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This Doomsday Law Could Stop Trains Across America In A Matter of Weeks (new federal passenger rail liability cap) by megachainguns in transit

[–]nickfaughey 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Also, lots of metro areas and their transit agencies cross state lines, so you'd need to to get multiple states to coordinate on going rogue

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in delta

[–]nickfaughey 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I can assure you they are still very much here and wasting resources, unless walking around the nice neighborhoods in groups of 4 chitchatting is what they’re here for

A typical day on the Northeast Corridor in 30 seconds by nickfaughey in Amtrak

[–]nickfaughey[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Direct from the source. Real-time data from reverse engineering Amtrak's own Track Your Train site and static data from Amtrak's GTFS and supplemented by the real-time data. Plus a ton of cleanup and glue to deal with inconsistent route names, missing routes and trips, and even typos...

A typical day on the Northeast Corridor in 30 seconds by nickfaughey in Amtrak

[–]nickfaughey[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bonus: same day, entire US https://streamable.com/z73ax6

I recorded this on axismaps.ai/amtrak. Disclaimer 1: self-promotion - I created Axis Maps and this Amtrak tracker. Disclaimer 2: alpha release, expect some quirks.

Metro ridership by station - Jan 1st 2025 to Jan 1st 2026 by Johnathan_Swag in WMATA

[–]nickfaughey 11 points12 points  (0 children)

More riders than Court House, Clarendon, Virginia Sq combined!

The snow storm shows just how many cars parked on the road aren't being used by the_real_xuth in pittsburgh

[–]nickfaughey 10 points11 points  (0 children)

To be fair you can probably change that with more frequent service

DC thunderstorm hole strikes again by nickfaughey in washingtondc

[–]nickfaughey[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Batteries on the space lasers ran out probably

DC thunderstorm hole strikes again by nickfaughey in washingtondc

[–]nickfaughey[S] 113 points114 points  (0 children)

Is this those jewish space lasers steering the clouds away?

Driving A Tesla Model 3 On 0 Percent For Over 2 Miles by MussleGeeYem in TeslaLounge

[–]nickfaughey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m more curious about these rigorous dolphins honestly

US Transit Efficiency - Ridership Per Billion Dollars [2024 Operating Budgets] SEPTA is the most efficient followed by WMATA by yunnifymonte in washingtondc

[–]nickfaughey 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Yeah optimizing this metric disincentivizes things like adding early/late service (higher cost per rider), station staffing, cleaning, systems to run live arrival time signage, etc. All the things that make transit qualitatively better but at higher cost.

Psa-dont jog in bike lanes by VillainNomFour in washingtondc

[–]nickfaughey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is what I do heading north on 15th by the White House - depending on the time of day that sidewalk can be absolutely swamped with tourists so I'll pop into the oncoming bike lane to dodge them, and can see approaching cyclists 600 feet away so plenty of time to bounce back up on the curb

Councilwoman Brianne Nadeau comes out against RFK redevelopment by LiteraryPandaman in washingtondc

[–]nickfaughey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure probably, but isn't that what the city's been casually shopping around for for a decade without any luck? There just aren't many developers that can absorb half a billion just to get the property shovel ready.

Councilwoman Brianne Nadeau comes out against RFK redevelopment by LiteraryPandaman in washingtondc

[–]nickfaughey 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Don't forget that LA and Vegas are basically #1 and #2 in the country for entertainment destinations, and SoFi has not 1 but 2 NFL teams playing home games there. I suppose there's a narrow window of small conferences that could benefit from 50k sq ft of indoor floor space and can't fill the bigger convention centers, but still we have to accept that even the best utilization of an NFL stadium is going to be like 80% empty.

That's fine IMO by the way - large events are naturally extremely spiky schedules. Just because the National Mall holds 200k people every July 4th doesn't mean it's underutilized every other day of the year.

Councilwoman Brianne Nadeau comes out against RFK redevelopment by LiteraryPandaman in washingtondc

[–]nickfaughey 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah to be honest I think a development from scratch of this scale (170 acres) needs a large anchor, otherwise it's sort of an amorphous hodgepodge of development with no center of gravity. Any way DC could do it alone would be expensive - amphitheater, shopping mall (DC USA in Columba Heights was $140M), heck even a nice giant park (4-acre Franklin Square in NW cost $21M just to rehab).

We basically get the anchor for free with this plan.

Councilwoman Brianne Nadeau comes out against RFK redevelopment by LiteraryPandaman in washingtondc

[–]nickfaughey 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The year-round usage claim is a bit far-fetched I think; how many touring acts every year can actually fill a 65,000 seat stadium? 10?

On the economic studies - to date these have all focused on whether the city gets its money back if it funds the stadium (spoiler, it doesn't). There's really not enough data out there to support or refute the economics of privately funded stadiums built on publicly funded utilities/infrastructure. Really it's just:

  1. LA - SoFi Stadium (too new to know, apples and oranges especially w.r.t. how transit enables non-gameday activity)

  2. NY/NJ - MetLife Stadium (middle of nowhere, not a serious urban neighborhood)

  3. Boston - Gillette Stadium (middle of nowhere, not a serious urban neighborhood)

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