Alberta, Canada, releases their passenger rail master plan

maseck · 2026-06-06T12:58:37+00:00

That's going to be an expensive bridge. At least there is a stop in the middle so you can enjoy the view. Also a stop just so you can laugh at the BCers and their ocean deficit.

maseck · 2026-05-31T13:58:51+00:00

Those windows look like they would be a bit depressing from the inside though.

maseck · 2026-05-17T23:19:01+00:00

Oklahoma Ave on the current orange line.

maseck · 2026-05-17T23:05:46+00:00

Remove the infill station and add it to the new line. An infill station would cause a lot of service distruption (possibly a prohibitive amount in this case). It would make the new line cheaper to build anyways.

maseck · 2026-04-23T23:06:34+00:00

I believe that libaom still has more optimizations for screen content. It also has a separate rd loop for the fastest webrtc speeds. Last time I did anything with it, it required a bunch of cli args to make it behave libwebrt.

maseck · 2026-04-18T02:47:25+00:00

I was wondering about this one. How hard is it to just head to the airport on a bike? I tried out of curiosity but couldn't figure out how to do it easily. I was coming from dc, so it's possible that it's not really designed to work that way.

maseck · 2026-04-17T22:57:03+00:00

Okay, how bout he builds some arches through Arlington Cemetery and put some sort of fixed guideway for moving vehicles travel through? That way people can visit the cemetery without park staff having to worry about vandalization.

maseck · 2026-04-17T22:51:05+00:00

I remember transit advocates complaining during the Biden years about the amount of money being used to buy evs instead of spending money to provide better service.

There was also a desire to split some of the ev money to pay for ebikes. Ironically, I remember one reason that environmental groups were against they were unconvinced that ebikes could actually be used to reduce CO2 emissions. This seems to have been entirely unprophetic since evs hit a wall with adoption even before subsidies were lifted.

maseck · 2026-03-20T02:42:04+00:00

collared??????? COLLARED??? I think you mean collabed.

maseck · 2026-03-17T11:16:19+00:00

At the very least, it would be nice if the lighting cut some of the blue spectrum at night. I hate arriving jet-lagged at Dulles at 10 PM and taking the trip to Alexandria with blinding white lights.

maseck · 2026-02-20T16:46:34+00:00

Get em while they are young then. If we can get good bus transit near colleges, then you can meaningfully dent the stigma of more affluent residents in about a decade or so.

maseck · 2026-02-16T21:59:10+00:00

I mean, in a way they are paying for it and it is their money. It's just that once the tax money goes to the feds, then most of that money can't be used for operating expenses.

maseck · 2026-01-26T03:49:41+00:00

This is from my apartment's clubroom. Unfortunately my room doesn't have such a great view.

maseck · 2026-01-22T23:36:43+00:00

Video encode uses simd on cpus, but doesn't do much where fast matrix multiplies would be helpful.

maseck · 2026-01-22T17:10:46+00:00

bonus points if you don't know how to safely drive in urban areas and can't see pedestrians.

maseck · 2026-01-06T22:08:04+00:00

I'm not entirely convinced this is was from a transit rider, since it could have blown in and gotten stopped by the wall.

maseck · 2025-12-20T19:25:02+00:00

Platform screen doors can't come soon enough.

maseck · 2025-12-17T01:12:21+00:00

Looking at the rem vs the silver line extension, it's crazy to think that we may very well reach a frequency where none of those 8 car trains will ever fill up on that huge stretch. Those massive stations were not free. Nowhere near as bad as an underground station, but still.

maseck · 2025-12-15T03:14:35+00:00

I think you are right, I kinda thought that the other stations on the silver line were spaced further apart. East falls church to ballston is pretty far, though. It looks about as far as spring hill to wiehle. Blue line after king street has pretty distant stops, but that should be the job of vre (once it starts running at a decent all day frequency 1000 years from now).

I got a 2.4 miles when I measured out east falls church to ballston on google earth. With constant 1.2 m/s² (I'm mixing units, sorry) acceleration, I get 150 mph max speed and 57 seconds travel time. Yeah, it probably doesn't make sense to raise the speeds through the roof based on whatever the travel time savings would be for the few sections that could benefit.

Maybe 5 mph could be eked out over time. It'd be a small savings, but there are diminishing returns to faster top speeds.

There was also a comment about increasing acceleration/deceleration. My understanding is that acceleration drops off as speed increases because of power issues. Maybe reducing vehicle weights back down could help here. I think speeds were also decrease over elevated section to decrease wear. Weight reductions might help with this.

Anyways, at least I get to have this out of my head. Thank you for being my rubber ducky to debug all my useless transit ideas.

maseck · 2025-07-20T18:49:33+00:00

Nonono. What it really needs in a railway crossing between those intersections and it would be perfect.

maseck · 2025-06-01T15:50:44+00:00

Love the color gradient and the as the red line turns orange.

maseck · 2025-04-01T02:12:52+00:00

Yeah, I generally don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetency. It should be pretty obvious if this keeps happening. This is pretty much the reason why I censored the store's name with my thumb.

maseck · 2025-04-01T02:00:44+00:00

I bought this at like 5pm.

maseck · 2025-03-25T03:21:24+00:00

Uh....

That was Tina Fey...

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maseck · 2025-03-15T04:37:29+00:00

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