If your nation (the U.S.A.) is so smart, why do we put freight and people in the same set of train tracks?

#trains #nologic #masstransportation

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
-- Marshall McLuhan

#Wisdom #Quotes #MarshallMcLuhan #MassTransportation #Thinking

#Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
-- Marshall McLuhan

#Wisdom #Quotes #MarshallMcLuhan #MassTransportation #Thinking

#Photography #Panorama #Sand #Tracks #Iowa

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
-- Marshall McLuhan

#Wisdom #Quotes #MarshallMcLuhan #MassTransportation #Thinking

#Photography #Panorama #Palms #Florida

Sheri Byrne-Haber’s Blog: Accessibility Triumph Thursday: BrokenLifts.org. “BrokenLifts is a grassroots initiative providing real-time information about out-of-service elevators in Berlin’s public transportation system. For wheelchair users and others who depend on elevators, this resource saves people from wasted trips and gives them back some control over their commutes. It’s a shining […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/14/accessibility-triumph-thursday-brokenlifts-org-sheri-byrne-habers-blog/

Accessibility Triumph Thursday: BrokenLifts.org (Sheri Byrne-Haber’s Blog) | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

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Stevens Institute of Technology: Weaponized Disinformation Poses Serious Threat to Urban Transit Systems. “In a study published this month in Reliability Engineering and System Safety, researchers from Stevens Institute of Technology and the University of Oklahoma warn that the complexity and fragility of urban transit networks could be exploited by terrorists or other bad actors. Using AI […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/08/stevens-institute-of-technology-weaponized-disinformation-poses-serious-threat-to-urban-transit-systems/

Stevens Institute of Technology: Weaponized Disinformation Poses Serious Threat to Urban Transit Systems | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

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Automobile dependency is killing the livability of our cities. There is no long term solution to traffic besides creating viable alternatives to driving.

Stop expanding highways. Start installing public transit and bikeways.

#motonormativity #carculture #urbanism #HealthyCities #urbandesign #smallbusiness #carbrain #MassTransportation #publictransportation #BikeCommuting #publictransit

Central Virginia bus riders reap benefits of zero fare and new services • Virginia Mercury

On a recent Friday, Joshua Webb and several of his landscaping co-workers were doing their best to escape the late afternoon sun and humidity as they waited for the bus on Midlothian Turnpike in Chesterfield County to take them home. That bus – the 1A – has been a lifeline for Webb, who started riding […]

Virginia Mercury
Record D.C. Metro ridership for Capital Pride Parade

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority reported its highest ridership since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Advocate.com

EVs: Just one step on the way to a more sustainable society. Hint: we need more walkable places to live.

https://electrek.co/2023/01/03/norway-electric-car-utopia-sustainable-transportation/

#transportation #EVs #UrbanDesign #sustainability #MassTransportation

I went to Norway to see an electric vehicle paradise, but I found something more surprising

We often hear about how Norway is an electric car utopia, an example of a country that went all in...

Electrek