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Owen

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Award-losing graphic designer and WordPress knower. I like transit maps, 80s architecture, bad puns, and abandoned freeways. I have a serious real job, but I also made that stupid track you liked on a Failrace stream. He/him, YYJ,

  1. Absolutely heartbreaking and totally unnecessary... Once you cut transit service, it's always harder to bring it back. I feel for all those who will now face hardships getting to school, work, medical care and many other aspects of life. Even people who don't ride transit will be impacted.

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  2. what star trek: strange new worlds suggests is that for 100 years the holodeck had a problem with getting uncontrollably more powerful, trapping and killing people in it and strangling the ship to death, and they just gave up and started installing it on starships anyway and expected users to fix it

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  3. Yep. Someone else posted some great numbers from our friends in Metro Vancouver: bsky.app/profile/thea...

    (though, like you mentioned earlier, hard to tell if these are directly comparable)

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  4. If I’m reading this right (and there’s a good chance I’m not), Victoria would rank just outside the top 10 with 28.5 passenger trips per service hour (source: www.bctransit.com/wp-content/u...)

    https://www.bctransit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/11-2425-Q2-Financial-and-Performance-Summary.pdf

    SF barely beats NYC for most effective bus system, another place badly in need of rapid transit that actually serves the city. Crazy CTA buses are more productive than the L. Vegas has a better bus system than they get credit for, & the abysmal bus system in Dallas hampers its extensive LRT

    Chart showing 2024 Total US Unlinked Passenger Trips(UPT) divided by Total Vehicle Revenue Hours(VRH) for Bus Systems: UPT per VRH data below


Agency	Sum of 2024 UPT	Sum of Total VRH 2024	UPT Per VRH
SF Muni Bus	128377259	2538803	50.57
MTA Buses	818537494	16258217	50.35
MBTA Bus	101606944	2430989	41.80
RTC Vegas	53784152	1473871	36.49
LA Metro	243801198	6901982	35.32
CTA	181733617	5471876	33.21
WMATA Metrobus	123317585	3910167	31.54
SEPTA Bus	113799567	3724102	30.56
Miami-Dade Transit	61040693	2019120	30.23
Honolulu TheBus	41032900	1409514	29.11
Maryland Transit	50262053	1998663	25.15
NJT Bus	144084653	5829117	24.72
King County Metro	84144835	3435560	24.49
OCTA	36459637	1520030	23.99
AC Transit	40124499	1773628	22.62
Pittsburgh Regional Transit	32545258	1461591	22.27
TriMet	41690709	1925690	21.65
Denver RTD	44041734	2126336	20.71
San Antonio VIA	29314004	1422236	20.61
San Diego MTS	37562598	1899198	19.78
MSP Metro Transit	31941893	1618836	19.73
Milwaukee County	25300648	1304139	19.40
Houston Metrobus	61015121	3221592	18.94
MARTA Bus	34615675	1916524	18.06
DART Bus	29409804	2024841	14.52
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  5. I am eight minutes into Eenie Meanie, and it’s got a scene extolling the virtues of public transit. A great start.

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