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Last biked on that extremely cool mixed-use trail on the viaduct going through those buildings earlier today <3
(photo is older)
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Und auch ein großartiger Nachtzug nach Ljubljana!
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Per se ist die Klimabonus-Streichung wohl eher eine klimafreundliche Maßnahme
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Vienna uses them a lot, how else can you intuitively indicate that a bike lane is one-way and should not be entered in the wrong direction? Vienna however doesn't use center line markings on bidirectional bike lanes except for special situations
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Interesting, thanks! That was my initial suspicion but then I thought why not just put those oversized virtual line indicators at the actual stops (in, well, physical form)
Real-time connection departure information tends to be important as early as possible :/
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Pretty much didn't buy a single thing in Switzerland on the entire trip, not even food, except for Basel tram tickets and uh extremely expensive Jungfraujochbahn tickets too haha
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I can relate **somewhat** haha, on my first trip properly exploring the full extent of Switzerland by rail I stayed in that St-Louis Adagio access right across the border and took a train to and from Basel SBB every single day
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Ha, I just came across this picture you might be familiar with www.flickr.com/photos/jonwo...
(Interesting that this new design isn't even that new, and that they actually gave up significant ad space for such an inferior passenger information product)
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There used to be a more conventional real-time tram/bus departure board here that sure felt much more useful
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What felt like pretty much every single public square in Australia had (excellent and working) water fountains when I visited, loved that so much
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(Progressive) Vernissage in Gumpoldskirchen, unvergesslicher Stimmungswandel :D
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My favorite part of the NA engineer toolkit sure are those insane FINES DOUBLED DURING XY signs
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Time-based speed limits in Vienna pretty much are a thing in districts with pro-car district mayors only.
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A popular demand (which I'm not a fan of) among urbanists here is to impose nighttime-only speed limits on the Gürtel road (3-4 lanes per direction with an el in the median and mostly dense housing without setbacks on both sides)
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Agreed. Some examples I bike past on my way to work – time-based turn restrictions actually make sense imo, whereas time-based speed limits (in this case based on the school calendar even) absolutely do not
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Fwiw time-based turn restrictions are fairly common in, well, actual Vienna
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2007!
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In Europe (unlike LV) only the second door is typically equipped with ramps though.
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The wide rear door alone must have so many dwell time benefits
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Two pictures I took in 2023 for some additional context
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Still can't believe Las Vegas is pretty much the only place in the US that figured out this is the supreme way to do wheelchair boarding
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Source: www.schienencontrol.gv.at/de/newslette...
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I wonder what the pedestrian zone sqm per tourist ratio is in Malta vs Chicago
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(Forgot to mention here that the escalator ofc was operating far below capacity – I wasn't queue jumping since there simply was no bottleneck at the escalator, just an artificially created one at the completely unnecessary boarding queue)
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Intercity train rides can last from less than an hour to many hours, with many intermediate stops, and that's no different on Via – you'd need to either make those automated announcements really frequently or a blind person might never hear them on a short ride
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How are repeated automated announcements better for accessibility than onboard staff giving safety instructions personally to blind passengers? Blind people who rely on auditive information *suffer the most* from repetitive announcements that are irrelevant to them
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Isn't that what signs are typically used for
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Due to line of sight obstructions no one at the escalator could see if people arriving there came from the queue or literally any other part of the station, so I just sat comfortably until priority boarding started and then went straight to the platform
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My favorite Via boarding experience was an extremely long queue in Toronto with people waiting *endlessly* to board – and once they started boarding they simply opened the end of the queue and asked people to walk to the escalator leading to the platform that was maybe 20 m away
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Not sure if this was meant as a joke but one time I've had Via staff perform pretty much exactly this safety demonstration at Niagare Falls, ON
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Yeah but my point is those too have car-specific costs associated with them in addition to the actual baggage handling costs, the revenue seats you're loosing by adding coach luggage racks etc you could (very) hypothetically put on the baggage cars instead
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Doesn't a baggage car, well, technically cost the most revenue seats?
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You'll have a hard time finding a cyclist who stops at any red light (regardless of permitted cyclist moves on red) there (and an equally hard time finding accidents caused by cyclists, would be my impression, given there's just a lot of safety in numbers)
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Okay, different (and more plausible) story for sure
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"In 20 years, road space in cities will be infinite"
(I doubt 90% of transit trips in the US are on rural transit if that's an assumption behind the take)
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Only modern completely regular standard-(loading-)gauge train I'm aware of that has 2+1 seating in second class
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Pendolino! <3
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Imo sounds really unhygienic ^^ And keeping it hanging there while riding must be bad for aerodynamics (And the whole helmet law nonsense just really ruined bikeshare and led to clear declines in cyclist numbers all over their cities)
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This sucks so bad
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Counterpoint: Have you been to Paris
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Why no parking protected bike lanes though?
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This looks so great but I'm still so infuriated by our visit there just a few weeks ago, except for the few stunning pedestrianized areas most Maltese sidewalks even in dense touristic areas were barely wide enough for a single person to use them bsky.app/profile/fdms...
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They do but the way the metro pids are designed we're showing a dynamic full metro network map (and all the station/track closures on the metro network), not a route map with just the upcoming stops/destination etc that would be available through the CAD system
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Re peers I haven't really seen many dynamic rapid transit route maps or line strips elsewhere, all the examples I can think of are for tram/bus
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We're using more and more of the SIRI SX/SM capabilities but specificially wrt station/track closures we're far from automation too unfortunately, on our new metro onboard pids those must still be configured manually through their remote pid configuration tool
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Oh okay, less automated than expected tbh