Post 9sJpFzdCsEm0aSviBk by BalooUriza@meow.social
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(DIR) Post #9sJlWjwy1vBv3hu2NM by BalooUriza@meow.social
2020-02-23T04:15:12Z
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you only need 10 demerits to lose your license in #Québec?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_56YMyKcHk
(DIR) Post #9sJlWlIyzYObGHD8KW by kaniini@socially.whimsic.al
2020-02-23T04:17:58.539309Z
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@BalooUriza i don't understand why any demerits would be applied: the bus driver probably didn't even know she was hanging onto the bumper, and hanging onto a bumper is not driving
(DIR) Post #9sJlvi1QKsYCJntSEq by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
2020-02-23T04:22:25Z
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@kaniini @BalooUriza This makes me think of the kit who affixed himself to a high speed train and stayed on the entire ride on the outside. He had cancer and passed away the following year.Does this woman have cancer, or is she just dumb? She's lucky she didn't hit a rock.
(DIR) Post #9sJm69e6UAvWt7xyr2 by BalooUriza@meow.social
2020-02-23T04:24:18Z
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@djsumdog @kaniini Oh, one common fare-dodging tactic on the Portland system (particularly on the low speed portions) is to jump between the cars and sit or stand on the couplers between cars, using a windshield wiper as a grip. Portland tried to curtail this practice by running trains with cabs at only one end and a panorama window in the passenger compartment at the other, but then TriMet discovered a problem in one car takes *two* out of service.
(DIR) Post #9sJm9ZHPdSk7G8yqv2 by BalooUriza@meow.social
2020-02-23T04:24:55Z
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@djsumdog @kaniini I was thinking the same thing about rocks. I was also thinking she was going to snag a storm drain or something.
(DIR) Post #9sJmBe4QnM0ahEto5w by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
2020-02-23T04:25:12Z
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@BalooUriza @kaniini fucking Portland.
(DIR) Post #9sJmMhLowFvw3XIrnk by BalooUriza@meow.social
2020-02-23T04:27:17Z
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@djsumdog @kaniini Yeah, so after two entire car orders of single-cab cars, they're going back to the previous answer of double-cab cars. And I think they're returning to flatnose cars because the bubblenose cars mean the cab ends have to be *huge*, and reduces passenger capacity significantly.
(DIR) Post #9sJmOmCNsy2DfcseVE by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
2020-02-23T04:27:44Z
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@BalooUriza @kaniini or if the bus even hard braked, she could go flying under it. She should get a spandex costume. This can be part of her superhero and/or pro-wresting gimmick
(DIR) Post #9sJmiPnKtPiFyeWqYq by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
2020-02-23T04:31:16Z
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@BalooUriza @kaniini I've only ridden on the Max like a dozen times, when I was in Portlandia for stuff. It was a better system than Seattle's for sure. I wish more systems would have open-gangway cars. Those make the most sense. In London, you can walk from the front to the back of most subway trains. It helps evenly distribute people over the entire train. NYC is finally going to try some of them out.
(DIR) Post #9sJn56MNJjA4MTjgNU by BalooUriza@meow.social
2020-02-23T04:35:16Z
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@djsumdog @kaniini Portland's too hilly for articulation to really work well, it's a bitch on articulated gangways. Which is why articulated buses currently do not serve Portland and haven't since the late 1990s, and Portland has higher than average wear and tear on the open gangways that exist between ends of the same car on the trains.
(DIR) Post #9sJnOKdGTcwA82o0C8 by BalooUriza@meow.social
2020-02-23T04:38:48Z
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@djsumdog @kaniini That said, I'm actually a little surprised to see how many trains in New York have several cars that have only one cab or no cabs at all, given the needed high availability of that system and the lack of lateral visibility necessary in a subway, having every car as a double cab car with end doors seems like a no-brainer.
(DIR) Post #9sJnY4jWRapRiMNWnw by BalooUriza@meow.social
2020-02-23T04:37:06Z
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@djsumdog @kaniini Portland is also extremely unlikely to introduce MAX cars that have end doors thanks to several intersections and locations on the line that requires the driver to have visibility forward, left and right at the same time (mostly the Bus mall, western approaches to the Steel Bridge, and the Yamhill-Morrison couplet have locations trains must stop and look before proceeding).
(DIR) Post #9sJnY56D5EycqizeAS by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
2020-02-23T04:40:36Z
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@BalooUriza @kaniini Melbourne has a lot of level crossings for their trains; many of them dangerous. A lot of people want the grade of the tracks raised at roads, but they wasted a ton of money on a ticketing system and the tram lines lack of handicap ramp stops.
(DIR) Post #9sJnct4PEcbGzQRPjE by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
2020-02-23T04:41:28Z
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@BalooUriza @kaniini Have you been in Singapore? Their trains are fully automated. You can stand in the front and watch it move through the tunnel.
(DIR) Post #9sJneK9o0knlHweU08 by BalooUriza@meow.social
2020-02-23T04:41:45Z
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@djsumdog @kaniini Portland's at a point where fare collection and enforcement is now costing more than fare revenue brings in. It won't surprise me at all if Portland drops fares entirely as a cost savings measure.
(DIR) Post #9sJntBYoFv2oyCQxLE by BalooUriza@meow.social
2020-02-23T04:44:21Z
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@djsumdog @kaniini TransLink, formerly BCTransit's Greater Vancouver District, also has fully automated trains, and has since 1985. BART is running on equipment that is basically powered by Amigas and took them *a long time* to modernize, prompted mostly because they kept burning out 30 year old computers from a company that no longer exists, and it was before the retrocomputing scene really came online.
(DIR) Post #9sJoTswYR6nrwe2XhY by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
2020-02-23T04:51:03Z
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@BalooUriza @kaniini a lot of train systems are like that. Until like 2017 or so, Melbourne's was still running on old 286 machines with a lot of custom ISA boards they just didn't make anymore. It's hard to modernize a system while a few million people ride on it every day.
(DIR) Post #9sJogXm4SBqo3SAkqW by BalooUriza@meow.social
2020-02-23T04:53:14Z
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@djsumdog @kaniini Basically BART's at a peak in car count right now and I expect as the last remaining older cars that are still kicking burn out and get tossed in the ocean in the NYMTA's artificial reef (which, yeah, why not scrap them for resources like EVERY OTHER RAIL CAR??) BART will hit a car count trough until more cars are ordered in the future.
(DIR) Post #9sJopoQJvD6iIVQ0H2 by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
2020-02-23T04:54:53Z
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@BalooUriza @kaniini I really hate the "recycling via artificial reef" bullshit ... at this point they're just dumping trash in the ocean. 😂
(DIR) Post #9sJpFzdCsEm0aSviBk by BalooUriza@meow.social
2020-02-23T04:59:32Z
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@djsumdog @kaniini Yeah, I kinda think that was *the idea* the whole time. Like, half a dozen? Sure, quirky diver attraction. But when it goes to levels like this...and this is only one of nearly 100 bargeloads dumped over the last century from New York alone, much less cars shipped in from other cities like San Francisco, and pretty much all of the continent's PCC cars that aren't still in operation...