Map of Bay Area showing blue and green dots on the map around transit lines. Draft is stamped over it.
MTC has released a preliminary SB79 map for the Bay Area and is taking comments for any technical corrections (such as an eligible bus stop or station entrance not included).
I've submitted comment on missing stops on bus lanes in Berkeley & a BART elevator.
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Mid century modern charge with dark red upholstery on a base and shell structure made of nearly parallel stainless steel rods spaced closely together to form a cage-like surface with gentle curves.
TIL
I’d heard G. Platner’s father was a designer. Didn’t realize he’d done these. My roommate in college had one. Use to sit in it and watch ST:TNG
A downtown IRM branch with state funding would be Amaze, especially if they could rotate displays one a year
Yeah, the time to have got this started was when the robber barons were looking to rehabilitate their images. But they probably didn’t care what people thought
Rendering of the Rapid Transit History Center at the Western Railway Museum. Image shows a BART train in a dark room with mock-ups of a station, cab simulator, dispatch facility, and a portion of the transbay tube.
Rendering of the Rapid Transit History Center at the Western Railway Museum. Image shows a BART train in what looks like a maintenance facility with a drop pit, a bogie in the foreground and a portion of the trans bay tube in the background.
Rendering of the Rapid Transit History Center at the Western Railway Museum. Image shows a BART train with a station entrance and various displays about Bay Area transit history
I’d add that I’m part of a project that is desperate need of a white knight to fund it
Anyway, you need industry and political supporters to believe your project will help them sell new projects. Earlier federal transport funding bills (such as ISTEA) included money for surface transportation museums likely bc folks thought they’d help sell new trains and buses
The bigger private non profits are more giant collections than “museums.” Illinois Railway Museum is by far the most comprehensive. On the West Coast, there’s the Southern California and Western Railway Museums.
Best US RR museums (subjectively) are probably B&O in Baltimore, California State, Pennsylvania, and maybe NYC transit. All have unique origin stories
Air and Space probably wouldn’t have happened without big industry support and its connection to the national defense industry. Smithsonian has a ridiculously small RR collection given its importance to national history. Steamtown NHP does not come close to fulfilling its mission
I’d love to see it. Most RR museum collections have been the work of hobbyist-run private non-profits, and almost none of them have achieved the standards of modern museums. Who would sponsor such a thing?
The deliver bikes in SF are outta control, but if there’s going to be any enforcement, it needs to be aimed at the companies profiting off of these exploited gig workers
Everything in the Bay Area is going to feel so small and quiet when you get back. Like SF is actually a quaint fishing village with some banks
Coulda sandblasted it. That’s how you “design to their craft.” You make it messier
my post about plastic bread clips this morning led me to this website, which is AMAZING www.horg.com/horg/
This is an absolute abdication of climate leadership by California’s Air Resources Board.
The latest from the tracker estimating our arrival in Oakland at around 2 AM
Dude.
ASM transit train tracker map showing most of California at 8:54 PM. Train number 14 is represented as a black rectangle just north of Paso Robles.
We “should” be pulling into Oakland. Instead, we are just north of Paso Robles. Sigh.
Realized I hadn’t posted this on Bluesky. I’m not an authoritative source but here is a map I created of modern architecture in the LA area (so far ~1,700 points from many sources). I’ve added perimeters for the current fires to get a sense of what might be impacted: www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...
There’s a great taco place near by in SBA, but there’s always a line. Emeryville is good midday, but not for 11 and 14, when most businesses are closed
That sound great. I meant to say the longer stops on the Starlight. There is nothing near Salinas and Oakland. SLO might have something nearby. Santa Barbara is usually only 10 minutes or so
It’s a long walk to any food from most of the “smoke break” stops. I had a dream I tried this in Santa Barbara and the train left without me
The bulk of the text on this instagram post is about a gauntlet track built on the south shore to nudge trains that don’t stop around a passenger platform. I responded, “The through tracks should be straight” and it has 294 likes.
This is the most “liked” thing I’ve ever done on the socials
I’m very proud.
Very blurry photo of a rocket on a launch pad next to a large industrial building emblazoned with a US flag and the logo of a poor investment opportunity
Surveillance photo from earlier today
An empty styrofoam “Maruchan Instant Lunch” sits on a light grey table in an Amtrak Sightseer Lounge but in 1994 with a view to the sea beyond
Amtrak breaking my heart again with the already awful food of the cafe reduced to this by 6PM and a “full” diner that’s 2/3rds empty. I overhear almost everyone say it’s their 1st time on the train. Not as many say it’s their 2nd…
And my ire for the metro board has only grown without the light numble cast upon their work
I suppose this accurately depicts that it will be too expensive to drive by the time this is finished?
Needs more bird
Concrete is kinda bad from a carbon perspective. Mass timber is the future
There’s always the Cuesta Base Tunnel?
It’d be nice to speed up the travel time and eliminate padding so the extra stops don’t add travel time. It’s going to be a long trip from OKJ to LAX with the SLO transfer
Wonder Woman’s invisible train