SFCTA released some slides for the Geary-19th subway study and among it the ridership projections for this thing with through running to the east bay are pretty insane. It's very...very clear to me that Link21 should've selected BART www.sfcta.org/sites/defaul...
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Big Dumb Idiot Moron reposted
🐻🚇It’s time for the Big Game!!! 🏈🏟️ Do your part, #CALGORITHM take BART to Millbrae and declare @caltrain.com and the whole Bay Area BEAR TERRITORY! BART - Caltrain transfer schedules below ⬇️
Congratulations, you just got SEPTA’d
Metrolinx has decided that they know how to run a railway better than the Germans at DB who made up ONxpress. A huge loss of talent for transit in Toronto and Canada and easily as catastrophic a move from Metrolinx as the agencies performance on the Eglinton Crosstown.
60 c/kwh incoming for LA residents
"All evidence is pointing to them." Los Angeles County filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Southern California Edison, alleging the utility caused the devastating Eaton fire in Altadena, which destroyed about 9,000 homes and killed 17 people: www.latimes.com/california/s...
One of the greatest achievements in transit that no one talks about is the extent to which MTA subway mosaics have been installed. Simply going through the list of installations, it's become apparent to me that the vast majority were created during my lifetime www.nycsubway.org/perl/artwork...
Once again, @bart.gov has the best public outreach team in the world
Once again, NPR doing the actual journalism on national policy issues that ends up getting figured out when some old crank that only listens to the radio becomes president and does a massive Great Society/Build Back Better-style funding plan
Unstable federal funding puts at risk the government statistics used to track the U.S. economy and population, officials and data users warn. That's before any cuts by President Trump and Congress. By @hansilowang.bsky.social
Hey Toronto folks, remember when people kept driving their cars into the Union Station tunnels? Well BART now its own version of that
There is no BART service between Antioch and North Concord because a car crashed into our trackway near Pittsburg/Bay Point. Riders should go to North Concord. Some buses are available. Full details and bus bridge info here: www.bart.gov/news/article...
While this project is insanely expensive and not the most well thought out, it's absolutely one of the most important transit projects in the US: www.facebook.com/panynj/posts...
Seems like this is the first confirmation that BART has exercised all options for FOTF trains, and I’m all here for this
Yes, we are still getting more new cars, which is a great thing for the Bay Area and we thank all of our funding partners. BART’s legacy fleet had 775 cars. We now have 860 news cars and that number will grow to 1129.
Reasons this thing was studied as a metro: 1. It's long — 20+ mi long, and a lot of people would be using it to go large distances 2. RR would be more expensive because of geography 3. BRT would not serve the nodes it needs to serve 4. LRT would be all grade separated for no additional benefits
San Diego is studying building its first subway line. The Purple Line is projected to have nearly 30,000 daily riders, cost more than $20 billion and take at least 15 years to complete. It's going to be built and get federal funding.
Another answer: we should be studying absolutely everything we can think of. SAS Phase 3/4/West, 7 to NJ, PATH to EWR and Hoboken, IBX, Nostrand Ave, Utica Ave, QBL Extension, W to Coney Island via Sea beach — and that's not even half of NY Find the good projects and have them lined up
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how the Trump presidency will impact transit. While we can't predict the future, we know progress happens when we work hard and stay consistent. I'm not giving up on transit, and neither should you. sanjosespotlight.com/mallon-how-c...
Systems ridden in 2024: - Amtrak (Borealis) - BART - MUNI - Caltrain - VTA - SMART - ACE - TTC - GO Transit - iON - Translink - Metrolink (SL) - Metro (MSP) - CTA - Metra - NYCT - MNRR - LIRR - PATH - NJT - HART - LV Monorail Now on to international stuff:
Systems ridden 2024: - Amtrak (LD+NEC+Surfliner+Capitol Corridor+San Joaquins+Keystone) - BART - CTA - Muni - NYCT - Metro-North - LIRR - NYC Ferries - WMATA - TriMet - SEPTA - Caltrain - SMART - SF Bay Ferry - MBTA - SacRT - NJ Transit - AC Transit - Golden Gate Transit - Marin Transit - SamTrans
Systems ridden in 2024: - Amtrak (Borealis) - BART - MUNI - Caltrain - VTA - SMART - ACE - TTC - GO Transit - iON - Translink - Metrolink (SL) - Metro (MSP) - CTA - Metra - NYCT - MNRR - LIRR - PATH - NJT - HART - LV Monorail Now on to international stuff:
Systems ridden 2024: - Amtrak (LD+NEC+Surfliner+Capitol Corridor+San Joaquins+Keystone) - BART - CTA - Muni - NYCT - Metro-North - LIRR - NYC Ferries - WMATA - TriMet - SEPTA - Caltrain - SMART - SF Bay Ferry - MBTA - SacRT - NJ Transit - AC Transit - Golden Gate Transit - Marin Transit - SamTrans
Big Dumb Idiot Moron reposted
This graphic should be enough of a reason for every single person in the BART district to vote yes on whatever funding proposal comes through.
Let's look at each one. Traffic: The Bay Bridge carries ~118k round-trips a day. Bart carries ~200k through the Transbay Tube. If 50% of those BART riders took a car instead, the average commuter could expect 1-6 hours more of their lives a week to be eaten up sitting in traffic.
No one seems to be talking about the line to Arizona. What's up with that?
Huge win for electric rail: Chad Edison of CalSTA says final draft of the State Rail Plan will include 1500 mi of all day, frequent, bidirectional electrified rail service in 2050- a massive improvement over the H2-heavy draft. Rail advocates: your voice matters! bart.granicus.com/player/clip/...