table of streetcar system ridership showing portland with the best daily ridership in the US
table of transit line ridership in portland, showing the streetcar lines underperforming every max line
a key point for me: portland's streetcars have high ridership compared to other streetcars. but not compared to other light rail and BRT lines in portland, a much more competitive category
funny outcome that one of the main impacts of the massive financial deregulation that finance guys were always clammoring for was to turn their once-business-hours job into a 24/7/365 one
Thank you for informing me when lunch is scheduled.
The most repulsive widespread AI slop is the adds for shitty clickbait games that you see everywhere now. I hate that shit so much. Particularly the survival one where they make these kind of facially interesting little dioramas of survival situations but they’re just total slop if you actually look
It's under-appreciate how bad it is for society to have rules on the books that are never actually enforced, like the requirement for dogs on the subway in NYC to remain in a bag.
It fuels a contempt for authority and a selfishness that's decimating norms required for urban living.
I mean saying military members have a huntingtonian responsibility to abstain completely from politics is like saying urban planners shouldn’t participate in housing policy discussions.
So these are literal examples of a 20 year old Honda and a 10 year old Honda. The size and volume are identical . People can't gaslight me like this because u see this stuff
If voting for Kamala Harris against Donald Trump is “depressing” then honestly, what in the ever loving shit is wrong with you?
This is not my first rodeo. Each successive rodeo inflicts a greater physical toll than the last. I am in incredible pain
No more rodeos!
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For the bottom 40% of families, California taxes are LOWER than states like Florida and Texas.
In fact, 16 other states tax LOW-WAGE earners MORE than California taxes our HIGH-WAGE earners.
The evidence is clear, and the numbers don't lie.
Unbelievable that Maine democrats couldn’t find someone 50 +-10 years old with a normal boring job or a state representative to run for this race.
To put the world back in order, Walmart needs to bring back the wall of various live fish.
A major problem with our siloed transportation governance is a complete lack of intermodal coordination. All the following are happening at the same time:
1. PATH closed for maintenance between JSQ and and Newark.
2. Pulaski Skyway closed for maintenance.
3. Portal Bridge cutover schedule on NJT.
WTF have they been pumping into him?
Buy local for things not made locally is such a curse in procurement
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
I hated Elon Musk before it was cool because I was always a big railfan growing up and I clocked ten years ago that Hyperloop was an obvious fraud because I knew the first thing about how railways worked
NEW, from me: A secret chapter of Cold War history, told here for the first time. A deep cover Soviet Bloc spy in America at the end of the Cold War. The shocking moves by a European intel chief. And the incredible CI chess games by FBI and CIA counterspies.
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They told me older, wealthy people were fleeing New York.
Number of people over 65 moving to city is up 40% from 2019 to 2023.
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Alas one of cutest but silliest railways in Japan is looking at death. The Aigan railway in the mountains of Tochigi-Fukushima. Completed in the 1980's, part of the resort boom of those years.
(I do think it would have viable had other choices been made, but alas).
Almost as if they want Iran to attack the Continental US.
That happy man/sad man meme but it's BlueSky saying "haha I don't care that gas prices are going up, I take public transit" and then BlueSky realizing what rising gas prices will mean for their DoorDash burrito taxi prices
"If you are an ambitious professional in a developing country—a Syrian doctor, an Egyptian lawyer, a Filipino engineer, and Indian accountant—you stand little chance of quickly securing the visas and permits to work in your profession in the West. But in Dubai, you can..." (gift link)
Gas stations will see queues hundreds of meters long if that happens.
A General Motors Canada GF6C
One of the arguments the Class Is and AAR put up any time anyone talks about freight rail electrification is that there's no electric locomotives designed for US/NA freight service. While on the surface this claim is true, it's also not a big deal
To prove it, let's talk about this fucking thing
helps quite a bit if I'm being honest
US metric conversion jump-started after gas retailers, not wanting to pay to change signs, discover that it’s technically allowed to sell gas measured in liters.
it’s coming home
In part due to the fact Sacramento is a city filled with civil servants and good government nerds, our city subreddit is obsessed with a parking enforcement worker named “Nakamura” who apparently nails mfs left and right who are illegally parked.
Ok but how do we think groceries get to the store we’re walking to
