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Grandmaster.flv posted:content post: gently caress Charlie Baker
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they added LTE to the N/Q/R over the course of the last year, but not at any of the adjoining transfer platforms (to the 4/5/6 for example), it's kinda odd on the other hand, the 4/5/6 has a timetable board that updates frequently, but the N/Q/R has a disembodied voice from the dispatcher announcing train times each line is slightly different due to historical reasons and nothing is unified except the map and fare
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Nov 20, 2015 17:18
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the dc metro has had cdma voice in its tunnels dating back to the bell atlantic mobile days they havent upgraded it since, still get janky 1x in the tunnels with verizon you do get lte with most carriers in most stations though
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Nov 20, 2015 17:24
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Share Bear posted:they added LTE to the N/Q/R over the course of the last year, but not at any of the adjoining transfer platforms (to the 4/5/6 for example), it's kinda odd I know a guy who works for the company that makes those timetable boards on the platforms, because they have advertising the deployment is tied up in those contracts
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Nov 20, 2015 17:31
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Stereotype posted:Honolulu is getting a train and I'm excited about that. the worst traffic jam I'd ever experienced was on Oahu when the zipper truck thing broke down last March while I was visiting. took 5 hours to get from Waikiki to Waipahu. ohau's transit system is so hosed
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Nov 20, 2015 18:08
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qirex posted:I know a guy who works for the company that makes those timetable boards on the platforms, because they have advertising the deployment is tied up in those contracts yeah they had contracted out wifi to some advertisers at specific stations, those are expiring so people can get actual cellular service on the platforms new thing is giant video advertisements outside stations, giant touch screen guides at heavily trafficed stations, and more announcements/psas about being polite on the subway in various ways like 
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Nov 20, 2015 18:49
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I went into my friend's office when I was out there and they had a prototype of the "public internet terminal" thing they're using to replace payphones, it's basically a giant video billboard with an android tablet stuck in the side of it
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Nov 20, 2015 19:08
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Grandmaster.flv posted:why doesn't California have some kind of pan-Californian high speed monorail or w/e societies in the endstage of decline are too decadent to maintain their existing infrastructure, let alone carry out large scale civil engineering projects
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Nov 20, 2015 20:25
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angry_keebler posted:societies in the endstage of decline are too decadent to maintain their existing infrastructure, let alone carry out large scale civil engineering projects  it's true.. *thinking above rome* 
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Nov 20, 2015 21:05
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angry_keebler posted:societies in the endstage of decline are too decadent to maintain their existing infrastructure, let alone carry out large scale civil engineering projects gonna be thinking about this and collapsing bridges as i drink tonight
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Nov 20, 2015 21:16
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uh, maybe you didn't read yeats but there's this poem about like the wide gyro or w/e anyway i guess if you try to cram too much kabob in it then the center will get soggy and then you'll get depressed and start slouching e: the sandwich isn't literal it's called a metaphore idk it's too complicated to explain if you don't get it angry_keebler fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Nov 20, 2015 |
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Nov 20, 2015 21:16
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angry_keebler posted:uh, maybe you didn't read yeats but there's this poem about like the wide gyro or w/e anyway i guess if you try to cram too much kabob in it then the center will get soggy and then you'll get depressed and start slouching i am enlightened and en-hungered
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Nov 20, 2015 21:36
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transit's for poors and also millennials which is redundant
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Nov 20, 2015 21:44
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Internaut! posted:transit's for poors and also millennials which is redundant *sits in traffic for 2 hours to go 20 miles*
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Nov 20, 2015 21:45
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Technically you can take the train from San Francisco to Sacramento. However even in the worst rush hour traffic on Friday at 3PM on I-80, you'll probably beat the train because you have to change tracks and poo poo and google says it would take like 16 hours.
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Nov 20, 2015 22:19
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Larry Parrish posted:Technically you can take the train from San Francisco to Sacramento. However even in the worst rush hour traffic on Friday at 3PM on I-80, you'll probably beat the train because you have to change tracks and poo poo and google says it would take like 16 hours. the train from sacramento to emeryville is like 1.5 hours, ive had friends do it before but then you gotta take a bus or BART from there to downtown SF
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Nov 20, 2015 23:52
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Share Bear posted:they added LTE to the N/Q/R over the course of the last year, but not at any of the adjoining transfer platforms (to the 4/5/6 for example), it's kinda odd The way that they're doing the project is actually pretty smart given the decrepit condition of the system as a whole. The 'base stations' are in an anonymous server room, then the RF signal gets modulated into fiber and shot down to the individual stations, where they strap boxes to the ceiling that convert it back to RF, so that they don't have to swap out hardware at each station when x-treme 8G LLLTE gets rolled out. They then run fiber down the tunnels to nearby stations, which is why there's cell service at kind-of random stations (e.g. 21st-Van Alst on the G, which is something like the 3rd least used station in the entire system). Gizmodo actually had a pretty good article http://gizmodo.com/inside-the-secret-building-thats-bringing-cell-service-1592846616 NYC originally had 2 different companies and another company owned by NYC building subways, so of course they made different sized trains. The B division (the letter trains) is a merger of one of two of the companies, but the other (A division aka the number trains) had smaller trains and sharper curves so they can't mix and match trains. In the 90's they started implementing a system on the A division which could tell which train was where on the track as opposed to just a light on a board that says THERE IS A TRAIN SOMEWHERE AROUND HERE, however for an unknown reason they didn't bother to actually make it such that the trains could be automated (and thus run closer together). The entire project was, unsurprisingly, years late and massively over-budget. The B division is still running on tech from the 30's. There are track occupancy sensors, and that's it, all they see is 'there is a train somewhere on this 1000' section of track'. Trains will get to a junction, driver will open a window and push a button with a stick that indicates where they want to go. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-dont-we-know-where-all-the-trains-are/415152/ They completely replaced the tracks, signals, switches and switching house out in Carroll Gardens, and it was still the same tech. They automated the L train and that took almost a decade, and it was the shortest line on the system. If you watch the train as it's pulling in, you'll see that the guy driving the train is usually like, reading a book. They tried to get rid of the now-useless conductor in the middle of the train but THE UNION flipped out and it's still there. To give you an idea of the state of NYC subway tech: even on new trains that theoretically know what station they are pulling into, the conductor opens a window and points to a sign that says OPEN ON THIS SIDE before opening the doors, because there is nothing preventing them from opening them on the wrong side.
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Nov 21, 2015 00:48
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Jimmy Carter posted:The way that they're doing the project is actually pretty smart given the decrepit condition of the system as a whole. The 'base stations' are in an anonymous server room, then the RF signal gets modulated into fiber and shot down to the individual stations, where they strap boxes to the ceiling that convert it back to RF, so that they don't have to swap out hardware at each station when x-treme 8G LLLTE gets rolled out. They then run fiber down the tunnels to nearby stations, which is why there's cell service at kind-of random stations (e.g. 21st-Van Alst on the G, which is something like the 3rd least used station in the entire system). Gizmodo actually had a pretty good article http://gizmodo.com/inside-the-secret-building-thats-bringing-cell-service-1592846616 
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Nov 21, 2015 03:34
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i finally got a parking permit next to my office, gently caress the bus
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Nov 21, 2015 03:57
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Ericadia posted:the worst traffic jam I'd ever experienced was on Oahu when the zipper truck thing broke down last March while I was visiting. took 5 hours to get from Waikiki to Waipahu. ohau's transit system is so hosed Lol that was the funniest thing ever since I bike to school. All the surface streets were completely hosed too because everything relies on the H1 being operational.
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Nov 21, 2015 04:12
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Stereotype posted:Lol that was the funniest thing ever since I bike to school. All the surface streets were completely hosed too because everything relies on the H1 being operational. I'm just happy I pooped before I got in the car
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Nov 21, 2015 08:12
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Jimmy Carter posted:The way that they're doing the project is actually pretty smart given the decrepit condition of the system as a whole. The 'base stations' are in an anonymous server room, then the RF signal gets modulated into fiber and shot down to the individual stations, where they strap boxes to the ceiling that convert it back to RF, so that they don't have to swap out hardware at each station when x-treme 8G LLLTE gets rolled out. They then run fiber down the tunnels to nearby stations, which is why there's cell service at kind-of random stations (e.g. 21st-Van Alst on the G, which is something like the 3rd least used station in the entire system). Gizmodo actually had a pretty good article http://gizmodo.com/inside-the-secret-building-thats-bringing-cell-service-1592846616 cool
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Nov 24, 2015 23:50
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i commute on a bike because im not a terrified fatass that has to shield oneself in a living room on wheels, surrounded by every modern amenity at all times, the windows rolled up soundly to keep out all human contact
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Nov 25, 2015 00:13
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BART And You're THere!!
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Nov 25, 2015 00:42
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to be honest I love transit
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Nov 25, 2015 00:53
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qirex posted:I know a guy who works for the company that makes those timetable boards on the platforms, because they have advertising the deployment is tied up in those contracts i hate those loving things, theres like 15 seconds of information and then 5 minutes of ads with no way to get back to the timetable once the ads start to roll
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Nov 25, 2015 01:11
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yard salad posted:i commute on a bike because im not a terrified fatass that has to shield oneself in a living room on wheels, surrounded by every modern amenity at all times, the windows rolled up soundly to keep out all human contact lol source your quotes
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Nov 25, 2015 01:36
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yard salad posted:i commute on a bike because im not a terrified fatass that has to shield oneself in a living room on wheels, surrounded by every modern amenity at all times, the windows rolled up soundly to keep out all human contact seat warmers are dope.
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Nov 25, 2015 02:14
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I like how the San Diego metropolitan transit system, sometimes also the north county transit district, can take me anywhere I need to go for as little as $2 a day
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Nov 25, 2015 07:57
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$2 day pass? Really?
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Nov 25, 2015 18:20
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well a monthly pass is $72 a regular day pass is $5 unless you're 
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Nov 25, 2015 19:41
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we should get a :rotor: emote
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Nov 25, 2015 19:41
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transit passes in vienna, austria are around $400/year for residents for combined bus/streetcar/metro usage it's almost as if, encouraging people to use transit is cool + good
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Nov 25, 2015 20:51
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mishaq posted:transit passes in vienna, austria are around $400/year for residents for combined bus/streetcar/metro usage lol in nyc its well over $1200/yr if you buy monthly passes every month
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Nov 25, 2015 22:35
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Beeftweeter posted:lol in nyc its well over $1200/yr if you buy monthly passes every month at least there's a pass if you take the dc metro 5 days a week you could potentially be shelling out $3000/year, there are no discounted fares except for olds and dc students
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Nov 25, 2015 22:46
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mishaq posted:at least there's a pass meh you dont have to deal with metrocards. a fair trade
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Nov 25, 2015 22:52
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Beeftweeter posted:lol in nyc its well over $1200/yr if you buy monthly passes every month i had a stint at a job in sacramento where parking, with the monthly passes, was $1,980/year  , but you can have the fee taken out of your paycheck pre-tax "so that makes it okay"  i lived 20 miles away and my daily commute took anywhere between 45 to 90 min. i was rear-ended twice in the bumper-to-bumper shennanigans. other transit options included: - light rail for $100/mo. although it was hardly any faster than driving due to the frequent stops, and i'd have to leave 15-20min earlier to slog through 5 miles of traffic to the station, and the light rail station has its own parking fee. - bus i got out of the job pretty quickly, but i still hate my dumb gay SF satellite city.
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Nov 26, 2015 00:10
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mishaq posted:at least there's a pass the dc metro is a funky hybrid of commuter rail and subway the nyc subway is priced so that the longest rides are the cheapest, because the richest people live at the center and the poorest at the edges. so the edges are implicitly subsidized. with nyc commuter rail, you pay more the further you go, because no poo poo, you're a rich commuting suburbanite, you can afford it. dc metro is a subway system that uses a commuter rail attitude. they charge people in ways that make pretty much no sense, assuming somehow that the covered area is an undifferentiated mass of people who chose to live closer or further from work
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Nov 26, 2015 00:33
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Beeftweeter posted:meh you dont have to deal with metrocards. a fair trade the support contract on metrocards is running out and there is 0 plan to replace them soon metrocard will join the increasingly large suite of abandoned technologies for which the MTA fabs 100% of replacement parts themselves, in-house, at fabulous expense. a great union jobs program, terrible way to run a transit system.
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Roargasm posted:the mbta has a $200M budget shortfall this year so good luck with your incipient expansion. I take the commuter rail into town and it fuckin sucks at being on time every transit system loses money, that is intentional. capital is provided by voters or not at all
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