Thor K.

Rutgers has a lot of planning and operational issues that go far beyond bus lanes and significantly impact its transit.
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East Broad Top 16, recreated as a somewhat 1:48 scale Lego model.

Made to run on 3 stud gauge Lego track, like its real life counterpart. Engine & Tender come out to 1,440 pieces and I’m using one Power functions L motor for power.

Really, really happy with the turnout.

This gets 12,000 riders/day. Do we know if they publish annual statistics? Rutgers gets 6.2 million/year (includes Camden and Newark, they don't seem to publish it by campus or route) I'm curious to see how they compare.

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Rutgers University is a sprawling institution heavily reliant on its own internal transit system. But its transit often fails to deliver. Gripes are common among students and alumni, but seldom discussed from a planning perspective.

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Had a visually impaired woman on my bus this morning and my computer was down so I had to manually announce stops. When she got off she said ‘You did a great job announcing, it’s nice to know where the Nickel Plate Trail is’ and that’s just about the best compliment I could receive today

COMMENTARY: I know what's wrong with our buses — does Rutgers? To be a Rutgers student is to spend a lot of time waiting for buses — waiting in the cold or dark for one to arrive, or waiting onboard wondering whether you should get out and board another bus that ...

Rutgers University is a sprawling institution heavily reliant on its own internal transit system. But its transit often fails to deliver. Gripes are common among students and alumni, but seldom discussed from a planning perspective.

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Harris (train) - Wikipedia

Fun fact I discovered. The first Harris car sets were built in England by the Gloucester Car company, using the same car body as the Toronto Subway’s G series subway trains used on Canada’s first subway in a solid red colour scheme. @longbranchmike.bsky.social
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I imagine the business case would be a lot more evident if there were currently more than one sleeping car per day. Though given that that sleeping car is full on every run, it may already be.

Genuinely very good to see this quite ideal sleeper service being paid attention to.

Interestingly enough, Thomas Tait, the Victorian Railways commissioner during Melbourne’s suburban electrification, was ex-Canadian Pacific.

This is being built for a line that will use low floor trams.

Tweet from Vic Premier Allan announcing that the Melbourne Metro Tunnel is opening in early December. No more details yet.

Melbourne Metro Tunnel will open in Early December.

I stand corrected. There are plans to increase that frequency to match, as well as extend some trains to Newark to close the gap between the MARC and SEPTA networks.

YouTube video by Taitset Adelaide's Eccentric Suburban Trains!

If you've got half an hour to spare and want to know about Adelaide suburban trains, watch this video from Taitset. This Informative and entertaining video goes into exactly the right amount of detail on Adelaide trains from the Redhens to EMUs via the Superchooks.

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Correct me if I’m wrong but I had the impression that most Elizabeth Line runs on the Great Western were short turns.

DC<->Baltimore is also quite doable on regional rail at similar(?) frequencies to Reading on the Elizabeth Line. Though in terms of local transit DC is leaps and bounds ahead of Baltimore, and were retrocession to happen would instantly become the largest city in Maryland.

a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van ALT: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van

Me and the college freshman I was seated next to at a wedding tonight realizing each other is a transit nerd

The interior of a G Line bus at night, starkly lit up with red from the stop request and the normal blue lights

Good night bus vibes start with a G ✨

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UERL did it on sections of the Northern Line.

I presume “Local” for local time. As opposed to ####Z used for UTC or “Zulu” time.

A stainless steel elevator call station with a single metal-ringed white button with a black up arrow. At the top of the panel is a small cutout window to a floor indicator displaying “G”. The floor indicator appears to use a roller blind or rotating drum as its mechanism.

I’ve never seen this before. An elevator call station with a roller blind(?) floor indicator!

This is actually a really interesting insight into the geometry of the Metro network. Pentagon-Foggy Bottom isn’t a priority because that trip can be done via L’Enfant with the same number of transfers. Meanwhile for some trips from the west it makes more sense to go via Pentagon than Foggy Bottom.

U.S. regulators worried about safety require larger elevator cars than in Europe. But these rules reduce the number of elevators, exacerbating sprawl and the accompanying dangers.

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Pfft. Whatever. If this campaign actually knew what it was doing, they would’ve made the elevator nameplate with capacity legible to me.

Solar powered trains are a great idea…

Of course, the solar panels shouldn’t be on the train.

I appreciate the running theme between these episodes of the decline of US transit being caused by policymakers not considering the consequences of their policies (and trying to pay for them with other people’s money).

I know it's stupid and childish, but every time I go over the Swedes' "Buss" sign, I can't help but picture it in my brain as a hissing snake bussssssssss.

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I wonder if they could run it to meet every Amtrak train as well, there aren’t that many of them that stop there.

In my experience they open all the doors pretty often at NJ stations. I also have never had my ticket scanned on the platform, so it may be primarily an Empire Corridor or LD thing.

There is a potential limitation with they way the door controls work on most NA trains. They're usually separated into front and rear segments relative to where the conductor is located, so selective door operation is dependent on the position of the conductor.