#transportation — Public Fediverse posts
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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.
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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.
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Laptop fire forces emergency response on American Airlines flight to DFW
Nightmare situation, but it does make one think that (1) US needs a lot more passenger rail and (2) the bus from Atlanta to Dallas may take longer, but it's cheaper, probably a nicer ride with more room, and it's better from a climate perspective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2OW_uy8h3A #Travel #Transportation #Fire
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Frachter auf der Themse
Freighter on the Thames#schiffSamstag #shipsaturday #themse #photography #transportation #travel #gmsfotos
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Strong bike networks cost less to maintain than infrastructure for motor vehicles. Pollution (including noise) plumets when you reduce car lanes. People want to spend time in your community, spend money. They also feel better when they can walk and bike to places that matter to them. It's an all-around win even for those who never bike. De-emphasize the giant box on wheels.
I do hope Boston can figure this out. Because cars have ruined cities.
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Ascend Airways Malaysia Expected To Begin Passenger Operations By End-2026 #ascendairwaysmalaysia #transportation #travel
https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402230/ascend-airways-msia-ops-end-2026/
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently asked Waymo to answer a wide range of questions following a Jan. 23 crash in which one of the company’s robotaxis hit a nine-year-old girl. @Techcrunch has more, including how Waymo responded:
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Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson signed an executive order Friday to speed up transportation department processes, in hopes of meeting the city's goal of eliminating traffic deaths and major injuries by 2030.
https://www.kuow.org/governing/2026-08-21/seattle-mayor-katie-wilson-wants-to-accelerate-citys-efforts-to-improve-pedestrian-safety
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Zohran Mamdani takes a ride on the M57, talks to free bus skeptics | NBC New York
Nice to hear him lay out his reasons next to a bus passenger who initially thought free buses would just lead to slower buses.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_ihj6Ln4ZFE #NYC #SewerSocialism #Transportation #USpol #ClimateEmergency
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If we turn the roads into maglev systems, a central power distribution unit energized via solar and wind, and we make every vehicle basically an automated taxi, you set in your destination, the vehicle transmits that info to the maglev system, and away you go, no traffic jams, no consumable parts or fossil powered energy, just pure transportation luxury, reducing greenhouse emissions and traffic congestion, and when emergency vehicles need to get to an emergency all commercial and private vehicles automatically get routed out of the way and shut down for emergency response to pass through, imagine your ride to school, work or even vacation becoming an automated mode of transportational bliss;
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#Europa-Spezifikationen und Launch-Details für September angekündigt —
Tesla will auf der #IAA #Transportation in Hannover am 15. bis 20. September erstmals die europäische Modellvariante des Semi vorstellen und konkrete Marktstart-Details nennen.
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Quest Global could be an interesting India #IPO to watch as engineering-led tech gains attention beyond consumer internet and fintech. Its exposure spans aerospace, #Automotive #healthcare #Semiconductors #transportation and #energy Still, #investors should assess growth, margins, valuation and the eventual IPO filing before deciding.
Read This: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/carlyle-backed-quest-global-plans-india-ipo-next-year-ceo-says-2026-02-26/
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Historic Moment: Uber Begins Offering First Robotic Taxi Services in Europe in Zagreb