Interesting transportation things

[UrbanImpact]

Originally Posted by llamaorama

Meh, from what I can tell from the comments was this was an informal reuse of an old colonial era industrial railway. Also you can tell that's the inside corner of a flowing river so natural erosion will bring it down eventually.

Meeting the needs of the people would clearly involve building a paved road and installing even so much as dropping in a 1 lane prefab bailey bridge type thing there, so that way conventional minibuses and trucks could transport people and goods in and out that area.

Yeah I get it, however, my comment was meant to be in jest and more along the lines that it's more rail transit than provided in some US cities.

[llamaorama]

Yeah I get it, however, my comment was meant to be in jest and more along the lines that it's more rail transit than provided in some US cities.

I gotcha. There's a comment on there, "even the jungle has better public transit than the US", lol

So to change the subject, another thing that popped up in my youtube recommendations.

I never realized the Phoenix deck park tunnel was designed with an underground bus station in between the two highway tunnels.

Given that directly above is the Central Avenue LRT line and the deck park area above is now surrounded by development including a ASU branch campus, I wonder how doable reviving this would be?

Sometimes I wonder if freeway BRT is under-utilized as a concept. Stations inside of freeway medians are usually terrible because they are hard to access for pedestrians and unpleasant due to the noise/exhaust, etc. But T-ramps and putting the station outside of the highway can also be a thing for example in Houston.

12 News: Have you been inside Phoenix's forgotten underground bus station?

note: this video doesn't allow embedding so here is a link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOBqy9vip88

[mrnyc]

cinci bridge forward efforts vs ohio dot —


https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_leN...UwcHBhYTBpOG5r

[jmecklenborg]

An ocean-going WWII U.S. Navy ship that apparently participated in the Normandy landing...coasting down the Ohio River in 2024?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DACNb5GOnRz/

[JManc]

Originally Posted by jmecklenborg

An ocean-going WWII U.S. Navy ship that apparently participated in the Normandy landing...coasting down the Ohio River in 2024?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DACNb5GOnRz/

Looks like Covington is finally invading Cincinnati.

[mrnyc]

Originally Posted by jmecklenborg

An ocean-going WWII U.S. Navy ship that apparently participated in the Normandy landing...coasting down the Ohio River in 2024?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DACNb5GOnRz/

sure why not — its basically a barge.

[mrnyc]

current creativity in public transit —


How are the world’s biggest cities rethinking public transport?

Feb 24, 2022


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The Parisian suburb of Creteil plans to build the French capital’s first aerial tramway

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Oslo aimed to become the first major European city to to ban private cars from its centre, announcing a plan in 2015 to remove them by 2019.

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Ride-hailing company Uber has teamed up with river bus service Thames Clippers to take commuters to work by boat as an alternative to using buses or underground trains.

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Tokyo rolled out the world’s biggest experiment with self-driving vehicles for the delayed 2020 Olympics, with 80 autonomous buses, minivans and SUVs driving athletes and officials around.


more:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/...rt-challenges/

[mrnyc]

just another day driving in florida —


https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_1gV...1zNG5xeDF5Zg==

[SpongeG]

A recent Broadway update of an extension under construction in Vancouver

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[202_Cyclist]

We saw the Joby eVTOL aircraft at Grand Central on Friday. The aircraft was on display for a couple of days this week. I won't opine on when this will actually fly but it received an additional $500M of financing from Toyota last week.

Toyota to invest $500 million in electric air taxi company Joby Aviation
https://www.reuters.com/business/aut...on-2024-10-02/

[llamaorama]

I can't wait until the skies are filled with traffic and it will be impossible to look up at the clouds on a nice sunny day and nowhere you go will be immune to a constant buzzing drone /s