Owen.

C’mon Czechia, put some runs on the board.

I sure do like Interstate 238.

Of course! I should have added Steve Munro to my search queries. Thank you.

Does anyone know if it's possible to get historical TTC bus frequency? Specifically from the 1980s? I can find maps galore, but no timetables.

Appliances are great except when they’re not and I hate them

That statue, which was cast back in 1961, was modeled on 1950s Texas Rangers – as in the law enforcement Texas Rangers – Captain Jay Banks. Since it's unveiling 65 years ago it has spent most of its life at Love Field in Dallas. But then in 2020 it was removed and placed in storage. Why? Because Captain Jay Banks was a racist cop who made it his mission to stop schools from integrating. This is an excerpt from the 2020 book, Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug Swanson, which describes' Banks' role in efforts to keep schools in Texas racially segregated in defiance of the United States Supreme Court's 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education: Then there is the form and face of the statue itself. This dates to 1956, when the NAACP, backed with a court order, attempted to integrate the high school in Mansfield, about 30 miles southwest of Dallas. White residents erupted in fury, so Gov. Allan Shivers dispatched the Rangers. But unlike state police in other Southern racial hotspots, the Rangers in Mansfield did not escort black students past howling mobs of white supremacists. They had been sent instead to keep the black children out of a white school.

The commanding Ranger on the scene was Sgt. E.J. “Jay” Banks. A wire service photo showed him casually leaning against a tree outside Mansfield High. To his left, above the school’s entrance, was a dummy in blackface, hanging from a noose. Nearby a white mob had assembled. Some carried signs that threatened death for anyone attempting to integrate the school. Banks saw no need to remove the effigy or disperse the mob. “They were just ‘salt of the earth’ citizens,” he later wrote. “They were concerned because they were convinced that someone was trying to interfere with their way of life.” Blacks were so intimidated that none attempted to enroll at Mansfield. Several days later, Gov. Shivers ordered Banks and a few other Rangers to Northeast Texas, because African-Americans wished to take classes at all-white Texarkana Junior College, a public institution. Again the Rangers’ job was to stop black students from enrolling. As at Mansfield, a mob of white men gathered outside the school. An 18-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy, both black, arrived by cab and began to walk toward the college. The mob blocked their path. Some surrounded the 17-year-old and kicked him, while others threw gravel. The Rangers watched it happen and did nothing except threaten to arrest the two students. That wire service photo of Banks in front of the school with the Black person hung in effigy can be seen at the top of today's newsletter.

The statue was removed from public view in 2020 in the wake of that book about the Rangers being published. This occurred at the same time that statues of Confederates, Klansmen, racists, and segregationists were removed all over the country following the murder of George Floyd. But now the Texas Rangers Baseball Club, knowing full well the history of the statue, its subject, and its removal, and knowing that multiple municipal institutions decided it was inappropriate for public display, is happy to put that statue up in a public concourse at a major league baseball stadium. When I learned of this yesterday afternoon I contacted Major League Baseball and asked the following questions: Is Major League Baseball aware of the history of the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue and its subject, Jay Banks? Is Major League Baseball aware that Love Field and the City of Dallas removed the statue and put it in storage in 2020 after Banks' involvement in attempting to keep schools segregated in the 1950s came to light? Does Major League Baseball condone one of its Clubs erecting a previously-removed statue of a staunch segregationist at its ballpark?; and Does Major League Baseball have any comment regarding the discomfort that will be felt by Black fans when confronted with the statue of a segregationist at Globe Life Field? I did not receive a response. I'm going to assume that the league's silence on this means that it wholly condones the Rangers putting up the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue despite its sordid and extraordinarily well-reported history.

Yesterday the Texas Rangers erected a statue of a segregationist cop at Globe Life Field. A statue that was removed from public property in 2020 because of its racist history. @mlb.com has refused to comment. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Here’s the compromise: we fall back 30 minutes in November and live like Newfoundland.

(probably minimal as it runs twice a week and exists outside of BC Transit’s GTFS anyways)

I look forward to the scheduling chaos this time change will bring to Creston Vallety Regional Transit route 56, the only BC Transit route to cross time zones.

Yeah I’m DTF

Desiring
Transit
Frequently

@dwelltime.ca I would love to hear you tackle fare free transit on an episode.

Season 50 feels like a good time to watch Survivor for the first time.

Mini Tokyo 3D A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system. This data visualization was produced by Akihiko Kusanagi.

One of my students mentioned this massive Tokyo subway map in class today - you can see where the rails all go.

minitokyo3d.com

I can’t wait for Semiahmoo

Food Court In Session An exploration and ranking of every mall in Metro Vancouver.

I'm ranking every mall in Metro Vancouver

Every two weeks, Food Court in Session will profile a mall with a podcast and essay

Our first mall is Aberdeen, and we're joined by @bychrischeung.bsky.social

I hope you enjoy yelling about the ranking of your favourite mall, and the project as a whole

The police board wants $359,000 this year, 320% more than its budget five years ago. But they can’t reliably stream their meetings; meet the legal requirement to post their agenda on time; or post an agenda longer than one page when they do. Why would city councils give them more money?

Codec screen from Metal Gear Solid, except the screen on the left is the transportation advisor from Sim City 2000 and he's yelling "YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"

My microwave is an untrustworthy knave, a trickster imp, unscrupulous and deceptive, spreading lies and pure fantasy about the doneness of the food within it. Two minutes? An inferno or tepidity.

Game 2 of spring training and I am already enraged.

I wasn’t ambitious enough to hand draw this. It’s some lightly modified Fitz Quadrata.

I was torn on this because of how the “Dr” appears in the original logo, and I ended up leaning more towards the source.

Ahhh, this is great. I will need to investigate further.

Nope! Please go on…

A NovaBus LFSe+ with a black and white livery resembling the AE86 from Initial D. Some Google Translated Japanese is on the side that says (hopefully) “British Columbia Public Transportation Company”.

I’m watching Initial D for the first time because my eldest got into it after seeing a TikTok about an AE86.

So anyways, new livery idea:

I made nearly $10 this week because of silly transit graphics, so things are on the right trajectory.

BC Transit, but as the Dr. Pepper logo.

Another one came to me in a dream over the weekend.

Half concerned your account is hacked due to the use of the word “deadass”

lol I’m in a meeting and I heard my wife scream upstairs when Canada scored

The new electric NovaBus LFSe+ should be rolling around Victoria any day now.

I also heard some fun stuff about Proterra battery degradation.