@benrosstransit@mastodon.socialUnder Randy Clarke, WMATA has cut the end-to-end travel time on the Metro Red Line by 8 minutes. This is a 68 minute trip, so it's a gain in efficiency of over 10% on top of faster trips for riders.
This is a combination of automated train operation (with doors closing sooner), raising the speed limit back to the original design of 75 mph, and I imagine other fixes.
@kazys@mastodon.socialIt’s sad it’s come to having to offer this as travel advice, but if you need to fly to the US and are apprehensive, pre clearance through at the US borders in Irish airports is a great idea. You arrive at a domestic terminal.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/06/06/a-us-border-dub…
@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.pageQuantitative Indices for Improving Metro Load Curve, Using Distributed Generation
Masoud Behbahani, Alireza Fereidunian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08975 ht…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialIt is a week until the grand Kim Jong Un, oops I mean FFOTUS imperial parade.
(How could I conflate Kim Jong Un's parade with the FFOTUS one? - North Korea does a much better job of putting on mass tributes.)
Anyway, I do hope that DC Metro workers and Uber/Lyft drivers take a sick day off as many of the parade goers will be anti-vaxers with active, infectious Covid or Measles.
Don't forget that on the 14th you should arrive mid-day to your local Metro stop, park in…
@peter_mcmahan@mas.toThe way we talk about housing in public discourse is so broken. How does kicking unhoused people out onto the street "deal with" homelessness in any sense other than a murderous one?
"Montreal's public transit agency is lifting a temporary rule against loitering in the Metro — a controversial measure established in mid-March to help deal with rising social problems in the network, including homelessness."
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deparis_transportation: Paris Transportation (2016)
A multiplex transportation network of Ile-de-France, jointly representing the road network, train network, and subway network. Nodes are intersections, rail stations or metro stations. Different modes of transportation are given by different layers. Within-layer edges represent direct transference by a particular mode of transportation, and between-layer edges represent the conjunction of those layers at that node.
This network ha…
@poppastring@dotnet.social"AI-Powered Cameras Have Issued Nearly 10,000 Tickets in L.A."
I wonder if this means they can reduce the $2.14 billion LAPD budget. 😳
https://www.govtech.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-powered-cameras-hav…
@samerfarha@mastodon.socialWatched someone just leapfrog the Metro faregate like it was nothing. Good use of $44 million.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca#EndFossilFuels #ClimateAction
Fact: Taking a BC Ferry from Metro Vancouver to Vancouver Island is a High CO2 experience, though if it's a full ferry, it's not terrible (~5kgCO2/passenger)
By 2031, BC Ferries will have replaced 18 ferries (big and small!) in 15 years, and nearly all will be 100% electric-ready.
They just announced they're doing the big ships next.
"Built with diesel-battery hybrid propulsion systems and designed with the capability to operate on full electric power in future, the NMVs are expected to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve fuel efficiency, and lower underwater radiated noise to better protect marine life. With greater capacity than the vessels they replace, the NMVs will offer more space for vehicles and passengers and upgraded amenities, supporting a more reliable and comfortable travel experience.”
The age of fossil fuels is ending. Any politician or lobbyist who says otherwise is either not paying attention, or bought.
#BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateEmergency #SalishSea #BCFerries
https://www.bcferries.com/news-releases/bc-ferries-selects-shipyard-to-construct-four-new-major-vessels
@memeorandum@universeodon.comImmigration officials say they intended to arrest father of Milford teen instead (Dan Glaun/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/metro/milford-teen-arrested-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p114#a250602p114
@tml@urbanists.socialI suspect it isn’t ideal from a usability point of view to have stations on the same metro line called both Vörösmarty tér and Vörösmarty utca.
@coreyjrowe@detmi.socialThe WeatherShield™ has failed, all Metro Detroit residents to battle stations
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deparis_transportation: Paris Transportation (2016)
A multiplex transportation network of Ile-de-France, jointly representing the road network, train network, and subway network. Nodes are intersections, rail stations or metro stations. Different modes of transportation are given by different layers. Within-layer edges represent direct transference by a particular mode of transportation, and between-layer edges represent the conjunction of those layers at that node.
This network ha…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deparis_transportation: Paris Transportation (2016)
A multiplex transportation network of Ile-de-France, jointly representing the road network, train network, and subway network. Nodes are intersections, rail stations or metro stations. Different modes of transportation are given by different layers. Within-layer edges represent direct transference by a particular mode of transportation, and between-layer edges represent the conjunction of those layers at that node.
This network ha…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgGood morning from Copenhagen where it's a beautiful day and I'm off to Brussels to represent @… with our @… friends @… @… @… talking impacts of #ClimateChange in the Polar regions, ice sheets, #biodiversity and sea level rise.
It's apparently #WorldBicycleDay2025 today, but although I normally #cycle to work, today it's just a short tour to the metro station...
@samerfarha@mastodon.socialGuy on the Metro eating a regulation-sized baguette with ham. It’s not even 9a.
