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[onion-bagels]

I like trains and making maps, so I made a map of the transit agencies providing special services for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour concert in the San Francisco area on July 28 and 29

cuz apparently everyone in our local government agencies are swifties

[lawyeronabike]

Misadventures in American Public Transit #3: The San Jose International Airport

Silicon valley is where the future is invented. This is not always a good thing.

It's practically ground zero for surveillance capitalism, and the center of all sorts of products that are bad for us yet we can't put down. (Facebook, etc.).

With that being said, let's check out the airports. San Francisco's airport has a BART station that runs right into the center of the city. Fantastic. The Oakland Airport has a peoplemover that delivers you to three different BART lines and an Amtrak station. Excellent.

San Jose's airport has no rail transit to the airport, and thanks to the lunatics on the San Jose city council, they won't have it for a very long time.

Instead, they intend to spend half a billion dollars on autonomous "Personal rapid transit." It means dedicated path for tiny driverless, vehicles to operate on.

The capacity will be tiny. Flying with a Utah sized family? Forget it. You will have to take more than one pod. Americans are so averse to sharing public spaces with others that they will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on not yet existing technologies just to have to avoid seeing a stranger on a train, or even more scandalously, a bus.

Currently, there exists a bus route from VTA light rail to the airport. Clearing a dedicated route for it to operate without private vehicles could drastically speed up the bus. Or they could build a people mover like in Oakland. Or they could extend the VTA light rail to go to the airport (probably the best option, albeit not the cheapest, as this allows people to go straight to downtown, and lots of other destinations, without a transfer). Choosing currently nonexistent, nonstandard technology with extremely low capacity is the wrong choice. It seems this time, in the heart of silicon valley, public officials have drunk their own coolaid.

[hayayaya888]

[santaclaralocalnews]

VTA has just made a $76 million purchase to help bring BART to Santa Clara. The transit agency purchased its Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), a massive piece of machinery that will drill a tunnel for the BART tracks to travel through to connect San Jose and Santa Clara. VTA has already started preparing for the TBM’s arrival at its work site. Read complete news at svvoice.com.

[hynterlads]

パン

[kyaramaru]

V-VTA BOYS???? THEY DEBUT ALREADY??? LETS GOO

[amimuu]

“Love”

Close up:

Gaaassspp a redraw of a comic panel??? From tumblr user amimuu??? She actually went through with it?? Yessir!!!!

And this kids is why you should always have an extra post in your sleeve for when times are desperate!

Anyway. Hello tumblr. I am in fact, not dead! (Barely tho school is killing me)

And this this I bring you…my instagram dtiys piece that I was supposed to post here a month ago! (I forgor) I apologize for the radio silence from my end but HOOOO BOY HAVE THINGS BEEN CRAZY. If I had to make a list of everything that’s happened to me in the last couple months I’d probably cry.

Is this the ao3 curse

I am however happy to announce that: SHIT IS ALMOST OVER! Which means art is coming realll soon!!

I’ve also been exploring new fandoms but that’s! Unimportant!

Well—I think that’s all I gotta say for now—enjoy the drawing! *falls off the face of the earth*

Extra:

[lit-vocabcards]

Watching my favorite gay podcasts while fighting for my life in this EMT class is the best. College isn’t real, and neither is education. Let’s memorize the entire body’s anatomy and physiology in a single night! And then next year I’ll take my advisor’s course on it, after getting my EMT Cert!

Hopefully I can fool him into thinking I’m a genius (he’s seen my fuck ass transcript)

[poughkeepsies]

I know you all didn't know we were competing but I won

[your-subby-creature]

I love every time I get to update my map of how I react to altered states, someday I've gotta make an infographic of it or something

[4rtific]

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[hsewatch]

VTA's Workplace Violence Prevention Plan is Sparked by California Law

One Silicon Valley politician called for stricter restrictions to safeguard workers after tragedy and a lack of workplace safety precautions. This summer, state senator Dave Cortese’s measure, Senate Measure 553, which addresses workplace violence and occupational safety, went into force. Preventing violent situations like the 2021 VTA shooting by an unstable transit employee is the main goal of…

[wyst]

one thing VTA loves is lying

[santaclaralocalnews]

The ride along De La Cruz Boulevard/Trimble Road near Highway 101 should soon run a lot smoother. Contractors for the Valley Transportation Agency (VTA) are putting the finishing touches on the major upgrades along the Santa Clara – San Jose border. “[The] contractor is in the final stage to finish signal light installation and concrete work for sidewalk/curb and gutter at De La Cruz/Trimble/Seaboard intersection,” said a VTA spokesperson. Read complete news at svvoice.com.