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Notorious b.s.d. posted:it is admittedly something of a chicken/egg problem. much of the what is today the nyc subway was built speculatively. tracks and stations built into farms and cowtowns. and they spent an unholy amount of money to build it all -- the first bonds for subway construction were worth something like 50% of the property value of manhattan. and they all went bankrupt and had to have the city take them over lol
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looks like pop is officially rolled out on all the streetcar routes http://ttc.ca/Fares_and_passes/Fare_information/Proof_of_payment.jsp got stopped by a fare check getting off the 506 this morning
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and well soon have another courtesy of our most recently former mayor & the spineless council who was too chicken to remind him that he couldn't unilaterally make change to the transit deal
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Shaggar posted:You can get around Boston fine walking and riding the t. Maybe live in better cities? go ahead
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https://twitter.com/moore_oliver/status/678641151298117633
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infernal machines posted:one of my favourite bars is within drunken stumbling distance of my apartment. another is a 10 minute streetcar ride away. hell yeah
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between this and their midnight sun cruises, norway looks p. cool place to go
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Wild EEPROM posted:they're just switching away from honor system here and people are pissed. jfc I thought they had a good thing going out there. welp
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minivanmegafun posted:there used to be more! can i get a franklin to la salle track wobble?
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San Diego used to use the same rolling stock as Edmonton and Calgary and Frankfurt
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50th anniversary of the bloor line was a couple of weeks ago  http://www.citynews.ca/2016/02/25/ttc-celebrates-bloor-lines-50th-birthday/
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Silver Alicorn posted:I don't think there's 1.6 billion people in new york you'd be surprised snype delayed due to injury at track level
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Captain Foo posted:what possible reason could there be for excluding the green line "heavy rail" only list
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RoFo gets his final revenge by diverting two streetcar lines due to his funeral procession
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pointsofdata posted:We're laughing at some stupid Chinese proposal but it's still way better than the hyperloop agreed, but that still doesn't make the chinese overtrainbus even remotely practical.
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oops https://twitter.com/NEWSFORWORLD/status/736324540683452416/video/1
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spectres of autism posted:not rly related but i got this for my dad pro gift
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infernal machines posted:blue-sky speculation about turning a major downtown thoroughfare into a car-free zone in toronto let's loving do this thing now
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Jun 17, 2016 23:39
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:it's way more awesome when a streetcar plows into some dumbass driver tryin to cut across the tracks it's great, the cars have no drat chance lol
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Jun 18, 2016 23:28
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you haven't lived until you've taken the vomit comet
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Jun 19, 2016 03:27
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plus you get drivers like I used to have on the 506 and now on the 501 who make funny announcements as everyone is getting off at Yonge, "no, wait, please don't go, I can change, I promise!"
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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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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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NAFTA!
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i've yet to catch a new car on the 514 route, but by itself it's made getting around the college st construction good
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Lutha Mahtin posted:my favorite american roundabouts are the ones in residential neighborhoods, where they just plopped down a circle of concrete into an existing intersection and called 'er good michigan seems to be going for roundabouts in a big way, and they helpfully put signs up to show what lane you're supposed to be in for what direction you want
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gently caress this gay earth https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2016/07/13/city-council-debates-scarborough-subway-extension.htmlquote:City council has endorsed moving ahead with a one-stop subway extension in Scarborough, rejecting a push to revive a seven-stop LRT as part of a light-rail network that could serve more residents for less money.
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MrMoo posted:Does he have 10 wives or something? Metro pass is like $130/mo? woosh
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mishaq posted:text to speech is bad on public transportation the ttc started using some text to speech for general announcements and it's *way* more intelligible than the old system coming from the controllers. the latter have got better with some upgrades. though it has trouble with some of the station names, like saying 'dundas' as 'dundiss' instead of 'dun-dass'
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infernal machines posted:toronto transit: a boondoggle in several parts gently caress rob ford, but motherfuck our goddamn city council
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oh goddamnit. loving council just die in a fire
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Bloody posted:elevators are by far the safest vehicle by passenger-mile mr president, build the mile high
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Toronto installed tracking on busses and streetcars and it's good. except for when there are shuttles replacing streetcars then it's hosed
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transit.app is v. good
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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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sure, pal, not at the rate it's going (special "gently caress you" shoutout to city council) http://www.blogto.com/city/2017/01/ttc-ceo-thinks-toronto-transit-system-will-be-best-north-america/
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