What's your city doing (or starting to do) that makes you happy?
I don’t know what city this post is referencing, but I’d be willing to bet a ton of money it’s not in the US lol.
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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It's Montreal, so you are indeed correct. Honolulu did actually open the first segment of a very similar automated light metro system just 2 weeks ago, although it doesn't have the same service frequency as ours. It's still enough to make it America's newest metro system, though!
Is this the REM? Operating frequency is 3:45 to 7:30.
Perhaps it is one of the future legs that will hit 2:30?
From what I understood, it will be 3:45 at first and they will ramp it up eventually to 2:30 on the existing line
Meanwhile in Toronto, there's a bunch of public transit "promised" but all of them are going to run over the deadline by like 5 years. It's still way better than nothing.
2 weeks from now, give or take a couple decades
My city in Michigan, U.S. is putting in bike lanes on our biggest road through the suburbs. People are definitely up in arms about it, but I can't wait to be able to ride my bike on this road, which is not possible to do safely now.
This is basically what Ottawa is doing. The only mistake they made was that it doesn’t work when it snows… in Canada.
Don't forget that it also breaks down in the summer too 🌞
They also built it to in a way that's only really useful for commuters who mostly don't even need to go downtown anymore 🙃
Brightline is about to open their high speed rail between West Palm and Orlando! There will be less Mad Max Road Warrior reenactments on I95 because of this!
Yeah except the ticket prices are like $80+ per person, per direction.
One person maybe worth it just to save the headache, but as soon as you add one more person it just doesn't make sense to not drive unfortunately.... the gas for the trip would only be ~$50 round trip.
That's true, it's definitely not the cheapest solution, especially for a family of four. But there are a lot of single people and couples who would rather relax for a few hours than deal with I95. You're essentially paying for convenience. Hopefully the prices will adjust once it gets out of the early adoption phase. The Orlando Tampa line will be a godsend to not have to deal with I4.
Hopefully Orlando-Tampa will be cheaper
I mean I'm glad we're getting the option but I just can't think of any realistic scenario I'd use it at that price. Over $300 if my SO and I wanted to take a trip down to Miami, vs $50 in gas... and it's barely faster.
I hate this state
I don’t think the kind of people that do those things ever take public transit but I hope you’re right.
Ha! I was more thinking along the lines of having less traffic making people less pissed off and crazy! I'm probably being overly hopeful and optimistic.
My city in indiana is starting a road diet and expanding the width of several sidewalks! Exciting times
That last cat isn’t quite excited enough.
We are getting more bike lanes and bike infrastructure. I love it!
I love finding a new section that has new separated bike lanes. It's one of the best surprises. Basically "here's an entire new city and area you can visit"
Adding more bike lanes, implementing more bus lanes, and starting to electrify the fleet.
My city just commissioned a Dutch planning office to create an overall concept for cycle lanes in the city.
I wish they'd bring back trolley cars
My city started building its first light rail line… 10 years ago and it still isn’t operational.
Good meme but OMG KITTYYYYYY
They're building a tramway here in Quebec city. Dunno how I feel about that. Better than nothing I guess.
In my 3rd world country the catch is that is going to take 20 years to build it. In my city they took 15 years to upgrade a train system to a subway, and they are doing a entire underground line, with only 7 km, that started in 2014, which we have no idea about the complete percentage.
It takes that long in first world countries too.
At least in the one I live in it does.
It takes that long in first world countries too.
At least in the one I live in it does.
Yeah trains are a massive civil engineering project. You have to commission a bunch of studies of everything from archaeology to soil and water to route efficiency, go through several levels of engineering designs, obtain a lot of connected land, then you have to build the thing including preparing the land to not settle too much under the weight of a train because soil is a particulate fluid. And every step of the way everyone is mad it’s taking so long and costing so much.
I am going to ride the REM when it opens and finally visit the south shore. I want to see the living spaces over there. I am also looking forward to the REM to reach the Sauvé station so I can go downtown on trains the whole way.
They're finally paving over the road work they did last year extending the sewer main. It has been a long year of unmarked lanes, uneven asphalt and gravel, and steel plates.
No one connected that sewer main, but now more houses are within 200' feet, meaning the city won't approve septic system repair and will instead require connection to the sewer at $100k+ on the property owner.
But not having the underside of my vehicle scrape to and from work does make me happy.
My city is opening its first "BRT" line soon! Quotes because it doesn't even have dedicated lanes, but honestly I'm just excited to have public transportation that comes more than every half hour lol
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