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I don't think Metrocards count as "paper tickets," they're made out of some kind of cheap plastic. As for the L, it's doing fine. It used to be in very poor repair but they have gotten huge amounts of federal money to fix it up, turns out having the President be from Chicago helps with that. They actually just signed an order for new trains that should replace the last egregiously ancient trains in service. Service is frequent and generally reliable. It is 24 hour on some lines but crime is an issue late at night. The main challenge now is that the North Side lines are at full capacity and a 100-year-old interlocking needs to be rebuilt to increase it. That'll probably cost a billion dollars when all is said and done and NIMBY issues are inevitable since they are talking about building a huge flyover ramp in a upper middle class white neighborhood. As far as expansion they are working on extending the Red Line to the far South Side and also some new infill stations have been built. The system's coverage is good, turns out expanding transit instead of ripping it out in the 60s and 70s was a good move, but a circle line is definitely needed. There are plans for that but they never seem to amount to much.
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Grand Theft Autobot posted:You mean Milwaukee, right? http://chi.streetsblog.org/2015/12/23/why-are-loop-link-buses-moving-so-slow-and-will-they-get-faster/ quote:That sounded far-fetched, so after I returned to the platform at Washington and State, I spoke with a CTA supervisor who was serving as an air traffic controller for buses, waving the drivers in towards the platform. He told me that the drivers are, in fact, instructed to drive 1 mph alongside the stations, because the raised platform means that people who stand in the dark gray, textured area near the platform edge are in danger of being struck in the head by the buses’ rearview mirrors.
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Curvature of Earth posted:In the immediate term, yes. In the long term, traffic goes down (or stabilizes in a growing city) because BRT, by definition, is good enough to replace a substantial number of previously car-only trips along its designated route, thus getting more cars off the road. In fact, if you just want traffic to go down without having to spend money on improving alternative transit systems, one of the most effective ways is to remove lanes and replace them with nothing, because induced demand is a thing, and it's surprisingly easy to reverse.
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The private system in Singapore isn't really private, both the transit operators are owned by the government.
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Apr 8, 2016 21:52
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Chicago's bus service is miles better than DC Metrobus actually. I've experienced both.
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Neon Belly posted:People around DC were pretty upset when the new Silver Line was elevated through what amounts to a car-focused exurb, Tyson's Corner, as a cost saving measure. Not really sure why it's such a fuss - it already exists pretty much exclusively in the median of a 12-lane road.
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7 Our little big city has finally joined the illustrious ranks of "Cities with good public transit to the airport"
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Panzeh posted:Those ones are way too expensive for actual working class people to live in, much like everything else in the cities.
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Hopefully President Hillary will federalize WMATA so it'll be run like it should have been in the first place.
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May 9, 2016 21:35
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It's amazing what companies will agree to fund if they need you badly enough.
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Neon Belly posted:It's not a system with 24-hour service, and that's not what they are being asked to return to. I was just curious because they claim that they need the extra time for maintenance, but there are viable systems that appear to work well with less allotted time.
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Right but it's not even a funding thing, they seem to be uniquely incompetent and unproductive. For example, the stories about FTA inspectors being purposely locked out of Metro's control center.
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Metro needs to be nationalized and the operations put out for private sector bidding. Let's get MTR from HK or SMRT from Singapore to deal with it. Bust up the union too, Metro's ATU local is a real live example of those "bad unions" that right wingers insist exist everywhere. Stockholm's metro has been run by MTR for years, this isn't some pie in the sky proposal. Soy Division fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Oct 30, 2016 |
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HorseLord posted:none are 100% free that I know of, but as of the last time I checked the price of riding the Minsk Metro is about $0.22. That's an unlimited journey, across as many trains as you want until you leave the system. If you get a monthly pass then it's so cheap the price means nothing. This is of course remnant of the soviet planned economy so you can never reproduce something like this.
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