#transportation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #transportation, aggregated by home.social.
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Mexico unveiled the cargo version of their ultra light electric car that it will begin selling next year for about $10,000. The Mexican government has been leading the project development. EV sales in Mexico have been skyrocketing in recent months.
https://www.electrive.com/2026/08/25/mexico-unveils-olinia-carga-electric-light-truck/
#trucks #electricCars #electric #BEV #EV #transportation #mobility #transition #energyTransition #electricVehicles #carmakers #cars #electricity #Mexico
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Dogs Provide Security and Comfort at Busy Train Station in ‘British First’
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Did you know that the Uber app has a simplified mode that literally shows you exactly what you need from a hail-riding service without any of the annoying ads that take up space and data?
Apparently, it was designed for the elderly. OK fine by me. 👍
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It is absolutely bizarre that people who insist on driving everywhere also insist that other people should have to pay for their parking.
If you drive, parking is your problem.
Personally, I think there will eventually be tolls on *local roads* as cities grapple w/ inadequate tax revenue to support maintaining all those paved streets. Some streets will simply no longer be paved, esp outlying subdivisions. The funds just aren't there anymore.
Watch their heads explode then.
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Drones are becoming an essential part of many industries.
This short video shows how in China Drones are used for agriculture, construction, transportation of animals and cars and fire fighting of cloud scrapers.
#Drones #Agriculture #Construction #FireFighting #Transportation
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Sound Transit approved a pilot program to add fare gates to the 14 busiest light rail stations. The transit agency says design and planning will cost $6 million, and the whole project is expected to cost $87 million.
https://www.kuow.org/governing/2026-08-27/fare-gates-coming-to-14-seattle-area-light-rail-stations
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If I were queen of #transportation in this situation, I'd look into ... #publictransit
Extreme Summer Heat Has Roads Buckling, Cracking, Melting
https://www.theenergymix.com/extreme-summer-heat-has-roads-buckling-cracking-melting/ #climate #extremeheat
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Manchester Airports Group Breach Exposes Customer Data
A massive data breach at Manchester Airports Group has exposed sensitive customer information, including email addresses, phone numbers, and vehicle registration numbers, across three major UK airports. The breach comes at a critical time, just before one of the busiest travel periods of the year.
#ManchesterAirportsGroup #CustomerDataBreach #AirportSecurity #Transportation #EmergingThreats
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PBOT is hard at work! From an email:
(Aug. 25, 2026) The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) advises the traveling public that TriMet’s bus line 14 detour route is no longer using the SE Lincoln Street greenway. The planters used as diverters on SE 50th Avenue and Lincoln Street have been moved back to the center of the street today, Aug. 25.
As part of the SE Division Repaving Project, the intersection at SE 50th Avenue and Division Street is closed to through traffic to allow for asphalt repair. To minimize additional public transit disruptions, TriMet’s bus line 14 will use SE 52nd Avenue as a detour between SE Hawthorne and SE Foster.
Traffic on SE 50th Avenue will be impacted in both directions, through Sept. 4.
Southbound traffic on SE 50th Avenue will be closed a block north of SE Division Street, today through Friday Aug. 28, and northbound traffic will be closed next week, Aug. 31 through Sept. 4, one block south of SE Division Street. Travel in the opposite direction will be detoured at SE Division Street and directed east or west.
Regional travelers passing through the area on SE 50th Avenue should consider using SE Cesar E Chavez Boulevard as an alternate route.
During this time, the travel lanes on SE Division Street will be reduced from two to one, with flaggers controlling the direction of traffic and helping pedestrians across the street.
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Monday marked the beginning of a long-awaited change to Seattle’s slowest downtown bus line, Route 8. The so-called “late eight” got a dedicated bus lane along a roughly one-mile stretch of Denny Way.
https://www.kuow.org/governing/2026-08-25/seattles-route-8-is-notoriously-slow-will-denny-ways-new-bus-lane-help
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Who is to blame for road violence? In order:
capitalism and CEOs, the Epstein Class
road design / engineers/ your local gov
drivers
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pedestrians and cyclists**nowhere near as responsible for maiming and death on American streets compared to the three causes above :)
#bikingIsTransportation #PSA #publicSafety #transportation #USA
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A new Book Review has been published in JTH!
"Book Review: The Reconstruction of the Hungarian State Railways, 1944–1949 by Péterffy, Gergely Pál" by Márton Balogh-Ebner.
Check it out here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00225266261467726
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Spirit Airlines Wants to Sell Its Data to Google. Former Flight Attendants Are Freaked Out
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What Happens When the Marginal Driver Is a Robot?
Today, congestion is partly constrained by human tolerance. At some point, a trip becomes slow enough that the marginal driver decides it is not worth making. But what happens when the marginal driver is no longer a person? What if it is an empty robotaxi repositioning itself, or a self-driving car carrying a Chipotle burrito across town?
Those trips may be willing to tolerate much more delay than a human commuter. Instead of autonomous vehicles making long commutes easier and encouraging more sprawl, they could actually push congestion to a much worse equilibrium. A commute that takes 30 minutes today might take an hour or two simply because so many low-value automated trips are willing to sit in traffic.
That could eventually force a change.
My preferred solution would be simple congestion pricing: charge every vehicle the same market-clearing price to use scarce road space, with no special exemptions. Raise the price until traffic flows freely.
If that makes a private car trip cost $70, so be it. A bus carrying 30 people can spread the same road charge across 30 passengers. A car with four people can split it four ways. The system naturally rewards higher occupancy without needing complicated rules about which vehicles deserve priority.
Then use the congestion-pricing revenue to improve transit.
That could become especially powerful in sprawling cities that already have underused rail infrastructure. Take SunRail in Orlando. If I-4 became painfully congested, it might suddenly make sense to take a robotaxi to the nearest station, ride the train for the long-distance portion, and take another robotaxi at the other end.
At that point, the giant parking lots around suburban rail stations become less necessary and can be replaced with compact pickup and drop-off zones. The parking lots can then be redeveloped into housing, shops, and offices. More development around the stations creates more riders, which supports better frequency, which makes the surrounding development even more attractive.
There would probably be an ugly transition period. But I can imagine autonomous vehicles pushing the current system hard enough that we finally start treating road space as the scarce resource it actually is.
And if that ultimately produces faster roads, better transit, more pooling, and denser development around rail, the end state could be substantially better than what we have today.
#autonomousVehicles #news #selfDrivingCars #transit #transportation #travel #urbanPlanning #waymo
