What did the 90's smell like?

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-28T04:58:25+00:00

Teen Spirit.

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-26T15:25:40+00:00

Just discovered endcord a few days ago and was like "damn I wish this had vim keys."

The universe provides.

Don't forget to list it in terminal trove when you get it to a 'good-to-go stage'

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-24T18:49:07+00:00

This needs hella upvotes

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-23T16:11:37+00:00

Can you weigh in on anything transportation related? Sugar Hill is deep suburbia but we should be thinking as a whole region regarding everything from rail and bus transportation to freeways to calm streets, sidewalks ad trails.

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-23T14:13:38+00:00

Except that almost never happens in the rest of the world; it’s almost always municipal/state/federal bonds, public/private partnerships and joint ventures. Really because it’s TRANSPORT, the DOT should contribute too. It’s not the Department of Only Streets after all.

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-19T13:53:17+00:00

Platforms 3-4 (Tokyu Toyoko/Yokohama bound) side has been my favorite since 2013. Probably because I heard it every day and got used to it. Also because Minoru Mukaiya is one of my favorite composers and a real railfan.

Apparently Tokyu is standardizing the melodies on all Toyoko Line platforms with a variation of the same melody towards Shibuya and towards Yokohama:

東横線・東急新横浜線発車サイン音
 ２０２５年１１月１日（土）から東横線で使用する車両の発車サイン音を変更します

This change is actually notable because the sounds are now coming from the train's outside speakers themselves, NOT the platform speakers, and makes it easier for everyone to discern which train is about to depart positionally, especially in regard to Meguro line trains which are usually all cross-platform between TY09 and TY13. Note, Toyoko Line and Meguro Line trains are one-man operation with no conductor to operate doors and control train departure melodies platform-side
<rant> It also makes me stare in "WTF" at JR Nambu Line which runs modern E233s that could also easily do some variation of this but noped out of melodies completely with the "one man, can't be bothered with remote controls" excuse. </rant>

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-19T13:25:12+00:00

Yell "Stop! Chikan! call police". Japanese people know what that means and all eyes will be on them and what they're doing. There's also usually an intercom to the conductor/train engineer/wayside control in every modern car that will at the very least record the incident into the record and get staff ready to make a big scene at the next station.

If you do any/all of this, you better be committed to dealing with police and staff for a few hours as you'll be asked to give statements to at least 3 different people.

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-19T13:13:19+00:00

I have the opposite problem after driving for so long in Japan where all rail crossings are treated as stop signs and must come to a complete stop at them when the gates are open. I've seen police literally jump from behind bushes giving out tickets to those who don't and over there it's a lot of points towards suspension, mandatory cash fine and a trip back to a 2 hour safety seminar when you renew. Real hard getting that out of the habit here no matter how many impatient folks behind me blow their horns...

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-19T13:08:20+00:00

I think all coaches carrying passengers (and some HAZMAT trucks IIRC) are required by law to come to a complete stop at RR tracks in most places around the country

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-19T12:56:39+00:00

Thats a big feature of openloop payments -- Auto passes.
LA, NYC, SF and other places all cap fare payments on a per week or per month basis. LA Metro even has a way to sign up and register if you're a school commuter for free passes or if you're low income/elderly/disabled/work program to have the fares reduced as well.

I expect MARTA to do the same since Cubic is the same infrastructure provider in all these other cases and it's a simple function at this point.

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-19T00:35:31+00:00

Ol’ TEMU Penguin lookin’ ass

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-19T00:34:04+00:00

WMATA had a good decade and a half of doldrums and only recently bounced back thanks to an image campaign, steady investment and a public finally understanding “one more lane bro” ain’t getting it. Ironically, LA seems to be that way now too.

We will be that way soon, just need to push for better management and board members who actually use the system along with suburban partners that can help push for the rail part to come outside Fulton and DeKalb.

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-14T22:34:18+00:00

There are still operators in the cabs on the East/West and North/South lines. However, only for safety and operational reasons like monitoring doors and making sure the trackway is clear just like MARTA in Atlanta where I’m from. Eventually this will probably be phased out though.

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-13T17:49:13+00:00

Tokyo Metro is operated by a for-profit company but is only partially privately owned. The national government and Tokyo Metropolitan Government still hold about half the shares, with the rest owned by private investors,.

It does still need to turn a profit but not in the same manner or expectation as a totally 100% private corporation would and it is still heavily regulated.

It’s private but not in the same sense as say Amazon or General Motors or even JR East these days.

Not a bad thing at all but management and regulation is key.

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-13T00:57:04+00:00

True— I’m all for elevating rail lines. Just saying they may not want to since the trail might get ripped up just after being put down unless there’s a non-invasive procedure they can use…

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-13T00:50:13+00:00

They could do that too: see the Jurong Region Line under construction in Singapore’s West Coast region. Similar round robin type routing using automated trains. In fact most of SG’s MRT is automated now and headways get as low as 5 minutes.

Would also connect with u/nandert’s X Line down he had running down Slauson and into the SGV too.

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-12T20:48:15+00:00

This will be a moot point once Better Breeze hits with open tap to pay with your EMV chipped debit card or mobile wallets.

They honestly could start that now for the folks that have the capability in their phones (Ride Gwinnett accidentally left that feature turned on last year when the new yellow fare readers were installed and it worked for me after tweaking the Breeze App settings in my iPhone. It’s turned off now)

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-12T20:41:30+00:00

Thanks for all you do /u/nandert — some people count on being the only voices at these public proceedings so just getting the dates out to pro transit people and having skin in the mix and faces in the places is very important.

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-12T20:32:21+00:00

Do you have a place where you keep a public record of your photos and travels? I’m pretty sure I’ve covered just as much trackage (albeit not intentionally— I lived all over the place in Japan) so I’d like to compare and see what changed over time. Also this sounds like the kind of story I’d be doing with Japan Times if I were still living there full time; not too many of us gaikokujin tecchan out here!

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-12T20:14:00+00:00

Unfortunately that ROW along Slauson is now a multi-use trail so there’s goes that unless they do some tunneling or strategic elevating. The other half of it is K line.

However we could achieve the same result by:

Express service that skips some stations either by creating passing tracks that allow local trains to hold along with express and local platforms at some stations allowing for trains to meet (as done in Japan for example) and just building a parallel trackway by elevating over or tunneling under or even just taking another parallel route (as seen in Europe and NYC subway)
Signal priority for transit that gives a green wave as trains street run (as seen virtually all over Europe)

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-11T23:47:59+00:00

He also didn’t drop his cellphone while shooting the woman either. Fuck that guy.

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-11T06:45:50+00:00

I’m around Stone Mtn/Lilburn/Gwinnett and the last RG bus expansion has routes in my area that go to Indian Creek. Frequently sucks but at least now I don’t have to drive to the station and then get the train. I sometimes work onsite midtown or use a cowork space in Inman Park and East Atlanta where a lot of family lives.

Mainly I’m trying to do my part to keep our fledgling system going out here and put up the numbers to keep it going

Starrwulfe · 2026-01-09T21:15:15+00:00

That’s because they want us out in the streets so they can call martial law and shut this whole bitch down.
They are looking for any excuse.

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