doug.city
Not actually a train. Personal account, views mine. He/they. 🏙️🚇🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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The downtown tunnel the Link uses now was originally for buses! Seattle is the most bus-centric of any of the US cities with high per-capita transit ridership, although it’s building more and more rail.
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Yes, same.
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I have been weighing arguments for and against and have not been able to reach a conclusion. But I, too, would love to know what more people are thinking.
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Yeah that deadline is tomorrow, isn’t it?
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I don’t know why I feel like Times Square is a worse place to be in this weather than any other place, but it feels like it should be. Like all the lights would make the heat worse.
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Please. Writing one book that’s not even published yet? Nothing compared to posting.
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😬
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If the bus is too good, no one will ride the train!
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Someone’s going to complain I don’t talk about trains next.
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(This was actually a perfectly logical email: The university with which I am affiliated is conducting a malaria vaccine trial; I happen to not live close enough to participate, but it's reasonable to advertise it to all affiliates on the assumption that most are local.)
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The one who kept cold emailing us? LOL.
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It says "seeking healthy volunteers," so I don't think so.
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I ate it immediately after making it! Do you think my grandmother would sit around taking photos of the spaghetti while it got cold?
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Also just got an email inviting me to a malaria vaccine trial (located in a city in which I do not reside, making me ineligible). Memorable night.
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Oh my.
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It always makes me remember there’s a reason the rich have traditionally fled the city for the summer.
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A220 is nice but there’s something to be said for wide 2x2 seating.
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If they were pastel colored (and suitably long) you’d be totally ready for Bermuda. Enjoy your career in the reinsurance industry!
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IMO there are big and not especially flattering parallels between tech media and (at least historical) automotive media. I’m not sure if gadget blogs consciously patterned themselves after the once-ubiquitous car magazines, but there are a lot of similarities in approach there.
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That has to be one of the shortest light rail/tram lines in the world that isn't some kind of heritage thing.
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Train wrapped in car ads (including the windows) makes me sad. 😭
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US-flag vessels engaged in international trade do not need to be built in the US, so I don't think this will juice your local shipyard's business.
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On the other hand, if we imagine an alternate universe where Philadelphia or Boston has really good suburban rail and a big tram network but no heavy rail, I can see that working out, although that's not how things developed.
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Size comparisons between countries can be tricky because of varying statistical units, but other than by city proper (which isn't a relevant concept in Australia), Chicago is 3-4 million people larger than Sydney. And possibly most relevant is CBD size.
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Australia has certainly done fine with great suburban rail and no subways/metros, but it also doesn't have any cities as big as the largest North American or European cities. I'm not sure you could have NYC or Chicago (or London or Paris or...) with only suburban rail and trams, no matter how good.
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TBF, this makes more sense in a country where pretty much everything is mainline rail ("a train") or a tram. In North America there are a lot more intermediate steps, so in most large cities there's more of a need to differentiate between different types of rail.
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I think of secretaries of state as being in that bucket too, since ours is not elected. (I don't see comptroller listed there, so I assume ours is being counted as either a treasurer or an auditor?)
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(Whereas New Jersey must have the fewest per capita, followed by New York.)
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I guess the Dakotas are to statewide offices what New Hampshire is to state legislators, in terms of an astronomical number per capita.
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Yeah, MBTA gets listed separately but I *assume* it's not a separate sponsorship/not a coincidence that the rare transit agency that's nominally part of a state DOT is also on the list. (MTA Maryland is the only other transit agency I see on that list, and that can't be a coincidence...)
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The list of patrons and the list of sponsors are two different things. Patrons are what you think of when you think of sponsors of a conference; sponsors are more like corporate members of TRB. www.mytrb.org/OnlineDirect...
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Congrats, Christof! (And congrats to Madison!)
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Could certainly add transphobia in the guise of protecting women to that list.
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PATH, WMATA, MARTA, and…HART. communityofmetros.org/members/
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I have no special insight into any of this stuff but it is interesting to see who belongs to what, sends people to what, etc. (I *have*, FWIW, heard of North American agencies sending people to UITP things, and some belong to COMET etc., too.)
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Transit agencies are also all already paying APTA membership fees, and APTA has an entire circuit of expensive conferences. Although I guess state DOTs are doing the same with AASHTO. 🤷