"Two railway workers in California were fired by Caltrain after the company realized they had quietly converted unused offices into secret apartments to avoid the area's brutal commutes."
Thing that gets me is that they were working for a local mass transit company. One that carries commuters. And they still thought it brutal.
Some good news for anyone who loves RMTransit's public transport explainer videos, but doesn't like Google and YouTube.
Looks like @RM_Transit now has an account on PeerTube here, which you can follow from Mastodon: @reece
(If you're the first to follow the account from your instance it will initially appear empty. Videos will start appearing in your feed after you follow.)
Lovely #traffic at Harvard Square today because of the buses run to replace the temporarily shut down Red Line. People in cars just take #masstransit for granted, think it should pay its own way, don't realize how much that subway relieves surface congestion.
See, here's why I think the Parramatta light rail should be extended from Sydney Olympic Park to Strathfield.
It's not just that it would allow it to connect directly to many of the train lines serving the western and northern suburbs, including the T1, T2, T3, and T9. Or intercity trains to the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, and Newcastle.
It's not just that Strathfield is a major bus hub with many services across the western suburbs.
It's not just that DFO Homebush (between Strathfield and Olympic Park) is a busy shopping centre that generates a lot of traffic.
No, the big reason I say it's a good idea is because these photos were taken on the 526 bus, between Strathfield and Olympic Park, on a Sunday afternoon.
@fluids_guru Great. Even into the rural areas. Gets a bit dicey in the hole in the mountain areas, but even there it is better than average US suburban transit.
For example, last summer we went to a remote Shinto shrine in the mountains, trekked and watched a Noh play.
Got there entirely by mass transit.
Bus>>Local train>>Express train>>Local train>>Bus>>Cable car. About 300 miles and 7 hours. #Masstransit #trains
Omg omg the construction fences have been removed!
Combine that with the test trains, this means the train will be done soon? I'm so excited, I love the train 🚂😍
@RM_Transit I'm curious if you have any thoughts about the #MetroTransit Southwest line debacle in the Minneapolis-Saint Paulq metro area light rail system. Do you have any insights into how #Minnesota planners screwed up?
Nothing shows how absolutely completely out of touch #octranspo is with their riders than the fact that they accept CREDIT CARDS ON THE BUS BUT NOT DEBIT #+$-$&#-$?';&;$+#+#(#;#;#;;$
A friend of mine heard me complaining about this and emailed his city councilor who says that they're going to be adding that feature sometime in 2024 and are waiting for a contract to be finalized with moneris
Dear Friends,
My #TransitTuesday and #ClimateDiary entry today. For train enthusiasts this is a M3 train built about 40 years ago. This photo was made about 5 years ago but many are still in service. They are good for #photography because they don't have the high-back plastic bucket seats that limit sight lines of later carriages. Also, much more space for overhead storage than later and current models. #TakeTheTrain to #decarbonize. #PhotoResearcher#trains#transit#masstransit
Love the T, get on packed Green line, waiting by the door to exit at gov center, door doesn't open. Get to on the Blue line door doesnt fully open. Stuck in a train now that cant take anymore but also can't move cause a train is stuck at Maverick... Greatest Mass Transit Ever! #MBTA#MassTransit
... Best T driver encouraging people to tweet and complain about the Ts failures! #CarmensUnion
🚋 "The interurban railways made Dallas a commuter town – the only one in Texas. It was so easy to catch the interurban, ride a few minutes into Dallas to work, then hurry to the terminal and ride home to Grand Prairie, Lancaster, Ennis, or Vickery for supper at night."
"The priority should not be to replace every car with its electric equivalent but rather to rethink #mobility in general.
"Placing so much focus on the automobile and even now the electric automobile is not the way that we solve our mobility problems, but rather it's time to invest in #transit, in #cycling, in walkable cities, to get people out of #cars altogether," they said."