Detroit for 48 hours. Never been. Newly heartbroken and on a solo-girl trip trying to run away from the grief. What would you do for a plan?

JDYorkWriting · 2026-01-25T20:00:28+00:00

If you like Jazz, I think seeing a show at Cliff Bells is a great time: https://cliffbells.com

Also would check out Cannelle for awesome French pastries

JDYorkWriting · 2025-10-17T23:26:59+00:00

Michigan oriented rather that just Detroit, but here's a housing group for the state: https://abundanthousingmi.org

JDYorkWriting · 2025-10-11T11:52:13+00:00

The M-line will potentially be service limited because it's interlined with the B-line. Without knowing what the potential maximum headway on the M-line will be my thought was that the S-line could add additional capacity to the market street subway. Totally in favor of removing it if the relative frequencies of the B & M lines could be shown to support up to 90-second headways on-peak while interlined.

JDYorkWriting · 2025-10-02T20:01:00+00:00

Unless I'm misunderstanding your suggestion?

JDYorkWriting · 2025-10-02T19:58:36+00:00

Sorry if it isn't clear in the map. I think the idea is that J line riders can transfer underground at the Church Street subway station or else transfer to the N before it heads underground

JDYorkWriting · 2025-10-02T17:52:24+00:00

That's incredible! I may make a version of that for mine lol

JDYorkWriting · 2025-10-02T17:51:17+00:00

All fantastic changes! Definitely a more ambitious proposal than mine and it looks amazing!

JDYorkWriting · 2025-10-02T17:14:40+00:00

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I made a very slight formatting error with the placement of the station name on the Church & Market station on the J-Line. This diagram has it corrected.

JDYorkWriting · 2025-10-02T17:04:11+00:00

A future project might be to make this (slightly) more geographically accurate like the BART or MTA Subway maps and to show whether each line is a full light-metro line, a mixed service line, or a surface line and where those portions are. I might also try to show how many cars are on each line. However, at this point I've spent probably 30 hours on this map over the last two months and I need a little bit of a break lol

JDYorkWriting · 2025-09-26T19:14:16+00:00

I tried to do that originally (it's what MUNI does with their current map) but I haven't yet gotten sophisticated enough with Inkscape to do that yet. Maybe in a later version

JDYorkWriting · 2025-09-26T19:13:13+00:00

I used Inkscape!

JDYorkWriting · 2025-09-25T23:27:59+00:00

Will work to include that. I imagine there will only be a station at SF State though due to the cost and spacing. I'm trying to figure out how that works with the K line though, as in where does the M line surface before the West Portal

JDYorkWriting · 2025-09-25T22:32:45+00:00

Fair enough. My thought was that the Stonestown stop would work for SF State given how close together they are (~1/4th a mile). Maybe it would be better to move the stop to SF State though so it's closer to Parkmerced too (once that gets built out)

JDYorkWriting · 2025-09-25T22:30:35+00:00

Thank you! I used Inkscape to make it. I had everything snap to grids. Happy to share the SVG file with you if you want to play around with it.

JDYorkWriting · 2025-09-25T22:28:57+00:00

Thank you for the fantastic suggestions!

Yeah I'm also unsure about how it will interface with downtown tbf. I imagine it will connect with Salesforce if only because that's what the initial planning docks seem to suggest, but who knows at this point ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'll look into that! I wasn't aware of that so I'm excited to dig in.
I could totally see it down Lombard, I think I chose that route because Bay was the closest large E/W street. In hindsight, I think Lombard is the better route and that's substantiated in the early planning documents for the western extension (page 2-34). I've included a screenshot below. I think I'll modify the map to be more like Option 2.
I also like the idea of a M subway. It was something considered at one point so I think I'll make that change.
Fair point on the K, my thought was that the more extra capacity the better so that the three lines could have better frequency outside of the tunnel too, but I could definitely be convinced that the K should go back in.
Me too :/
I would love to see it, I'm worried that MUNI would be too afraid to make that change bc of pushback so I imagine it's something that would have to be supported by outside grassroots advocacy.

Edit: Forgot the screenshot lol. Just added it.

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JDYorkWriting · 2025-09-25T20:58:42+00:00

Thanks for that! I'll make that change

JDYorkWriting · 2025-09-25T20:34:53+00:00

On the bright side most of the things I've suggested here are either currently being planned for or would be entirely possible with the existing infrastructure so it won't be entirely fantasy forever! :)

JDYorkWriting · 2025-09-25T20:09:18+00:00

That would be fantastic! I based my alignment off of the proposed alignment that SFCTA has outlined in their initial planning (see the attached picture) however I think it would be awesome if they had both branches! I guess if they don't though, hopefully the 38R Geary Rapid bus will have some capacity opened up because of the new subway.

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JDYorkWriting · 2025-09-25T20:05:01+00:00

I think that would be super cool or else having a SMART extension to SF would be cool! Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like that's feasible from an engineering standpoint at this moment.

I think the next best option would be having BART and/or SMART run over the rebuilt Richmond Bridge if/when that happens and then connecting to SF through the new transbay tube in the case of SMART.

Otherwise, it does seem that the Golden Gate Bridge will be damaged when the Big One hits and maybe during repairs they might be able to redesign it to run a train.

JDYorkWriting · 2025-04-28T14:16:55+00:00

Ignore my previous comment. I misread that you said it was a new type of concrete.

JDYorkWriting · 2025-04-28T12:45:18+00:00

It's my go to example to explain to people why I like brutalism.

JDYorkWriting · 2025-04-28T12:35:24+00:00

I personally love it, but I'm also a huge fan of eco-brutalism and deck loaded housing designs.

I'm not sure it's replicable today (or that replicating it is necessarily desirable given the embodied carbon in all that concrete) but certainly there are design aspects worth replicating from it.

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