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Bus passengers of the eastern suburbs - rejoice!

Despite breaking down again yesterday, it seems that the Box Hill Bus Station escalator is back up and running today.

Have updated the counter accordingly and hopefully I can now shut up about it: philipmallis.com/2025/02/07/th

Philip Mallis | Transport planner, YouTuber, Map maker. · The Box Hill Bus Station escalator saga | Philip Mallis

Advocates give TTC station a makeover to spur city to fund new wayfinding system
Transit advocates gave a TTC subway station a makeover early Friday, posting their own signs and adding stickers to existing signs, in an effort to push the city into funding a new TTC wayfinding system.
#transit #city #advocates #funding #News #Canada
cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ttc

This will be a horrible scenario for Philadelphia:

Those and other cuts totaling 45% of SEPTA service would be implemented in two phases, starting this fall — if the Pennsylvania legislature doesn’t pass Gov. Josh Shapiro’s latest proposal to increase state aid for mass transit systems.

#philly #philadelphia #transit #pennsylvania #trains #urbanism

inquirer.com/transportation/se

The Philadelphia Inquirer · SEPTA plans to cut service on dozens of routes and may lay off staff amid funding crisisVon Thomas Fitzgerald
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If anyone is interested in an effort to make all Penn. transit agencies solvent and increase service levels back to at least 2019 levels, Pittsburghers for Public Transit is lobbying for an increase on the rental car and car leasing taxes, which I believe haven't been raised since the ’90s. This would give transit agencies enough funding for at least 6 years, without having to return to the state assembly each year.

I think they'll soon publish this plan now that the SEPTA cuts are announced. https://www.transitforallpa.org/campaign-updates/ or https://www.pittsburghforpublictransit.org/

#Transit #PA #Pittsburgh

Experimenting with showing custom icons for stations. Inspired a bit from our highway shield rendered (derived from OpenStreetMap Americana)

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-m

It's making use of the "network:wikidata" OSM tag.

Currently rendering these icons in map view itself is not tested (this needs an extra addition to our planetiler generator for the vector tiles to be run in the next import).

#gnomemaps#gnome#Transit

This is what passes for a bus stop in Edmonton. Yes, you have to wait standing in that mud hole or the bus won't stop.

Where we're standing now? That's the only multi-use active transportation path that seems to go anywhere in the west end (and even then, it ends at 163 St when all the businesses are on 170 St and on).

As such, it is a heavily-used path which only becomes unused during a forced "off-season" when maintenance is neglected to the point of making it unusable, and users are forced onto the street where they are often run off the road by aggressive drivers.

The road the cars are driving on? Huge 4-lane road which even during rush hour has mostly empty space but traffic drives so fast and aggressively (with no traffic calming whatsoever), that it is very difficult for active transportation to get in, which they must do (or find a completely different route altogether) during the many long months when the heavily-used MUP is left unusable.

Even though there is SO much empty space on this road, if traffic gets slowed down for a split second (which generally only happens when somebody is turning left, and through traffic passes beside them), the horns come out on FULL BLAST. Tons of aggression and road rage on this street, largely contributed to by the autocentric "stroad" design.

This is a classic example of infrastructure and maintenance designed to force an end of active transportation supposedly by concentrating on automobile traffic, except that this focus on cars gives no actual benefit to them, except to make them feel more privileged.

Note: Despite its looks, this road is more dangerous for the drivers than others. I have seen so many near crashes on it when I used to use it regularly. The road is wide and straight, but that just means people can't get their foot off the gas.

Although they take their anger out on the rest of us, it's the people driving on the road who are most at risk. Driving does NOT make you safer.

#yeg#yegbike#Transit