open to all. Paratransit is not inherently for the disabled, the use of “para” in this context means “alongside” and not paralyzed. Airport vans are another common example of Paratransit, but privately run. You request a pickup to the airport, they get you there after picking up 8 other people.
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Jul 11, 2019 13:30
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Video version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsjuLsKAEFA&t=189s Action is around 3 minutes if the timestamp doesn't work.
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Jul 11, 2019 15:03
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Phanatic posted:Some giant prick wrecked this guy's car:  for the comment you provided for the restwolrah posted:Video version The one thing he's good at is not driving faster than the brakes on the car can handle.
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Jul 11, 2019 15:12
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wolrah posted:Video version
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wolrah posted:Video version  if you go back to about 2:30 you can see the starting drag marks on the road from the log
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Devor posted:Paratransit is not inherently for the disabled, the use of “para” in this context means “alongside” and not paralyzed. Publicly run paratransit is almost always only open to people with disability needs. It also tends to need reservations so far in advance that it isn't useful for lots of transit needs. At this point, you might as well argue that uberx or owning a car are equivalent.
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Jul 11, 2019 18:13
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So has the sixth gen charger finally usurped the pontiac sunfire for position of "vehicle on the road least likely to be insured"?
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Powershift posted:So has the sixth gen charger finally usurped the pontiac sunfire for position of "vehicle on the road least likely to be insured"? No, I think that will be the Crown Vic or any other panther platform, excepting cop cars.
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Powershift posted:So has the sixth gen charger finally usurped the pontiac sunfire for position of "vehicle on the road least likely to be insured"? Only the V6 versions proudly sporting the names of BHPH lots on their trunklids. Speaking of which, I rarely see R/Ts of that gen out in the wild. Do the HEMIs have a tendency to blow up/fall apart or what? EDIT: Also, Avengers.
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Jul 14, 2019 10:24
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Balliver Shagnasty posted:Do the HEMIs have a tendency to blow up/fall apart or what? The Modular Displacement System likes to eat cams and lifters, and the transmissions they're paired with have a whole host of issues of their own.
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solarNativity posted:The Modular Displacement System likes to eat cams and lifters, and the transmissions they're paired with have a whole host of issues of their own. In the 90's my parents had a weird attachment to Chryslers. First a LeBaron and then a New Yorker. Both had major transmission issues at some point in their lives. It's comforting to know that decades later, and through multiple changes in ownership, even on a 'heavy-duty' product line, Chrysler still can't build a durable transmission to save its own life.
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ProjektorBoy posted:In the 90's my parents had a weird attachment to Chryslers. First a LeBaron and then a New Yorker. Both had major transmission issues at some point in their lives. Their 3.3 and 3.8 liter engines are solid though. I worked at a cab company in the early to mid 2000's. We drove Dodge/Chrysler minivans because we could get them cheap. We had a 2001 model that we bought brand new, had like 13 miles on it, and drove the hell out of it for years. We finally retired the drat thing at over 280,000 miles because we didn't want to put a fourteenth transmission into it. Engine still purred like a kitten.
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PremiumSupport posted:Their 3.3 and 3.8 liter engines are solid though. I worked at a cab company in the early to mid 2000's. We drove Dodge/Chrysler minivans because we could get them cheap. We had a 2001 model that we bought brand new, had like 13 miles on it, and drove the hell out of it for years. We finally retired the drat thing at over 280,000 miles because we didn't want to put a fourteenth transmission into it. Engine still purred like a kitten. It’s eating transmissions more than a normal car needs a clutch replaced? Oh yeah that sounds rock loving solid to me!
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PT6A posted:It’s eating transmissions more than a normal car needs a clutch replaced? Oh yeah that sounds rock loving solid to me! Look at you negative Nancy. Fourteen transmissions in 280,000 miles is a milestone. The average Chrysler owner goes through fourteen replacement vehicles in 280,000 miles.
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PT6A posted:It’s eating transmissions more than a normal car needs a clutch replaced? Oh yeah that sounds rock loving solid to me! The fault was in the transmissions. That particular gearbox on the early 2000 models had a nasty habit of blowing out a portion of the casing under certain conditions. Those conditions being: allowing the drive wheels to spin freely then suddenly catch and stop. This happened a lot when you pair cab drivers who have only two foot positions: brake to the floor or accelerator to the floor, with roads covered in ice or sand.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Look at you negative Nancy. Fourteen transmissions in 280,000 miles is a milestone. The average Chrysler owner goes through fourteen replacement vehicles in 280,000 miles. I knew a dude with a Chrysler Sebring, his parents bought it for him new. The car got two oil changes in its entire life, which was about 55k miles. Scrapped after, not worth replacing an engine.
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Jul 15, 2019 17:11
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I don't see any Ford Explorers from 2002-2010 on the road anymore, either Trailblazers appear to be automotive cockroaches in contrast
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Jul 15, 2019 23:01
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-15/train-smashes-into-cars-on-melbourne-train-tracks/11309040 Morons have a small nose to tail accident, leave their cars on a level crossing while debating who is at fault, and well you can guess what happens next.
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Jul 16, 2019 00:48
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Ugh. So many people in my town will stop in the tracks during rush hour despite the fact if a train does come they would have nowhere to go because traffic is so backed up. They've been putting a lot of radio adds telling people that trains can't loving stop like a car but they still do it anyhow. A few pedestrians near me even manage to get killed because they have in earbuds and are looking at their phones. Maybe I'm just an rear end in a top hat (of course I am) but I don't feel too much pity for someone that oblivious.
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Jul 16, 2019 04:05
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Ho Lee fuk, there were two boys in one of the cars.
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Jul 16, 2019 08:46
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This motherfucker right here. This dumb oval office son of a bitch. All that gravel was right at the back of the trailer, and he was firing those loving rocks at everybody and anybody
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Jul 16, 2019 22:51
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If you feel vindictive that picture might get him an improperly secured load ticket. Kind of a waste of time if you don't have real property damage though.
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These are the highways you share drivers with.  https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/07/16/highway-36-westminster-traffic/
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LloydDobler posted:If you feel vindictive that picture might get him an improperly secured load ticket. Kind of a waste of time if you don't have real property damage though. It would also get Powershift a distracted driving ticket. He had a loving pickup. Why on earth wouldn't he put it in the bed?
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slidebite posted:It would also get Powershift a distracted driving ticket. Probably didn't want to scratch the factory bedliner 
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Jul 17, 2019 07:13
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slidebite posted:It would also get Powershift a distracted driving ticket.
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slidebite posted:It would also get Powershift a distracted driving ticket. Have you seen the load height of modern full sizers?
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Jul 17, 2019 07:41
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SlapActionJackson posted:Have you seen the load height of modern full sizers? I’m told by the commercials I just pull up and they dump thousands of pounds directly into the bed from about 10 ft up? Are you saying this is wrong?
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Jul 17, 2019 13:22
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Had a guy with a white bmw come screaming past me on a under-construction onramp and almost rear end a dump truck yesterday. Also he'd modified his exhaust to be even louder than the construction vehicle.
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Jul 17, 2019 15:22
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Pipes save lives
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Jul 17, 2019 15:24
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SlapActionJackson posted:Have you seen the load height of modern full sizers? What's going on there? The bed is like nipple-high for me on the new F-150. gently caress lifting stuff that high, if I were in the market for a truck-o-mobile I'd want a Colorado, probably a fleet version without any monster truck cosplay crap on it. I dailied an El Camino, so I may be biased.
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Dielectric posted:What's going on there? Truck culture dictates that trucks must be the biggest thing on the road, so as people move towards SUV's trucks have to grow to compensate. Manufacturers are happy to oblige!
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