#light rail systems

[yokowan]

GREATEST LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM IN THE WORLD BAYBEEEE

THE CROWN JEWEL OF AMERICA TRULY THE PINNACLE OF MODERN ENGINEERING

NEVER HAS THERE BEEN A MORE INNOVATIVE WAY OF GETTING NOWHERE VERY SLOWLY

[starry-bi-sky]

*stares at disciple SQQ falling into the abyss au*

oh you are so "SY-is-SJ" coded. You are so "fell into the abyss and suddenly remembered that oh i've been Shen Jiu this whole time, not just Shen Yuan. we are one and the same". you are so 'crumbling under the weight of the system and being in the abyss and the despair of never really being free and having suffered in both lives' built. you are so 'scrambling to come to terms with your existence and battling with which life is really yours, only to realize that they both are'. You are primed for going off the rails.

I'm so normal about this guys. i promise.

[discrepancybot]

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It's true that a majority of subway stations in NYC are rather industrial looking and not particularly noteworthy. But a large minority feature some sort of art and a few dozen are worth going out of your way to visit. There's no fee to see the art other than the cost of subway fare.

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[officialrailscales]

Coyote + OD Green + Fifty Shades of FDE 🎨

RSB/M | Terra Bronze

QTR Stop | Terra Bronze

HTP Solo’s | FDE | Dragon Texture | 1-Slot

HTP Solo’s | OD Green | Dragon Texture | 1-Slot

HTP Solo’s | OD Green | Dragon Texture | 1.5-Slot

QDX Sling Mount | Terra Bronze

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- RS

[borealing]

hey do you guys know about

the history of the bus?

they started as an "omnibus" a horse drawn two stop back and forth along a pre determined route! then they added more stops! they messed with the size of the omnibus and the number of horses until they hit the right size for the route!

(blease note these are intra-city buses, stagecoaches would go outside the city to specific locations and they generally required a reserved seat)

they basically SLAPPED A ROOF AREA to get roof passengers! double deck omnibuses!

then we get MOTOR OMNIBUSES! as the petrol engine is getting better! for context the first motor omnibus ran in 1899 - this is 13 years after the patent for the first petrol engine car (1886), 74 years after the first steam public railway in england (1825) and 36 years after the london underground was opened (1863). by 1911 there were no horse-drawn omnibuses owned by the london general omnibus company!

AND THEY WERE EVERYWHERE! (please look at the number of BUSES and INDIVIDUAL CARRIAGES [usually hired cabs] and PEDESTRIANS)

a lot of places switched to electric trams in the 1910s, public transport became reliant on the comparatively more efficient light rail or tram systems. the trams gave way to electric buses in london in 1930! they were much less dangerous than trams as people did not have to walk right into traffic to get on em

then as engines got more efficient trolleybuses were switched with petrol engine buses

then in the 1950s more people got cars and they began dominating the streets and creating.. traffic and. traffic laws. and stuff.

thanks for coming to my whistlestop bus lesson hope u have a brilliant day

[rubywolf0201]

*Lay out a bunch of Sampo screenshots I took as part of my blessings to the Warp Departure gacha in hopes I get this pathetic cringefail (affectionate) of a man one day*

[ankyrea]

Dokomi 2024 Catalogue 🫶 I’ll be selling with a friend in Hall 3 table M87!

[illalmusalliin]

Here's a glimpse into my project. I'd love to see Columbus, Ohio build something robust that can rival cities across the world! Too bad this city doesn't believe in public transportation. Too much sprawl in this city and no way of navigating it without a car.

I know it looks pretty dense, but remember, this is downtown. Cities elsewhere have stations that are really close to one another. The red line in downtown Chicago. The 5 train in Lower Manhattan. Shoot, you can even see the Triskett Station from the Westpark Station in Cleveland, Ohio. It's not that weird.

Anyway, I'd like some opinions on this. I've just developed my own fantasy subway/metro map for the city in which I live. I love this city and it deserves more. This is just my ideal reality.

[neon-evangayion]

hunter s thompson ramblings at nine.

[tubetrading]

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[kamaradka]

this looks TERRIBLE??? why does this stupid fucking 3 line take over the 1 lines route to lynnwood (and then everett) wtf are they thinking

[barely-a-person]

so i live outside of my areas light rail system but in a couple weeks i'm going to be in the city for the majority of my time and want to be able to take public transport and i'm realizing have no fucking clue what i'm doing.

i don't know how to pay or how to verify that i'm a student in the areas that the fee is covered by my college.

i don't know how to figure out when and where i need to switch lines to get other places, let alone how switching lines actually works (do i have to pay again, how do i know i'm at the right station, etc).

is this kind of stuff just not taught at all? or is this on my school/parents? was i supposed to learn this at some point or do i just have to do it without knowing what i'm doing

[devileaterjaek]

[ookaookaooka]

just had a thought that universal healthcare would be better for the environment because if there’s more people like me who want to live out in the countryside or who want to try homesteading or living off the grid but are tied to the city because of their job benefits, giving everyone free healthcare would free them up to live wherever they choose and something something less people in cities the better

[railsistem]

UK: WMCA Funds Coventry Very Light Rail Demonstration

The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) Board has confirmed the first instalment of an expected 72 million GBP investment in Coventry’s Very Light Rail (VLR) technology. The Coventry Very Light Rail system has been designed to be quicker and cheaper to build than traditional tram and rail systems. It uses lightweight, battery-powered electric vehicles to operate without overhead lines, and…

[mr-chatterboxs-column]

I was looking up just how far off the timing was between this and the MSP streetcar closures (not far at all, essentially overlapping) and a) sorry about NCL apparently being originally from Minnesota even though they didn't run our streetcars, big MN L there, and b) this paragraph from the Minneapolis streetcar wiki page is...

did an auto executive from the '50s come forward in time to edit this wiki page to take a bold preemptive streetcars-were-doomed stance? because the NCL conspiracy has not actually been brought up anywhere else in the article so this whole para comes off as very much protesting too much. Anyway uh [citation needed]

never forget that we could have had robust trolley/tram system in many american cities still if it weren't for General Motors (this is not a conspiracy theory it's quite literally an actualized conspiracy that went to court)