realeric4real.bsky.social
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Looks like Heartland Flyer also offers food service onboard. I assume that is expensive to provide. At the very least, it’s one more crew member to pay for.
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Next I'm glad Seung emphasized this comment. This was the spite that drove me.
US urbanism sees transit funding as a dichotomy of high fares or poor service. But remote work showed how farebox could be volatile. I don't consider it reliable enough to be a primary focus.
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More unspecified improvements - but locations shown
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Seems to be mostly signaling and catenary improvements. Says some infrastructure improvements, but I have t found a specific list.
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Me when I see or hear Mary Miller
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20/468 members of congress (in 2021) fell into that bucket. So it’s not that they will never get elected. Just very few, only ~4% of congress.
www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
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Breaking: The Honeymooners is communist propaganda because Jackie Gleason drives a bus instead of his own car.
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Topical. What’s next, attacking Seinfeld as pro birth control propaganda for talking about being sponge-worthy?
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Help, my community is depressed
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Uncle Baby Billy
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Do we need to teach you about everything in every post? No. Educate yourself.
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Serves a majority (approx 2/3) of the states total population if we look at the six county RTA.
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Pedocon ouroboros
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They cannot vote on anything right now. They are not in session. JB must call a special session. Learn to read!
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They can’t do anything now unless JB calls a special session. Maybe learn to read.
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It’s funny because everyone knows this and has known this for years, but it was politically incorrect (within the rw) to acknowledge this.
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What about transit?!?!?
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I think that your assessment is totally reasonable. I also can see why others thought the process was unfair.
Merits on both sides in my opinion.
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Not everyone agrees it was unfair.
Did you support Sanders? If you did, then it might have seemed to raise to that level for you. It certainly did for many of his supporters.
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From his perspective and the perspective of his supporters, yes. From their perspective the other candidates were not behaving according to the principles of equality and justice.
Has nothing to do with being owed anything.
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Politics can be unfair. The two are not at all mutually exclusive.
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In this way, they are much like the Trumpists
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If somebody has the power to spoil your chances, then you can’t just tell them to fuck off and then be mad or surprised it spoiled your chances.
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This has been their strategy for 40+ years now. They have no new ideas.
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So many problems could be avoided if these guys knew how to read.
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Given they are considering greenfield routes, idk why they aren’t considering Univeristy Park to Springfield (via Bloomington / Normal)
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This is part of the work from the high speed rail commission created by the state government a few years back.
Not close to building anything, but a step in the right direction.
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Probably needs to go via University Park. That rail row has no grade crossings (from UP to downtown).
Whereas creating any grade separated route from Joliet to downtown is probably going to be stupid expensive, even in the scheme of a high speed rail project.
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I see two possibilities. Could be a vanity play, owner is a billionaire. Or could actually be better financially to own than to rent.
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Right, they built the red-brown flyover because the flat junction couldn’t handle enough trains to support the peak.
But now idk if we will ever get back to a place where the flyover is truly needed
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Whoops! Here’s the right link to take action: act.ilenviro.org/a/transpo-25
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Great! Now fund transit.
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But my bus, which will be cut down to hourly runs, will also be stuck in that traffic.
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Exactly. Whereas in every article they say the opposite.
It’s always “my wife / friend / neighbor deserved an honorary aryan card, but I still support deporting the rest of them”
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75 million people, existing in the same information environment, voted against this.
What magical powers did they all have that these guys somehow lack?
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What does “welcoming those voters back into the tent”even mean?
If they actually do turn against Trump / Trumpism (a big if), they can / will vote for Democrats.
No “welcoming” necessary.
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Mike Bost hates the troops and wants to cancel their votes.
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Doubling down on doing nothing is still nothing.
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Donald Trump, noted learner of lessons.
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The alternative, and maybe the courts would strike this down, would be just raise the flat tax but add income based deductions or credits to create a virtual progressive tax without the amendment.
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Costs money for our side too tho. Don’t have that Ken Griffin type money - unless JB is willing to foot the bill every cycle lol
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“Wokeness is when no slavery” - gen z neo confederates probably
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According to bls data, the current labor force participation rate for women ages 25-54 is near an all time high.
Participation rate was actually slowly trending down from early 00’s to 2015. Then spiked 2015-2020. Covid collapse, and now back to above pre COVID levels.
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Fund a think tank which puts out papers arguing that the constitution requires fully funded transit systems and high speed rail.