what a ride! grateful to be home. who knew the moon was so big and far away?

looks like they are through branches of the 9X and they can't use the same IDs on both ends because 77 replaces 78 in the evenings. can't say i've seen anything quite like it. it does feel like a job for branch letters to me - 9A/9C in one direction, 9B/9D in the other

these look great! this is no fault of the map itself, but the 9X branches situation is pretty unintuitive at first glance. (do buses change number along the route? or are the branches separate routes? does each branch correspond to an opposite branch? etc)

Stop spacing is one of those things that most people don't think about. I probably think about it too much.

This graph shows how totally out of whack Canadian stop spacing is compared to the places where transit is widely used. People like transit with wider stop spacing.

is it skipping south bellevue to avoid messing with the slough? seems like that would be the better interchange for trips across the lake

columbia skytrain is infamous for the same

which one is that? intl district, because of transfers?

threat (hamilton street railway)

yes!

Flag of Bilbao. Aspect ratio 2:3, mostly white, a red square half the length of the flag's short edge in the top left corner.

i like them all fine. most small cities don't get good flags, so credit to madison for that. current flag obsession is bilbao

i might have to use them to form an opinion. seems inconvenient for people who want to make parallel transfers (though i assume the 42 sts are normal) or just catch the first train in a given direction

honestly it's morbidly amusing to ponder whether i'm better off seen as threat (man) or threat (american). probably the latter

just vibes. i like that they split the flow of people away from platform level, i like that they contain/hang off the sides of a pair of adjacent tracks, and i like having a continuous outer edge to snap to

thank you 😊

then again, i write like this, so who's to say i'm not being paid by Big Minuscule

this is true! i really dislike the way title case looks, i think its arcane rules produce inconsistency and confusion, and i find it totally unnecessary. sentence case is clean and familiar with no loss of meaning.

as a trans person with temporary status here i'm not really sure that that's a better deal for me

fine. for the sake of wokeness.

some of my less defensible takes:

- side platforms are better than island platforms

- every instance of Title Case could be replaced by Sentence case

- the flag of canada is better than most pride flags

- it's nice seeing french everywhere even though hardly anyone here speaks it and not english

i did not. i was just hoping i'd see something that would point me in a direction

i zoomed in trying to find something and discovered the name is in the picture 😭

only the best from the new york times

(no, i don't pay for wordle. i'm just a fast enough clicker to access wordlebot for free)

sorry, forgot to check my corner unit privilege at the door. yes, soundproofing. also on the topic of walls: insulation, good windows, awnings, whatever else passivhaus is about

1. single stair reform
2. bring back the slab
3. rent control for new buildings so i can have, like, modern hvac without moving every year, please

i get daily updates on my running zillow search for 3bd rentals in toronto under [price] and it has trained me not to click on any building that looks newer than 2010 as it's inevitably a "2bd+" with one bedroom lacking any windows and a dark leftover bit of space with no door called a "den"

at least your second error reduced your overshoot by like 70%

"wrong" or just base 20?

if you read the post, you'll find that the proposal put forward isn't about operations or infrastructure at all. the whole thing rests on the notion that 'you can lie to the user to help them' — keep operating it as one through service, but sign it as two.

in québec they're called GMEPs frits du kentucky