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Pablonius Monk

Does Fort Worth need an urban rail line? Here’s what a study found 🚆

Vehicle traffic over the next 20 years is only going to get worse, so the city should look at alternate ways to move people around.

The average construction cost per mile for a streetcar system is roughly $40 million, according to the city report.

It could also take roughly seven to 10 years to plan, design, and build an urban rail system.

star-telegram.com/news/politic

@startelegram

A model streetcar from 2010. Fort Worth is considering whether to build an urban rail system between its entertainment districts. Max Faulkner Star-Telegram/Max Faulkner
#Rail#FortWorth#MassTransit
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Amgine

@straphanger

Brilliant!

And I so hope some of the funds are carved off for #Bicycle infrastructure - especially secure bicycle parking! (in the best cities, there are also changing rooms/showers to promote #CycleCommuting #bikecommuting.)

Ooo, ooo! and, since it will be going to #MassTransit, #BikesOnTrains! This is a big issue in many places. In Amsterdam it appears everyone has two bicycles - one in the city, the other at their local train station, requiring twice as much parking.

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Pablonius Monk

Conflict of interest much?

'Obvious subversion': Public outcry over DART director's lobbying ties to Uber

"There's an obvious subversion of DART's rail and bus system. So many people in DFW have spent years relying on DART to get around whenever obtaining a personal vehicle was unfeasible. It can easily accommodate low-income families and individuals, disabled citizens."

keranews.org/news/2025-01-14/p

#PublicTransit ##DART #Dallas #Plano #Texas #KERA #PabloArauzPena #MassTransit #Uber #PaulWageman

Plano Texas DART (Dallas Area Regional Transit) Director Paul Wageman at a Plano City Council meeting.
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Ozzie D, NP-hard :bikepump: :vegan:

@streetsblogmass
Woo!!!

I hope this garners a lot of revenue (at least enough to pay for itself), and ultimately, driver behavioral changes, and support for more automated enforcement of driver malfeasance. But I wonder how it will roll out in our balkanized commonwealth. The bus lane act says automatic enforcement may be implemented by the MBTA or other transit authority, "provided, however, that a city or town served by the Authority or the regional transit authority shall be the enforcing authority for bus stop camera systems." The infrastructure and inter-agency bureaucracy seems like it will take a while to sort out.

(I'll also be interested to see how many police vehicles are identified as meeting criteria for a bus lane violation, even if they're exempt from citation... if that data is ever made available.)

#MApoli#MassTransit
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Impish4249

@Huntn00 @paul @QasimRashid

I can make a good argument that greed, rather than Regan, brought down the USSR.

If I remember correctly (and if I was taught the truth🤔) Orwell's #1984 was about #communism but I think, in light of the present, that the moral applies equally to any society led by elitists.

I don't think limited #capitalism (with #publicsafety, #corrections, #masstransit, #education & #healthcare excluded) is that bad.

I think it's the greed & arrogance that bring the fall of all

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Hypx

BEV fanatics like to demonize hydrogen powered mass transit. Often citing a case where things did not go smoothly.

But they forget that battery mass transit has consistently failed or severely underperformed.

FCEV mass transit at least works, with occasional teething issues. But BEV mass transit is a joke.

kut.org/transportation/2024-07

KUT · CapMetro stops shift to all-electric bus fleetVon Nathan Bernier
#EV#BEV#FCEV
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kurtsh

Kiss buses, trains & any other forms of mass transit funding goodbye if Fat Nixon wins.

"With the federal government facing mounting debt, the best course of action would be to remove federal subsidies for transit spending allowing states and localities to decide whether mass transit is a good investment for them."
- Project 2025, page 636

#trump#project2025#HarrisWalz2024
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CelloMom On Cars

After the war, consumer demand and public policy swung the other way. Many white commuters took advantage of the GI Bill, federally subsidized mortgages, an expanding highway network and cheap automobiles to escape #MassTransit – and the neighborhoods that it served.

Black Americans, in contrast, were largely shut out from access to these benefits, keeping them trapped in decaying urban cores.

usa.streetsblog.org/2024/08/20

So, racism turned public transit into the Cinderella of US transportation.

usa.streetsblog.org · This Single Photo of a Packed Trolley Illustrates the Ups and Downs of US Public Transit — Streetsblog USAThe last national transit boom can explain the challenges that confront modern transit agencies, says the author of 'The Great American Transit Disaster.'
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M. Ní Sídach

When I was a kid, before the expressway, the fastest and cheapest way to Cincinnati from Madisonville, was to catch the B&O at the station down the road at Oakley, Ohio.

I loved being close to those massive rumbling engines and the sound of the steel wheels' click-clack on the rails, but nothing was like walking into that gigantic art deco dome and seeing all those hauntingly beautiful, building-size color murals by Winold Reiss.

Largest Half-Dome built in the western Hemisphere
Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio
#History #CriticalInfrastructure #MassTransit #TOD #Architecture #Rail #Trains
youtube.com/watch?v=zaWqf_FHIJ

YouTubeFrank Wetenkamp: 90 Years of Union Terminal MemoriesVon Cincinnati Museum Center
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Pablonius Monk

This is desperately needed here in the USA.

US High-Speed Rail Map Shows Proposed Routes 🚂

Under the plan, which the USHSR proposes to build in four stages, it would be possible to travel between Seattle, Washington; San Diego, California; Miami, Florida; and Boston, Massachusetts, entirely on 220-mile-per-hour high-speed rail lines.

newsweek.com/us-high-speed-rai

A map produced by the U.S. High Speed Rail Association illustrates its plan to construct a new 7,000-mile high-speed rail network across the U.S. Construction would occur in four distinct phases. U.S. HIGH SPEED RAIL ASSOCIATION
#HighSpeedRail#MassTransit#USHSR
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M. Ní Sídach

Hyper expensive, hyper polluting to build and fly hypersonic aircraft serving the vanity of millionaires, INSTEAD OF efficient transit systems for the working-class, economic development, reducing pollution and the effects of climate change.
#Science #Engineering #Aerospace #MassTransit #ClimateChange #Economics
venusaero.com/aerospace-compan

Venus Aerospace · Aerospace company building hypersonic plane to get you anywhere on Earth in one hour - Venus AerospaceIn the future, you might be able to make it from Tokyo to Los Angeles before an NFL game reaches halftime. Author: Jordan Highsmith HOUSTON, Texas — An aerospace company is building a hypersonic aircraft that would be able to carry you across the globe in just an hour — no matter where you are […]
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

@straphanger
Los Angeles had a metro system in the early 1900s popularly called the Red Car. Mind you, Los Angeles was a lot smaller, but it spanned most of what is the county from the inland to the sea. My sampled version: Tire companies lobbied. Highways and cars had to be built (to make money!) The rail cars got sold to Argentina, where I rode some of the cars on a visit for my honeymoon in 1986.

Now we're building a metro again, and it's costing tens of billions.

#history #greed #metro #masstransit

#losangeles #LosAngelesCounty

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_

en.wikipedia.orgPacific Electric - Wikipedia
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Bodling

"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.

boingboing.net/2024/04/10/rail

Boing Boing · Railway workers built secret apartments in train stationsThe two men were charged with misusing public funds to add secret apartments to Burlingame and Millbrae stations.
#Commute#Caltrain#MassTransit
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