Big Dumb Idiot Moron

Big Dumb Idiot Moron

@angrytransitnerd.bsky.social

Crazy BART stan

115 followers129 following611 posts

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

Reece Martin@rmtransit.bsky.social

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

Laura J. Nelson@laurajnelson.bsky.social

"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...

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

NPR@npr.org

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

BART@bart.gov

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...

Seems like this is the first confirmation that BART has exercised all options for FOTF trains, and I’m all here for this

BART@bart.gov

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

Blvd Subway@blvdsubway.bsky.social

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.

Things that are not the problem with this project: 1. The route — SD needs a crosstown line 2. The tech — see above 3. The alignment — the map shown is not accurate, it's not running on a freeway 4. The general cost — 20 billion is relatively cheap for a 20+ mi long metro

Things that ARE problems with this project: 1. Lack of stations — too few stations for the area its serving 2. Cost of professional services (6-7.5 billion dollars) 3. Train length (should be shorter, not 6-car BART size) 4. Lack of vision for further network (needs a Downtown extension)

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

M Mallon@mmallon.com

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...

For the Bay Area: Link21, Geary Subway, Hercules BART, ACE/CC/SJ/SMART electrification, Caltrain electrification to Gilroy/Salinas, Quad-Tracking CC and Caltrain, T to Fisherman's Wharf, TEMPO expansion, J-N connection tunnel, SViii, 680 eBART, Richmond Bridge Rail, Dumbarton Find what's good now

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:

Natalie Makhijani@nat.makhijani.us

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

View full thread

Japan (cont.) - Choshi Dentetsu - Tobu - Tokyu - Odakyu - Enoshima Electric RR - Keikyu - Nankai - Seibu - New Shuttle - Kanagawa Waterfront Line - Hankyu - Hanshin - Keihan - Nankai - Kintetsu - Kobe Subway - Hiroshima Trams - Noto Railway - Ishikawa Railway - Donan Isaribi Tetsudo …

Japan (cont. 2) - Toyama street railway - Toyama Chiho - Ainokaze Railway - Hokuriku Tetsudo - Hapi Line Fukui - Osaka metro - Fukuoka Metro - Kagoshima Trams - Kumamoto Trams - Tantetsu Miyamai - Naha monorail - Kotoden - Iyo Tetsudo - Ichibata Densha - Kitakyushu Monorail - Shonan Monorail

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:

Natalie Makhijani@nat.makhijani.us

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

Panama - Panama City Metro Columbia - TransMilenio (BRT) Chile - Santiago Metro Peru - Lima metro Japan - JR Higashi - JR Cartel - JR Nishi - JR Kyushu - JR Bankrupt - JR Bankrupt 2 - Sapporo Subway - Sendai Subway - Tokyo Metro - Toei Subway - Minatomirai - Keisei - Shibayama - Keihin …

I don't ever want to hear another person bitch about BART SVii ever again.

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.

Cyrus Hall@cyrushall.bsky.social

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.

View full thread

No one seems to be talking about the line to Arizona. What's up with that?

Californians for Electric Rail@calelectricrail.org

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/...