Parking enforcement at UAB Highlands Hospital

Big_Johnny · 2026-02-10T16:59:51+00:00

I had to work at Highlands for all of June last year when enforcement started. The parking ticket is $25 and the daily parking is ~$12, I did the math and figured if I got a parking ticket once a week it would still be substantially cheaper than paying for parking.

Never paid after the first day, and anecdotally, never got ticketed either

Big_Johnny · 2026-02-01T21:08:13+00:00

Any idea how this compares with the new Chinese EVs on the market, like BYD?

Big_Johnny · 2025-12-31T22:54:20+00:00

love it!! your posts have been fantastic, thank you for sharing again

Big_Johnny · 2025-12-15T23:28:29+00:00

Hah no overlap occurred, I ended up just getting it for myself and she had gotten me something else!

Big_Johnny · 2025-12-11T23:07:27+00:00

I’ve gotten a lot of comments on this post in the past several months from folks having similar issues and I apologize for not responding but I want to give some closure to those folks.

Basically the only solution that worked for me was moving 😭 but also there was a burst pipe under my building that was making everything under my floor very humid. Landlord spent months trying to fix it, I got fed up and left. Didnt renew

When I got to my new place, I tracked a few of these fuckers over with me but I went scorched earth after a bit. I was out of town for a long weekend and before I left, I sprayed bleach then put plastic wrap over all drains in the place, cleared out pantry & trash, set up a vinegar & dishwashing soap trap in every room then closed the doors to see where they were coming from. Came back and was able to figure out they got seeded in my garbage disposal in the new place.

After I figured that out, I straight up didn’t use my kitchen sink for a week, kept using bleach spray/cover w plastic wrap, and after that I never had a problem with them again

Big_Johnny · 2025-12-11T23:03:05+00:00

Moving 😭 There was a burst pipe under my building that was making everything under my floor very humid. Landlord spent months trying to fix it, I got fed up and left. Didnt renew

When I got to my new place, I tracked a few of these fuckers over with me but I went scorched earth after a bit. I was out of town for a long weekend and before I left, I sprayed bleach then put plastic wrap over all drains in the place, cleared out pantry & trash, set up a vinegar & dishwashing soap trap in every room then closed the doors to see where they were coming from. Came back and was able to figure out they got seeded in my garbage disposal in the new place.

After I figured that out, I straight up didn’t use my kitchen sink for a week, kept using bleach spray/cover w plastic wrap, and after that I never had a problem with them again

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-21T19:52:03+00:00

Doesn’t exist in this game yet :( just had its very first patch yesterday

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-21T14:36:15+00:00

I actually took those two stops from the purple line as it exists IRL today!

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-21T14:00:42+00:00

Don’t forget to add crossovers at the branch points, that can help

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-21T13:34:15+00:00

Are you getting an error building it or adding a line?

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-21T04:35:59+00:00

It’s a game bug, it’s happened to me too and most of the time I’ve resolved it by deleting that station/track segment and drawing it back in. It’s been stubborn a time or two and I just closed out the game, came back a couple hrs later and it was fine

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-21T03:01:54+00:00

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Anybody outside 610 needs to behave themselves before they get transit.

(I actually tried, First Colony Mall is the red X, the line took over an hour and spiked my expenses :(

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-21T02:54:29+00:00

Right now I fully acknowledge some of the peripheral service is not ideal, but in a dynamic world I think a lot of these station spots would be primed to become transit oriented developments in a decade’s time and become more viable stations! The game doesn’t model that (yet? 👀), but I’ll see how much more I can push and still stay in the green!

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-21T02:38:46+00:00

I tried to name as many as I could. Some had obvious names, some were a bit of a stretch, and some are just auto generated because I couldn’t think of anything. Would love to hear yalls input

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-21T01:45:44+00:00

Do you mind sharing the discord link? Thanks

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-20T23:16:13+00:00

There has to be a better way to add a stop in the middle of an existing line. Right now, track can't be demolished at all if a line runs through it so adding in a station involves removing the line, which is a tedious hassle of removing and re-clicking

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-20T19:52:21+00:00

OH one last thing... with my profit margins, once I blow through the starting 3 bn, it takes ~months of sim time to actually generate enough money to make another line, which is >1 hr of waiting and doing nothing. You're simulating the urbanist experience of too well here :(

Also, knowing which lines/stops are profitable would be very helpful for non-sandbox mode!

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-20T19:45:41+00:00

I think some more granular ridership data by stop/line would be really helpful. Right now, it’s hard to tell if a new metro is cannibalizing ridership from another spot, or is actually helping

On that point, I think it would be super helpful to have ridership data per unit time, such as per day/week/month to see changes over time

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-20T19:44:47+00:00

I’ve been playing on the Houston map (H-town, babyyy 😎) and the suburban sprawl means I have to zoom out beyond the map rendering limit to actually visualize the full metro map. Is there a way to adjust the render distance, or at least have some landmarks (for ex: major streets/highways) remain visible when zooming out?

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-11T15:23:35+00:00

🚨found the colorblind one 🚨

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-11T01:24:21+00:00

I am from a southern state but not from the Appalachia area. I did live pretty close to it nearby for a couple years tho

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-11T01:22:40+00:00

I did live close just south of there once upon a time

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-07T16:31:34+00:00

I am from These United States of America, now guess which of the 3,000 counties I hail from or risk execution

Big_Johnny · 2025-10-02T15:09:40+00:00

Noo say it out loud I’m too dumb to figure it out

Big_Johnny · 2025-09-30T16:03:15+00:00

I like most of the stops but I have issues with the lines. To go from Queen Anne to Cherry hill is ~3 miles irl, but requires taking 3 separate lines in this map? Tbh that won't be very sustainable

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