We now have the technology that allows people to not depend on oil from foreign countries, they can get their power (relatively) locally and be independent! If your province / country doesn't produce oil and isn't moving towards EVs in a big way IDK what to tell you.
This is a good time to remember that as happens every few years, those EVs which are apparently low demand are suddenly in high demand from people who want their mobility decisions made by them and not a war they have no control over on the other side of the world.
It ain't perfect, but it's impressive, iconic, and visible from all over. The top floors are the same height as the "pod" on the CN tower.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFqM...
Now that Seattle has a slightly more substantial rail network Vancouver has had to pivot to out innovating them on buses
Vancouver is undeniably the most forward thinking transit city in the country. The Trolleybus expansion is exactly the type of program Toronto should be doing with our streetcars.
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Its frustratingly difficult to make new friends in your 20s when you've not got a traditional career.
I’m a picky person. Here are some thoughts about liking things.
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Delays and injuries and deaths are very expensive
Thats less a common tendency than you suggest
It was apparently Translink's call, which tracks, I think they are just a more competent and aspirational agency
Please can we buy more European buses? PLEASE
The first three door low floor bus in Canada. . . . ever?
www.reddit.com/r/Translink/...
One of the funniest things in urbanism is the constant desire to create "our cities high line" instead of something novel and contextual.
The high line works because its in manhattan folks, not because it was just any random elevated structure.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX-9...
Platform doors make financial sense
read in the papers an unleashed dog went inside BART tracks to cause a major delay and had a flashing vision that one day we will get Platform Screen Doors in the Bay Area too and we will ask what took so long for something so obvious
Before you install the platform doors, the platform can be prepared for their installation - this looks very clean. This reduces the need for shut downs, and allows for broken doors to be removed temporarily if needed for maintenance or servicing.
Hey #topoli to all the journalists out there reporting on the delays today. It’s important to:
1) be clear that suicides are preventable on the subway system and are in fact prevented in most systems
2) the responsibility of the board to mitigate
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Shanghai platform door stats are off the hook. Look how fast they installed them and how much impact it had.
The DC metro area ain't tiny. More people should live in it as well.
I think you have the finances totally wrong. The streetcars are for example much worse financially than the suburban buses.
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I don't think thats likely
I doubt owning a car is going to be the cheaper option
In lower density areas this is not a terrible idea.
Robotaxis are a threat to transit, and we need to address that very soon. Read my latest article now: open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...
Looking at the Beijing subway one really can't help but think Wash DC should have a way bigger / better transit system.
2-3 more city centre metro tunnels
Numerous additional suburban branches
S-Bahnify the Regional Trains
Express Train to Dulles (yes 2 trains there!)
Orbital Rail
Thats tbd
