Public Transport

Hope this is on topic enough. Nice job to Angelenos for standing up to these bullies and defending our transit projects.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/55429726

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/53895440

From the time a full subway car leaves a Beijing metro station to the time the next one takes its place is 51 seconds.

Here in Wuhan it ranges from 2 minutes to 5 minutes depending on the line and time of day. In Beijing it's 51 seconds.

Wow.

NGL, i'm kinda jealous.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/52564513

I started this discussion on mastodon, but want to here too. If you could create the perfect bus stop, what would it have? Here are some of my ideas:

⛑ Safety:

• Shelters: no advertisements blocking views. Enclosed shelters must have 2+ exit points.
• Solar lights

♿ Accessibility:

• A space in shelters for wheelchairs.
• Marked wide paved section for wheelchairs & those with mobility difficulties to board a ramp onto the bus.
• Braille on bus stop signs & tactile pavement.

🚲Other:

• Bike racks
• Vending Machines
• Public water fountain
• Tiny library

Do you have more ideas?

Edit: realized the photo i added is ai, but i can't seem to get rid of it so 🤷‍♀️

Some context here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thessaloniki_Metro

This seems to have flown under the radar a bit but it's a similar case to the metro project in Ho Chi Minh. It took an eternity to finish with the first hole being dug in 1989 and it finally opened to the public last month. It had become kind of a meme due to all the delays and changing of hands among now-bankrupt companies and with every government promising to open it (it's had at least two opening ceremonies years apart). Now a month later it's still having issues and is really small, mostly serving the center but it's the first driverless metro in Greece with modern stations and also featuring a museum so it's promising.

(not paywalled)

The incident happened at about 8 a.m. when a crawler crane collapsed onto the tracks of the No. 11 metro line.

Passengers in the train were soon evacuated, with no casualties reported.