Federal funding at it's best is a force multiplier. Cities build what they would build anyway but a bit nicer and a bit more of it. However looking at the way cities have been acting with a disruption to federal funding, it often looks like they've been building in order to get federal grants.

"What can't we all get along?" Often reads to me as "Why doesn't every one assimilate?"

I feel within the democratic establishment there is no concern whether Democrats will vote for democratic candidates, only if republicans will. So there's no desire for intraparty reconciliation, only concern for what looks bad in an inter-party way.

Friendly reminder that the last streetcar in Los Angeles was abandoned by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, not National City Lines.

It makes me a little uncomfortable that they invited a religious home school group to perform at the governor's mansion 😅

It's not that park and rides don't attract any riders. It's that park and rides don't attract that many riders per dollar spent on them and the riders they do attract are wealthier than an average transit rider.

At the end of the day people just want to get to where they're going easily, quickly and affordably. Very few people are just bike, bus, train, or car people.

I think I'm opposed to term limits but I am in favor of age limits. Serving a long time is kind of ok, as a counter balance to lobbyists. It takes time to get good at a job but right now we're ruled by a gerontocracy and that's not okay.

The 2017 Point Defiance Rail Disaster only happened because of I-5. That bridge was only built because I-5 would have otherwise chopped the line and they were too cheap to build a more gradual bridge. Also it was in the original WSDOT plan to replace but later cost engineered out.

The number of times I hear about rail when I bring up transit, is amazing. From advocates, or non-advocates. Even suburbanites who have never been on a transit vehicle say, we need Commuter Rail or we need Light Rail and that will solve their transit problems. It won't.

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The Complete Streets movement began with a compelling, people-first vision: streets designed to be safe, accessible, and welcoming to everyone, not just cars. But as this vision was absorbed into the federal transportation bureaucracy, it became a hollowed-out shell.

It bothers me how urban often means big city for people. I would be happy living in a small town, I just don't want to be at the outskirts far away from the action in town.

I just realized there's a video explaining where dirty jobs got safety third comes from

I tend to ponder the effect of CARB changing charging standards in 2001, to the conductive J1772, and incompatible with the inductive chargers the industry was actively pursuing. I wonder if that played a role in the cancellation of many of these EVs.

tax the empty (lots)

It's good to see upward mobility in such a vital region!

Let me get this straight, CAMPO wants drive alone travel times to decrease, while transit ridership increases and is willing to accept more carbon emissions to get there?

Here's the thing, I don't believe that Democrats could have gotten a better deal out of Republicans in order to reopen the government. I don't. I also would not have had a problem with Republicans eliminating the filibuster in order to reopen the government and believe the filibuster is bad.

I don't want to live in a world where we assume the worst in people. People do bad things, and we shouldn't let ourselves be run over by them but to assume that strangers want bad things for us, is going too far.

I think I pretty firmly believe that without the ability to self-deal, really being an operating system vendor is a terrible industry to be in.

I often wonder what the world would look like if Enron and Blockbuster had been successful with in-home streaming.

Young people want cities to build transit and don't have the same aspirational relationship with cars their parents did. They grew up waiting for their parents to drive them around and don't want to put more people through that.

In my mind at least, the #1 lesson of Mamdani is to run younger candidates.

Am I the only one who likes slack better than discord?

I don't think I realized that Gillig's battery buses have Cummins drive trains

Good to see #GoRaleigh operating their bendy buses 😁😍

I always find it interesting that BRT has stations and streetcars have stops 🤷‍♀️

At a Light Rail station built in 2018, there's no real-time arrival and the paint is peeling. Also the signs are dirty.

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I have this, likely fictitious, memory of someone saying "They gentrified the bus. They gentrified the goddam bus."

In late 2022, I moved to Raleigh. In the process I saw someone with a bike related name post on Reddit. I sent him a dm, asking if there's anything I should checkout once I moved. He and I started to chat, and became friends and he introduced me to the bar scene, which I'd been curious about.

Our system often forces people to build projects they don't want because otherwise the federal government will make them pay.

I was anxiously awaiting someone doing genuine art for JETPIG and it doesn't disappoint! I quite like it 😁

Ugh, I wanted to play with RoCm on my server but the GPU is literally too big for my server 😭

Happy Trump Government Shutdown day to all who celebrate! 🎉😭

I would be curious if more people are carried on Hillsborough Street on buses or in private cars. With the number of routes that serve Hillsborough, I could definitely see us turning it into a transit mall or giving it more continuous bus lanes.

My first ride of #AWeekWithoutDriving a #GoTriangle 100 with my bike to Regional Transit Center so I can bike Research Triangle Park 😃 @americawalks.bsky.social @oaksandspokes.bsky.social

Fun fact: the unfinished Budd SPV-2000 body shells from Wikipedia are still viewable on Google Street view at least as of November 2020

I'm glad that we're not just going to mothball these until the bus way is ready. It's okay to go step by step to better transit, in fact it's the only way 😁

Raleigh's Democratic vote density by precinct in 2024

I for one support building fake second and third stories over a parking lot in order to make sure that the people who visit my establishment feel more urbane than the plebians that shop at the normal strip mall.

Finally paid my #TrumpTariffs!

If Google goes ahead with banning Apps not signed by Google on Android, I'm going to leave Android. I am not willing to use an operating system where I have to ask permission from the vendor to install an app. It's why I don't use iOS. #Google #Android #GooglesAppBan

I hate how almost any discussion of transit budgets in transit advocacy circles, turns into discussion about highways or traffic.

I feel bad, I'm about to turn off my server in order to upgrade the network card to a 5/10 Gb/s Card but I have decently high uptime 😭

I've been vibe coding a lot lately for personal projects. Telling ChatGPT what I'm looking for and then building that. Seeing how far it can take me on my home server.

Good to see #GoRaleigh testing their new-ish #NewFlyer XN60s this morning 😃❤️

#GoTriangle leaving GoCary Station 3-4 minutes early is not acceptable. 1-2, I can understand but 3-4? Someone wasn't checking their timetable.