I feel like we're not willing to confront that for a set budget, you can have a bigger less nice thing or a smaller more nice thing.

For public infrastructure I think we should have a smaller, more nice thing than a bigger less nice thing.

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I mean there's a reason I'm a buses and metros (pre-metros are okay) girlie, rather than someone who likes trams.

It's tricky, because I like toll roads but I don't like displacement. I-77 in Charlotte has already displaced a lot of people and the new toll lane project would displace more people.

So I'm opposed to the I-77 project. Couldn't we just convert existing lanes to toll?

Picture of the sign at Regional Transit Center, showing which route to take to the Airport. RDU Shuttle vs Route 100.

It should always be the shuttle #GoTriangle #RaleighTransit

I'm still waiting for the cheese filled pretzel 😭

BRT is a capacity, speed and reliability improvement on regular bus service and therefore good, is kind of where I've ended up.

It's weird to be a regular transit rider in transit is noble communities, especially in regions where there are a lot of people who believe transit is noble who don't ride transit.

Hot take: there should be more moon oriented developments

I'm sorry but I find the term "choice rider" offensive. Everyone has the choice to take transit or not. People who own cars are not inherently more valuable than people who don't and the term "choice rider" really makes it easy to argue they are.

One thing I do feel like Amtrak has learned to do well lately is celebrate incremental shifts as if they're generational investments

The goal of an elected body is not just to enact good policies. It's also to ensure that the people within that jurisdiction feel seen and as if they have a right to be there.

FTA funding in general has more strings than a CMAQ or other formula funding sources that can be reprogrammed, usually from Highways but there's more political risk and state involvement needed in those sources.

I don't feel like these are solutions to the problem and instead only allow people to separate themselves from it. Leaving society worse off, and pushing this behavior to intensify elsewhere.

I do sometimes worry as I see people inflate this to the point where they believe in segregation, a police state, or a need to replace high capacity transit with very low capacity transit.

I've had some really sour experiences on public transit. I once had someone start masturbating and invite me to watch them. Another time I had someone pee next to me while I was waiting at a transit center. These are not okay behaviors and should not be tolerated on public transit.

Pioneer Square is a very transit rich part of the region. So a reminder that there's no level of transit service that makes it easy to appropriate space from auto mobility.

My partner and I met at church but then really bonded riding GoRaleigh 🥹🥰

Trump does extra judicial killings with a shit eating grin and a maniacal laugh.

Democrats that have been elected in my life do extra judicial killings with an apology and compensation.

I would rather we stop doing extra judicial killings.

The two are independent variables. I can choose the best option and believe that they did very little to try to earn my vote.

Should I give a full throated endorsement of someone who hasn't earned my vote? And that I believe will hurt people if elected?

I mean, you could work towards a polar grid but that's expensive and ill advised.

I would take the circular in San Antonio, since it was sometimes the fastest way to get anywhere and sometimes it was just nice to take a different route.

I went to a Harris rally, in one of the bluest counties in my state, and the message I came away from it with was, come in fellow Republicans, the waters warm. I am not a Republican. It's understandable I might be a little annoyed at the democratic party after that.

I voted for the democratic candidate in all of the presidential elections I've been eligible for but I haven't felt like they tried to earn my vote in any of those elections.

Segregation was never a purely southern, state or local affair. The feds would only insure mortgages that had racial deed restrictions. The feds would build whites only public housing and demolish black neighborhoods to do it.

Fun Fact: Milpitas, California incorporated in order to ban the construction of apartment buildings when a new Ford Plant agreed moved to the area offering jobs to African Americans. Single family homes had deed restrictions, preventing sale to African Americans as well.

Source: The Color of Law

To some extent it is hard to operate excessively long routes and having a good transfer to your long haul routes, is important. However to have a transfer to continue in the same direction, especially when of the same technology, is really demotivating.

North Carolina sample ballots are out, go figure out who you're going to vote for! Yes, honey.

And a bicycle themed coffee shop, I wonder if anyone has biked here, ever.

At least they have steps to the sidewalk 😅

No the events shouldn't always be downtown but couldn't we at least factor in transit accessibility?

I'm mostly used to this now but it still bugs me:

"Let's talk about the importance of Urbanism and transit"
(One hour walk to the nearest bus stop, along a stroad)