The donoteat thread: Urbanism, Unions, and TRAINS

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donoteat: Sep 13, 2011; Loot at all this bullshit.
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i screwed up my schedule big time after a weird depressive period last week

fixed a bunch of stuff that was making me hate myself this week so i oughta be finished with killdozer by the end of the weekend hopefully

# ¿ Oct 5, 2018 15:20

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 19:18

donoteat: Sep 13, 2011; Loot at all this bullshit.
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i will talk to you outside of a bar

# ¿ Oct 6, 2018 06:01

donoteat: Sep 13, 2011; Loot at all this bullshit.
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it's because the computer model that underlies sim city, and, with additions, almost all future city simulators, came from a 1969 book/paper called Urban Dynamics which attempted to describe a computer model for simulating cities useful to planners with the hardware of the day --obviously written with the planning principles of its time

can't find a copy for under $300 or something like that, otherwise I'd make an episode about it

started editing killdozer btw... sorry this is taking so long

# ¿ Oct 9, 2018 22:58

donoteat: Sep 13, 2011; Loot at all this bullshit.
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also why doesn't this thread have the TRAINS tag

# ¿ Oct 9, 2018 23:02

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Martin Random posted:

I'm leaving my cock outside on the porch until your video is posted and it's almost halloween and I can't get arrested again

choose wisely,

your n3m3sis

ok you've convinced me, it's exporting now

# ¿ Oct 12, 2018 21:56

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Koishi Komeiji posted:

If you post the unlisted bonus ep url in here you are a cop.

SCUM, FREEZEBAG!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvl_7_Up7zU

just consider giving me the dollar, lol

(i said it'd be easy to pirate)

# ¿ Oct 13, 2018 00:39

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definitely enjoying the "everyone in this thread is either drunk or high" vibe in here

i am dunk, personally

# ¿ Oct 13, 2018 03:22

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i am drinking lager

could we just get a bunch of folks to salt the yuengling brewery already, i'm sick of feeling bad about this

# ¿ Oct 13, 2018 05:13

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it's called the "mile long club" :wiggle:

# ¿ Oct 22, 2018 20:10

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i hate to say it but i made a vid where i actually talk about the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LysiXf-DJU

# ¿ Oct 26, 2018 05:01

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i was on a podcast

https://twitter.com/3MA/status/1063528847499554817

# ¿ Nov 16, 2018 23:52

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well I'm trying this premiere thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqJbE1bvdgo

# ¿ Nov 20, 2018 00:43

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Instant Sunrise posted:

https://twitter.com/donoteat1/status/1080999428704604160

can�t wait

ok i said this weekend but probably a little later than that. midweek hopefully?

# ¿ Jan 6, 2019 04:47

donoteat: Sep 13, 2011; Loot at all this bullshit.
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how dare you insinuate that i post on reddit

# ¿ Jan 9, 2019 00:59

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shameless plug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dn6ZVpJLxs

# ¿ Jan 19, 2019 16:53

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Taintrunner posted:

please post the autonomous car video too

i accidentally broke it while making the loop video...

it'll still happen, just might be a while. gonna try and focus on getting episode 10 of franklin out by the end of the month

# ¿ Jan 19, 2019 17:51

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Corky Romanovsky posted:

Trains and street cars being superior and all, but would rural areas that are not a priority for installing that infrastructure, would they maybe benefit from ditching a bus schedule and moving to computer managed vehicle and route allocation? I don't know how it is done now, but busses in my hometown are incredibly inconvenient for those I have talked to (in part because the main hub doesn't really have a grocery store or other basic shops besides the occasional farmer's market).

nah, bring back friendly local interurbans

# ¿ Jan 21, 2019 04:06

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the thing that made interurbans great was the high speeds on extremely light infrastructure though

this'll be a video eventually

# ¿ Jan 21, 2019 04:51

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just wanna post this here

https://clips.twitch.tv/MagnificentWanderingRatThisIsSparta

# ¿ Jan 21, 2019 08:58

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the route 34 trolley in my backyard that you can sometimes hear in my videos runs in-traffic for 2 miles and then in a dedicated tunnel to center city for two miles

that's the nice thing about these kinds of systems is that you can mix and match dedicated right-of-way and in-traffic running where needed

that being said streetcars without any dedicated right-of-way are garbage

# ¿ Jan 27, 2019 04:28

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Oz Fox posted:

was reading donoteat's thing on the hyperloop, and while it all made sense, it didnt go into detail why you couldn't link multiple pods together into a train, which could make the whole thing somewhat less useless

the problem is the high frequency of branches and merges -- if you could link multiple pods into a train you'd basically have to run the things on a fixed schedule, which is haram to elon

# ¿ Jan 28, 2019 17:03

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R. Guyovich posted:

yeah like i said, china has great public transit

# ¿ Jan 30, 2019 15:53

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i mean, streetcars have a significant advantage over buses simply due to the fact that they last longer. septa has been running their K-cars since 1980 and they're still going strong, while the bus fleet has been replaced 3 times since then. you can easily get 50 years out of a streetcar because the ride is smoother and there are fewer moving parts, while you *might* get 15 years out of a bus if you're lucky.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2019 17:52

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Agean90 posted:

the us exists in a dark age of transit, left in shadow by the era before it

https://twitter.com/Indy_Austin/status/1091777003446038528

aw man i wanna do an episode on this but i'll be damned if i can figure out how to research it

# ¿ Feb 3, 2019 03:54

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shirts and skins posted:

Don't think it's relevant to RFK, since RFK already has a Metro stop. Think the real brainstorm was extending the line down K St to the west and maybe to the north a bit to the east. Someone even drew up a plan for it to go all the way to Georgetown, which, would probably only take three hours or so lol

the plan was that from 9th street NW to washington circle on K street, the streetcar would be in a dedicated transitway which would be shared with local buses, thereby cutting down travel times significantly over the most congested portion of the route and speeding up the many buses which use K street.

being, of course, the most important and most effectual part of the project, which makes the rest of the streetcar worthwhile, it was not built.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2019 04:08

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trains

# ¿ Feb 3, 2019 21:35

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Venom Snake posted:

post yer favorite trains

i love you guys

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 05:25

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not a hot day for private passenger rail either

https://twitter.com/rjwile/status/1095412734844436480

# ¿ Feb 12, 2019 22:06

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i wish i was on a train rn

# ¿ Feb 22, 2019 22:23

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A Russian troll farm posted:

Let the midnight special shine a light on me

Edti: Once again I have seen dozens of replies and thought there was a new episode, but there is not.

there would be except I physically can't record b/c the landlord is doing unpermitted construction downstairs

# ¿ Feb 23, 2019 03:23

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GotLag posted:

Since this is apparently the thread for Trains And The People Who Love Them, I have a question.

I've seen 19th-century horse-drawn tram tracks, on which the points/switches are entirely static, and the path taken is determined by the horse pulling to one side or the other.

Have there been any powered trams/streetcars using a similar system of mechanical steering? As I understand it modern streetcars use radio controls to let the driver set switches on approach.

I believe that almost all streetcar switches are mechanical, never heard of a steerable trolley. Today there's usually a toggle in the cab somewhere to set the next switch, but in the early days you set the switch by carefully modulating the throttle.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2019 17:27

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Retarded Goatee posted:

Hey donoteat

when will you take down O'Toole for the antifada podcast

gonna put another bug in their ear about it, but probably after the next episode comes out

# ¿ Mar 5, 2019 18:58

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would have been out two weeks ago if my apartment was habitable from 9am-5pm, lol. as it is i've recorded all the footage and am finalizing the script, and i'll record the voiceover when there's a break in construction downstairs

# ¿ Mar 12, 2019 18:09

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premiering in about 45 mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX-r5ulpoQQ

# ¿ Mar 24, 2019 02:45

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every argument against rail improvements regarding "we can't do this because america is too spread out" or "we can't do this because the right-of-way is hemmed in by too many buildings" or whatever is complete and utter horseshit when applied abstractly. rail right-of-way is a specific problem with specific solutions

# ¿ Mar 27, 2019 04:46

donoteat: Sep 13, 2011; Loot at all this bullshit.
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yes

# ¿ Mar 27, 2019 05:21

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Corky Romanovsky posted:

What are the safety protocols/laws for dangerous goods rail? Would it be acceptable to build double decker two-way routes with cargo on the bottom and passenger on the top?

yeah I guess but a whole bunch of existing right-of-ways have room for four tracks or more so why bother

# ¿ Mar 29, 2019 02:44

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i'm sorry

# ¿ Apr 2, 2019 01:38

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Laphroaig posted:

The Philadelphia map is totally wrong and missing several regional rail spurs that replaced streetcars, like service to Chestnut Hill East and West, Norristown, etc.

http://www.septa.org/maps/system/

So that does make me question some of the other maps presented, since its clearly intentionally leaving off infrastructure because otherwise the before/after wouldn't support the narrative. Regional Rail is a hell of a lot more rapid transit than the old street cars.

I dunno if you could say it "replaced" the trolley lines; both chestnut hill lines were put in before the 23 existed in its current form

We also lost a crapload of regional rail in that time -- the west chester line, the newtown line, service to allentown, bethlehem, reading, newark NJ, etc., all the PRSL lines out of camden broadway station, plus the vast majority of stops within the city limits when SEPTA/Conrail decided city residents didn't deserve regional rail anymore

re-drawing of a 1979 map from https://www.transitmap.net/septa-1980/

donoteat has issued a correction as of 21:29 on Apr 3, 2019

# ¿ Apr 3, 2019 21:26

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 19:18

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your 2nd-best option for I-76 would be to construct a massive park-and-ride on the norristown line with offramps from I-76 directly into the park-and-ride, and some billboards showing the time to drive into philly vs. the time to take the train in. throw in a few simple improvements to train speeds and bump up the train frequency and you got a good system

(the best option would be to ban cars, obviously)

those lines next to I-76 are the ex-Reading, ex-Conrail, current Norfolk Southern line to Reading. Those lines go on to Harrisburg and then Pittsburgh, so uh, all the freight that has to cross Pennsylvania goes there.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2019 18:42

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