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VIsion Statement: to have spirited discussion about all forms of mass transit and to reach a group consensus on the most well organized and efficient transit system worldwide. relevance: train stations are p cyberpunk and pretty much every train station is run mostly by computers today. they're p cool I'd like to open the floor with the following question: why doesn't California have some kind of pan-Californian high speed monorail or w/e also post pictures of trains and trainstations and poo poo
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didnt read gas probably
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Nov 19, 2015 06:36
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cool trains  cool trains
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Wild EEPROM fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Jan 15, 2017 |
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Nov 19, 2015 07:07
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Grandmaster.flv posted:
I've always heard the distances are too far to be immediately viable. also not a lot of people really going to San Diego from LA
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Nov 19, 2015 07:17
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Hmm well I rode a train from union station LA to San Diego yesterday. It was good. But they don't really care about passengers because all the seats in the car were facing backwards! Like, I see the foot pedal to rotate the seat around but I just dealt with it. Still, Japan superiority because those train folks at least rotate the seats around when it's time to disembark the opposite direction. Also, why is the Amtrak so huge...just transporting people. Gimme a break!!
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Nov 19, 2015 07:17
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rp a five figgy fucktard itt
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Nov 19, 2015 07:18
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Silver Alicorn posted:I've always heard the distances are too far to be immediately viable. also not a lot of people really going to San Diego from LA paris - bordeaux is 360 miles paris has 10.5 million people, bordeaux has 700,000 people the paris-bordeaux TGV takes 3 hours and costs ~40€ if you book in advance SD-LA is 380 miles, 18/8 million people on each end, and the train ride is 11 hours, and 50$
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Nov 19, 2015 07:34
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my job is in sales, but i'm trans-IT
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Nov 19, 2015 07:50
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The trains to Auschwitz
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i ride a bicycle to work
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Nov 19, 2015 09:43
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reporting for duty
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Nov 19, 2015 11:16
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Grandmaster.flv posted:also post pictures of trains and trainstations and poo poo 
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Nov 19, 2015 11:47
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https://gifsound.com/?gif=i.imgur.com/wbOIRKz.gif&v=iGxqDW2F3L4
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Nov 19, 2015 12:05
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trains in my city are okay i guess (actually they've hosed up bigtime like twice this week, but other than that) but the mobile app thing is some useless xamarin.forms garbage that recreates their existing website and sms alerts service and does nothing actually useful
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Nov 19, 2015 12:27
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my stepdads beer posted:i ride a bicycle to work
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Nov 19, 2015 12:37
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a safe space for Transit yosposters.
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Nov 19, 2015 12:46
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I am in Japan now and you can get a Japan Rail Pass as a Baka gaijin that gives you unlimited rides on everything and you just wave it at a station agent and get on a Shinkansen going anywhere you want.
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Nov 19, 2015 12:55
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thread not computer related gas
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Nov 19, 2015 13:10
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Symbolic Butt posted:thread not computer related trains and computers are related beavuse they both appeal to people with little to no social skills. also I guess some trains use computers to run? idk maybe someone can talk about that.
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Nov 19, 2015 13:39
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computers have buses
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Nov 19, 2015 13:45
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vodkat posted:trains and computers are related beavuse they both appeal to people with little to no social skills. ok I'm fine with this ungas
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Sham bam bamina! posted:my job is in sales, but i'm trans-IT
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Nov 19, 2015 14:41
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mass transit isn't unpopular because it's bad, it's unpopular because of classism, discuss
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Nov 19, 2015 14:42
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Mass transit is popular in places that actually have it.
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Nov 19, 2015 14:44
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Mass transit is mostly the pike and lovely traffic jams
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there's all sorts of plans and talks out there for expansion and extension of various parts of the MBTA and at the rate this poo poo goes i'm gonna be in my goddamn fifties before any of it comes close to completion, and even then half of it will be cancelled and the remaining half will be half-assed (bus rapid transit!!! *farts*) i wish to hell the subway lines would extend out to 128, getting into boston from the suburbs is a real pain in the rear end computers: i read once that some of the red line cars used DEC systems for their signage?? that must be fun to maintain
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Nov 19, 2015 15:17
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when my car broke down my eu coworker asked if i took the train in and i laughed in a way that was likely impolite afterwards explaining that there were no trains and the bus would take three hours provided it did not break down
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Nov 19, 2015 15:20
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last year my us coworker decided to start riding his bike in and he was hit by a car the very first day
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Nov 19, 2015 15:21
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Cat Face Joe posted:when my car broke down my eu coworker asked if i took the train in and i laughed in a way that was likely impolite afterwards explaining that there were no trains and the bus would take three hours provided it did not break down Cat Face Joe posted:last year my us coworker decided to start riding his bike in and he was hit by a car the very first day close thread
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Nov 19, 2015 15:22
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Cat Face Joe posted:last year my us coworker decided to start riding his bike in and he was hit by a car the very first day it's like traaaiiiiaaaaaains
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Nov 19, 2015 15:38
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vodkat posted:also I guess some trains use computers to run? idk maybe someone can talk about that. 
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Nov 19, 2015 15:43
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SO DEMANDING posted:i wish to hell the subway lines would extend out to 128, getting into boston from the suburbs is a real pain in the rear end this was an actual real plan in 1970. like we had funding and land use permits and everything we needed. all four lines terminals were going to kiss 128. including the blue line, which would've gone all the way to Salem. I had a loving stroke reading about it. it got shut down by nimbys of course. also red line was going to terminate at Arlington center but lol black people so that's why it's ends in the middle of nowhere in alewife also in 1970s it would've only cost like 14 million versus what like 32 billion now? that's two instagrams
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Nov 19, 2015 16:32
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the only good types of city mass transit are elevated rail and subway. also lol @ the french train example. does it stop every 15 miles like American trains?
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Nov 19, 2015 16:37
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Cat Face Joe posted:last year my us coworker decided to start riding his bike in and he was hit by a car the very first day bicycles do not belong on the road.
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Nov 19, 2015 16:37
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Shaggar posted:bicycles do not belong on the road. shaggar this is a safe space to discuss mixed mode transportation. please leave before I call security
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Nov 19, 2015 16:40
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bicycles are not a mode of transportation. they're a hobby. also lmao the downeaster is even worse than I thought. its an average of 12 miles between stops. 145miles takes 3.5 hours. that's why americans hate trains. they're garbage if you want to actually connect places
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Shaggar posted:bicycles do not belong on the road. he was crossing the street on the sidewalk
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