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jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord
trains in my city are okay i guess (actually they've hosed up bigtime like twice this week, but other than that)

but the mobile app thing is some useless xamarin.forms garbage that recreates their existing website and sms alerts service and does nothing actually useful

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jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

SO DEMANDING posted:

plz explain why it seems america sucks so goddamn much in terms of large public works projects.
capitalism

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

Shaggar posted:

funding has nothing to do with it. they expanded the downeaster recently and they're gonna expand it more. the problem is the train litterrrallly cannot get up to speed because it stops every 12 miles. that's not hyperbole, that's how it works. if you got rid of all stops between Portland and boston then you'd get there faster than a car and that would be great and would require 0 new infrastructure.
so then have two separate services, the all stations for whatever idiots who actually need it and the express for cool people

except then that probably would require new infrastructure to work

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

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
it's almost as if it's run on a capitalist user-pays basis instead of some hippie commie provide-a-public-service model

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