As an Indiana resident, OUCH.

Sign at Batthyány tér tram stop, showing the timetables for lines 19 to Kelenföld vasútállomás and 41 to Kamaraerdei Ifjúsági Park, as well as a poster telling people not to run after trams and a poster about construction

Digital display showing train-related service changes at Kelenföld vasútállomás, in this case about some IC trains to Graz and Ljubljana being partly replaced by buses and other trains

A permanent sign about "Traffic changes during the development of the Southern Circular Railway" showing diversions to some regional trains

Exit wayfinding at Kelenföld vasútállomás pointing to different platforms, exits and public transport lines

i'm in heaven

(it's Budapest/Hungary public transport wayfinding heaven)

One other thing, which is obvious with a little thought: podcasters and streamers and writers and various other creative people whose income is mostly based on Subscriptions as opposed to a 9-5 day job (and even many *with* 9-5 day jobs, it must be said) *do not get cost-of-living raises.*

The spit tests worked fine, the vaccines are great, and the multi-pronged effort to force people back to working in-person before it was safe for most people to do so is barely a conspiracy theory in the first place.

Rapid COVID tests are deliberately engineered to produce false negatives.

Thinking of the several times I took the Blue Line to O’Hare and there was single tracking at the terminal throat so the train had to hold for like ten minutes at every station on the Kennedy. That was nerve-wracking…especially when flying out of T5.

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 😫

Sam Harris specifically has always been this deranged, but amongst his fellow New Atheists in the aughts this was understood as, if anything, a source of polite intellectual disagreement.

Hachinohe 🫶

Notes (3):

• Honolulu could graduate to Civilization once the Skyline reaches downtown.
• I can be convinced to graduate Minneapolis/Denver/LA to Bro You're So Close.
• "American Dubai" is not just South Florida but also San Francisco (bc techbros) and Manhattan (bc billionaire investment pads).

Notes (2):

• Chicago, San Francisco, and Philly all fall into both Bro You're So Close and Too Broke but Too Broke takes precedence because imminent scary fiscal cliff. Chicago could graduate to Bro You're So Close depending on what happens with the NITA.

Notes (1):

• Suburbs are graded on a curve here because suburban transit access outside of like Metro and commuter rail stations with loads of TOD is awful just as a baseline.
• Small college towns with frequent buses *can* graduate to Bro You're So Close on a very good day.

Definitions, which may differ from Alan's:

CIVILIZATION: Can consistently get around easily without a car
BRO YOU'RE SO CLOSE: Can *mostly* get around w/o a car but when visiting I have more than once walked rather than take the bus because walking is faster.
TOO BROKE: See above

This map is too nice.

CIVILIZATION: NYC
BRO YOU'RE SO CLOSE: Boston, DC, Seattle, Honolulu
TOO BROKE: Chicago, Philly, Portland, SF, any other city currently/formerly staring down a massive, crippling fiscal cliff
FUMBLED: Everywhere else

Hard agree with rimidar on this. In fact, nothing has discredited wistful conservativism more to me than seeing people start to do it about times I lived through. Yeah the n64 was pretty dope when I was 10 years old, I guess; don't really think that should drive our immigration policy tho you loser.

I’m a bit concerned about what those two extra branches on the orange line would do for capacity/headways on the branches that actually got built.

From Wikimedia Commons, a hypothetical master plan for the Helsinki Metro dating from the 60s, wildly more extensive and ambitious than what was actually built, with some service patterns (east-west orange, north-south green, and loop purple) crudely sketched on top. The 1960s plan was as I understand it was supposed to be specced more like a stadtbahn or proto-light-metro than the heavy rail metro that was actually built, so if I ever crayon this thing I won’t follow this plan exactly.

Finally figured this one out. It had been driving me nuts for a long time.

"I get fairly frantic when I contemplate the idiocy of these goats."

Another day, another reminder that Tom Waits would have made an unbelievable Vietnam-era protest singer.

At the risk of sounding like someone who’s only ever seen Boss Baby, whoever threw together those posters for the new Boards of Canada joint really digs Lasse Hoile.

I realize we’re not at Great Recession levels of malaise and misery (yet), not very many stories of PhDs applying to flip burgers, but I can see as well as anyone what’s been happening to the cost of rent and groceries relative to my paycheck, and that is a Problem.

It’s almost like capitalism sucks or something.

The enlightened centrist take here is that “vibescession” is a pretty insulting way to characterize how people think of the economy when they really can’t afford rent/food/&c., but how affordable things are isn’t a good barometer for the state of the economy, either.

Oh wow. Apparently this signage was just retired. Call me a grumpy curmudgeon, I liked it before.

There is a large and loud subset of American Catholics who are basically Protestant in all but name so we may as well rip the band-aid off and get it over with.

why do so many of you treat being leftwing as a permission structure to be functionally illiterate

Thessaloniki?

It’s always a good day when we learn the percentage of CTA track in a slow zone has actually dropped significantly.

TIL the tram in Bordeaux got a network redesign and two new services late last year.

Good job kicking Orban out, Hungary. Now please for the love of god *keep* him out.