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move to new york city or any major city in japan welp, later *ollies out of thread* (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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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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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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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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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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yeah its not like the people running those bars need to go home, they live in the bar, they all have sleeping bags
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Dec 11, 2015 18:40
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infrastructure should work the way I WANT IT and not how other people (probably poor??) need to
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Dec 11, 2015 18:41
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mishaq posted:if the bars in your city that doesn't suck close at 4-5 AM, you aren't leaving until 6 AM minimum and you can catch a morning train just fine? what if the bar is open for many hours and my shift ends at 2am instead of midnight, because maybe it's a slow night or the manager feels like tending bar or whatever what if i cannot afford a taxi due to the notoriously low wages of anyone involved in any food service profession what if the entire infrastructure was made such that it can accomodate a life which may not be the standard 9 to 5, and can also accomodate others who rely on my services Share Bear fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Dec 11, 2015 |
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Dec 11, 2015 18:57
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yard salad posted:The parked cars can also be rapidly ticketed and towed for operating in the bus lane or bus zone
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Dec 11, 2015 21:17
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they'll still issue paper tickets, probably, with the QR code printed on them, as NJ transit does it works worse than the old scanner tickets, but it doesn't immediately fail when you insert the ticket into the machine the wrong way (most typical issue)
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Jan 15, 2016 22:10
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the other issue with metrocards is people deliberately loving with them because people are assholes (whichll totally happen with qr too, prob scratchiti or stickers covering the scanners) last winter someone filled one card scanner by me with chewed gum, in freezing weather, that was cool
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Jan 15, 2016 22:11
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qirex posted:in glorious nippon the readers work no matter which way you put the ticket in [although most people pay using nfc] at most city centers each gate is staffed by at least 2 people to help you out due to technical errors and human errors they're amazing when they work though
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Jan 16, 2016 00:17
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dazjw posted:actually once you get a few hours from Tokyo you get to lines like the ōme line that run on the honour system and don't even have gates yeah, it's neat, also i write very ambiguously because this is what i said on the previous page
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Jan 19, 2016 17:27
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theflyingexecutive posted:can YOU find all of New York city's secret subway bathrooms???? there are honestly smells in them I have never smelt before every track at the end of the platform do;ne where is my prize
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Jan 19, 2016 22:53
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The Puppet Master posted:Has there been much discussion about the various apps that each public transport service provides and how actually good they are? this is 9292.nl (the app and the website function pretty much the same) http://m.mta.info/mt/www.mta.info is adequate but could probably use better route finding features. you dont need to calculate fares as the flat fare is the best feature of the nyc subway
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Jan 20, 2016 17:03
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theflyingexecutive posted:there's no reason it shouldn't be a select bus except that people who live in the waterfront condos would never ride a bus yeah pretty much this, also the inability to make bus lanes in that part of brooklyn there are several buses which go from queens to brooklyn, they just start/end in places that have no white people edit: checking the route, it is serviced, you need to transfer at court st if you want the full ride from astoria to sunset park Share Bear fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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Feb 9, 2016 16:43
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the brooklyn<=>queens streetcar project is the dumbest thing i've ever heard of also it is all in the east river flood zone, and cannot reroute around it when a flood happens
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Feb 10, 2016 16:28
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pointsofdata posted:it's gone straight to the top of my list. I think the same guy also tried to demolish a load of poor neighbourhoods in NYC to build a huge motorway make sure to read jane jacobs after, though i dont think all her prescriptions worked out
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Mar 7, 2016 18:09
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Jimmy Carter posted:ban all vehicles from Manhattan it'd be nice if it was just "trucks, buses, and taxis only" or like that london congestion thing , there's probably some unintended consequence to this
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Jun 17, 2016 19:15
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Bloody posted:fygmers get mad it does kind of screw over people who have to get to manhattan from the outer boroughs quickly via car which still count as nyc, who are among the poorer in the city it'd have to be offset by, i dunno, dedicated or separated bus lanes in bk/bx/qns
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Jun 17, 2016 19:59
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infernal machines posted:[ask] me about how much bombardier loving sucks ok compared to kawasaki, the other subway car manufacturer
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Jul 8, 2016 20:37
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infernal machines posted:toronto_transit.txt Good poo poo. I feel there are better ways to demonstrate statistics, like showing the margin or "profit". I can't find the study though.
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Aug 15, 2016 16:02
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here's a good one about how even compared to the port authority and mta, NJ Transit has gotten royally screwed over not by decades of complacency but by chris christie being a transit-defunding-piece-of-poo poo http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/nyregion/new-jersey-transit-crisis.html?_r=0 i hate chris christie so much Share Bear fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Oct 14, 2016 |
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Oct 14, 2016 19:14
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theflyingexecutive posted:mabes in parts of Manhattan, but they're v good in most other places in the city it does depend on the route regardless of part of the city, more like places that have dense traffic or are very poor from the locations
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theflyingexecutive posted:hey if anybody wants to pretend they're driving a Japanese maglev train, there's a mini Japan expo at grand central rn oh cool im gonna try that out
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