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Nov 19, 2015 17:14
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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. lol at defending the state of the northeast corridor with its 100 year old narrow tunnels everywhere
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Nov 19, 2015 17:16
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the other cool take-away from those dates: the mta phased out tokens around the time all other transit systems were moving to contactless somewhere in there: dc + baltimore adopt contactless technology from a company that then goes bankrupt half the readers are so bad you have to mash your card and rub it around before the reader picks up anything not to mention the slow as gently caress gates to enter/exit the station that have not been updated since the 70s
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Nov 26, 2015 06:53
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the dc metro is a funky hybrid of commuter rail and subway eh, i see you point in a way, the dc metro was primarily designed to get people in and out of dc and does a poor job of getting people around dc itself but if you look at major metro systems outside the US, where the dc metro is comparable in number of stations or track length (take the Berlin U-bahn) and they manage to be fixed fare no matter what distance, or at least zones
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Nov 26, 2015 06:55
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:so yes, we agree entirely. it is very bad
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Nov 27, 2015 01:03
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carry on then posted:the only metro train system i've used is london's, tell me why it's bad no a/c so in the summer it can get so hot they hand out water bottles so people don't collapse from heat exhaustion
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Nov 27, 2015 15:56
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lol if bars and clubs cant stay open late enough on friday/saturday nights so you can just catch the train the next morning
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Nov 28, 2015 01:46
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Tatsujin posted:i like how chicago will charge you extra if and only if you are leaving O'Hare on the Blue line, or if you're going to/from the bears game from the commuter rail station i like the 500 person deep lines for the 4 ticket machines or whatever at ohare at least create some express machines that only sell a single use one way ticket or something so people can get the gently caress out of there
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Nov 30, 2015 17:54
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fart simpson posted:24 hour subway systems are actually rare though. new york's is the only one i;ve personally seen except for tokyo on new years eve. tokyo doesn't usually run 24h, neither did london or madrid or beijing or hong kong or seoul or singapore or any others i've been to 24 hour subway systems are pointless for most cities if you live in a non-poo poo city bars can stay open until 4-5 AM so your drunk rear end can just catch the morning train if for whatever reason you HAVE to get home in a one-off incident between 1-5 AM just take a cab if youre regularly needing public transportation in the middle of the night your life probably sucks under the boot of capitalism and suicide is the only escape
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Nov 30, 2015 20:09
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Smythe posted:*metro announcement jingle plays over station PA* the next train to Downtown is arriving in FOUR_HOURS_37_MINUTES tfw sncf cancels the last two suburban trains and youre stuck at gare du nord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIMT7JImkHc
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Nov 30, 2015 20:40
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Cygni posted:night owl service on weekends is Good i agree, last train should be 12:30-1 if you're not gonna do night service, gets the early birds home and gets the late night partiers out to their destinations
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Nov 30, 2015 20:57
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Share Bear posted:yeah its not like the people running those bars need to go home, they live in the bar, they all have sleeping bags 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?
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Dec 11, 2015 18:44
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:how do the bar employees get to and from the bar? you start your shift before public transit closes
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Dec 11, 2015 21:44
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the dc streetcar is great because for years only the rail infrastructure was paid for without funding for the overhead power lines also it stops well before union station so you still have to walk quite a distance
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Dec 11, 2015 21:46
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Shaggar posted:that's because they are lol shagger!!!!!!!
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Dec 11, 2015 23:08
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if enough people take the bus there are less cars so there's less traffic busses would need to deal with 
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Dec 12, 2015 04:46
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Shaggar posted:which would mean it would be better to drive a car which would be faster and more convenient than the bus what with all the reduced traffic thats when you pull a singapore and make it financially unreasonable to operate a car within major metro areas
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Dec 12, 2015 05:12
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it would actually own good public transportation is cool + good dont worry it wont ever affect people in the middle of nowhere like maine
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Dec 12, 2015 05:15
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus
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Dec 12, 2015 05:20
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Smythe posted:oh also it has stops that more resemble a subway stop but theyre above ground. its like a train stop but then the bus comes. its a train bus. train buses ftw
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Dec 12, 2015 07:58
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Adix posted:shaggar was white
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Dec 12, 2015 22:31
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Progressive JPEG posted:Maybe they're aping Paris who also have those where in paris do they have those?
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Dec 13, 2015 00:20
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theflyingexecutive posted:buses are cool at night when there's no traffic also early morning in cities that arent car centric hellscapes
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Dec 13, 2015 00:21
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Progressive JPEG posted:Here is the full timetable for the nearest bus to my house (still ~12min away) there's a bus that goes directly from my apartment to very close to my mother's house it runs 5 trips a day, only in afternoons, weekdays only
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Dec 13, 2015 00:25
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Progressive JPEG posted:Wikipedia says lines 1, 4, 6, 11, 14 
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Dec 13, 2015 00:28
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Cygni posted:youve also prolly ridden a rubber tire train if youve ever used a train/apm in an airport. most of those systems are rubber tire. they put less wear/tear on their right of way and can be smoother rides, but they arent any cheaper to build and the trains take slightly more maintenance yeah ive noticed those are but i had no idea several entire lines of the paris metro were 
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Dec 13, 2015 07:56
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Shaggar posted:sitting on a bus stuck in traffic is most definitely not better than sitting in a car stuck in traffic. shagger was wrong
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Dec 15, 2015 21:27
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Shaggar posted:maybe if you like sitting shoulder to shoulder with stinky people a bus is for you. cars are infinitely more comfortable. lol
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Dec 15, 2015 21:31
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there's a train museum in tokyo that's really cool complete with outdoor mini trains for kids that have switching and signaling and everything
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Dec 16, 2015 04:07
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qirex posted:I was specifically referring to young able-bodied people who will take an uber 1/3 of a mile from one bar to another these are the same people that take the elevator 1-2 floors when there's a massive stairwell right next to the elevator
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Dec 16, 2015 04:11
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minivanmegafun posted:shitpostin from the cta subway where I get five balls of t-mo LTE. public transit + tmobile supremacy
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Dec 16, 2015 16:18
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poutine owns
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at the date posted:The worst things to put on fries that I have heard of, an exhaustive list: Poutine, mayo and old bay are the best fries toppings (not all together obviously)
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