#public transit

[atlantathecity]

Peachtree Center MARTA Station. Headed north after a visit to Central Library. What a beautiful Atlanta day.

#atlanta #atlanta photographer #downtown atlanta #atl #city photography #atlanta photography #marta station #metro #metro station #public transportation #public transit

[elierlick]

I can't believe DC just went with it.

#public transit #trains

[amtrak-conductor]

#amtrak #trains #public transit #public transport #railroad #transit #trans #public transportation #passenger train #train

[bitform]

Comic by Andy Singer

#solarpunk #infrastructure #taxes #comics #public transit

[writing-with-olive]

So i'm working on a project that involves looking at people's opinions on public transportation, and something that keeps coming up is that a lot of people like the idea of public transportation but ridership is at the same time low, so I wanna figure out what stops people from riding.

If you could reblog this for bigger sample size that would be so so appreciated

#public transportation #city development #urban design #walkable cities #public transit #busses #trains #streetcars #metro #subway #poll #civic engagement #research #academia #opinions

[literalgrill]

Think I just found @amtrak-official's favorite wrestler

#wrestling #public transit #trains #BART #tbh they are my new fav wrestler too

[f0o7]

@amtrak-official

#amtrak #public transit #trains #public transportation #public transport woes #transportation

[cute-earth-orbiter]

#this is me #public transit stan #trainfacts #big dick government #northeast regional main character #public transit #penn station #amtrak

[emilynyaaa]

all of north america needs to be linked with high speed rail so i can get high speed railed

#bottomposting #tranfem #hornyposting #nsft #public transit #high speed rail

[themadcapmathematician]

The thing about public transportation is that it often operates at a loss or at least pretty thin profit margins no matter how much the ticket prices get raised. In a lot of places, service is bad, operator pays get cut while they're overworked, wait times are ridiculous, no one can get places in a timely manner most places, if you can get places at all, and a profit still isn't being turned

But the money and human suffering and indignity that public transport saves can't be quantified by profits from ticket sales. "Can people get places in your city easily to work, to school, for leisure, for socializing? How much money do you save when your workers get to their jobs on time? When people can access healthcare and government buildings easily? How much pain and suffering and human life do you save when people know they'll never be stranded in your city or town no matter the time, day, or how much pocket change they have?" these aren't questions answered by "it makes profit" and the necessity of infrastructure can't be measured by profit, you have to think long term, you have to look at benefits in more abstract ways, and all Business Models are deeply bad at that kind of planning. It isn't a mystery why a machine that exists to make profit right now isn't a machine that's good at making a robust system that focuses on long term benefits, fiscal or ethical. the fact that people are still struggling futilely to turn something with benefits that abstract and that vital into a dispenser of narrow, short-term return is fucking infuriating

Public transportation should be free and well-funded because a place where no one can get anywhere is a place no one can exist in public, and that's bad for the economy but it's also bad for human fucking dignity

#madcap rants #social justice #public transit #public transport

[liberalsarecool]

Make public transportation free.

#public transit #transportation

[scootyfrooty]

they're the same picture

#every time i stand stand with my backpack like this i feel like a penguin #furry #scootart #fursona #anthro #art #furry fandom #penguin #public transit #train #comic #deer

[amtrak-conductor]

#amtrak #trains #public transport #transit #public transit #railroad #public transportation #passenger train #train

[amtrak-official]

Urban Design Concept of the Day

Redundancy in Transit

Redundancy is a key element to good transit design, always make sure that there are multiple ways to get between locations in a city. if there is only one way to get between two locations, then there is an exponentially higher number of points of failure on a system and it is harder to get between locations as there are fewer options, overallit makes transit less appealing as a method to move about in a city. This is why things like ring lines are so important to the design of transit systems. The lack of redundancy and interconnectivity in our transit systems is why American transit systems lag behind European and East Asian Cities in terms of ridership

#urban design concepts #urbanism #public transit #solar punk

[femboytrain]

He is such a silly boy kisser

#196 #r/196 #trains #blåhaj #public transit #boy kisser #chupi

[eaglehorn]

Does @amtrak-official endorse this plan?

#public transit #trains