hell yeah love the timbers

writing that little thing about japanese busses was great. tomorrow im gonna finish rating all the monorails. and maybe arguing theyre not a bad idea, and then finally writing the thing about how I love easycards in taiwan

I love this post, and it's a good reminder that when we call a place a transit paradise the reality is usually that they're great at some things but not at others. So we need to be specific about what we emulate for where.

I wrote about how bad japanese buses are! give it a read if you want to learn how not to do fare payment open.substack.com/pub/macsquir...

Diesel under wire🤬

E ink is great. It’s wonderful that you can power an entire screen with a small solar panel and some batteries

Didn’t get a chance to ride one, but I thought these buses with trailers was a really interesting way to expand capacity on certain lines (and peak hours) w/o needing a full articulated bus

SNCF must be destroyed. I call for Ex-SNCF with the EU directly running the network

Got to Osaka, and I decided to write a quick rant tilted „replace Japanese surface transit with the dutch“

A gadgetbahn is defined by how widespread those systems there are. Therefore every train in America is a gadgetbahn

Sometimes you forget which gender Latte has in German and if you mess it up it means hard on…

Der Endgegner sinnvoller Zugverbindungen schlägt mal wieder zu.

It’s Sweater weather

I need responsibilities getting up at 11am is ruining my life

Owwie Stuttgart is dying

Im going to write a blog post rating every monorail in Japan today

I need German classes to start my German is decaying since I stopped living with my old host family

Making not just bikes but for Germany and the whole schtick is „well it’d sorta urbanist and you can kinda bike around, and there are trains“

My man WFH home opinion is that some staff love it but management hates it (and ofc learning is deeply diminished for new staff) because there’s more to office jobs than doing „your task“

Very funny that it looks like krakow and Thessaloniki will have almost identical maps

At the end he goes through the challenges of a Taktfahrplan and god it makes the Swiss accomplishment seem so much more impressive

Apparently to reduce power use during Takt periods SBB turns off the heating/cooling in trains for a couple minutes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB5a... a neat little lecture on the basics of a Taktfahrplan and the basics of how railways schedules are built in the german speaking world

I have no idea what the protocols of the elders of Zion are (other than some racist book) but whenever I see it I imagine it’s about old guys from Zion national park

France ab Greece are shockingly high

I used to do this when I was doing live sound and for every person who was having sound issues there were 15 Chinese language calls.

Tbh the problem with the latter question is that “social services” broadly are much more expensive than policing.

Neat articles about the German push to criminalize catcalling. Points out that German insult law is tried in such a way as to make Cat calling legal when it could have been seen as an insult in the pass

He’s rocking that shit ngl

Has Assad opened an opthamology office in Moscow’s yet

gonna need EU data protection laws to ban these

its a shame zelle took so long to roll out, its much better thought out than the european interbank instant transfers

It makes me sad that basque isn’t the most spoken language in Bilbao

I would like it if the Ausländerbehörde would get back to me its been a month since I asked for an appointment

There’s so much construction on transit rn. Big escalator replacement at schlossplatz, S21, and the dB works on the mainline to Esslingen

Blech the city is installing a signalized crossing and removing one

Brand new catenary is so fun, it shines in the sun!

Moving to Germany teaches you that pieces of paper rule your entire life

lmao at the 200€ price difference to watch VfB play in switzerland

I use the little back of the phone case wallet for a debit card so I can go out without my wallet and it has a habit of ripping the coating off of cards and im hoping this new wooden card will be resistant to it

This is some odd troping (and just anti-semitism) about israel. it is (at least on streetview) notably cleaner than much of europe and NA. And ofc public cleanliness is mostly public policy not some inherent culture

I will say it’s been a bit annoying to deal with Munich U-Bahn’s weird service patterns. Lots of short turns at seemingly random stations, sometimes on different lines. Here’s a U6 that ends at the U3 exclusive station Brudermuhlstrasse station for some reason

I'n not impressed by surface transit priority in Copenhagen's inner neighbourhoods This is Amagerbrogade, the main bus axis in the South, and basically, the only priority measures are no left/right turn, no parking, and side streets deprioritization, i.e. generic through traffic priority measures.

Some new additions to the thread of all the public transit I’ve been on

The school in town has a neat elevator retrofit.

If you’ve ever wondered how to model gestures into a sentence

A couple of years ago, the ARTM told us that any kind of above ground transsit grade-separated alignment is necessarily unsightly. Copenhagen didn't get the memo, I guess.

The next Eurovision is such a mess. If Israel is kicked out will Germany and Italy stay in? Or will it be a complete disaster either way

its actually evil that I have to do laundry today

It’s really cool you can book a regional bike share bike with DB navigator! Really good to have all mobility in one app