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Notorious b.s.d. posted:2013 - chicago adopts contactless Cubic runs this one. the rollout of this was one of the most botched transit tech systems ever. Chicago issued NFC passes that could also be used as debit cards so that they could hopefully skim off transaction fees when people used them to pay for regular things. when the system rolled out, people were regularly being either not charged despite tapping their card, or were double/triple/quadruple charged. I remember visiting my parents and just being waved onto the bus because the reader was just so hosed. It took them the better part of a year to get it barely functional.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the swipe card support contracts run out in 2019. James Murphy submitted a concept to have new turnstiles play musical notes that varied on a per-station basis. The MTA's response was to get extremely aggro and yell about how it was physically impossible to implement.
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Beeftweeter posted:yeah its garbage because i actually live off the G ( G train best train never has anyone hassling you for money and you never go through Manhattan. The lack of a real transfer to Atlantic Av is super annoying, and their reasoning for not providing a free swipe from Fulton is  http://web.mta.info/nyct/service/G_LineReview_7_10_13.pdf
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) so to transfer there i have to go past jay st anyway. but oh no reason really its just work ruining my weekends
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Austin's light rail system aka the single light rail line is pretty rad except for the part where it doesn't run on weekends past midnight, despite a huge drunk driving problem in the area (it also runs fairly infrequently but they just doubled the rolling stock).
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but hey, looks like we might finally get decent high speed rail in this country In Texas Developed and financed privately Using superior Japanese train systems
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New York gives up and announces its futuristic ticketing solution: motherfucking QR codes  yes lets put a payment system that relies on good image quality in a dirty and vandalism-prone environment
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the screenshot decodes to FTMAQKFROAXWMEQBZLKNMDPLGVUOUZZKEXTGEBIOIOSGYLZGDOSHVFOPMETXWJURLLYQHHCECZWYPDYOXYYTPFUOUSSQWRYUGVDKAYHRHJOYVWVRFNHHXJCRMVWMJMENTNZNXXSOOAFBLJGSURXYQDDPEMVWUDQGYVOUFLRUAUZUFLYPOYSKWQJCQEPQMWJNQWFKGQKUCKMYJIBNBMYWQHPVTTWIZOAALFCLKNSEXXZWJPEKKBQRFQVIRZLXVMYYUIPRQFJHKYSUMHJSKXUWLVQSMJGHSVEAVWHERYQXFEPQVYOGSB Actual data, or someone mashing a keyboard and making a comp?
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the talent deficit posted:i hate that loving noise so much. it's like they asked for the shrillest whine possible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BONL43eKi50 except that the MTA got extremely uppity when they suggested because why would they pay millions to change the beeps and it won't be ADA complaint????? (ignoring the part where they have to replace readers soon anyways and guess what the transducers in them have haptic feedback)
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kwinkles posted:bike infrastructure chat? heres a nice bike bridge getting built in south austin next to the highway that looks rad and I wish that I had more bike options that weren't 'here we put some paint on the ground'. Austin Opinion: light rail service stops way too early (midnight?) on Friday/Saturday, when it really should be running until like 3 AM in an area with a big drunk driving problem.
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mishaq posted:helsinki's public transportation app/mobile site owns so hard and all the scheduling is updated in real time based on current conditions turns out you can grab helsinki's transit data out of the air if you're rad enough http://www.windytan.com/2013/11/broadcast-messages-on-darc-side.html
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qirex posted:old post but people don't call the cops because if you did they'd hold your train for at least 20 minutes at whatever stop the police showed up at on one hand, I like the idea of increasing NYC subway car capacity by 10% with articulating trains on the other hand, the whole train can become a poop train
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theflyingexecutive posted:Broadway already has a subway that stops every 4-6 blocks under it and plenty of bike share stations. manhattanites are so spoiled for transit and still all my uber drivers will bitch to me that they'll call a car to go four blocks reminder: you can kill someone with your car in NYC and the police will, at most, write you a ticket.
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The MTA's latest idea to get people to use the bus: put wifi and chargers on them.
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the number of people who ride bikes in NYC wearing a gopro facing backwards to record their own snuff film is increasing at a scary rate
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The Merkinman posted:NYC Goons, be convinced Tuesday that the BQX isn't a giant waste of money. my fave part is where when they get called out on how they're planning to traverse the large inlet between Brooklyn and Queens the response has been *jazz hands* it's okay the plan will die when eventually the mayor gets impeached in a fundraising scandal.
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Tatsujin posted:on the topic of 24 hour transit, that actually got me in trouble recently. im so used to blackout me stumbling onto a bus or train and knowing how to get home back in chicago, but im currently in san antonio and decided to go to a pool party/bbq over in austin. long story short blackout me couldnt change back into street clothes because the party got shut down so without phone/wallet I stumbled onto the metrotrain and ended up in Leander. By the time I sobered up I was trying to get back to Austin and sure enough the local cops threw my rear end into wilco county jail. gently caress wilco county hi my favorite transit-anger: Austin Light Rail aka they had a chance to do something to deal with both their massive drunk driving problem and traffic issues but LOL NOPE I talked to a cop while riding one once about their opinion of it getting people off the streets or at least reducing the number of dangerous miles driven/pushing them out into less populated areas and his response was 'yeah I don't get what you're talking about and we don't care'
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mishaq posted:lol Yeahhhhhh… The push to implement PTC on a national rail level has been an absolute clusterfuck. In 2008 they set a deadline of 2015. It's been extended to 2018 and everyone's operating under the assumption that they're going to extend it again because there's no way they're making that deadline. Then there's the part where every rail carrier has been building systems which aren't interoperable. And the fact that there's only a single company developing the in-cab equipment and charging $100,000 per install with what should be $5000 of equipment.
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mishaq posted:something something we wont have gps-based ATC for airplanes until 2133 hell, aviation isn't going to meet the deadline for installing ADS-B transponders in every plane all the avionics installers are starting to get booked up years in advance. Come 2020 there's going to be quite a few grounded Cessnas.
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sometimes I get a J train with a cool conductor couple of months ago he announced at every stop THIS IS A J TRAIN TO JAMAICA CENTER THIS TRAIN WILL BE GOING OVER THE WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE then when we went over the bridge he went on the PA to give the history of it
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any updates on the monorail in Tennessee that was going to be built in the median of the interstate?
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make the FRA remove the dumbass crash requirements for train cars = billions saved oh wait then we'll just be buying 🚂 from foreigners. never mind then.
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http://brokelyn.com/mta-free-rides-trick-song/ Your fare collection is a POS
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mishaq posted:i remember those dumbass train seats when i visited sydney that you can flip around meanwhile in Japan 
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Silver Alicorn posted:mate imagine using a wood fired stove to heat up your bathwater one gallon at a time guess what you can get your hipster friends together in the woods for just this 
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Endless Mike posted:awwwwwww poor babies have to walk a whole quarter of a mile? awwwww uhh obviously the solution here is Xiaomi MiJia Scooters for all 
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blugu64 posted:the only good use for trains, or do you all hate coral reefs as much as you hate green spaces in cities? they actually stopped doing this after they checked up on the stainless steel ones and whoops they just fell apart and NJ didn't want any more trash in its ocean.
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