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I shall not allow myself to be burdened by knowledge of AWS. US East 1? That means nothing to me. I only know of flowers and birds.

You see them maybe half the time on the Blue line. They’re definitely showing their age, but they have 4 bike racks per car instead of 2 on the Siemens cars, so I like them in the summers when everyone’s biking.

Interesting, that’s the stretch that I found most painful during previous shutdowns.

I was “lucky” enough to come down with Covid and haven’t had to take the replacement bus this time, so I haven’t had a chance to see this time.

Maybe beef up service on semi-parallel routes (7, 9, 14, 22) to serve riders that would have been getting on in Minneapolis, and run the Blue replacement buses express to downtown after 38th to keep trips pretty quick for riders coming from Bloomington/Airport/Fort Snelling?

I really hope they find a way to make replacement bus service suck less for the extended shutdown next summer, cause that’s gonna be *rough*. IDK if that’s possible, though.

Probably one of those “take an active duty Marine as your guest to the CMAs to show how much you support the troops” kind of things.

The demolition without a permit is an entirely separate issue, of course, which the article barely discusses despite it being in the headline.

“…as a community we can ask, ‘Why is it only happening in this part of the city?'”

…because it’s the part of the city where the university is. If this guy didn’t want to be near college students, maybe he should’ve taken notice of the large university in the neighborhood before moving in?

monday morning from 9am to 10am sets the tenor for the entire week based on how much of my job i can re-learn from either first principles or draw from muscle memory

Right while we were trying to get our dog to sit still so we could give her her eyedrops. It didn’t help.

Yeah, for me A Line -> Blue Line is still probably gonna be my go-to. A little slower, but it doesn’t require me to check a schedule. Maybe 134 in the mornings when it’s easier to leave at a specific time.

That’s actually perfect timing for specifically me and maybe not a lot of other people 🤣

Am I reading this right that only the reverse commute 134 and 765 will be restored in August? Neither are currently operating, and starting off with reverse commute service only would seem strange?

The people want trains. Folks should be able to take a high speed train from Binghamton to Bowling Green. From Mobile to Madison. From Pittsburgh to Portland. Don’t build detention camps. Build trains.

(which there is, it goes to JFK)

If there can be an AirBus it logically follows that there can be an AirTrain.

Unfortunately Amtrak’s having enough trouble keeping their existing rolling stock in good enough shape to run their current service. I’m on the Borealis right now, and I’m pretty sure this car is a Superliner I, which would make it at least 44 years old.

We need to get enough trains running that it’s infeasible to keep on using Union Depot as a wedding venue.

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Did you know!?

Saint Paul number one city in world baby.

Is that not what it’s called in the US? Or does Minnesota just get the Canadian LaCroix?

lock, stock, and two smoking paddles

“I saw reports that it sounded like gunshots.”

…sorry, what?

Finally, we'll have a single-story strip mall in Highland.

this kills all of the people

Maybe you could also attach multiple fixed-route shuttles together end-to-end so that a single driver could operate all of them at once? Just spitballing here.

a lot of people make fun of St Paul but where else can you take a moving walkway to the 2nd floor of the hardware store to the sound of the X Files theme being played on a baby grand piano