Eddy Sackinger

Why jeopardize your safety? You just are living your life and your friends are too, mostly. We don't really hear from some of the more opinionated ones anymore but they were grating and buzz kills.

Instead you see just enough or you hear about it every so often, so you start to internalize that it could be a risk to speak out. You think on the margin maybe there are some things better unsaid and eventually your friends do too.

I also think we underestimate the amount of civil society that remains in an authoritarian regime. There's an equivalent to the PTA in Russia and there's a transport operator with new metro trains. It's not suddenly you wake up and see a masked person each day, that will take you if you step out.

I think I valued the pictograms more for the sense of place I felt implied by them, than by the utility in wayfinding and so the numbers strip all of that away.

Correct. I mean it doesn't look like they define signage in the law, so you could make an argument that only platform signage counts and everything else is a placard?

I think there were pictograms on directional signage and I don't remember what the legal requirements are, since the state decided to require pictograms or numbers.

The line seems to operate ok, and yet other agencies seem to take more than 10 years to select a preferred alternative.

It was built in 3 years, at a much lower cost per mile than many New Starts systems. It's far from perfect, it navigates through warehouses, has single track sections and often runs single car trains but it doesn't perform that much worse than FTA funded systems and performs better than others.

I've been navigating Baltimore for the last few days, and it's been interesting to think about their Light Rail system, which was built without Federal New Starts funding, which most agencies use in order to fund their transit project.

I was deeply confused by what the numbers meant when I visited last. I prefer the pictograms to the numbers.

This does not mean I don't support accepting contactless credit cards or allowing people to pay by phone. Merely that I don't prefer it and believe that transit agencies should support that.

I have slowly come around for airfare but nobody checks tickets after you board for airfare. You normally have time during a transfer. These are not true of urban mass transit systems.

I have a smartphone; I have a contactless credit card; I don't want to use either to pay my fare. I want to use a branded contactless card. They read quickly and I don't have to be legally liable to keep my phone charged on proof of payment systems.

I think Baltimore has an okay idea of using a different naming schema for frequent service and non-frequent service bus routes but the names they choose I believe are too clunky.

I don't support banning phones in schools and I don't support banning access to social media for under 16s.

I do support defining curated feeds as speech for the person during the curating.

Dream to save historic ‘eyesore’ became BBQ restaurant owner’s 10-year obsession He moved it behind his BBQ restaurant to keep it from being torn down.

He moved it behind his BBQ restaurant to keep it from being torn down.

One big idea for Raleigh, realign the Pigeon House branch to daylight through Nash and/or Moore Square on it's way through downtown Raleigh.

I guess Tom Homan has somewhere to go now 😁

Raleigh in many ways is an urban archipelago, it's many different districts jockeying for status but the land between them is largely ignored and all of them are speaking so loudly that none of them stand out.

To have a week long #GoRaleigh detour, with zero communication via GTFS, should be a scandal.

I remember growing up, people would say there's no such thing as a foreign policy voter and politics ends at the waters edge.

But I think to assume every democratic country is going to be a US ally, feels crass and misguided to me.

I don't really believe in democracy peace theory, that democratic countries rarely go to war together, as the mechanism for peace.

But I think I have come to believe that healthy democracies tend to focus domestically, which leads to hesitancy for war.

It's sad to see a transit service shutdown but the money required to make this a meaningful service would have meaningfully decreased other service. I hope that they work on the network to replace it but what it was, wasn't working.

Also I think it's worth asking, if they might be safer individually but making the roads overall less safe. An autonomous car that is more likely to follow the cars around it is fine but if every car is likely to follow the cars around it and one of the cars starts doing something bad 🤷‍♀️

America is not special. Trams generally are not the greatest investment. Transit needs to be fast, frequent and convenient. Tramways, especially pretty ones, are not fast.

Gotta ride the El Reno trolley 😃😜

Image is a popular astronaut meme. An astronaut is looking at the earth from space saying wait, I am worthy of love? An astronaut is behind him holding up flowers and saying always have been

A message for you all to carry through the year

Happy New Year 🎉

This January is filled with ways to build a better Triangle together ❄️🏙️

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I believe that if it weren't for DOGE, the cybertruck would have sold *fine*, not huge sales but not an albatross. We've know Elon was kind of bad for at least close to a decade, people care now because of DOGE.