MultiModalUnit
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MultiModalUnit
@multimodalunit.bsky.social
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Don't like to be chained to my car.
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can anyone provide links to opinions on NYS 2025 Ballot Ref #1 about building new Olympic facilities?
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Plot twist: High-viz clothes are *more* dangerous for pedestrians.

"Wearing high-visibility clothing could actually make [cars' pedestrian detection] technology less likely to spot a person strolling in the dark."
'Embarrassment': Pedestrian Automatic Emergency Braking Still Flawed at Night — Streetsblog USA
Relying solely on vehicle automation for pedestrian detection and collision avoidance is not advised, a new study said.
usa.streetsblog.org
Sigh. These would make great HSR lines.
so glad Gov Hochul is pausing this project. highway expansions are just awful investments. Now let's put $ into improving rail west of the Hudson. How about double-tracking and electifying Port Jervis and Pascack Valley lines? Re-activating other abandoned lines? @capntransit.bsky.social
Do you think this was related to the problems on the L train?
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The American centrist punditocracy has decided that what the US transit industry needs are endless lectures about the importance of security.

These writers misunderstand the problem, and are making things worse. 1/

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Other Reason Americans Don’t Use Mass Transit
People will take buses and trains only if they feel safe while riding them.
www.theatlantic.com
My County bus system has 18 cameras on each bus. Plenty of security. Now cue the next pundit who complains about drivers being subject to a surveillance state and completely ignoring bus riders.
He was at the Free Beacon and now Manhattan Institute, solidly right-wing organs. Not a centrist. His lifetime career focus is anti-social behavior.
And it is not New York 'City' Metropolitan Transportation Council
fwiw, I used to ride the M14 bus more between Union Square and Meatpacking, but turning 14th street into a busway made it so darn pleasant a street to walk that I just do that. It's my fave street in NYC to walk. For longer trips btw Chelsea to LES and Chinatown, I still ride M14 for speed.
sure, a small number moved to the Hamptons and Litchfield County during COVID, but a lot of them realized it was pretty boring out there and are coming back. Given the traffic, it is a long trip to go and see a Broadway show.
i'm not worried. like all statues, they will gradually lose all meaning to later generations and be seen as a historical curiosity.
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Lots of excitement over SB 79—understandably. I would add, every single bill California YIMBY sent to the governor was signed today. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/10/g...
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It was wet. It was cold. Everyone was having fun.

Thousands of Portlanders showed up to say they are unafraid — by making themselves as vulnerable as possible.

Many fully or partially naked, all of them astride bicycles, the crowd swelled like a sponge in the pouring rain.

❤️🚲❤️ @bikeportland.org
Presence as power marks massive pedaling protest against Trump
Thousands of Portlanders showed they are unafraid by making themselves as vulnerable as possible.
bikeportland.org
the "wow" sentence: "Ironically, had SROs grown since 1960 at about the same rate as the rest of the U.S. housing stock, the nation would have roughly 2.5 million more such units— enough to house every American experiencing homelessness in a recent federal count more than three times over."
I wish this happened in more places instead of throwing good money after bad.
Is turning off a transponder a routine thing for an USAF plane on a non-military mission?
Big problem in my area is finding and keeping school bus drivers. The weird schedules make the jobs hard to fill. Same for school crossing guards.
@5thsq.org Sigh. I wish Philly would do this in Center City.
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We said this was going to happen, but Mayor Adams didn't care: Cyclists are being forced into dangerous traffic by all of the double parking on three blocks of Bedford Avenue where the mayor ripped out a protected bike lane.