matt harris

New renderings for LA Metro’s Sepulveda Transit Corridor have been released by a transit design firm working with Metro. Renderings appear to depict the stations and maintenance/storage facility for automated heavy rail options from the Bechtel team.

www.anilverma.com/project/sepu...

Update: we need signal priority, we have been sitting here. It’s a joke.

Day after Christmas and the train is PACKED.

RAN A WHAT

And they got us a new train almost immediately.

Was wondering why our train stopped, turns out someone is having a seizure. Conductor took quick action and paramedics showed up immediately, system works!

Colorized old photo of hundreds of people in fur and other heavy coats walking along a street of tall buildings and signs decorated for Christmas. A streetcar is stopped to pick up passengers.

Milwaukee, 80 years ago

Looking east along Wisconsin Ave from MLK (formerly 3rd street).

At over 600,000, the city’s population in 1944 was higher than it is today.

MENSWEAR GUY: Furthermore, you’ve neglected to even cut the vents of the shockingly poor-fitting sport coat you’ve, for some reason, chosen to wear to breakfast

MAN WHO STILL WEARS A THREADLESS TEE FROM 2003 WITH TWO ANTHROPOMORPHIC HOUSES HUGGING UNDER THE TEXT “HOMIES”: haha get his ass derek

Message displayed : "One less CEO - Many more to go"

Road signs were hacked in Seattle:

kutv.com/news/nation-...

Two 26-Year-Olds: One Killed a Homeless Man, Another is Suspected of Killing a Healthcare CEO Daniel Penny is free after killing a man victim to the system. What of Luigi Mangione, who is suspected of killing a man symbolic of it?

“The system that produced a behemoth health insurance company that haphazardly denies thousands of healthcare claims is the same that brought a homeless man with schizophrenia and depression to bounce between subway cars.” zeteo.com/p/26-year-ol...

Who gets to kill? Daniel Penny and Luigi Mangione

Luigi Mangione was taken into custody just as Daniel Penny walked free.

The ruling class wants us to celebrate the murder of the vulnerable and condemn the murder of the powerful.

They fail to see how killing the powerless breeds violence against the powerful.

www.jphilll.com/p/who-gets-t...

Elon Musk is an oligarch, plain and simple. Call him what he is.

Homeboy stopped the wrong lady

(H/T @agirlhasnopres.bsky.social )

Huge document drop on the California State Rail Plan website, including a statewide network takt diagram and full list of infrastructure projects. For the first time, we are seeing the state planning an electrified "Sac-OAK-SF-SJ Mega Corridor":

dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-...

YouTube video by AmtrakGuy365 the history of trains, i guess

Omg how am I only seeing this now

youtu.be/SU96B5PNhLw?...

It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't

Headline from a rich person who writes: "Don't replace the culture war with the class war"

Counterpoint: Do

You can't even parody this

If I’m on a bike heading somewhere I’m more likely to stop at your business vs on my way in my car where I have to stop, find parking, and walk over.

Phots of the underneath of a rail bridge painted to look like it’s made of huge colourful lego bricks.

Never forget, it doesn’t take much to add some smiles and surprises to your city. Just a civic culture of fun and creativity, or at least a culture of not getting in the way of fun and creativity. Is that YOUR city?

More of this. #CityOfSmiles #FunCity

Background: On May 4, 2022, the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA) Board of Directors (Board) approved the award of Contract No. 21-1002658 to CPM Partners, Inc., for Construction Management Consultant (CMC) Services for the construction of the hydrogen fueling station and the retrofit needed to support hydrogen vehicle operations, also referred to as the Arrow Maintenance Facility (AMF) Hydrogen Fuel Upgrade Project, for an amount not-to-exceed $1,041,815.21, and a contract term through June 30, 2024, with two one-year option terms. On October 26, 2023, Amendment No. 1 to Contract No. 21-1002658 was executed to replace the Exhibit B Fee Schedule in its entirety to include additional personnel to align with specified work required to adequately support the CMC project task and to clarify the breakdown of the yearly billing rate cap. Additionally, the contract was amended to extend the contract expiration date to June 30, 2025, without a change to the total contract value. The project has experienced delays and challenges, pushing the completion for the AMF Retrofit Project from September 2024, which was the forecasted completion date at the time the CMC Services contract was executed, to December 2025, and the completion date for the Hydrogen Station from September 2023 to June 2026. In consideration of the construction and management challenges, staff recommends exercising the contract’s second option term, extending the contract through June 30, 2026, to support the AMF construction and the Zero Emission Multiple Unit (ZEMU) completion and project close-out phase. As such, staff also recommends approving Amendment No. 2, increasing the contract amount by $1,370,000, to be funded with Valley State Transit Assistance-Population Share funds, for a new not-to-exceed amount of $2,511,819.05[...]

SBCTA's hydrogen train refueling station is 3 years behind schedule and costs have increased 45%. H2 service is delayed to 2026, but SBCTA continues to tout its "first 0 emissions train in North America" - meanwhile Caltrain's 0 emissions electric service has been running successfully for months.

It’s official, the shooter was an english teacher - the amount of metaphors I am seeing is insane.

How Madrid built its metro cheaply - Works in Progress Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years — faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world. What can its expansion teach other cities?

Great new piece on how this happened, by @hopkinsonben.bsky.social:

Got to meet LA County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath and California State Assembly Member Rick Zbur and discussed the state of LA Metro and also how we plan on future proofing CHSR! Very exciting to make your voice heard!

ok fine last time trying to make this work

too schleepy to lift martial law I’ll do it after a nap

😔😔😔

Do we think Mayor Karen Bass actually cares about what the info the City Controller is putting out or does she just find it annoying?

1: #Tokyo metro map in 2D.
2: The same map in 3D.

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