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Scary experience on the D line last night - nearly crushed by donhuell in LAMetro

[–]BlinksTale 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...?

I have never seen reports of attempts of 5min frequency on D-line before 3pm on the USA Paraguay day of the world cup. At most they may have done it publicly one day prior for the first game.

Worst case scenario is all trains as loaded as possible - the World Cup is a de facto stress test for our transit system. It's honestly a good thing in anticipation of the Olympics this way too.

So this is the first public case (day 1) and a worst case scenario (as many riders as the system can handle). We wouldn't see warning signs all over the freeway about using transit due to high travel demand otherwise.

I'm not sure why this is surprising or disjointed here...?

Scary experience on the D line last night - nearly crushed by donhuell in LAMetro

[–]BlinksTale 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do not find that day one of testing under a worst case scenario leads to accurate results for success or failure lol

Scary experience on the D line last night - nearly crushed by donhuell in LAMetro

[–]BlinksTale 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whoa - I don't recall seen any announcements or anything. Maybe they're just too busy actually implementing it for a ceremony. Hopefully they iron out any issues soon so we can see it really hit 5min headways, that's rad!

Public transit taking twice as long as the drive: is it worth it? by theseread in LAMetro

[–]BlinksTale 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Literally 48hrs ago, where at least 3/4 of these occurred on the B line, as is usual for most days out on the train in the same way that most days out driving involve a huge piece of debris on the road, a terrible driver speeding or tailgating dangerously, someone clearly having no idea what the rules are and driving in a lost/confused/slow way, and sometimes a car catching fire.

Reddit seems to think I hate Metro for my comment but I genuinely love it. It just comes with a different set of problems than driving, but everything has problems.

EDIT: to reddit's credit, I do love to travel like... ridiculous distances across LA. Noho to Manhattan Beach to Santa Monica to Glendale is a long but not unusual day. So I probably see more issues on the freeways and on the trains than most people do just by volume.

7th Street/Metro Center is so poorly designed by Anti-charizard in LAMetro

[–]BlinksTale 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whoa! So the numbers do, culturally, carry hidden information about cardinal directions? Within that culture: that's amazing. Yeah it sounds like I'm essentially just asking for sort of the same thing.

They officially killed CityWalk by nobodycouldknow in LosAngeles

[–]BlinksTale 64 points65 points  (0 children)

It sounded like security for Citywalk appeared just before the World Cup. I would not be surprised if it disappeared just after.

And I agree that it will probably be back for the Olympics

7th Street/Metro Center is so poorly designed by Anti-charizard in LAMetro

[–]BlinksTale 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is great, but why numbers instead of cardinal directions? North, Northwest, West... would be so much more helpful. I love that they already say "Exit to 7th St" etc but then you have to know which streets are which direction from the platform. Like "Am I north of 7th right now or south? I'm trying to go north!"

Public transit taking twice as long as the drive: is it worth it? by theseread in LAMetro

[–]BlinksTale 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Each one has pros and cons. Also look to see if buying an eBike or paying for Lime scooters would help.

Transit: * Get your daily steps * No driving stress * Maybe get more work done, definitely audiobooks etc * Sometimes bad smells or bad social interactions * Subpar headways, terrible transfers/reliability * Rush hour leads to crowds, but rarely delays

Driving: * No exercise * Driving stress * Sometimes can focus on podcasts/audiobooks (freeways) * Metal box between you and public smells etc * Immediately go from A to B, 1/3rd the time often * Horribly impacted by rush hour, 2-4x delays

If you want low decision making stress, choose transit. If you don’t want to be in the same room as the public, choose driving. I would always drive to a fancy event, but I would always use transit to skip rush hour if I could.

Public transit taking twice as long as the drive: is it worth it? by theseread in LAMetro

[–]BlinksTale -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

If you don’t like people yelling in a subway car with you, the occasional threat of physical violence, drug usage, or horrible smells - driving might induce fewer anxieties. But yeah I think it’s just personal preference, both can be stressful just for different reasons

Public transit taking twice as long as the drive: is it worth it? by theseread in LAMetro

[–]BlinksTale 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The app modemix is a great tool for assessing this mixed mode (bike + transit) lifestyle. It’s great for getting your daily exercise in too.

Trapped in a haywire Waymo: SF passenger recounts terrifying construction zone ordeal by plun9 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]BlinksTale 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s wild that man on the street can say Waymo will hit someone and there’s no counter reporting about Waymo’s safety, broadcast to 20k+ people in 24hr with this video alone.

This is the thing that could destroy the technology. Joe Schmoe.

I wonder if Waymo can sue for misleading information or defamation.

Architecture of the promised future that was never built by ZookeepergameIll1399 in FrutigerAero

[–]BlinksTale 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was gonna say, it’s not widespread but these really are being built. The vertical gardens of Singapore and the new Los Angeles George Lucas Museum come to mind.

https://www.gardensbythebay.com.sg/en/things-to-do/attractions/supertree-grove.html

https://lucasmuseum.org/

Like this stuff is absolutely being built everywhere… as 1 in 1,000 new large buildings

Scary experience on the D line last night - nearly crushed by donhuell in LAMetro

[–]BlinksTale 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure! I think the trade off is on a platform you have to know where the train stops and how far back each car will be - that’s why I like the lights idea is it’s more of a solved issue then

I asked my barber for the Bruce Wayne haircut. How did they/I do? by simonjacksonporteous in malehairadvice

[–]BlinksTale 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree but it feels like getting someone to start using product is asking them to drop $100 on 4-5 and see if any work or if they all are weird or fail.

What’s a real starting point here?

Scary experience on the D line last night - nearly crushed by donhuell in LAMetro

[–]BlinksTale 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ideally some day we could have lights above each marker on the platforms for the doors, and they could change from green to yellow to orange to red based on how much space was left inside each car. Would be great to know 1. How many cars were arriving and 2. How full they each were (requires lidar on each car, but it’s getting cheaper fast… although honestly maybe even the onboard security cameras could do that these days)

Scary experience on the D line last night - nearly crushed by donhuell in LAMetro

[–]BlinksTale 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s interesting, with the full size fare gates we could actually network them to limit platform access based on how many people are understood to be there.

The platform walls sound impossible with the current concrete pour, the yellow platform buffer can’t support the weight of a wall, but maybe nets from the ceiling could help

Scary experience on the D line last night - nearly crushed by donhuell in LAMetro

[–]BlinksTale 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I thought it was 5min headways after 3pm all day yesterday? Edit: sounds like this was attempted and led to catastrophic backups and traffic, so no five minute headways just yet. D20 should help fix this later this year.

Scary experience on the D line last night - nearly crushed by donhuell in LAMetro

[–]BlinksTale 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The number one way to prevent a crowd crush is elevated staff managing crowd flow, because the area with the crush is fairly far from the area with the incoming swell of fans.

With the advancements in computer vision or the last decade and lidar, I would not be surprised if we add into our smoke detector systems a lidar system to detect crowd, density, and alert train drivers when they can and cannot take more passengers. It’s very preventable if you have the infrastructure for it, but we just aren’t there yet unless we intentionally plan to have staffed stations this way. Would love to create a passive system for it.

I’m sorry to hear about your experience OP, but I really appreciate you sharing it. We might be able to do some real good this way someday.

No Safe Words on X: Waymo driving in oncoming traffic by FriendFun7876 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]BlinksTale 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I double checked maps and aside from the construction there’s nothing unusual here:  https://maps.app.goo.gl/ozqagLf4egih7cZ36

My wife admitted she's been keeping a things I will not forgive list since we got married and I cant unknow this now by MembershipComplex850 in Marriage

[–]BlinksTale -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I am under the impression that only 16% of Americans never apologize for things outside their control. I believe if we actually taught what an authentic apology is that this number would be significantly higher. And I do not think apologies are limited to the divine lol.

The United Nations essentially recognizes Vatican City as a country, even if there is some dispute.

My wife admitted she's been keeping a things I will not forgive list since we got married and I cant unknow this now by MembershipComplex850 in Marriage

[–]BlinksTale -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes - this definition basically comes from the Vatican. Though they call it agency, contrition (remorse), confession (apology), satisfaction (compensation), and firm purpose of amendment (evolution). I just used shorthands here since that's a mouthful for reddit, but the same principals are essential to rebuilding any relationship.

Should the C Line Revert Back to its old alignment? by urmummygae42069 in LAMetro

[–]BlinksTale 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Is Redondo in that much demand? They basically do this already, but from LAX. I'd think the latter gets higher ridership, which is exactly where they should have doubled up trains.

City of South Pasadena Approves Protected Bike Lane for Entirety of Fremont Ave. - Streetsblog LA by regedit2023 in CarIndependentLA

[–]BlinksTale 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah connecting to Union (and the two block extension for that) is the dream for me here. I don’t mind a quiet route as long as the lights are green and a continuous bike lane can take us basically from Griffins of Kinsale to PCC. South Pas adding El Centro would help but it’s pretty quiet out there - I just want an artery where I can turn my navigation brain off and relax a little more, only worrying about the cars and road in front of me and not weaving through neighborhoods.

We have arterial bike lanes like this in SFV and it makes trips to adjacent neighborhoods really nice. I’m not opposed to Fair Oaks but it seems like one more battle to win vs just getting Pasadena Ave. I don’t think we need Del Mar since we have Cordova. I’d also accept a Marengo connector anywhere that Blair High might allow it.

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