JackTatt 🇨🇦

There should not be human poo on platforms. That’s why bathrooms are provided at many stations.

I love animals but birds don’t belong in train stations. They can get hit by trains, poop on passengers and equipment, and get caught in equipment around the station.

How a generation of permitting requirements slows down California's transit projects Why do transit projects like California's high-speed rail train take so long to complete? A new report examines that question with a focus on challenges posed by third-party permitting requirements.

We have to learn best practices from others. Lessons should be learned to correct for the future. Let’s build these public transit projects better and faster.

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So one could ride a 380 to get to their 380.

Did any A380s fly to Perth airport?

“I flew a 787 to the 787 bus”
“I rode the 787 to get on my 787”

At least it is not in the curb lane (except for the Queens Wharf terminus) and has dedicated lanes. If you drive in the Newcastle Light Rail lanes, the New South Wales Police Force are after you and will see to it that you part with some dollarydoos for your criminality.

Anyone have comparisons between fare enforcement spending and fine/penalty revenue and inspection rates (links/references welcome)?
Fare enforcement won’t necessarily pay for itself (a part of it is just encouraging fare compliance) but there should be probably be some relationship.

We could straighten that track out and raise the speeds.

On our side the public transports were really smooth but we almost only used streetcars (why are they part of the traffic with cars btw??)
The metro doesn't scale at all with how big and dense the city is, even the small Montreal has 4 lines 😭
(not mentioning Paris, that is a way smaller city)

The butthole logos have invaded acronyms too. The Toronto Transit Commission renamed its fare inspectors to the legal term Provincial Offences Officer, and now people call them POOs.

Was Claire Mann qualified for the job to know what she was doing!? Basic math says boarding with three doors is better than two doors is better than one door because it’s fewer people per door for the same number of people.
Extra laugh about UK criminalizing fare evasion.
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It's Official - All New Routemasters Will Be Front Door Boarding Only The news we hoped we'd never hear.

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British exceptionalism strikes again. And we definitely can’t consider places we were at war with.

YouTube video by Ruairidh MacVeigh The Blunder of London's Bendy Buses

They were also unliked by cyclists, apparently. m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkET...

If you are at the airport with enough time to go to the lounge and enjoy it, aren’t you too early for your flight and should have had more productive enjoyment prior to leaving for the airport (from your home, hotel, office, etc)!? If boarding is about to start, I’m at the gate (bin space matters).

Water fountains are available in public places more in Europe and Australia I want to say. Every Australian park has at least one well maintained water fountain, and except for the ones in the Domain & Botanic Gardens, it had a low one for dogs too. Station platforms had water refill stations also.

That was the worst part though to me. Removal wastes money. A future government can repeal or ease the provincial oversight, allowing new bike lanes just later that we would have liked. Reinstalling removed lanes makes us pay thrice instead of once (pay to install, pay to remove, pay to reinstall)

Thanks for the correction. I studied water treatment in university, but one doesn’t have sewage in train stations. I don’t want birds living in train stations. Feed them outside the station or in a park then (with proper bird food). Birds also get hit by fast trains sometimes, which isn’t good.

Meanwhile, in Toronto, we're reassuring the residents of Bloor-Danforth that that the Protected Major Transit Station Areas won't allow more density. Not that it matters when the province hasn't approved the MTSAs that have been on the Minister's desk for 4 years.

Existing homes cover closer to 3/4 of their plot or more, so that’s less that what already exists.

Good on the guard! He doesn’t want birds living in the station and popping on benches, screens, and passengers.
Further, feeding human food to birds can be bad for them which is why most parks prohibit feeding wildlife too.

That would be the flag of American suburbia if it followed Australian Aboriginal flag vexillology.

The flag of suburban America “town” if they followed Eastern European Vexillology formulas

Hopefully Canada learns our lesson before we start following the US path. I think it’s unhealthy how much we compare ourselves to the USA and mirror US politics.
The Ontario government was forced to give universities a bail out (not enough) but is still dragging their feet on housing.

That would be perfect except that a double track electrified railway already existed, it just had three level crossings.

Sorry, I was confused. I imagine Salt Lake City’s project made more sense that Newcastle Light Rail: replacing a double track electrified railway with a double track wirefree tramway in the middle of the street that charges its supercapacitor by raising its pantograph at every stop.

I hope that the international student cap is short term while municipalities and provinces catch up with all the housing and infrastructure they should have been permitting and building in the past. And hopefully, provinces actually fund universities (tuition freezes aren’t free, Ontario).

The budget troubles, at least in Ontario colleges and universities, existed before the international student cap. The province put in a domestic tuition freeze while not expanding subsidy (already lower than Canadian average). International tuition was uncapped, so that paid for domestic freeze. 1/2