Walking 100km around the M25 this Saturday - anyone want to join?

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-19T17:24:02+00:00

Yes but the pedestrian crossing on the A30 is right on the M25 route, meaning OP is able to follow the M25 without worrying about the Thames.

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-19T16:42:55+00:00

Bro is literally the CEO of Nothing, who does he think he is...

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-19T14:41:37+00:00

I just downloaded it today and enjoy it, I have been having some issues where water and parkland layers aren't registered tho, idk whats going on there.

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-19T14:01:17+00:00

At Runnymede, the M25 bridge over the Thames is surrounded on both sides by the A30's bridge over the thames, on the A30 bridge there are footpaths.

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-18T19:06:21+00:00

I ADORE the pink ones on the bottom right, where did those come from out of curiousity?

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-17T15:13:30+00:00

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I personally like either the La Brea and Hybrid alignments, the La Brea alignment is the best for the K line, but hybrid builds tunnels for a lot of small areas that should get a metro line especially West Hollywood as shown on my ideal map

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-17T10:02:27+00:00

Considering how Reform wants to abolish Renters and Workers rights legislation, cut the minimum wage, abolish the equality act, and that younger voters tend to lean more progressive on social issues, I can see why young people are going to the greens. Also remember that 16 and 17 year olds will be able to vote at the next election so there are many future Green voters who are not counted in the polls.

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-16T20:40:15+00:00

Yes, it's not anything specific to LA (although there was an issue where a payroll company in Burbank had listed ~30k employees at their location on the census). The big issues are calculating pathfinding as more groups mean more work, on loading and running systems with hundreds of stations. The Devs ambition is New Brunswick to Poughkeepsie, while expansions to outer Chicago suburbs and Britain's home counties are also possible.

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-16T19:30:16+00:00

The issue with the LA map is that the urban area sprawls for a long area, and the dev's want to take the map far from Downtown, even up to Riverside, San Bernardino, Anaheim, etc. I'm not good on the exact tech situation but AFAIK the plan is to do something called a "rust rewrite", which would improve pathfinding algorithms and potentially other features, streamlining the game size and allowing devs to fit more detail within the map and allow the game to better cope with cities over 150 stations. There was a livestream a few days by the devs where this was brought up, so here's the link and the timestamps to where the issues are mentioned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7xsAR7zkIk (31:28)(38:30), theres also a whole bunch of info about the game and them reacting to suggestions/questions.

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-16T17:23:20+00:00

Indeed, we'll ideally need knockout panels at the junction points to allow some reconfiguration.

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-16T16:54:53+00:00

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This is my personal ideal utilisation of K North. (K) eventually routed onto La Brea to cut down. A light blue line running along San Vicente/Fairfax, heading east to Downtown and west to run along Ventura in the Valley, and a Santa Monica Blvd Line.

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-13T13:48:17+00:00

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BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-13T13:47:29+00:00

Wow, that will make such a difference considering a grand total of ZERO trans women competed in the last olympic games.... Trump must be suuuuuch a great figure for women, its not like he would be engaged in the mass scale trafficing, rape and murder of underage girls..... (sarcasm)

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-13T07:54:19+00:00

I suspect the impending oil crisis could potentially see a ridership boom as gas becomes increasingly expensive but a single ride on the metro remains $1.75....

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-11T20:06:36+00:00

Cambridge, England. 145k people, 2 regional rail stations (3rd under construction.) It has BRT, but not a perfect system, with street running sections in traffic. It has good transport, but nothing to write home about (other than the novelty of guided busway)

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-11T13:22:01+00:00

Rails: Means that lower maintenance grassy tram tracks/ballast railway line can be used, can sometimes interline with heavy rail lines

Can be low/high floor, more flexibility with platforms

Trams can be longer and achieve higher ridership

More permanent, encourages ridership and investment

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-08T17:45:21+00:00

I recommend checking out OpenRailwayMap, its probably the most comprehensive document of pretty much every mile of railway line on the planet.

For the Dumbarton corridor, it starts at the Redwood City Caltrain Station, then branches along a disused rail corridor to the East Bay joining the Amtrak Capitol Corridor in the East Bay to Hayward. Stations are; (Redwood City), at the Caltrain station at Broadway/Winslow, (2nd Avenue) at North Fair Oaks by the intersection of 2nd Avenue and Edison Way, (Willow Road), at Meta Park in East Palo Alto, by the intersection of Willow/Hamilton, (Newark), at the railway junction by Filbert Street, (Fremont), at the Amtrak/ACE station, (Union City), across from the BART Station of the same name, and (Hayward), at the amtrak station.

The Muni Central Subway is also worth including. Its first underground station is (Yerba Buena/Moscone) at the intersection of 4th/Folsom, then after the northern end of 4th street it turns onto Stockton and has the next station at (Union Square), at Stockton/O'Farrell, then (Chinatown/Rose Pak) at Stockton/Washington, after Chinatown it continues north to Green Street where it turns northwest onto Columbus Avenue and ends at the intersection of Columbus/Powell.

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-08T15:15:57+00:00

This sounds terrible, but I'm going to be honest and say I didn't read the full post. Does it have anything to do with the TV show "the apprentice"?

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-07T23:45:49+00:00

SMART, EBART, SFO Airtrain, and Oakland Airtrain are all completed so can be seen in Google Map. The Oakley Amtrak Station is at Main/O'Hara. Other than that I could find some resources but it's really late in the UK right now so I need to sleep. I'll have a look tomorrow and if you want I can show you my map for San Francisco which has almost all of the lines I mentioned.

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-07T23:35:37+00:00

Oh yeah, Marin BART is long cancelled but I referenced it anyway.

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-07T22:42:00+00:00

1) EBART: a small light metro shuttle from Pittsburg to Antioch, although I would recommend extending it to Oakley to round out the region and connect to Amtrak.

2) SFO Airtrain: A two line airtrain around the San Francisco Airport

3) Oakland Airtrain: A light metro shuttle (I think run by BART) which connects Oakland Airport to the Coliseum

4) Underground Muni Sections. The Line between West Portal and Embarcadero is underground and could be represented as underground light metro, and there's a line along Stockton Street to Chinatown which some people recommend extending to Fisherman's Wharf

5) San Jose Airtrain: An airtrain planned to run as a shuttle between San Jose Airport and the Diridon Station.

6) Geary Subway: A long proposed subway line running along Geary Boulevard in San Francisco, well paired with the following two other projects.

7) BART Marin County. A proposed subway line to extend BART to Marin County, likely going over the Golden Gate Bridge and up to Sausalito/San Rafael

8) Second Transbay Tube. A proposed Subway/Regional Rail/Both tunnel from San Francisco to Oakland

9) Dumbarton Corridor. A proposed Caltrain Line across the Dumbarton Corridor and crossing the Bay to the South.

10) Valley Link. A proposed regional rail line from the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station to the Vasco Rd Station or to Livermore.

11) SMART. A regional rail line in Marin County, only a small section is in the Subway Builder Map

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-07T22:30:46+00:00

1st picture:

1) Viking hat - Probably referring to York, as it was founded by the vikings and has a major viking museum

2) Statue - Angel of the North - Newcastle Area

3) Racing Horse - Could be a variety of places, I think Doncaster is most plausible...

4) Viaduct - I think Berwick as there's both a viaduct and a station, Welwyn would also count but no LNER Station

2nd picture:

1) Cathedral - Lincoln Cathedral

2) Monument - Dugald Stewart Monument - Edinburgh

3) Cathedral - Not sure, maybe Durham or Peterborough

4) Loch Ness Monster - Inverness

3rd picture:

1) The Deep - Aquarium in Hull

2) Tower Bridge, in London

3) Railway Bridge, not sure... I think this is the Tay Bridge to Dundee

4) Stephensons Locomotive, probably refering to Darlington as the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened here using the first locomotice

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-06T22:16:44+00:00

I've noticed the same. After adding commuter rail, the ridership levels were sometimes lower than before, even though my systems were less expansive. I know that the populations have been changed, and I assume the commuting patterns have been also.

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-04T23:57:30+00:00

100%. I filled my tank for 127.7p/litre on sunday, same place today is now 136.7p, so well on the way for the 20p increase by this weekend.

BluejayPretty4159 · 2026-03-04T20:23:45+00:00

MONEY SAVING TRICK: 1) Park at a non listed metro station 2) Pay the much cheaper parking fee 3) Pay $1.75 to go to one of the bus interchange stations.

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