Long Branch Mike (LBM) 🇨🇦

Gas and diesel fumes can't be good for our health either. Diesel fumes give me a headache

China’s Metro Systems Grapple with Financial Crisis Metro systems across China are facing a financial reckoning. As the country’s real estate downturn deepens and ridership patterns shift, operators in cities large and small are raising fares and cutting services in a bid to stem mounting losses.…

World: Bad Things In Good Places A Compilation of Things That Good Transit Systems Get Wrong.

It can be good to remember that even good transit systems have bad aspects to them. I talk all about them in my latest article:

open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...

Wow - those columns look like chandeliers!

The Historic Line 1 Subway in Budapest: A Photographic Chronology As the oldest line of the Budapest Metro subway system, Line 1 has been in continuous operation since it was first inaugurated on Saturday, May 2, 1896 — with only the underground railway system in London being in operation longer. Although I am not exactly an aficionado of subway systems in general — I do have somewhat of an interest in them — I decided that I wanted to explore this historic subway line and experience it for myself. For a number of consecutive years, I used the subway system in New York to commute from where I lived in Brooklyn to Manhattan in order to get to a special high school which I attended; then to college; and to a place of employment after that — commuting at least an hour each way to each of those places. The need for cost-effective and efficient transportation led to me experiencing rides on subway and rapid transit systems around the world — including but not limited to those which serve... The post The Historic Line 1 Subway in Budapest: A Photographic Chronology appeared first on The Gate.

The Historic Line 1 Subway in Budapest: A Photographic Chronology

Paris Street filled without outdoor seating during the pandemic

To ensure cars didn’t just take back ownership of Paris streets as the pandemic was ending (like they did in so many cities), Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social made sure that 60k parking spaces and many streets were permanently transformed with restaurant seating, people-places, greening, & bike-lanes.

Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan and Macau together have a metro system spanning over 1,650km in length with over 800km of regional rail on top. Almost 1,000km of additional metro and 300km of additional regional railway lines are under construction in the region.

@citiesbydiana.bsky.social is Digital Artist Laureate of all things drivist: www.youtube.com/shorts/5N7ou...

Anyone else immediately start humming the “Monorail” song from The Simpsons whenever they hear about this Tesla Tunnel?

Can cities just replace parking spots with trees?

One borough of Montreal has been experimenting with quick, cheap implementations of this for greenery, shade, and water management.

But there’s been controversy due to losing parking and the fact that it doesn’t look as polished as bigger projects.

New York City’s Subway Is Actually Safer Than Your Car Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has a point about assaults underground, but his policies aren’t improving anything.

"...the risk of being murdered underground is... orders of magnitude less than the risk of dying from a traffic accident elsewhere in the US. Cars are deadly, and any transportation policy that encourages their use over public transportation is pretty much by definition anti-safety."

@danielhwright.bsky.social LoL @funimag.com

They must perform The Monorail Song and Dance from The Simpsons regularly!

Pranksters’ video doling out snacks on CA train that prohibits them goes viral A group of pranksters aboard a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train donned themselves in suits and rolled a snack cart through the car, doling out pretzels, drinks and even hand wipes.

Pranksters’ video doling out snacks on CA train that prohibits them goes viral

I love this train!

"The role of civilization's addiction to the automobile tends to go overlooked in these discussions in favor of more obvious forms of waste like plastic bottles. But cars are everywhere, and so are their rubber feet. And as these tires wear down, that material has to go somewhere."

Transit agencies: DBO.

(Don’t. Be. #Ottawa.)

504 King: No service between King St West at Dufferin St and Dundas West Station due to traffic congestion. Shuttle buses are running between King St West at Dufferin St and Dundas West Station.

‘I’m begging you to make it stop’: TTC has known about blaring bus horn problem for more than a year, documents show Residents of a west-end condo building besieged by noise from blaring TTC bus horns say the city’s transit agency has known about the problem, in detail, for more than a year, despite the fact that it...

‘I’m begging you to make it stop’: TTC has known about blaring bus horn problem for more than a year, documents show www.cp24.com/politics/tor...

@lonrec.bsky.social

Taming corporations is the key issue of our times To appease corporations, people may raze mountains, divert rivers, clear forests, cover countryside in tarmac and shower subsidies upon them, but they have no loyalty to any place, people or product.

The East India Company has come home.

Whether it is water, energy or other sectors corporations rule the roost, exploiting people, workers and the environment.

Political parties funded by corporations obey.

Can't build a good society and democracy without curbing corporate power.

@lonrec.bsky.social

Suckers born every minute...

Striding Into the Future on Solar Sidewalks From photovoltaic pavement to bus stops that charge EVs from below, the next generation of clean energy infrastructure is right under our feet.

From photovoltaic pavement to bus stops that charge EVs from below, the next generation of clean energy infrastructure is right under our feet. reasonstobecheerful.world/striding-int...

Choosing to drive to your job downtown in a city with subway, bus, bike, and commuter rail systems....... embarrassing

Hahaha, glad you're calling out Musk's monorail ride for cars, in a tunnel.

Jasper considers asking Province to prioritize rail service to Edmonton "To have a high-speed rail here would open up a whole new winter economic sphere for our community to prosper."

Jasper considers asking Province to prioritize rail service to Edmonton - Jasper Fitzhugh News
https://www.fitzhugh.ca/municipal-council/jasper-considers-asking-province-to-prioritize-rail-service-to-edmonton-11002953

Amazing pix!

How are governments still buying into the Hyperloop? There is not a single real success story in all of its history; just delaying public transit development that's actually feasible. Even if you're a corrupt grifter, that's gotta seem like an unwise plan.

@lonrec.bsky.social