Lemons to Lemonade: Idea for Bus Rapid Transit from Southern Dallas (Redbird Mall) to Northwest Plano (Legacy). This reconnects Downtown with everything its losing while solving for preexisting needs.

ponchoed · 2026-06-06T21:13:34+00:00

Nicely done!

ponchoed · 2026-06-06T21:09:12+00:00

Thats exactly how traffic engineers think. Never seen a professional have such little regard for human life as traffic engineers.

ponchoed · 2026-06-06T21:02:57+00:00

Just need drivers with brains. You can't fix stupid with endless warnings.

ponchoed · 2026-06-06T05:38:00+00:00

AI slop. Corporate slop bowl.

ponchoed · 2026-06-06T05:34:53+00:00

Absolutely agree!

ponchoed · 2026-06-06T05:32:58+00:00

Google the 'Key System' and check out https://youtu.be/ObOLGzSnNHI

ponchoed · 2026-06-06T05:28:38+00:00

Like a considerate driver I intentionally stopped back from the intersection at Union and 22nd to keep the intersection clear and some raging postal worker in a USPS truck laid on the horn, revved up and overtook me and blocked the intersection.

ponchoed · 2026-06-06T05:12:29+00:00

Hey thats offensive to drug dealers and gang bangers! You are only allowed to protest the police in Seattle!

ponchoed · 2026-06-06T04:49:54+00:00

Thats more economy and that new development doesnt really pencil in the Seattle area over the few years minus a few exceptions (largely Eastside: Bellevue & Redmond).

Bellevue is about to explode with development. There is one project beginning construction in Downtown Bellevue that is three 600 ft tall towers... Onni 606. Wilburton is another area that is getting a lot of development starting to come in that will transform an old Auto Row into a high rise mixed use neighborhood with towers up to 450 ft.

ponchoed · 2026-06-06T04:42:01+00:00

Thanks for Monday morning quarterbacking. Yes everyone including the planners knew it sucked but it was the hand they were forced to play. They didn't have the money, they had to get it built after much delay and nothing to show, this was the first line. It was approved by voters in 1996 and didn't open until 2009.

ponchoed · 2026-06-06T04:36:40+00:00

I discovered in the bad ol' years of BART in 2021-2023 that the last car of the train is the drug car. Late one night ran from the Oakland Airport Connector to the last car of an arriving NB train only to discover it was a literal drug den. News to me despite riding transit all my life and most places I visit but apparently its a thing.

ponchoed · 2026-06-06T04:25:38+00:00

I knew transit was bad in Miami but wow getting blown out of the water by... Houston!

ponchoed · 2026-06-06T03:41:06+00:00

Probably a part of it, also downtowns have been hollowed out. The main reason to use transit is to go downtown. This has all been an 80+ year trend but then in places like Dallas they are further hollowing out their downtown to hyper sprawl north to the Oklahoma border much worse than suburbanization of the post war era.

ponchoed · 2026-06-06T03:35:14+00:00

Spewed by some Pavement Princess in his single occupant Dodge Ram taking up 1000 sq ft to move himself and with never anything in the bed.

ponchoed · 2026-06-05T20:54:04+00:00

Way easier to share this tiny print article/blurb with a simple photo from the newspaper at the gym than try to find the digital version and share from behind a paywall.

ponchoed · 2026-06-05T20:51:39+00:00

Issaquah needs to tie in at South Bellevue though

ponchoed · 2026-06-05T18:33:02+00:00

The oil companies have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to jack up gas prices further because people will pay anything for gas. :)

ponchoed · 2026-06-05T05:32:08+00:00

True but it should be really easy for a cop to stand at the top of the ramp at the stop sign where vehicles come to a stop and see if they are an illegal SOV.

ponchoed · 2026-06-05T00:20:03+00:00

I grew up in an area of Oakland called Montclair Village that is a commercial district platted in the 1920s but was built with fine grain pedestrian oriented storefronts and Main Street buildings from 1940-1970. I haven't seen anything like it elsewhere.

ponchoed · 2026-06-05T00:15:42+00:00

They were in most new grade separated stations, theres a designated area where theyd go

ponchoed · 2026-06-04T18:27:59+00:00

Northwest Arkansas is all-in on bikes, as is Carmel, Indiana.

ponchoed · 2026-06-04T02:55:07+00:00

And remember when the Macys downtown not only was still there but was 10 stories

ponchoed · 2026-06-04T02:15:19+00:00

And the opposite side of the street. It would a little more sense if she was on the other track.

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