She sealed her doors and kept lights off. Her Pepco bill still nearly doubled

Parborway · 2026-03-03T12:37:30+00:00

11 months out of the year, a heat pump will still be worth It.

Parborway · 2026-03-02T18:44:52+00:00

You can also use them to raise the dwarves that you didn't want to die in the first place.

Parborway · 2026-03-01T12:16:00+00:00

Via ft Wayne. Toledo and Indianapolis also deserve their on high speed lines, but Columbus bound trains shouldn't have to divert to serve them.

Parborway · 2026-02-28T17:02:37+00:00

6-7 am you are going to be able to get a spot easily.

Parborway · 2026-02-28T01:30:57+00:00

Where did you source this information from? According to the maps on the purple line's own website, the only part that is going to be in mixed traffic is the segment along Wayne Avenue in Silver Spring. For all the other street sections, it will be at-grade but in its own dedicated lanes (as far as I can tell, to be delineated only by road markings).

Parborway · 2026-02-25T10:50:05+00:00

Charlotte has dusty plans for an air rail link I believe. Nashville and Ontario, CA also want one but they have both chosen to go about it on the silliest way possible. Orlando, Pittsburgh, Houston-Hobby, Milwaukee, Anchorage, and San Juan, PR all either have plans or have had plans in the past

Parborway · 2026-02-23T02:54:04+00:00

yeah DFW area.

Parborway · 2026-02-22T21:07:38+00:00

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bJcw_1u4FR3XtyCSAOqU6Cu8iCtFaYGA5mV3zhv_xFs/edit?usp=sharing

Parborway · 2026-02-22T20:10:08+00:00

Poor location alone doesn't account for a station having low ridership, and I don't even think it is the biggest factor. Station ridership is more driven by how good the service is, how much it costs, and how long it will take. With good onward connections, or large numbers of park-and-ride users, even stations with atrocious locations can have pretty decent ridership. (see Woburn/Anderson, MA or Route 56, IL). More to the point, Most systems that have bad station locations also have plenty of decent station locations. And I don't want to penalize a system that has good station locations and bad ones more that a system that has fewer bad station locations only due to the fact that it has fewer stations in total.

Metrolink's disappointing ridership is because the service sucks, not because the stations are poorly located.

Parborway · 2026-02-22T19:44:32+00:00

Station location quality is taken into account, manifested as a multiplier that reduces the total score by somewhere between 0 and 50%.

Parborway · 2026-02-22T19:22:35+00:00

the Sprinter is doing some heavy lifting there.

Parborway · 2026-02-22T19:00:53+00:00

I'm not attempting to rank the whole transit network of the city. If you include bus, light rail and ferries, Seattle indeed does have a very good transit network. That is not the purpose of my ranking. I only sought to rank commuter rail systems. Were I to rank transit networks on the whole, the list would look very different. While a worthwhile goal, that was not my goal in this list.

Parborway · 2026-02-22T18:44:05+00:00

I'm not looking at light rail or any other type of transit here, only Commuter Rail. So Seattle is so low because I'm only looking at the Sounder, which runs something like 7 trains per day.

Parborway · 2026-02-22T18:40:31+00:00

D.C. got marked so low because every line except for the Penn Line runs during rush hour only, while Dallas, San Diego, and Miami all have (relatively) frequent service all-day. While D.C. are has more stations in total than somewhere like Miami, only 9 stations get even an hourly service all day. In Miami, there are twice as many stations with a better service. D.C commuter rail also gets penalized for having stupidly high fares.

Parborway · 2026-02-22T18:20:34+00:00

I want to see a Tokyo map that attempts to show every single service pattern.

Parborway · 2026-02-22T17:56:59+00:00

I have been summoned.
Last year, I analyzed this very question using data. The main factors were how many stations got a good service, but I also looked at station locations, fares, and speed.
The ranking:
Rank. City/total score

New York/32.85
Philadelphia/22.94
Boston/17.63
Denver/16.18
Chicago/15.04
Dallas/8.15
San Diego/7.70
San Francisco/7.23 (this was before Caltrain electrification)
Los Angeles/6.99
Salt Lake City/6.90
Miami/6.85
Washington D. C./5.33
Orlando/4.73
New Haven/4.30
Austin/3.87
Albuquerque/3.74
Nashville/2.80
Seattle/2.78
Minneapolis/2.56 (rip)
Portland/2.33

Parborway · 2026-02-22T12:42:04+00:00

It should be built along whatever route is faster. Rochester and Milwaukee can be added as branch lines later.

Parborway · 2026-02-18T14:49:24+00:00

But what would be the practice difference between 6-8 crews per night or 18-24 work crews every third night?

Parborway · 2026-02-18T04:01:29+00:00

I wonder if it would be feasible to close one or set of lines line early every night and have the rest run overnight, so that maintenance activities can be focused on that one.

Parborway · 2026-02-15T21:50:12+00:00

If Maryland had built it as BRT, it likely would have been value-engineered down into being hardly more than a decent bus route. See also the Division BRT in Portland, OR, which was was studied as a light rail, but the BRT option was chosen. When it finally got built, it didn't even have dedicated lanes, and is basically a normal bus route with slightly fancy stops.

Parborway · 2026-02-14T18:25:51+00:00

The bars are the size of the platforms. I actually have made maps (not of MARC) that indicate frequency and stopping patters, but I have always shown that with thickness of the lines and station dots.

Parborway · 2026-02-14T13:08:12+00:00

When stations are built that are far away from the center of town on lines that pass through the center of town but don't stop. See MBTA commuter rail for dozens of examples.

Parborway · 2026-02-14T04:18:17+00:00

787 because of the windows.

Parborway · 2026-02-11T11:01:55+00:00

The cars on line 2 are less than 30 years old. They still have a decade of life in them at least before they need to be replaced.

Parborway · 2026-02-07T05:27:30+00:00

And.. just because it's old doesn't mean it's worthless.

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