Not guaranteed, but I wanna try it. New at this modding stuff.
Also I'll DM you the bonus episodes if you ask me here
Hello yes, WTYP is the best podcast with slides on the Internet. This is not a question but a statement.
Where else can one hear about pneumatic tubes full of horse viscera? Nowhere, that's what.
please recommend a wtyp episode where they immediately jump into the problem/topic the last two episodes I tried killed me because I got 20-30 minutes in and they were still joking around about nothing :sadness-abysmal:
Joking around about nothing is basically part of their brand at this point, don't know how much I can help you when it's one of my favorite parts of the show.
look for single hour-ish runtimes? they're inevitably gonna dick around but shorter total time usually means they're more on topic
I kind of like that part because it's usually the last happy moment of the episode. Things are fun and lighthearted until Rozniak suddenly says the darkest thing he can say, which is when he suddenly gives you the precise date, hour and minute of something.
Because that's when people start dying.
And after that things do not become lighthearted again.
I tried to get my girlfriend to listen to an episode in the car (captive audience and whatnot) and I didn't realize how long they bullshit for until I was trying to get another person through an episode. It was like a solid 45 minutes lol
Is there any progress on the Chapo Trap House of Saud merch? Because that flag whipped ass.
Sorry if this is too big of a question, but its one we need to answer and I don't have a fucking clue:
California is fucked. The last century of development is built around personal automobiles. Millions living in exurbs of course, but also so much of the basic infrastructure assumes you can drive. Parking spaces are more of a concern to citygoers than housing poor people.
So how do we convert the (currently unsustainable both economically and environmentally) urban sprawl into something better? Even if you tore down the 405 and made it a train, the basic layout of entire cities (arguably entire counties) would make train travel less practical. I want fully automated train communism, but I have no idea what the first step would be. Say I am a socialist mayor of a US city, what should my first steps be to make transportation democratic?
Step 1: More bus service. 15 minutes or less on every major arterial
Step 2: Bus lanes. Spray paint them in at night if you have to and enforce them with cameras or Austin Red Guard
Step 3: Single-family zoning? It's done for folks.
Step 4: Public housing right next to all of the major transit corridors
Step 5: If your city is large enough for rapid transit, do that. If not, all your main bus routes should be made trolleybus routes.
Step 6: Congestion charge. Yeah, it's a bit neolib, but use that money to expand the transit network.
Thank you for the concise and direct answer.
What do you mean by single-family zoning and rapid transit. It sounds like the latter is a highway/tollway? I am not actually a socialist mayor and idk shit.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_transit
Fair, how dense? I live in an area that is rapidly expanding and concentrating
The Soviets gave every city above 1 million a metro, but I would say 200,000 people is enough for a light metro.
Do note this is the ideal, in reality most cities don't get metros until they have at least 500,000 people or so
If and when lockdown ends, are there any cool Canadian trains you would recommend for a nice ride? Alternatively, Canadian trains to stay away from?
I haven't ever taken one. Somehow Via Rail is worse than Amtrak. I'm here to bitch about the closed line to Victoria and the fact that Edmonton-Calgary has NO rail service. WTF Canada. Austerity is a bitch.
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You should take that super neat rail line operated by First Nations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tshiuetin_Rail_Transportation
Fuck Canadian rail, it's so bad, so slow, and so expensive. Cheaper to fly across the country!
You are literally better off hopping a freight train that trevalleing in VIA rail. I have travelled from Nova Scotia to Montreal/Ottawa (it's like a two hour difference) using both methods and can for sure say this.
There's a train from Cochrane to Moosonee that I really wanna do, runs a couple times a week. Basically the plan would be to take a canoe up by rail and paddle back along the Abitibi. Difficult bit is getting to Cochrane though, which is a couple hours drive from Sudbury. Up until 2012 you could take the Northlander for the first leg up from Toronto Union to Cochrane, and you could bring all your gear. Pissed I never got a chance to try it that way - I just love the image of portaging downtown Toronto and taking your boat all the way to the put-in by rail, and it's rad that it was totally doable until relatively recently.
Goodish news is that they're putting a toe in the water about partially reinstating the line - so who knows, maybe I'll be able to scandalize Bay St yups with a canoe on my head one day
New York. It is far from the best subway system and it is chronically underfunded and broken down, but the potential is there. Local and express services is so neat and 4-track subways are awesome. Imagine if the system was fully modernized.
oh shit you're a mod now? cool
anyway, whats the least bad monorail?
Monorails get a bad rap. They can do more than people give them credit for. The most useful one is probably the monorail in Chongqing, which is part of the metro system. It can tolerate floods and goes through a building. I'll do an effortpost on monorails sometime in the future.
oh cool. i had seen that before, didn't realize it was a monorail
I remember the Sydney monorail, it went through a building :(
At least we have slow trams.
I have nothing to ask, i just love the to say
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Horse viscera
Which would be better for an american city starting a mass transit system from scratch: light rail with a dedicated right of way, street cars, or subways?
Don't do streetcars, they suck. Don't get me wrong, I love me some trams, but new streetcars in the U.S. are almost always vulnerable to traffic and traffic lights. They also tend to be built in short loops around gentrified downtowns. They are real estate speculation tools and not mass transit.
Light rail is good, if it's a smaller city that's a good idea.
Subways are worth it in dense areas but only if they're automated. Automated subways are a sight to behold. They can keep running late into the night at high frequencies too.
streetcar in own right of way good
streetcar in mixed traffic with almost no cars ok
streetcar stuck in traffic worse than bus
