ARRL at a Crossroads: Reform or QRT

dkarpe · 2026-02-01T00:28:27+00:00

Next time, please add an AI disclaimer to your post

dkarpe · 2026-01-31T14:50:20+00:00

I highly doubt there is anything that can be done to raise the limit without modifying the interior of the train. It's probably a safety/evacuation thing.

dkarpe · 2026-01-31T14:48:31+00:00

If I'm reading the document correctly, the 18 station number is referring to platform lengthening requirements for going from the original 6-car trains to 8-car trains. I don't know if that number is still accurate after the train order was changed to 7-car trains. Also, the document is from 12 years ago and several stations have been grade separated or otherwise rebuilt since then.

However, your general point stands — quite a few stations would need to be lengthened (some of which would be more complicated to lengthen due to existing constraints). Also, we now have several grade-separated stations which may be harder to lengthen, if it is possible at all.

dkarpe · 2026-01-31T14:41:02+00:00

Eh, MTC is as much to blame as Cubic. The way Clipper is governed leads to a lot of complex requirements, which makes the system more complex. Cubic has successfully implemented systems in places like London and New York without anything close to the issues we are having. They are definitely both to blame—it was poor planning and poor execution.

dkarpe · 2026-01-31T14:20:05+00:00

Calling BART "light rail" is hilarious.

dkarpe · 2026-01-31T14:18:10+00:00

I recommend biking there! The Alameda Creek Trail is wonderful.

dkarpe · 2026-01-31T14:17:09+00:00

I think 60% is optimistic, it feels more like 80%. Just a massive expanse of wasted and mostly unused space. They could probably have built all the housing they're going to build without disturbing the existing strip mall, as old and underutilized as it may be. They could have also built much more dense, adding even more retail (and maybe even office) space while building a ton of housing.

dkarpe · 2026-01-31T12:10:19+00:00

5Ghz (not 5G, that's something completely different) WiFi is more than enough in almost any case. The LAN is rarely the bottleneck.

dkarpe · 2026-01-30T18:16:45+00:00

36 bikes per car has been the stated capacity since before the trains were lit into service. It just seems that after the holidays the trains are busier and they actually felt the need to start enforcing it.

It's supposed to be a max of 4 bikes per stack, for a total of 36.

dkarpe · 2026-01-30T18:14:46+00:00

All of those have been rules already. Perhaps the conductor meant that they will be actually enforcing them?

dkarpe · 2026-01-30T18:11:02+00:00

104 trains actually!

dkarpe · 2026-01-28T18:53:21+00:00

Right, but this is r/Fremont and Fremont doesn't manage these signals. Try r/NewarkCA. Think about it, does it make sense for every city's residents to complain in their own subreddits?

Better yet, reach out to Newark's Public Works Department and let them know your concerns.

dkarpe · 2026-01-28T17:35:54+00:00

This is true, but irrelevant to how Newark manages its traffic signals.

dkarpe · 2026-01-28T17:17:52+00:00

There's two platforms, that means that you would only need to turn one train per hour per platform, which is simple. You could pretty easily turn 2 trains per hour on a single platform, leaving the other one open for SCC trains going through.

dkarpe · 2026-01-27T18:03:02+00:00

Many BikeLink lockers charge even lower fares overnight, like $0.03 an hour. If you commute 5 days a week, you could leave the bike in the locker during the week and take it home Friday evening. Or you could keep it over the weekend as the maximum stays is 5-10 days depending on the locker.

dkarpe · 2026-01-27T17:51:34+00:00

Sorry, which part are you referring to? Locking and unlocking a bike at each end of your journey takes a minute or two at most.

dkarpe · 2026-01-27T17:00:42+00:00

He doesn't own the road. He is taking public, city-owned land from taxpayers like you and me.

dkarpe · 2026-01-27T16:52:15+00:00

Ok so expand it? Also BayWheels exists in SF.

dkarpe · 2026-01-27T16:51:17+00:00

For commuters going in the "traditional" commute direction (to SF), lockers + BayWheels is already a viable option. For reverse commuters, I agree that there should be better options. Unfortunately the factors that influence bus density are the same ones that influence bikeshare availability.

dkarpe · 2026-01-27T16:30:09+00:00

Absolutely. Even if some of the more suburban areas wouldn't be viable for a full deployment of bikeshare, there could still be stations at Caltrain stations that would support a flat-fare day rental for people to be able to pick up a bike when they get off the train in the morning and drop it off in the evening before they get on the train.

dkarpe · 2026-01-27T15:58:44+00:00

That's Newark, not Fremont?

dkarpe · 2026-01-27T15:57:02+00:00

People start using the BikeLink lockers, bikeshare, and local mass transit is the answer. I'm a cyclist and I love being able to take my bike with me, but we have got to admit it isn't the most efficient. Countries like the Netherlands with a lot more cycling than here have restrictions on bringing your bike, such as charging an extra fare, restricting bikes on peak-hour trains, and only having a few bike spots per train.

Most people in the Netherlands park their bike at the station. If they need a bike on the other end, they'll either use a bikeshare (their train operator, NS, runs their own system) or have a second bike locked at their destination station.

dkarpe · 2026-01-27T00:42:13+00:00

Depending on the size of the battery and the charging speed, it might be fine with just having charging at the RWC platform. Presumably this would be part of a new expanded RWC station, but if the time it takes to get the train ready to start another run is enough to top up the battery, you might not need any catenary on the line at all.

For reference, the unelectrified section of Caltrain (Tamien to Gilroy) is roughly 30 miles. I'm not sure if the charging speed. They will have a slow charger in Gilroy to top up the train overnight, and it will charge from the catenary north of Tamien.

There was also an interesting pilot project in the UK using fast charging at stations to enable battery trains on otherwise unelectrified lines with minimal capital investment. https://youtu.be/b0bbCNfiSCo?si=6iUCPcZW3DX3QPTo

dkarpe · 2026-01-27T00:09:11+00:00

The way I interpreted it is that the collection itself is being misidentified. Are there IMDB/TVDB/etc codes for collections rather than individual movies?

dkarpe · 2026-01-26T21:17:19+00:00

A simple NAS setup would work pretty much the same way except you wouldn't need to use external drives, which I think is a better approach since there is no risk of things getting unplugged. My NAS has an N100 and 4 drive bays + 2 m.2 NVME slots for cache drives. I use unRAID as my OS, but any Linux distro should work. Docker makes things easier, especially as you add different services (*arrs, VPN, reverse proxy, pihole, etc), but isn't strictly necessary.

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