One of my favorite people to work with is in need of financial support after a horrific incident. If you've been an Amtrak employee or customer, and have ridden the cardinal, you likely know Heather.
If you can, please donate to help her recover.
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No disrespect to Balko and his work against the militarized policing, but this is backwards. It’s otherwise progressive people who drop their principles to defend our system of auto dependence and backfill equity or anti-carceral justifications for it.
oh nooooo i might get some elevated rail infrastructure in my photograph of the iconic chicago loop
photo median sacrificing the natural location for an elevator is a hell of a choice, but i suppose that would ruin the photos
bart has been ~GoA3 (as in, heavily automated) from day 1 and is installing cbtc—the train control system that forms the basis of almost every automated metro—as we speak. the gap between bart today and full automation is both not that large and not technical
don’t there used to be some septa involvement in the keystone service?
Such an elemental yet overlooked reality of planning. If you don't:
- Design a new route to add value to the network overall
- Make changes to the existing network to incorporate the new asset
...you're kneecapping yourself. A key part of transit hist:
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in the most recent (late 90s-00s) second av subway studies, one of the eliminated alternatives included a light rail line from USQ to the LES via 14 an Av D, presumably just to get ahead of the recurring “SAS doesn’t help the village” complaints.
yep! or the sixth av branch that…loops back on to the canarsie line. just in case the IND didn’t have enough wacky interlining for you already
the M14 is a feeder bus for the east village/alphabet city, which is pretty full of people and not super convenient to the subway. the east village “cuphandle” is a slightly deeper-cut, but recurring, subway crayon!
I think it's shameful that during a second Trump administration, and after NYC voters rejected a return to moderate, conciliatory governance, that a Democrat would tout the entirety of the Council's Republican caucus as her supporters.
A gray painted one-story stone clad house, a half-size version of a vernacular Chicago two-flat, with its windows boarded up and parts of the lawn in front dug up and surrounded by caution tape. A banner for a new railway extension hangs over the front door.
A big banner saying "Ready, Set, Soon!" hangs on a metal fence in front of a set of boarded up wood frame houses, with utilities markings painted on the sidewalk beside it.
A view of the back of two boarded up two story wood frame homes, seen through a metal fence encircling the property.
A one-story wood frame workers cottage with aluminum awnings sits surrounded by a green construction fence.
Back in spring, I made final images of some of the buildings slated for demolition along the path of the Red Line Extension.
These were captured over a monthlong span when demolition permits were getting greenlit, wrecking crews finally dispatching after asbestos remediation and utility shutoffs.
The US Steel Edgar Thomson Works plant is a fantastic photo subject, and I was lucky enough to catch a Union Railroad movement with nice backlighting when I visited there recently. www.flickr.com/gp/traing33k...
I've had zero to do with it other than watching as an Orange Line rider, but rapid implementation of dropbacks on the OL is one of the coolest things I've seen in my time at the MBTA. From a process improvement exploration project to full-bore implementation in just a few months.
not disagreeing at all with the premise, but they’d surely run into some pretty serious platform work at those uptown stations especially (which should probably be happening anyway, the way the first/last cars “fit” the platforms at 9 and christopher is wild).
other than the branching, what about the type of service offered by rem is not metro-like? (not that having a branch is incompatible with being a metro, either!)
exactly! they could finally close the weird metro numbering gap!
montreal, truly the marriage of france (we will build a large, efficient metro system with rubber tires and automated trains) and north america (you will be required to understand local government divisions of responsibility to ride it)
very cool system, but it’s always seemed a bizarre choice that the rem is not identified as part of the metro system, even moreso now that it’s expanded. i know that rem is legally, technically its own thing but come on: it’s really just more metro!
With the coming of the Downtown-Oakland BRT, many of the Skybus corridors can be considered "addressed" with some form of upgraded transit. Busways do the heaviest lifting, but their total traffic separation makes them work. (Rapid transit > on-street BRT for Oakland is the biggest downgrade).
The full Allegheny County 60-mile rapid transit system, a.k.a. Skybus, doesn't perform half-badly
I am continually impressed by Alissa's coverage of LA transportation and also how insane LA's transportation spending is.
Other than the crosstown "urban line," the majority of Skybus miles were part of the group of "suburban lines," structured in a very S-Bahn-esque trunk-branch structure. (As such, I have given them numbers starting with S.) Only two short branches, to Etna and Carnegie, remain to be built.
Substantial progress building out the rest of the "suburban system:" the lines to Rankin (on the PRR main line, essentially the rest of today's East Busway), the North Hills, and the County Airport (how times have changed).
monroeville ridership update:
2. Adding a Morewood stop on the Oakland line, because it seemed like a large destination that the Skybus proposal missed, and definitely *not* because of my own experiences waiting for overcrowded 61 buses at this location. It gets 4k daily riders, only slightly lower than the other Oakland stops.
Actually, though I said I'm building to the study, I've made a couple "editorial" changes:
1. On the M'ville line, adding the Busway's Negley stop. Shadyside is pretty residentially dense. The Baum-Centre Skybus stop *isn't* on the Busway—an odd miss, as it's right in front of Shadyside Hospital.
