This was possible thanks to @connorproctor.bsky.social, who put together a page on his website where you can make speed maps from GPX files.
connorproctor.com/speed_map/
We’ll regulate everything except what’s actually killing kids.
Cars and guns.
Apparently there's a downed power line that has interrupted Surfliner service for going on 3 days now. This is messing up my plans a ton.
The endless unreliability is why people don't take the train.
Oh wow, that happened yesterday how does that take out the train for 3 days?
Yea, it's very weird, makes me think that the trains aren't actually running or something
How is every Amtrak train tomorrow sold out between SD and LA?
This is good, but can they please let us pay for less than 1hr via credit card? La Mesa does it so San Diego could too
If you’re thinking, “Where will my cash-strapped city get money without housing impact fees?”, may I suggest charging for curb parking?
So far behind that they’re back on time
Here are some of the projects that could allow high speed Amtrak trains in San Diego (the article is missing electrification, which would help too). Many of these projects are already mostly planned, they just need funding. www.ridesd.org/posts/lossan...
Express Lanes for Express Trains
San Diego should put tolled express lanes on the 5 freeway to fund speeding up the Amtrak and Coaster to 110MPH and to connect them to the airport with a rail connection.
All of the options piloted in that program had either:
1) major privacy implications by giving the government GPS tracks of everywhere the car went,
Or 2) could not distinguish between miles driven in jurisdiction and out of jurisdiction (a much bigger problem for a county level implementation)
None of those were designed to be reliable or tamper resistant enough to implement a major tax. Also SANDAG has no way of receiving the VMT from those systems.
And even if they did, SANDAG would also need to figure out how to retrofit every car that didn’t already have tracking.
SANDAG can’t even take credit card payments for bike lockers, 0% confidence they could develop novel tracking devices and deploy them at scale across millions of cars. (I doubt insurance companies would have enough incentive in making this work well for a single county either.)
I think there’s many practical engineering problems building something like that (making it reliable, tamper resistant, what if it break, etc). And the government sucks at tech.
I also think there’s practical political problems convincing people the devices only record distance and not location.
Government GPS trackers on every car seems so obviously outside the Overton window
Yes, I personally do have some concern. But less concern for that than for a device I must maintain in my car that would give local government officials the ability to track my car anywhere in the world.
I would not like a device in my car tracking me, and that option would have good-faith privacy arguments against it.
I think express lanes and freeway tolls make way more sense and most people already understand them.
Most of my mileage is driven outside of SANDAG jurisdiction, so why should I have to give SANDAG money for that mileage?
I’m in support of a road usage charge, but it never made any sense to me on a county/SANDAG level.
What were the good options for implementation? How could they have tracked only miles we drove in San Diego county?
Blatant theft, that must be common given how complicated it was to figure out through the online Verizon billing portals
Got a new phone from a Verizon store and they charged me for a $40 charger that they didn’t give me, a $40 setup fee that wasn’t disclosed (and I setup myself), added a $6/month “cloud” plan to my account, and bumped me up to a $8/m higher plan while explicitly telling me it’d stay the same price 🤦♂️
"And some drivers admitted they have been forced to change their tune. On Tuesday, a social media user named Ali Lyles posted a video on TikTok in which he compared being charged a toll as he crossed a bridge to 'being robbed without a gun.' Just a short time later, he posted another video, acknowledging that he had saved half an hour from his commute. 'There wasn’t no traffic, bruh,' he said. 'I might actually like congestion pricing!'"
I rest my case:
Anyone know what time the new trains will be scheduled for?
Some good news, Amtrak will be able to add 3 more round trip trains a day between San Diego and LA after a $27M federal grant!
Now we need some more funding to add more double track.
American urban planning institutions regulate the wrong things, in the wrong ways, for the benefit of the wrong people.
Urban planning should focus on accommodating population and economic growth in an orderly fashion and creating a pleasant public realm for everyone to enjoy.
North American bicycling conundrum
Large cities in which a normal person could easily bike year round:
San Diego
Los Angeles
San Jose
San Francisco
Oakland
Honolulu
Large cities with the best bike infrastructure:
Montreal
Minneapolis
Portland
Seattle
Washington, DC
🎉✨ Ring in the New Year with FREE rides from MTS! ✨🎉
This New Year’s Eve (Tues. 12/31), MTS Bus and Trolley routes are offering free rides starting at 6 p.m. Plus, enjoy extra Trolley service past midnight 🚍🚋
Skip parking fees, dodge rideshare surge prices, and take transit to the party!
Do vendors not pay a fee to be there? And isn’t it paid parking. I had kinda assumed the city made money from it
