@piero.bsky.social
they 22 chicago piemadd.com i program and i work on trains
Transit is filthy rich. The Senate passed SB2111 36-12.
31.10.2025 09:21 — 👍 76 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0STREAMS BACK
31.10.2025 03:59 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0God bless this state and its fuckass rules
31.10.2025 03:27 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0guh
31.10.2025 03:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0At what point do I just go to bed and wait for the results tomorrow morning lol
31.10.2025 02:46 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0who the hell runs the cameras in the illinois house why do they take 8 years to transfer
31.10.2025 01:32 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0At 6:45, SB2111 is now being discussed, thread on the subject mater hearing to follow here.
30.10.2025 23:45 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 2yeah half the names are garbled lmao. seems to be Sean Stott: www.linkedin.com/in/sean-stot...
30.10.2025 23:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Even if we absolutely needed a third airport, just expand Gary or something idk
30.10.2025 19:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ORD has overtaken DEN in YTD passenger traffic and might overtake DFW next year!
All numbers are august passenger counts YTD and % is YoY change.
1. ATL - (Unknown)
2. DFW - 57,391,916 (-2.1%)
3. ORD - 56,423,184 (+6.13%)
4. DEN - 54,985,053 (-0.4%)
5. LAX - 49,642,157 (-3.4%)
Jerry took it out for a spin
30.10.2025 19:25 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
great news everyone: metra's new tracking API includes out of service trains.
30.10.2025 18:06 — 👍 36 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
ah cool cool its the CTA's website that's wrong, the GTFS is right
29.10.2025 11:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Since fucking when did the 1 go to desplaines and harrison??? I was expecting it to take me to union station but bro kept driving?????
29.10.2025 11:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Maybe, but everything i can find with the FTA and BTS talk about *only* boardings when talking about linked passenger trips, which is the estimated stat for RLE. I think it'd be weird to switch that up for just this tbh
29.10.2025 01:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I was trying that but my autocorrect was not liking it, for some reason
29.10.2025 01:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Im aware, just the FTA is counting boardings seemingly, not boardings and disembarkings (thats not a word is it)
Also, July 2025 weekday average for the dan Ryan branch
I should elaborate: I know the south shore line doesnt have a station at 130th, but building the CTA station where there *could be one eventually* is invaluable
28.10.2025 21:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think that anyone that *would* have switched from the MED to the Red line probably did years ago for cost reasons.
I'm just now realizing 130th wont connect with the south shore line (WHAT ARE WE DOING) as well...
As far as the DOT is concerned, a boarding is a linked trip, so ~20k boardings in their eyes is ~20k trips. www.bts.gov/archive/publ...
The ridership stats come from here: www.transit.dot.gov/sites/fta.do...
boop bsky.app/profile/pier...
28.10.2025 21:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0First, I shoulda said trips, not passengers. That's on me.
Also I should have specified: these are numbers are assuming "current year inputs" (jan 2025), with them assuming 2040 will have 41,500 daily linked trips.
But yeah ~100% of bus pax, so double counting to some degree.
how in gods name is the CTA estimating RLE will get 36,400 daily riders when the rest of the dan ryan branch currently gets 21,900...
28.10.2025 20:58 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0Steam foamers talking about the railroads
28.10.2025 20:27 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I can't get over the fact that SMART-TD's Legislative Director is named "Bob Guy"
27.10.2025 20:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0oh yeah the beloved graph that has made me ~$500
27.10.2025 16:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 01. make irresponsible bets
2. lose a lot of money
3. get lucky on one bet
4. profit
No race, it was some weather market
27.10.2025 16:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The other week I bought some dollars for 32 cents
27.10.2025 16:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Möbelaffär means furniture store :P
(im sorry)
