Could cable cars help fix traffic problems in Canada 🇨🇦?

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/cable-car-gondola-canada-public-transit-1.7603636?cmp=mastodon
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Est-ce que les téléfériques peuvent aider avec les problèmes de congestion au Canada 🇨🇦?

// Article en anglais //

#Canada #CableCar #Téléférique #PublicTransportation #TransportEnCommun

This man keeps racing Toronto streetcars and winning 
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/toronto-streetcar-racer-1.7603577

#Toronto #PublicTransportation

It's starting to feel like the TTC is a site of security incidents and mechanical difficulties which occasionally also offers transit service.

#Toronto #PublicTransportation #TOpoli

"Between eight and nine thousand: this is the rough number of people who go to jail in Germany each year for failing to pay a public transportation ticket. Once discovered, passengers are asked to pay a fine, which normally amounts to €60 ($70). Those who can’t pay and see the fines build up face a prison sentence of up to one year. Unsurprisingly, it is mainly the poor who end up in jail. According to the Freiheitsfonds (Freedom Fund), which campaigns in favor of those incarcerated for fare evasion, 87 percent are unemployed, 15 percent do not have a home, and 15 percent are at risk of suicide. Compounding the problem, many of the people imprisoned have lost their homes by the time they come out again.

Section 265a of the German Criminal Code, the legal provision responsible for punishing fare dodgers so severely, was first introduced in September 1935, more than two years after the Nazis took power."

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/germany-nazi-law-public-transportation/

#Germany #Nazism #PublicTransportation #Law #Homelessness #Homeless

Taking back our world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU1QdQsjGpM&t=585s&fbclid=IwY2xjawL8SCRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFZdDdxQ2gwempIZGhnNHRjAR7gLx-lHih_byl20yDGEjY8DxgD6_3b7ZYElN7nC7WuMFjTJ5O8dxxCNNl_4Q_aem_G2fYPwKu50hpPY_rGf0JEg

#USA #WeThePeople #labor #capitalism #climate #jobs #publictransportation #jobguarantee #socialhousing #housing #democracy #humanrights #forthepeople #economy #inventions #empowerment #renewableenergy #affordablehousing #taxtherich #powerofthepeople #publicservice #bettersociety #unemployment #biodiversite #economicsecutity #livingwages #endingpoverty

A slide I have occasionally shared at transportation presentations the last 18 months:

And yes, it is a shameless rip-off of the late Justice Jackson's "Lawyers and Technology" speech.

It still fits.

#PublicTransportation #PublicTransit #TransportationTechnology

RT @Chris_arnade
I spent ten days riding greyhounds, from city to city. Meeting people along the way.

My latest S*bstack: Destitution Fair

(link in next tweet because Elon is the best billionaire ever!)

https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/destitution-fair-a-week-of-riding

#USA #PublicTransportation #Cities #Greyhound #McDonalds #Poverty #Inequality

FYI - The Monterey-Salinas IT department issued a RFI (Request For Information) this last Friday to gather data ahead of plans to replace our closed, proprietary GoPass Bus Pass with one that uses an open, non-proprietary cEMV solution.

RFI #26-01 can be found here.

https://mst.org/about-mst/procurement/

#PublicTransportation #PublicTransit #OpenTechnology #OpenStandards

(I'll be adding to this thread as I get time today on why this matters)