Yeah, exactly. Smithsonian's America on the Move exhibit at the American History Museum feels like a place to start small and update a highly visited exhibit - APTA was a minor sponsor...

A certain kind of progressive getting piss-drunk angry whenever someone tries to explain concepts like 'budgeting' or 'inflation' to them is a big part of why I am not a progressive.

It is, in fact, possible for a country to waste its vast resources and have to endure austerity for a time.

Seriously... It makes it feel like transport is a thing that exists in the past and fails to be an instrument to teach about the technologies of today

Even this exhibit at NASM teaches about general aviation TODAY, not as it was in the past. I've yet to see a transit museum that does that at all

A zero tolerance policy for scammers is necessary to the survival of a site, even if you are more lenient on other matters.

My understanding is that the green and yellow lines are interlined, with the segment of green between red and yellow running as an independent shuttle.

Maduro did many crimes, but for network design here in particular he should know better given his background as a bus driver.

Are there any museums in the country with legacy GPS antennas and retired CAD/AVL computers to teach adults and children how buses are dispatched and tracked? How they were developed to help improve the consistent delivery of accessible stop announcements for riders with disabilities?

Like what rich Americans love transit who would actually fund a transit engineering learning center named after them????

Wide angle view of aircraft prototypes in the Smithsonian Institution Air & Space Museum entry hall

I'm BEGGING for a conversation with any folks who can think of how we get the Smithsonian to open a national transport museum with cool trains, buses, and shit to actually teach and inspire the next generation of transit engineers and planners 😫

US Navy has struck an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman after it was warned to stop.

a bunch of ppl & institutions knew dual class stock was bad from the get-go and yet everybody crumbled in the face of the most ridiculous argument in the world that these founders were just so smart and special we should cede control of our economy (and retirement funds) to them

FARA enforcement, Title IX compliance for faculty, and fiduciary duty of board members of publicly traded companies; all stuff already on the books waiting to be enforced and all stuff that is objectively good and will also put a serious dent in the fascism complex

The empty cockpit of a Jaguar iPace modified for Waymo robotaxi duty showing 65 miles per hour on a wide open freeway in the late morning sun of a clear day. Yours truly can just be made out taking the photo in the rear view mirror.

10 years after my first ever ride in what we now call a Waymo, I hit 65 MPH in one the other day.

This technology is taking longer to develop than a lot of people predicted, for very good reasons, but it's also extremely real.

BART is planning changes for platform assignments at Daly City that will balance headways and enable more cross platform transfers at Bay Fair and MacArthur.

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I guess in the age of the telephone do negotiators actually ever have the power to sign off independently?

Whether the next dem admin proves them wrong is a fundamental question

And the thing is there is ample reason to impose consequences

- their execs are all drug addicts
- their primary product is a rewarmed overpriced SharePoint
- they say insane shit like "AI is more powerful than nuclear weapons"

it’s funny I feel like the hierarchy of NIMBY hatred on Instagram for some reason puts the MTA at the top, even worse than slumlords

And just broadly speaking, historically, "infuriate everyone and then hide behind legal technicalities" is, uh, not a super-successful strategy.

So I don't think this is 3-D chess, I think these guys aren't very competent and haven't planned any of this well.

If the end result of this is, "the president tipped the country into a recession while he and his cronies insider-traded on it" - well, there'd be a lot of political careers to be made nailing them to the wall for state crimes related to that, since the public would be *furious* about it.

Absolutely.

"These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that."

That's a pretty simple and effective message.

cessna citation needed

Some good news for today

A lot of people, myself included, have written about youth unemployment over the past year, so it’s worth pointing out that age 20-24 unemployment has plunged over the last 6 months:

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

Parking on the medians, zero road markings and brutal tree pruning is peak 1960s urban vibe.

Yeah this is the whole thing. It was the obvious path for the past six weeks.

Riffing on this: if you assume your neighbor’s house would become an 8-flat the moment it hits the market, you’re implicitly concurring that the housing shortage is real and that your local municipality is actively suppressing the market through restrictive zoning

As noted earlier, Iran operates with two distinct power centers, and the one that truly matters is the faction that controls the military. The U.S. is almost certainly not talking to that group.

Some have dreamed of NAWAPA

we can move his chambers to mcmurdo base and strip him of his clerks