#publictransit — Public Fediverse posts
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RE: https://masto.canadiancivil.com/@reece/117191129665459435
An interesting article, it categorises the different reasons why the english speaking world public transit costs much more to build. Probably a good summary, but it sidesteps the core cultural reason – the anglosphere struggles to *look* at the outside world – which is a bit ironic when the core segmentation is cultural thing (english language). #publictransport #anglosphere #publictransit
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RE: https://masto.canadiancivil.com/@reece/117191129665459435
An interesting article, it categorises the different reasons why the english speaking world public transit costs much more to build. Probably a good summary, but it sidesteps the core cultural reason – the anglosphere struggles to *look* at the outside world – which is a bit ironic when the core segmentation is cultural thing (english language). #publictransport #anglosphere #publictransit
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RE: https://masto.canadiancivil.com/@reece/117191129665459435
An interesting article, it categorises the different reasons why the english speaking world public transit costs much more to build. Probably a good summary, but it sidesteps the core cultural reason – the anglosphere struggles to *look* at the outside world – which is a bit ironic when the core segmentation is cultural thing (english language). #publictransport #anglosphere #publictransit
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RE: https://masto.canadiancivil.com/@reece/117191129665459435
An interesting article, it categorises the different reasons why the english speaking world public transit costs much more to build. Probably a good summary, but it sidesteps the core cultural reason – the anglosphere struggles to *look* at the outside world – which is a bit ironic when the core segmentation is cultural thing (english language). #publictransport #anglosphere #publictransit
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RE: https://masto.canadiancivil.com/@reece/117191129665459435
An interesting article, it categorises the different reasons why the english speaking world public transit costs much more to build. Probably a good summary, but it sidesteps the core cultural reason – the anglosphere struggles to *look* at the outside world – which is a bit ironic when the core segmentation is cultural thing (english language). #publictransport #anglosphere #publictransit
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Happy Birthday, Woodstock! Grab a free cupcake to celebrate the popular water shuttle's second birthday on July 31, at 11:45 a.m. It’s a double celebration because the City announced that Woodstock will continue sailing across the estuary through at least June 2028! Photo by Maurice Ramirez. https://alamedapost.com/news/oakland-alameda-water-shuttle-extended-to-2028-birthday-celebration-july-31/
#alameda #AlamedaCountyTransportationCommission #estuary #EstuaryWaterShuttle #PublicTransit #woodstock
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The Loveliest
The woman
with a
double chin
and fat fingers
around plastic bags
plops down
in the seat
across the aisle
and blocks
my view of the
goddess
whose magazine
is filled with
clothes
she'd fill out
quite nicely.
The pretty
and the ugly
sit side by side
and I wonder
who is
the loveliest
in God's eyes.February 22, 2002
#2002 #Beauty #bodyImage #ChristianReflection #compassion #consumerCulture #ContemplativePoetry #divineBeauty #empathy #everydayHoliness #faithAndBeauty #fashionMagazine #God #GodSEyes #Grace #humanDignity #imageOfGod #Incarnation #innerBeauty #judgment #Love #outerBeauty #People #publicTransit #sacredWorth #seeingOthers #socialCritique #SpiritualPoetry #theLoveliest #Theology #Women #WordPressTagsPoetry #Writing -
When you don’t support more active forms of #transportation like #publictransit and #cycling, this is the world we are supporting: #cars congesting much of the road. This is Marshall road clogged up from Sumas Way all the way to McKenzie road on a Wednesday afternoon. If you just add another lane for #singleoccupancy cars, you get the exact same issue: just another lane of #congestion only slightly shorter. But if you were instead to put in a lane for #buses and #cyclists, then we would have a new lane that actually moves people keep quickly than just another car lane. And when public #transit becomes faster and more reliable than cars, more people will pick transit over their cars, and that in turn also makes the road better for those who need to use cars for things like transporting items as they will have less congestion in their lanes from more people using the bus instead of a car for transporting people. Communities around BC are headed to #municipal #elections this fall, and if #Abbotsford wants to get out of its congestion issues, it’s time to vote for a #mayor and #council that will improve transit and other forms of active transportation that will get our roads moving quicker, like more #buslanes as well as brining the #Skytrain or another two-way passenger #rail service from Metro #Vancouver into Abbotsford. Let’s build transportation in this city that’s better designed to move people around #town, not one to move the car companies’ profits.
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December 2014
Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts
#iphoneography #iphonephotography #shotoniphone #madewithlightroom #mbta #bostonmetro #harvard #harvardsquare #mbtaredline #cambridgema #cambridgemass #massachusetts #publictransit #publictransportation #red
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[ Manĝu Rizon Lavu la Bovlon ]
Finfine mia sezono finiĝis.
Mi rememoras pri la monaĥon serĉantan saĝon de majstro ... la zen-majstro anstataŭe demandis:
"Ĉu vi skiis la tuta sezono?"...
"Do portu viajn valizojn." !!!Kaj en tiu momento al mi ili sentis pli malpezaj.
~dolĉa kaj acida~
\eZ
#miksang #dailypic #aphotoaday
#Esperanto #photography #photo
#winter #ski #skibum #endofseason #seasonend #travel #traveling #transit #publictransit #publictransport #koan #zen #zenkoan #MasterJoshu
#EatRiceWashBowl
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RE: https://social.seattle.wa.us/@ohmu/116348804072457016
SPINE, SPINE, SPINE, SPINE 🚈
#Seattle #SeattleWA #Tacoma #TacomaWA #Everett #EverettWA #PublicTransit #SoundTransit
🚈 🚈 🚈
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The Oakland Alameda Water Shuttle’s expanded weekend schedule is back! On Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, the free shuttle—affectionately known as Woodstock—will again offer departures from 7:20 a.m. to 9:36 p.m. https://alamedapost.com/features/alameda-life/woodstock-expands-weekend-shuttle-service-across-estuary/
#alameda #EstuaryWaterShuttle #PublicTransit #SfBayFerry #woodstock
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Attempted and successful library tourism in Edinburgh and Northern England
Beyond the NLS, Scotland has various libraries within the country. There’s over twenty public libraries in Edinburgh alone. The day after I visited the NLS, I traveled to Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RGBE) by bus. This garden is akin to Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. It has a beautiful plant collection, and a special library. However, the library isn’t accessible from the garden, a clear barrier to entry. Furthermore, the science, learning and archives section is only accessible by appointment. That is too bad. If it had been accessible from the garden I may have visited it. There are museums and various collections within the garden as well. Every plant has a specific identifying number associated with it.
Note: This serves as the beginning of my series, which begins, chronologically, with my guest post on Reel Librarians, on February 11th, entitled “Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland: Library tourism redux.” It will be reposted on here over a month later. There will be two more parts of this series, focusing on my continued library tourism in London and Belgium coming later this year. Links to those will be added to this post later.
The RGBE website describes the library as providing the “basic tools” to support research and organization of biodiversity into a “manageable framework to underpin ecological and biological research.” This makes it even more unfortunate that the “extensive” library, said to be the Scottish national reference collection for “specialist botanical and horticultural resources” with over one million items, cannot be accessed from the garden itself. A pamphlet purchased for two pounds says directly: “no access from Garden,” putting this barrier into writing.
Photograph of part of a pamphlet noting that the RGBE library cannot be accessed from the garden (My photograph)The second part of my vacation involved staying one week at HF Holidays’ Derwent Bank house, which sits on Derwent Water lake, to hike throughout the acclaimed and well-known Lake District, in Cumbria. Some of the hikes were arduous, although that might not be the case if you were physically fit, unlike myself, who wasn’t as fit as other hikers. I wanted to hike there as it was blazing hot in Baltimore, where I live. Other hikers were primarily from England and the Netherlands. The hikes often involved going through sheep grazing areas, avoiding sheep poop in the process, with beautiful views, and a visit to the Castlerigg Stone Circle.
On the fifth day of hiking, on July 31st, the coach bus I was riding in, with fellow hikers passed by the Keswick library. It looked to be one big room filled with desktop computers. Further research indicated that this library offers printing, loanable dementia bags and storysacks, hearing aid batteries, and more. It’s located off the town’s main street, with some nearby parking lots (they call them “car parks” in England), plus a bus station 200 yards from the library. It also hosts board games, a Lego club, jigsaw puzzle building, mindful coloring, books to help with well-being and health, and more.
Lastly was a bookshelf almost akin to the Little Free “Library” collections in the U.S. (but without serving a physical manifestation of a “desire to privatize the world”), at the Penrith train station. See you at the next post, where my journey continues, in London!
© 2025-2026 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.
Sources used
- “Derwent Bank Lake District,” HF Holidays, 2025.
- Hermann, Burkely. “Blogposts, fictional archives, Ancestry’s monopoly on federal records, the Little Free “Library” deception, powerful ICJ decisions, and the DNC’s sidelining of pro-Palestinian voices,” History Hermann, 3 Sept. 2024.
- Hermann, Burkely. “Here’s four photos I took from my third-floor room at the Derwent Bank house of @hfholidays.co.uk on August 1st, the last day I was there, looking down at the beautiful garden, and down across the Derwent Water lake to the beautiful landscape across the lake. I revised the image slightly from the original using an Instagram filter on here. I only stayed for a week, and this was only the second part of my trip (the first part was going to #edinburgh) but I throughly [sic] enjoyed my time there, even if the hikes could be rigorous at times,” Instagram, 9. Aug. 2025.
- Hermann, Burkely. “Photos of the Castlerigg Stone Circle which I took on July 28th, a place also known as the Druids Circle. I used some photo tools on here to make these images even better and pop out more, as the originals were rather dark. #castleriggstonecircle,” Instagram, 9. Aug. 2025.
- “Keswick Library,” Cumberland Council, 2025.
- “Libraries,” City of Edinburgh, 2025.
- “Library & Archives,” Longwood Gardens, 2025.
- Miline, Simon. “Why our work matters,” Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2025.
- “Our History,” Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2025.
- “Penrith (North Lakes) (PNR),” National Rail, 2025.
- “What We Do,” Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2025.
#CastleriggStoneCircle #castleriggstonecircle #Cumbria #DerwentBank #Edinburgh #England #gardens #HFHolidays #Keswick #LakeDistrict #lakes #libraryTourism #LongwoodGardens #maps #memory #museums #NationalLibraryOfScotland #Penrith #publicTransit #ReelLibrarians #restrictions #Scotland #shortBlogs
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Caltrain shows why every region should be moving toward regional rail
https://www.hsrail.org/blog/caltrain-shows-why-every-region-should-be-moving-toward-regional-rail/
#HackerNews #Caltrain #RegionalRail #Transportation #Sustainability #PublicTransit
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Public transit isn’t just built in America—it builds America. It fuels local economies, strengthens manufacturing, and creates good-paying jobs in every corner of the country. #PublicTransitImpact #publictransit #transportation #APTA #Transittooter #transit
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Real-Time BART in a Box Smaller Than Your Coffee Mug https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/real-time-bart-in-a-box-smaller-than-your-coffee-mug/ #TransportationHacks #publictransit #oleddisplay #hardware #esp32c6
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More of this, please! No #GorhamSpur! More #PublicTransit!
#GreaterPortlandMetro launching transit service to #ScarboroughME
Greater Portland Metro says it will be launching a new bus service connecting Scarborough and #PortlandME
SCARBOROUGH, Maine — "Greater Portland Metro says it is launching a new bus service connecting Scarborough and Portland along Route 1.
"The service is expected to run seven days a week and provide access to medical facilities, shopping, and regional employment centers. Exact stops and schedules are still being finalized, according to a news release.
"The Maine Turnpike Authority approved $3.5 million over five years to support the project.
"Scarborough Town Manager Thomas Hall said the route supports the town's transportation goals and could help reduce traffic.
"Public meetings will be scheduled to allow residents to provide feedback, the release stated. A survey is also available here.
"Greater Portland Metro serves Portland, South Portland, Westbrook, Falmouth, Yarmouth, Freeport, Brunswick, Gorham, Scarborough, and Bath."
#SolarPunkSunday #Maine #BusService #LightRail #MoreBuses #LessCars
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The popular Oakland Alameda Water Shuttle, commonly known as “Woodstock,” will switch to a new winter schedule starting Tuesday, November 4. Hours of service will be shortened on weekends to reflect seasonal changes in weather and daylight. Photo by Maurice Ramirez. https://alamedapost.com/news/new-schedule-woodstock-water-shuttle-starts-november-4/
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ION EXTENSION DELAYED
The future of ION extension to the city of Cambridge remains uncertain.
The Region of Waterloo council originally approved the Light Rail Transit (LRT) ION system in 2009. It was to be a link across Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge, with a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) linking Kitchener and Cambridge.
Plans for Stage 2 ION, bringing the LRT transport system from Fairway Station in Kitchener through the urban centres of Cambridge to downtown Galt, were officially announced in June 2019, but the project has since been subject to significant delays.
A report to Cambridge City Council in 2023, estimated the expansion cost at $4.5 billion, a number that had nearly tripled since 2021. In June 2024, Matthew O’Neil, manager of Rapid Transit Coordination at the Region of Waterloo, said he expected construction to begin in 2032, seven years later than initial estimates.
On Apr. 3, Grand River Transit (GRT) revealed their ten-year business plan, which made no reference to Stage 2 ION expansion.
Councillors expressed frustration with the continued ambiguity surrounding the project. On The Mike Farwell Show on 570 NewsRadio Kitchener, former Cambridge Mayor Doug Craig was asked if Cambridge is being shortchanged on transit.
“Of course we are,” he said. “We don’t have [an] LRT, we don’t have a GO train, and we’re paying for the LRT in KW […] and we’re wondering when is ours going to come to the city of Cambridge?”
Stage 2 ION plans were thrown into further doubt on May 9, when Cambridge Mayor Jan Liggett endorsed the notion of rapid bus transit over LRT expansion. In a Cambridge council meeting, Liggett mentioned the option was raised by Waterloo Region council staff members that day.
“I know that’s earth-shattering news, but that was an open session of regional council today,” she said.
Liggett went on to say that the $4.5 billion cost of LRT expansion is not a realistic prospect.
“That’s an impossibility. We don’t have that much money in our budget in any given five-year span to put towards something like this,” she said.
The impact of the LRT in Waterloo and Kitchener has been positive. In 2023, $429 million in new building permits were issued in land along the LRT line. A growing percentage of the region’s population are reportedly moving to locations within a 10-minute walk of an LRT stop.
Cambridge councillors in favour of the expansion believe that it would have a significant impact on city rejuvenation.
“The ION expansion would have a positive impact on private investment and city rejuvenation. Every report has predicted this, and we have seen firsthand how this happened for Kitchener and Waterloo along the ION Stage one1,” Pam Wolf, Cambridge city councillor, said in a statement.
Former councillor Rob Deutschmann noted the ION expansion could attract $5-10 billion in private investments along the area, according to Cambridge Chamber of Commerce estimates.
The Region of Waterloo council have confirmed that nothing has been finalised yet, with the Initial Business Case for Stage 2 ION to be presented to Cambridge City council in November.
#busRapidTransit #Cambridge #cambridgeCityCouncil #CityOfCambridge #DougCraig #extension #futureOfIon #initialBusinessCase #ION #IONExtension #JanLiggett #JoshMiltonBell #KatWex #kitchener #lightRailTransit #localTransit #LRT #matthewOneil #mikeFarwellShow #november #pamWolf #publicTransit #publicTransport #RobDeutschmann #waterloo
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Looks like there might be an interesting exhibit/presentation in my neighboorhood May 3rd.
Perhaps(!?) a bit of a cynical take on my part, but, it's kind of tragic that it is going to take almost 100 years to re-create the #PublicTransit connection between #EverettWA & #Seattle
There's a decent, if brief, summary of the early #history in the article.
“Before Light Rail; the Seattle-Everett Interurban Story, 1910-1939”
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And yes, I took the #NJTransit Newark #LightRail... I wanted to take a nice pic of train over #CherryBlossoms (Japanese style), but unfortunately the light rail mostly runs in cuttings, has few cherry blossom trees near the tracks (other than at Branch Brook Park station and north of Orange Street station), and has high fences...
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Starting Monday, April 7, ferry service schedule changes will take effect on the Oakland & Main Street Alameda route, the Alameda Seaplane route, and the Oakland-Alameda water shuttle. Be sure to check the new schedule before you go! https://alamedapost.com/news/upcoming-ferry-schedule-changes/
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I *really* don't like these Veo scooters in my city. Everything from having public transit provided by a private company, to the fact you have to download an app to use them, to the fact people leave them in the worst places (as shown here) annoys me.
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pro tip: if you're taking commuter rail into and out of Boston on a day with a Red Sox game, you might not need to buy a ticket.
They didn't check either inbound or outbound.
(I bought and activated my tickets anyway, I think public transit is worth supporting.)
But now I'm realizing maybe I should have checked, and maybe this is an explicit policy on this line on game days?
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Toronto council sped up construction work on the Gardiner. Why won’t it do the same for the TTC?
From @GraphicMatt in the Toronto Star:
🚇 "1.1 million, the average number of weekday riders on Toronto’s subway lines"
🚋 "Toronto’s streetcar system carried about 211,000 riders on the average weekday in 2023."
🚗 "the Gardiner probably carries about 182,000 people a day."
#Toronto #TOPoli #TTC #Gardiner #PublicTransit #Transit #Transportation
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Rapid transit plan calls for 10-20 minute service through #PortlandMaine, #WestbrookMaine and #GorhamMaine
Maine Public | By Nicole Ogrysko
Published July 28, 2023
"Local officials in #GreaterPortland are considering a system of #RapidTransit bus routes for the region.
"Under a draft proposal from the Greater Portland Council of Governments, dedicated bus lanes would provide express service through Portland, Westbrook and Gorham more quickly than traditional bus service, with stops along the way.
"The preferred route would start at the University of Southern Maine campus in Gorham, travel through downtown Westbrook and stop at the USM campus in Portland before heading down Congress Street and ending near the Eastern Promenade.
"The proposal envisions service every 10 minutes between Portland and Westbrook, and 20 minutes between Westbrook and Gorham.
"'That's frequent enough that you're not relying on a schedule anymore,' said Andrew Clark, transit program manager for #GPCOG. 'You're no longer planning your day around the bus schedule. You just know you can go out to the station, and the bus will be there in 10 minutes or something like that.'
"Clark said service every 10-20 minutes should also lure riders who wouldn't normally consider taking #PublicTransit.
"'I think people understand the role that transit can play in making our cities better, its role in reducing congestion, its role in better climate outcomes, better social equity outcomes,' he said.
"Greater Portland Metro would operate the proposed route, but the vehicles and stops would have a different look than the service's existing buses, Clark added.
"The proposed routes are still a long way away, Clark said. The cities of Portland, Westbrook and Gorham will need to decide how much road space can be freed up for dedicated bus lanes. The project will also need to secure federal funds for the new bus lanes and some new battery-powered vehicles.
"Local officials also eventually envision rapid transit routes to South Portland, Biddeford and Saco, Brunswick and Windham."
#GorhamBypass #SaveSmilingHillFarm #Sprawl
#SaveTheForest #Woodlands
#Meadows #InducedDemand
#EnvironmentalImpact
#GorhamConnector
#SaveRedBrook #RedBrook
#GreaterPortlandMaine
#BusService #MTA
#ProtectFarmland #LessCars #WorkingFarms #PeterMills #JanetMills #CommuterRail #RapidTransit #GreaterPortland #Maine -
Why can't the city take the same position on major roadways as they do on public transit?
If there's no revenue, shut down the #Gardiner until you can afford it
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A little joy ride on the #REM, Montreal's new commuter rail to Brossard. #PublicTransit #LightRail #CommuterRail #UrbanPlanning #Transportation #Montreal #Quebec #Brossard
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As the planet burns, climate delay is a far bigger threat than #climatedelay. #yyj #publictransit #publictransport
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Probably the best part about riding one of the fastest train in the world, the great view of the countryside once you leave hustle and bustle of Tokyo.
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Is Oslo the next great cycling city?
Since 2015, Oslo has been implementing sweeping changes to make their streets safer and increase cycling numbers.
This new video from @notjustbikes shows the progress they've made.
#Oslo #Norway #Cycling #BikeTooter #Infrastructure #Urbanism #UrbanDesign #StreetDesign #RoadSafety #PublicTransit #Mobility
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#EDITORIAL: #Canada’s failing #public #infrastructure | Toronto Sun
Long before #climateChange became a buzzword, #federal, #provincial and #municipal #governments failed to ensure that publicly-financed #projects such as #roads, #highways, #bridges, #publicTransit, #dikes, #water and #sewer mains, #hospitals and other #publicInfrastructure were properly maintained after they were built.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-canadas-failing-public-infrastructure
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Here’s some blunt truth — I haven't seen a single North American city with a stated policy goal of mobility "balance" that has actual policies, strategies, street standards/designs, infrastructure budgets, supporting land use etc that would actually ACHIEVE balance. It’s usually code for the status quo, only slightly better — aka cars first.
#transportation #mobility #streets #streetdesign #cityplanning #urbanplanning #cities #walking #biking #publictransit