tschuy 🏳️‍🌈

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that's too bad. thanks for the info!

is there anything in the schedule for the section of 18th St between West and San Pablo to match the changes to 17th / complete the pair?

Any infra project in the area needs to consider:
* BART <-> Caltrain cross platform transfers
* BART/Caltrain/HSR to SFO
* desired HSR service patterns

doesn't need to solve em, but it needs to consider em!

BART only has two tracks on the approach to Millbrae, so you'll need to lay new track for Airtrain from where the viaduct ends to Millbrae.

you and I have very different definitions of "connecting", let alone well :)

my problem with that is that it's just too slow, the Airtrain to long term parking is 11min, and it dead ends in a way that'll be awkward to extend. a San Bruno infill BART station and an Airtrain extension would be... fine, but I think Millbrae as the hub makes more sense especially with HSR coming

the Millbrae BART throat is two tracks, so there's no good way to fully automate it in an isolated way. Would be great practice for expanding to the rest of the system though

if I were a billionaire who wanted to burn all of my money in a monumentally silly but satisfying way, I think I'd pay for the construction of flyovers at Millbrae such that there are cross-platform transfers between BART & Caltrain, and the conversion of the SFO-Mill BART to Airtrain.

It's never too late to extend Airtrain to Millbrae and delete the SFO BART segment 😎

The immediate accessibility of nature is one of the best parts of having moved from Portland to California, personally! (Lots of it is even transit-accessible -- I don't have SB resources, I only cover NorCal, but there's an excellent LA Transit to Trails website too)

you save 30¢ if you do, the free transfers scheme is implemented in a really funny way.

I'd be looking around the Ashby BART area. It's where I am now and I pay somewhat more than that but I'm in a duplex, not an apartment building. The commercial district is Alcatraz from King to Adeline, and the west side of Adeline from Stanford to Fairview. I'd look between Ashby/Adel./Stanf./Mkt.

SB932 (2022) requires bike plans (with high injury corridor improvement plans) at most every decade, right? Just no teeth on any of it?

Put up signs at stations at platform level (where you're standing bored and waiting) with:

* Night bus alternatives for getting home after dark
* A reminder to take the orange to the yellow

I've been trying to argue for changing Richmond trains to Berkeley/Richmond trains for a few months, I've seen a lot of unnecessary confusion from students at late night at 19th St.

I can't wait until every station requires 3 repositions!

Also the superliner trains all still have proper kitchen cooked meals for sleeper passengers (with remaining seats available for coach passengers), unlike many of the east coast routes.

It's also lighting -- coach cars have a dim cozy vibe due to the window tint and shades drawn, and walking into the observation car almost feels like going outside in comparison.

It's a really well designed *experience*, and the East Coast trains just don't even bother to try.

west-of-Chicago trains (the superliner long distance routes) are a whole different game from the east coast routes. The observation car and ample seating in the cafe provide a reason to get up and move about during the day, wander a little.

The Phenomenauts - Theme For Oakland YouTube video by Silver Sprocket

Capital of Earth, I believe you mean!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aGv...

*depave, of course, but autocorrect was not interested in that idea

Tracks heading into a park. Do not enter sign and lots of rubber bumps to keep you out. YET! many bumps are knocked away since people drive on them anyways

grassy trams are so obviously good at solving so many of our problems it's remarkable we've not implemented them everywhere.

In San Francisco, we have people mistaking the turnoff for the Sunset Tunnel as a roadway fairly frequently. Just repave the first 50 feet! It's in a park!

meanwhile I'm jealous of the existence and success of Trailhead Direct, and wish we'd set something like that up!

sorry! Absolutely meant to. It's available here: mtc.ca.gov/digital-libr...

Would love to chat, send me an email (contact@hikingbytransit.com) and we can arrange something!

Which sort of fits into the trend of recreation/excursion maps I've been noticing in Europe, which are sometimes helplessly bad as navigational tools but very good at listing ideas in a general geography:

bsky.app/profile/tsch...

While this new map includes ornamentation like mountains, bridges, and towers and non-transit info like parks, playing a role of helping you understand which parts of the region are accessible at all, moreso than being a navigation aid.

Not stated in the thread, but I'm very interested in the evolution of the role of a regional transit map in an era with map apps. NYC's new subway map cedes the role of surface orientation, which works with the assumption that you're following along on a digital map

All that said, a single icon for beach and maybe one for swimming hole, or other such nice thing, seems perfectly fine! Hope you convince them of that :)

Melbourne's very high on my list of international destinations, I've been watching too much Taitset.