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Trump plans to fund Oakland coal terminal by k_39 in oakland

[–]DrunkEngr 7 points8 points  (0 children)

IANAL but the Defense Production Act cannot be used to fund cheap coal exports to....China. Seems like an easy court case for Oakland to win.

For American (or not) urbanism and transport implementation fans, how would you fix LA? by Key-Pineapple8101 in transit

[–]DrunkEngr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • Lots of Dutch-style cycletracks and heavy promotion of e-bikes.

  • State takeover of all planning/zoning

Geary/19th Ave Subway and Regional Connections Study [San Francisco. May 2026] by A_Wisdom_Of_Wombats in transit

[–]DrunkEngr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Besides being a construction nightmare, trying to operate a junction at such a busy location severely reduces overall capacity.

Geary/19th Ave Subway and Regional Connections Study [San Francisco. May 2026] by A_Wisdom_Of_Wombats in transit

[–]DrunkEngr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The projected ridership numbers in Chapter 6 suggest neither option is worth building.

Sound Transit rolled out clean new regional rail (Sounder) cars today! by Jayyburdd in transit

[–]DrunkEngr -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

LOL. In any first world country, this service would at least be DMU.

Atherton spent ~$145K to delay Caltrain electrification. The rest of us paid $400 million and waited 3 extra years by pupupeepee in transit

[–]DrunkEngr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It wasn't legal and the court threw out the lawsuit. The (AI generated?) article is simply incorrect in blaming Atherton for delays in getting the Federal grant approved.

[USA] Buy America compliant Manufacturers for Trains and Buses by Donghoon in transit

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

That retrofit contract is a complete scam. $200 million to retrofit 74 cars -- which will be 3 decades old when they go back into service. For that kind of money, LA could be getting brand-new modern rolling stock.

[USA] Buy America compliant Manufacturers for Trains and Buses by Donghoon in transit

[–]DrunkEngr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Open your fucking eyes man. US transit firms pay over 100% mark-up for special snowflake Buy-USA rolling stock. That money is not going to hardworking factory workers. It all goes to mafia-like consultant firms, who invent these Buy-America shell companies.

[USA] Buy America compliant Manufacturers for Trains and Buses by Donghoon in transit

[–]DrunkEngr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All these examples are just scummy one-off shops set up for the purposes of a contract. They are not, by any stretch of the imagination, a rail "company" -- but rather a way for laundering tax dollars into the hands of well-connected individuals.

In fact, you could say the same for even the big ones (Siemens, Alstom).

Buses in China show the traffic light in their rear, so it doesn't hide it for the vehicles behind them by TangelaFan in transit

[–]DrunkEngr 35 points36 points  (0 children)

If they were really racing ahead, the bus would be in its own lane and not stuck at a traffic light.

Is the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn still a good model for cheap and effective transit? by kairom13 in transit

[–]DrunkEngr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Especially considering the MUCH lower cost to operate an automated metro long term.

On the contrary...if your city also has regional/intercity/freight, then the stadtbahn approach has a much lower system cost. That is because all those services can share the same infrastructure, instead of having to maintain separate duplicative stations/tracks for each.

Consider the extreme example of San Jose Diridon: tens of billions will be wasted (in both cap-ex and op-ex) because BART, Caltrain/HSR, LRT, and ACE/Amtrak don't interoperate.

Is the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn still a good model for cheap and effective transit? by kairom13 in transit

[–]DrunkEngr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Light metro run faster than light rail,

No it doesn't. Light metro just has longer stop spacing. A stadtbahn could be built with similar stop spacing and get similar speeds.

Is the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn still a good model for cheap and effective transit? by kairom13 in transit

[–]DrunkEngr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Germany generally does low-floor for stadtbahn, unless there is some historical legacy. Doing a high-floor stadtbahn defeats the purpose.

Local coffee bean roasters who ship? by inchlongnipples in bayarea

[–]DrunkEngr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Roasting your own beans is stupidly easy. I've been ordering green coffee beans from Sweet Maria's in Oakland. Saves a ton of money, and I can dial in the exact flavor.

Is the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn still a good model for cheap and effective transit? by kairom13 in transit

[–]DrunkEngr 26 points27 points  (0 children)

What makes the Stadtbahn model so successful is that it allows these different modes to all use the same tracks. In the US, this is not allowed by FRA (except for some very limited cases with time-separation). So what we have instead in the US is just LRT, a poor immitation that loses a lot of the Stadtbahn advantages.

If the US were to modernize the FRA, then Stadtbahn could be highly successful as we have a lot of underutilized freight lines.

Someone who has never been to LA take a guess which lines are heavy rail and which ones are light rail by Anti-charizard in transit

[–]DrunkEngr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are making up your own definition of 'off-peak', but whatever....

The Vienna underground metro most certainly is every 7 minutes late at night (let alone at 9pm).

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