I’ve actually adopted, ‘if cars can occupy the pedestrian area, pedestrians can occupy the car area’.

Green is parking structures?

They will be adding trans and pride flags in their place, maybe a Palestinian flag for good measure.

My city is also playing with electric buses buying different brand and models. One Chinese brand they have drives me crazy because it rings a bell as it moves. It’s louder and more annoying than the gas buses.

I wish my city was running the electric buses at night. Without the noise of other traffic to help mask it, the gas ones sound like explosions as they drive by at 3a. Unfortunately the bus company said it’s cheaper to charge them at night when electricity costs the least.

It’s more infuriating because 99% of the time when they make these bad route decisions they will cite cost. But then are ready to spend orders of magnitude more per mile on less convenient and more expensive to operate people movers to fix the route mistake later.

Pennywise, pound foolish doesn’t even begin to describe…

The brand new $5.5 billion SoFi stadium opened in 2020, and has a brand new $2.2 billion light rail line opened in 2022 (the same line that the LAX people mover is connecting to) that passes 1.6 miles away, but it also doesn’t have a station. My understanding is the stadium owner used their political power to block it because they charge $140 to park per car for NFL games. Recently because of the upcoming Olympics they were going to spend $2 billion on a people mover to the stadium.

Think about that, the original metro line was $2.2 billion, they then spent $3.3 billion fixing the mistake of not actually connecting to the airport, and then they tried to spend another $2 billion fixing the mistake of not connecting to the stadium. $5.3 billion on people movers, trying to correct the shortsighted mistakes from the original build. And if they had done it the obviously right way the first time you could just get off the metro and be at your destination instead of getting off, navigating a connection, waiting for the next people mover…

https://laist.com/news/transportation/la-metro-crenshaw-lax-rail-line-opening-what-to-expect

https://labusinessjournal.com/special-reports/infrastructure-los-angeles-international-airport/

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-18/rep-maxine-waters-sofi-stadium-people-mover-olympics

For only $157 billion, at this rate it’ll be cheaper to demolish the airport and rebuild it just to put the station where it should have been all along…

LAX is my go to example of how bullshit transit planning in America is and why sometimes doing nothing is better than doing the wrong thing.

The horseshoe is HELL, and in 1995 they tried to build transit to the airport but budget cuts and other shenanigans led to the Aviation/Imperial station 2.7 miles away and shuttle buses that also got stuck in the horrible horseshoe traffic. The station was barely used by any airport employees much less any travelers, virtually nothing was accomplished.

Then in 2025 they try again, but bullshit prevails again and they spend $900 million on a station 2.3 miles away, and $3.3 BILLION on a people mover.

I’m sorry there is no reasonable explanation for why the new station was’t built in the horseshoe all along.

Not learning from these mistakes São Paulo’s main airport did the exact same thing.

Let’s also not forget many countries that today don’t have a visible black population were also very active in slavery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Argentines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Uruguayans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Chileans

https://www.seriouseats.com/best-food-processor-equipment-review

$/€100 fine that doubles every minute the tram is impeded.

Speed running us towards the Dune timeline, nice

It’s type N, the one that was invented by the EU to standardize Europe into one outlet. It was literally designed to be the best. Unfortunately killed off by lazy bureaucrats but not before Brazil and South Africa adopted it anticipating Europe would join in.

That sidewalk looks at least 2 or 3 meters wide

https://maps.app.goo.gl/wxq3S9T7iG5uyYM5A?g_st=ac

Lanyard?

From a certain point of view a small town should be more walkable than a big city but that all comes down to planning. I’ve lived in several small towns over the years. Let’s compare 2 for example.

Isolated oil industry town of 990 founded in the 1950s. You cannot function without a car. Only a dozen or so businesses or places to go. Everything is far apart, literally ZERO sidewalks. Two high speed highways bisect the town, obviously no sidewalks means no crosswalks either.

Historic 1800s ranching town turned into a resort destination, population 8,000. I never had a car living here and never wanted one (I’d bum a ride to go hiking). Several hundred businesses or places to go, but sidewalks everywhere. Traffic had recently been calmed as the mistakes of the previous decades of car centered design became obvious to the town. The highway through town had a lower speed limit and several safe crossings. The streets were originally planned out before cars and euclidian zoning were a thing. Was very pleasant to be a pedestrian.

In theory the town of 990 could have been even more walkable because combined together all the towns businesses and destinations would have been maybe 10 acres. But instead they were spread out in different unconnected parcels which had dangerous highways between.

Arizona

Wait so the bridge is too unstable for pedestrians but is still open to car traffic? 🤨

Quanto mimimi

It’s a legitimate question now…

https://archive.is/NNybw