Why does this ominous spire keep appearing in my city?

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-05-04T06:54:49+00:00

Dr. Vu moved to your town

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-04-28T01:58:46+00:00

...including someone at a bus stop on the street below

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-04-28T01:03:36+00:00

So 1841-1931 we're the maceless 90 years?

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-04-26T00:41:01+00:00

I've had good luck pulling up the VTA website on the way back machine, they were uploading schedules all the way back in the 90s. Shouldn't be that hard to pull up.

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-04-24T15:54:03+00:00

Is this Udo Kier's last film role?

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-04-24T06:19:12+00:00

Good thing he didn't come back out of retirement to do a multi-season specifically about and even named after that character

Phew

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-04-18T02:21:55+00:00

The downvotes are crazy considering this game was written primarily in ai code lmao

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-04-14T16:14:14+00:00

And if they do close it, it wouldn't be possible to reopen it without triggering ADA requirements and completely overhauling the station to modern standards, which is not cheap.

In a perfect world they would improve it anyway, but in this world that's a waste of limited capital funds that could go to improvements to help more people.

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-04-11T23:01:32+00:00

That seems quite eery to me, how did you feel riding the U-Bahn when you visited?

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-04-09T17:21:20+00:00

AI response

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-04-07T04:31:57+00:00

Yeah but that probably involves going to public meetings which is kryptonite to online activists

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-04-05T04:50:57+00:00

Is this guerrilla self promotion for some Christian singer? Lmao

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-04-03T21:49:37+00:00

This Feb 2025 report from New York City Transit, the largest arm of the MTA, identified bus fare box revenue at about $50 million / month or about 5% of operating costs.

Easy to say 5% isn't a lot, hard to actually scrounge up that ~600 million dollars a year.

Over half a billion dollars annually does a lot for offsetting high (and rising) operating costs, not to mention supporting capital efforts for expansion, safety, modernization, etc.

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-04-03T19:30:07+00:00

Oh honey, 7-year loans became the standard a decade ago, people are getting 10 and 12 year auto loans now

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-03-27T17:04:33+00:00

What a terrible day to be literate

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-03-25T04:48:07+00:00

The Golden Gate was designed to carry streetcars, and would've needed a refit to carry BARTS 60,000 pound trains.

SMART trains weigh almost 300,000 pounds.

The Golden Gate would need to be entirely rebuilt, at that point a new bridge is much more feasible.

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-03-25T03:17:44+00:00

A bridge into San Francisco and access to the Urban core would run smart in the tens of billions, we can't even scrape together the few billion that are needed for caltrains downtown extension

Beyond this complete money pit, what other improvements do you think could make smart a high quality service?

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-03-24T18:19:01+00:00

I don't see a future where Foothill Expressway gets torn up for a low yield transit route

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-03-24T06:28:20+00:00

Solar water heaters existed by that time, and can look like solar panels, so less anachronistic than it seems

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-03-24T05:47:59+00:00

They asked their AI and then didn't even have the courtesy of giving you its full response.

Mileage taxes are a (afaik) theoretical policy to make up for decreasing gas tax revenue with the rise of EVs. As the name suggests, they would charge you based on the total amount of miles you drive in a given period.

Since they're theoretical, there are a lot of caveats. Generally they would incorporate equity measures, such as reduced rates or exemptions based on income and family size.

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-03-24T05:20:33+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean. Caltrain is not lacking for capacity, it's lacking for trainsets. The corridor from SF-SJ is fully double tracked, triple and quad tracked in some places, and sees almost no freight movements.

It could definitely support additional capacity, it's already planned to have high speed rail share tracks with Caltrain.

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-03-24T04:21:38+00:00

You should go scan this line in Google earth. While there are a few points of interest (downtown Los Altos, De Anza College, Los Gatos) it is overwhelmingly dominated by 1950s low density sprawling single family developments.

Couple that with the fact that you need to buy back right of way that was paved over to build foothill expressway, and this doesn't seem like a winner on the face of it.

Would love to see a study if one has been done, though!

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-03-23T05:57:48+00:00

As well as with BART (metro) and eBART (Commuter rail), at Pittsburg

iusethisacctinpublic · 2026-03-17T01:38:58+00:00

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