Ian Gaida

Every couple of months I checked @metrotransitmn.bsky.social careers page and I've seen LRT Operators a grand total of ZERO times

Every chance I get to talk to anyone in charge at the agency, I bring up the need for (funded, planned) 10-minute headways and better signal priority. Nothing meaningful has changed since they went from 15- to 12-minute headways about 2 years back...

Met Council report on ridership is up, 55M in 2025, roughly 3% decline from '24. Note that they've started collecting data differently last year. '24 ridership revised up to 57M

LRT drives the decline, highlights importance of restoring 10 minute frequencies

metrocouncil.org/Council-Meet...

It's not a productive trend, but with every passing day I think I get more hung up on how massive the contrast was in 2024 and how easy the choice should've been for voters. And I get angrier and angrier about the people who muddied that contrast and the people who chose to vote for *this.*

THIS is the future LEFTISTS WANT for our HOMES!!!!!!!!!!!

Well it seems the winter snow and plowing have completely removed that line so now it's even worse

To be clear: this was immediately obvious to anyone with *any* kind of transportation expertise.

(This understanding did not preclude large engineering and design firms, such as my former employer, from accepting money from gullible states to conduct "feasibility studies" of this risible concept.)

honestly the light strips work fine (well the color temp is fucked but w/e I fixed that) it was everything else that was the problem

Former GN AC&F 36 seat diner in Amtrak P1 paint

Former Penn Central Budd Baggage-Lounge in Amtrak P1 paint

"Come on, in and out, 20 minute adventure"

One whole ass week later I finally got 2 of the 3 lighting kits I wanted installed

how it feels taking public transit rn

A General Motors Canada GF6C

One of the arguments the Class Is and AAR put up any time anyone talks about freight rail electrification is that there's no electric locomotives designed for US/NA freight service. While on the surface this claim is true, it's also not a big deal

To prove it, let's talk about this fucking thing

This bus driver is honking at everyone parked in the bike lane

I approve

Bush-ism

Of course Platner knew what his Nazi symbol was. It changed his life. His tattoos were reviewed when he asked to return active duty; a trained officer looked for violations. The sleeve tattoos were OK. The Totenkopf was not. Platner chose to keep it. Somewhere in DoD, it’s all written down. 5/

throwing "the law and order party" into the trash bin next to "party of small government" "the party of small business" "the silent majority" etc etc

Nope, it's CID.

Press Releases — Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority

We need your voice: bigskyrailmt.gov/take-action
Full release: bigskyrailmt.gov/releases
@billingsgazette.com @dailymontanan.com @montanafreepress.org

S. 3728 removes the non-federal match barrier that can stop long-distance corridors even when the work is real. Introduced by Senators Sheehy and @merkley.senate.gov — Republican and Democrat united on passenger rail.

If you think the print ads were bad, watch this

They paid a MN ad firm like half a mil for this

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LVc...

No, Mar A Largo

same for mine minus the plumber part, oddly

AI profile photo, opinion discarded

Democrats had a chance to embrace BLM and the very real need for justice again cops. They rejected it, they fought hard against the very idea of holding them accountable. Society doubled down on police impunity and violence, and ICE is just the natural evolution of accepting violent racist policing.

Showing up to a precinct demanding to be let in and see the overtime only to be promptly shot

2026 will be the year of Linux on the desktop

I can do you one better: on I 90 near Wasta,SD the RCPE passes under the highway in a giant steel culvert

I think there's another one near Sturgis too

Oh my God if the Greens win Westminster

Car: *chime I've never heard before* update available to install

Me: hell nah I'm not risking bricking my car at work. They're probably removing android auto anyway

WCCO YouTube thumbnail of Bovino launching gas grenades into Mueller Park. headline: "did you see feds commit crimes in Minneapolis?"

Hennepin County Attorney debuts new evidence portal. Submit evidence you may have of federal agents conducting lawless rampages.
www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/20...

Note: this is different from the now-closed portal for evidence related to the Renee Good and Alex Pretti murders.

One of the less likely but still possible ways this all ends is "a petty officer gets Ideas"