Here in Seattle we have the belief that individuals have the freedom and liberty to make decisions about their own bodies.

Apparently that pisses off conservatives.

I had a cached copy, feel free to use it.

Love it, the rapidrides are a godsend and make it so much easier to get around. After staying in Vancouver and getting stuck in traffic for 45 minutes without moving on their busses, I’m very happy we’re investing in bus lanes.

I wasn’t, I’m a huge rail fan and have ridden Amtrak dozens of times. I was praising them.

I think that’s something most forget here in north America. It’s about having the option, and the vast majority just want to be able to say “hey you know, I don’t feel like driving five hours today”

Manly men in coal rolling trucks?

Amtrak, and the dots in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois saw this and added just a second train between Msp And Chicago daily and ridership exploded, trains sold out. A frequent thing that they do to save money is cut trips, but it’s doing so much more harm than good. They’re now finally realizing that if you want ridership people want options, they want to be able to arrive close to when they want, and some may want to just show up day of and ask when the next train is.

Here in Seattle they just added a 5th or 6th roundtrip to Portland because each time they do, ridership goes up. Turns out there’s a lot of people who would rather not drive.

No, I didn’t say anything like that. I’m saying they’re a large country that only took 10 years to build out a high speed rail network.

Looks at China over the last 10 years…

Hi, yes, Bruce, you keep saying you’re for the people, but we have seen increased police, AI cameras from the police placed everywhere, token transit improvements, and overall car-centric ideas. Also more businesses have closed under your leadership downtown. Why in the everloving hell should we keep you in?

It was fun, that can’t be denied. I went a few times, out of town guests liked it, and there was always a line outside. This is a bad thing, a Starbucks is better for the neighborhood than a boarded up building.

Probably just autocorrect

Preacher is always there. I assume that’s who they’re going after with “powered PA” system talk. Personally I like the drummers, they amp up the excitement, you can feel the energy going in. Preacher guy is annoying AF.

I’ll support them, but only because it’ll finally force conservative morons to shut up about people riding it for free. I’d love for it to be free too, but goddamn they just spout how “Stupid” we all are for letting people walk on.

Granted, I also think the whole fare-enforcement thing is a waste too. We are paying people salaries to go around and issue tickets when this has already been solved with fare gates. For jumpers, we already have security at all of the stations. Most other metros already have fare-gates.

Yep, we have 3 of them now in Washington State, 2 of which are here in Seattle. Essentially giant pontoons tethered to the lake bed. Check out this video if you want to know more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lsxf0OnNwc

Was just gonna say, we have someone running who is actually pushing transit. This guy had years to cut red tape, it was only when he was threatened that he said he was going to do anything. Not he says “going to”, not did.

Wonderful idea, subscribed! I’ll try to help you see it as I come across stuff

Honestly didn’t know about it, and I sub to several of slrpnk’s communities. I think we’ll just plug forward, see how it goes. This community actually existed, just abandonded, and looking at theirs it looks moderately active. We’ll see how it goes, no winning or losing, just trying it out.

Good call. While urbanism is inherently political - political moves like that are not what urbanism is about. I’ll think of a good way to word that into a rule. That would fit more into a politics community

Thanks!