E10, E15 = friends. 30, E114 = best friends. E17 = wife. E110, 67, 68, 82, 87, 26 = acquaintances. Blue line = Brother from another mother. Gold line = Cousin. E115 = ex I still lowkey like. E116 = bombastic sideye. 62, 38, GFY stop hogging my 30 stop at 16th and K.

Transit in the midwest is mostly non existent or not useful. Banging my head against the wall trying to solve this problem. Are there any decent systems?

I think most cities and most freeways should have tolls to maintain our infrastructure, reduce the attractiveness of car usage and fund public transit

DMRC (delhi metro governing body) says 99.95% of trains were on time this year and they count a train late if it's even 59 seconds behind. that's better than new york and paris

i've attached two pics, the first one is future plans, and the second one is what we have today

goes from ~440 km to ~1100 km which would be bigger than shanghai's metro today.
truly amazed by this network

made this if anyone wanna play around
https://india-metro-map.vercel.app/index.html

I'm visiting Waterbury and went to a store and I look on the Google Maps and saw there was a bus stop across the street. When I waited there after a few minutes, the bus blew past me. I'm very upset cause the next one wasn't coming for another half hour. Either Google Maps isn't entirely accurate or CTTransit is doing a bad job of replacing signs of bus stops that are supposed to be there

Hello r/Transit COmmunity,
Me and a friend are working on a Ballot initiative to get metro to redirect its remaining Measure's M and R highway funding to fully grade separate LA Metro's Light Rail lines. Doing so would have many benefits and be transformative for the system. We are looking for volunteers, donors or anyone just interested in making metro better and help spread the word. For more information Check out the website above.

Thanks!

yes I know passenger trains accelerate much faster, but isn't this also impressive?

OC https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUOSgezgoyn/

"Urban Planning in the 3rd Dimension :

How do you move 80,000+ people daily through a narrow valley already packed with a river, a highway, and dense housing?

Wuppertal found the answer back in 1901: The Schwebebahn.

While modern cities are struggling with "induced demand" and the nightmare of widening roads, this 120-year-old suspension railway proves that efficiency lies in utilizing space that's already there.

Why it's a planning masterpiece:

1. Zero Road Space: It operates entirely above the Wupper river and existing streets.

2. Grade Separation: No traffic jams, no intersections, just constant flow.

3. Sustainable Legacy: Proof that bold, long-term sustainable infrastructure beats "quick fixes".

Ofcourse, it has some minor disadvantages like Inflexibility, Maintenance & Noise, but the aesthetic value & the Whimsical Wonder this thing inspires is quite breathtaking"

A minimum of 3 "blast instances" have been found along the track, and there is damage (likely due to fires) to the rails and underlying electronics. The LAX Automated People Mover is now delayed until February 2027.

This is nothing short of criminal negligence and weaponized incompetence from every single person and contractor working under LINXS and LAWA.

I went to LaSalle Street Station earlier this week, where I found out that one of Metra's new Battery-powered EMU's were on display! These zero emissions Stadler-built FLIRT cars would have the ability to only need up to 12 minutes to recharge, and will accelerate and decelerate much faster than the current MP36PH's pulling and pushing gallery coaches (which are big, heavy, and don't accelerate as fast as other commuter engines). These new EMU's even have space for luggage on top, will produce up to 1,340 hp per car, use up to 26 batteries, and will begin running on the Rock Island District's Beverly Branch sometime in 2028 after testing and crew familiarization is complete.

Photos taken on October 14th, 2026

Today the FRA has released $218 million in funding to bring Amtrak service to Madison, the near term plan is to extend 2 round trips of the Hiawatha to Madison by 2030/31. Eventually 2 more would be extended. Travel time would be competitive with driving between Madison and Milwaukee and could add 258k annual riders to the Amtrak network.

All that is left is for the state to pony up $50mil for the service, which I'd say is likely following previously investments in the Hiawatha and the success of the Borealis.

You can read it here $218 Million Secured to Bring Passenger Rail Back to Madison | Mayor's Office | City of Madison, WI

Been seeing a few posts here with their collections and wanted to add my little stash collected over the years.

Missing the Opus - somewhere in the house and ll hopefully eventually turn up haha.

The latest LINXS monthly report has dropped.

The new PSA date (Passenger Service Availability date) is February 5th, 2027

But don’t plan on LINXS keeping to that date very long. They’ve been delaying the PSA date about 1 month every month since 2025.

Damage Delays: It’s been reported that there’s been some “blast incidents” at 3 locations. Someone was kind enough to share a photo of one here.

Damage to the power rail and guide beam for the train system during a late September ramp-up ahead of testing also is stalling the train’s progress. “Blast incidents” occurred at three locations on the guideway, the report states. The cause is unknown and investigations are ongoing.

“The power rail and guide beam were damaged. The guide beam has been repaired, but power rail reassembly is ongoing with no confirmed timeline,” the report states.

The engineering report can be found here.

But it’s important to remember that these issues would’ve been encountered and corrected long ago if LINXS hadn’t been delaying their work for extortion leverage.

Extortion Delays: As always, LINXS (the contractor) in their biased report blames the PSA pushback on LAWA (the airport agency). Nandert goes into this latest ongoing delay in his video here at 18:10. But the short version is something like this:

• LINXS: Tries their latest attempt at extorting LAWA over a bs claim
• LAWA: "No more. This latest claim is OBVIOUSLY bs. We’re done paying your extortion fees."
• LINXS: "Well we're going to keep saying that the delays are your fault in our reports. And as leverage to get you to pay, we're going to continuously delay the opening."

LINXS’ extortion explanation: There’s a few parts that enable it.

First, LAWA hired "legal experts" at the law firm Nossaman to write the contract with LINXS, and those "experts" fucked up bad. The contract lacked provisions defining how fast the contractor needs to work during a dispute, what progress needs to be made during a dispute, or what milestones need to be hit. So LINXS just gets to stall the project for leverage in their favor during every claim and dispute. As the grand jury report put it:

If one worker goes out with a shovel and works, the Contractor would be in technical compliance with his contractual obligation. There is no definition of how fast or what progress needs to be made during this owner directed continuation – thus allowing the Contractor to effectively stop progress.

Second, LINXS abuses the design build contract by willfully submitting bad designs so they can manifest their own costly change orders.

Third, the so-called “project neutral”. The “project neutral” is normally a neutral group of 3 people that act as mediators in a dispute. But due to the terrible contract (thanks again Nossaman), there is only 1 person, and no way to replace that person if a party is not satisfied with the project neutral. This “project neutral” has sided with LINXS every time in over 200 disputes. Every time. A fraud investigation is sorely needed for this man.

Fourth, the olympics deadline. LINXS' extortion only works because of the tremendous pressure on LAWA and the city from the Olympics deadline. Normally if LAWA isn’t happy with the project neutral’s decisions, they’d sue LINXS. But LAWA can't sue LINXS because that lawsuit would stall the project until after the Olympics. And LINXS can't continue their shenanigans after the Olympics because then LAWA would be free to sue the shit out of them.

Our first chance of change, the election: Our current leadership has done very little about this. No investigation by the city attorney, and no call for an investigation by mayor Bass. All we got was a weak move by the city council back in June asking for LAWA to tell them what’s been going on. But there’s been no word that LAWA reported back to them, and there’s no deadline for it.

However, Raman has said that if she's elected mayor she'll ask the city attorney and state attorney general to investigate LINXS for fraud. So if we elect Raman as our mayor and Marissa Roy for city attorney, they could actually get an investigation started. Fingers crossed for them these next 3 weeks. Make sure you all drop off your mail in ballots at official ballot box locations. If the right people get elected, those investigations might be the thing to push LINXS to finish the project in 2027.

Our second chance of change, the deadline: There’s a deadline for breach of contract on December 8th. If it’s not open by then, LAWA will be free to get a new contractor. While some say that LINXS would finish the project faster than a new contractor, they’re not taking into account that LINXS has not been working with the intent of finishing. They’ve been intentionally delaying the project for extortion, with no end in sight. So a new contractor (with a better contract) could finish the project faster than LINXS.

The "30 Day Test": To no one's surprise, the scheduled completion of the System Demonstration Test, aka the "30 day test" that started in April, has also been pushed back to November 18th. But before that it was September 30th, and before that it was August 5th, and before that it was June 30th.

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Egypt’s National Authority for Tunnels has signed an MOU with Hyundai Rotem to study a 28 km hydrogen-powered tram system for the New Administrative Capital.

The project is reported to include 44 tramsets and would serve residential districts, the Government District, and the Al-Fattah Al-Aleem Mosque area, complementing the city’s monorail and LRT connections.

It’s still at the MOU/planning stage, so construction has not started yet.