In fact, I believe we should be replacing as much automobile travel with train and bus travel as practical.
I live in a city and I take the train everywhere I can. The train is a miraculous invention. The electric train is the pinnacle of human transportation technologies. These things should be everywhere.
Paris Line 14 received two massive extensions earlier this year, making the already-impressive metro line even more important to the Ile-de-France region. But what made this line so revolutionary, how did it change the world, and what can we learn? youtu.be/GWR04xmzMmw
YouTube video by RMTransit
seems like a big story that the former president's ex-chairman of the joint chief's of staff thinks he's a fascist www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
General Mark Milley expressed his concerns about Trump to author Bob Woodward in March 2023
A parable. When you go under the Bloor viaduct, only sometimes do you see a train. A certain disappointed kid might say, "The train tracks are always empty!" It's true, they are. And yet, that train moves half a million people every day, more than any of Toronto's highways.
A powerful lesson in bringing talent in-house to create and maintain an application instead of shoving money at a contractor to make it. Good things happen when you bring talented, passionate people together to work as a team.
ICYMI from yesterday, worked on this one with Leon. A real cautionary tale in unintended consequences of well-meaning regulations and why good regulations need constant maintenance just like any other government project.
NEW INVESTIGATION: Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of work to game a NYC minimum wage law. We crowdsourced screenshots, monitored surge pricing and ran financial models to reveal the devastating impact on drivers. w/ Natalie Lung @awgordon.bsky.social Denise Lu https://bloom.bg/3BIPTLB
Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of their apps to game a NYC wage law, denying drivers millions in pay
The reason why people keep accidentally reinventing the humble city bus is because it's an amazing piece of transportation technology and difficult to improve upon.