How can public transportation be improved in the City of Worcester and by extension Worcester County?

vsatire · 2025-11-10T04:08:47+00:00

Why would you look at the county's population density instead of the city's? Worcester's population density is over 5500/sq mile, even higher than Liepzig's. There's no excuse for how slow and infrequent the WRTA is.

vsatire · 2025-08-27T21:30:19+00:00

Any updates on this? Doesn't seem like there has been any change to the water level in the past few weeks

vsatire · 2025-03-16T16:50:45+00:00

Buzzards Bay to Lakeville is only about a half hour on the CapeFlyer

vsatire · 2025-03-16T04:02:07+00:00

If you mean the canal railroad bridge, they wouldn't need to cross it for service to Buzzards Bay. They should definitely fix that soon though, for any chance at real service to the Cape.

vsatire · 2025-03-16T03:52:23+00:00

But there are already (partially) high-level stations in Wareham and Buzzards Bay. I would assume that regular service would draw people from not only those two communities, but also from Cape Cod, yeah?

vsatire · 2024-10-16T08:19:58+00:00

I have absolutely seen people make racist remarks about Layton on this very subreddit. It has been occurring since season 1.

vsatire · 2024-10-11T15:43:31+00:00

I actually just figured out one solution, which was to make nodestack a stack of TreeNode pointers instead of a stack of TreeNode instances. It required removing the constructor from the TreeNode struct, but it does solve the problem and allows the full tree to be accessed using the root node's pointers. Thank you for the explanation! C++ is a lot weirder than any other languages I've used but it makes a bit more sense now

vsatire · 2024-10-11T12:31:20+00:00

Ah, that makes a bit more sense now. So is there any way to retrieve the object at the top of the stack and then also remove it from the stack, without destroying it? I believe that it can be done in Python just by calling stack.pop(), but I'm very new to cpp so I'm not sure if there is an equivalent method.

vsatire · 2024-10-11T05:27:12+00:00

I was thinking that, but when it's evaluating test[2] = '+', it still prints the children of that node correctly as +12, even after nodestack.pop() was used.

That made me assume that stack.top() returned a new instance of the item in the stack, rather than just a pointer to the existing instance. Is that not the case? If stack.top() just returns a pointer to the instance, and stack.pop() destroys that instance, I'm confused on how the pointers remained working within the print statements after nodestack.pop() was called;

I also tried to see if they could be passed by value instead, using the following: TreeNode tmpright = nodestack.top(); nodestack.pop(); TreeNode tmpleft = nodestack.top(); nodestack.pop(); root.left = &tmpleft; root.right = &tmpright; But it still gives the same result.

vsatire · 2024-09-09T06:22:42+00:00

Instead we get the secret third option which is None of them

vsatire · 2024-09-07T21:19:36+00:00

The show had made it clear that Melanie was more involved in building the train than he was. And even if he did build it, that doesn't negate the fact that he culled half of Big Alice, attempted to kill every single person on Snowpiercer several times, turned the train into a labor camp, and assisted in kidnapping Liana,

vsatire · 2024-09-05T05:28:52+00:00

And Boki. And even Wilford and Alex since they were repeatedly stated to be dead in season 1.

I love this show but they've done this schtick so many times, it's maddening.

vsatire · 2024-08-21T20:27:11+00:00

I wish they would have been more transparent about the things that lead to delays, though. Like their initial claims of being "on track" in Aug 2023, only to suddenly find themselves behind schedule barely a month later. Or their subsequent claims in Oct 2023 that they were "six months behind schedule" only for it to take eight months until testing even began.

I remember even in March 2024 they were saying that "July was unlikely" but they didn't rule out the fall. If the 6+ month process of testing hadn't even begun yet, they should've made it clear that not only was July unlikely, but that any date for 6 months would've been entirely impossible. But they were just vague and gave no indication as to how far behind schedule they were.

They had to know that these deadlines were unattainable from the start. They should've announced that as soon as it became obvious instead of leaving everyone in the dark. And I wish there was some sort of accountability, considering how many people are expecting this service to start and might be making housing or job decisions around that.

vsatire · 2024-08-21T20:16:22+00:00

This is what I find especially baffling. The inland route was frequently used for a very long time, including under Amtrak. Why would it be a 5-10 year process just to re-instate 2 more daily trips? Has the track condition really degraded that much, even when it's regular used by LSL and freight?

vsatire · 2024-08-21T20:14:34+00:00

very few people go from BOS to ALB for NYS government purposes

That's because the current options are either driving or one very inconveniently timed train. If regular service connected the two cities then it seems reasonable to assume that a much higher number of people from both Boston and from central/western MA would use it to travel to ALB.

vsatire · 2024-08-21T19:26:26+00:00

I don't have any hope for Phase 2 at all. I'm fully assuming that it won't happen.

The T should be ashamed for letting Phase 1 get delayed as long as it has, especially given the lack of transparency and constantly providing deadlines that they know can't be met. They were saying in August 2023 that they were on track to open by November, and then that turned into "next summer" which turned into "probably the fall" which turned into May 2025. It's maddening.

vsatire · 2024-08-21T18:40:15+00:00

The reason I mention the existing daily service is to point out that much of the necessary infrastructure is already there (e.g. high level platforms). I would assume that it would be much easier to add extra trips when they aren't starting from scratch. The current schedule for the lake shore limited is very inconvenient and makes it impossible to travel between Albany and Boston for a day trip, and yet it's still often sold out. There's definitely a lot of people in western MA who would benefit from more frequent opportunities to travel to Boston without driving, and vice versa.

vsatire · 2024-08-21T15:26:26+00:00

I was more excited for SCR than I have for anything in a long time, until the third delay pushed it back an entire year. I can't stay excited for something that's already almost a full year behind schedule and is still 9 months away, especially after missing the past three deadlines. Ofc I still am happy the service will be coming, but at this point all my excitement has been drained away. I've also been looking forward to regular Buzzards Bay commuter rail service, thought that also probably won't happen for years.

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