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Urban Design Concept of the Day

Redundancy in Transit

Redundancy is a key element to good transit design, always make sure that there are multiple ways to get between locations in a city. if there is only one way to get between two locations, then there is an exponentially higher number of points of failure on a system and it is harder to get between locations as there are fewer options, overallit makes transit less appealing as a method to move about in a city. This is why things like ring lines are so important to the design of transit systems. The lack of redundancy and interconnectivity in our transit systems is why American transit systems lag behind European and East Asian Cities in terms of ridership

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US intercity passenger rail frequency as of December 2023

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an appalachian environmental magazine i follow is calling for writing submissions from specifically indigenous people in southern appalachia and the broader southeast. the theme is indigineity, but the magazine covers ecology and climate change. there is no fee for submission. i am not indigenous, but i frequently see indigenous people sharing interesting perspectives regarding environmental science here on tumblr, so I thought i would share the link here.

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strong towns moment

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This film depicts trams in their last week of service on the streets of London. The week in question ran from 29th June to 5th July 1952.

Trams had been seen as inflexible and old fashioned and had become expensive to run, but only because of a lack of investment in infrastructure over the years, especially post war. Last Tram Week was the culmination of a three-year programme, known as Operation Tramaway, that saw the replacement of London's entire tram network with a fleet of modern diesel buses, at a cost of over £10 million. The trams had been very popular among Londoners, and in south London they accounted for the majority of local journeys by public transport. Many people regarded their demise as a particularly momentous event. On the last day of operation, large crowds gathered to see the last trams in service and to take a final ride. On arrival at its depot, the very last tram was ceremoniously received by a group of dignitaries, watched by a large number of spectators. Oh how things change with Britain's (and London) race to electrify.

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some peoples kneejerk responses to anti-car memes are so fascinating. people will seriously see that people are questioning whether car dependency is a good idea and immediately assume that 1.) we all are blaming them, rather than the forces in society that cause them to be car dependent and 2.) we have not thought about any sort of contingencies or details here and that the whole idea is to just sort of banish all cars instantly and leave people to walk home from the exact place they were stranded at when the fucking Car Rapture happened.

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i got on this account to reblog someones post about clueless suburbanites wringing their hands about the violent crime they imagine must be constantly happening on the public transport they never ride and in the cities they never visit. but while i was changing accounts the post was seemingly set to no reblogs. so imagine it yourself, if you don’t mind doing so.

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Look at what I saw on Twitter!!!

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please god above can someone explain to me why we're still working on self driving cars when trains exist

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that’s okay. i think i can live with that

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These 23 seconds of local news from central Italy have literally become my favorite movie therefore I gave it English captions so that it could be shared with the rest of the world