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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1722 on: July 16, 2019, 11:01:17 AM »
CTA comprises the subway and elevated lines, mostly within the city itself. Metra is the commuter rail lines that strategically go N, NW, W, SW and S. These all go into the suburbs (The N one goes into SE Wisconsin).

https://metrarail.com/maps-schedules/system-map



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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1723 on: July 16, 2019, 11:16:13 AM »






Look pretty similar.  MARTA is apparently looking for new cars that can pick up power from a third rail as well as from above the train.

https://saportareport.com/marta-replace-rail-car-fleet-2026-seeks-cars-can-travel-streets-freight-lines/

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1724 on: July 16, 2019, 11:39:04 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 16, 2019, 11:16:13 AM






Look pretty similar.  MARTA is apparently looking for new cars that can pick up power from a third rail as well as from above the train.

https://saportareport.com/marta-replace-rail-car-fleet-2026-seeks-cars-can-travel-streets-freight-lines/
shit like that should be in every major city in the US. public transport and infrastructure in general here blows ass.

Imagine what this country could look like had it been invested into instead of wasting $6 trillion on pointless wars that our government lied us into in Iraq and Afghanistan (where we still are and have been for EIGHTEEN f'n years) and operating 900+ bases in over 80 countries and spending over $1 trillion a year on the defense budget. That shit blows my mind and pisses me off every time I think about it. Insanity.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1725 on: July 16, 2019, 11:47:05 AM »
Heavy rail gets insanely expensive.  Atlanta is lucky to have built it in the 1970s and 1980s.  Everyone expected the system to get expanded over time, but with one exception that has not happened.  The planned expansion from here is light rail and a commuter train.  The major outer counties have not bought in.

The good news is that development around many of the stations has gone crazy, it has been a huge draw for new apartments and condos and office buildings.  Midtown likely doesn't exist anything like it does today without MARTA.  Neither would Buckhead, which you can see in the distance here.

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1726 on: July 16, 2019, 12:21:43 PM »
I think I've said this before, but unfortunately it's not really cost-effective to invest in new mass transit systems and expansion plans are even difficult to get funded (The DC Metro's Silver Line that will eventually get to Dulles Airport being one example). The hope is that autonomous vehicles will be available soon to make ride-sharing more cost-effective. I just discovered yesterday that VW and Ford have partnered and are testing AVs in DC with the goal of making them available in 2 years. Tesla apparently wants to deploy its full-fledged self-driving mode by next year, too. I'm simultaneously hopeful and skeptical....
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1727 on: July 16, 2019, 12:27:10 PM »
I've opined before that autonomous cars are going to change our world, and fairly soon, and a lot.

I've been in a CT6 with Supercruise and it's amazing.  Our GTI will drive itself on freeways for 15 seconds or so before it notices your hands are not on the wheel.

https://www.motortrend.com/cars/cadillac/ct6/2018/2018-cadillac-ct6-super-cruise-review/

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1728 on: July 16, 2019, 12:29:50 PM »
Arguing that some pretty places are inherently better than others is a flawed way of seeing this. Every region in america is plenty awesome and parsing the nitty gritty brings us into personal preferences that only reinforce how silly it is for someone who loves one place to debate with someone who loves a different place
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1729 on: July 16, 2019, 12:34:04 PM »
I gleefully welcome our autonomous overlords. I don't mind being in a car for ten hours straight and often am, but to be driving it that whole time ... Monotonously responsible? Attentive? Ugh. That's the worst.

Just let me recline and read.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1730 on: July 16, 2019, 12:45:20 PM »
gonna be a few years out here


I'll man the steering wheel

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1731 on: July 16, 2019, 12:51:06 PM »
Quote from: Anonymous Coward on July 16, 2019, 12:29:50 PM
Arguing that some pretty places are inherently better than others is dumb. Every region in america is plenty awesome and parsing the nitty gritty brings us into personal preferences that only reinforce how silly it is for someone who loves one place to debate with someone who loves a different place
I do appreciate hearing opinions around here as to why folks like X or Y, for obvious reasons.  We have an unusual group.

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1732 on: July 16, 2019, 01:05:36 PM »
"X is great, because ..." 

≠ 

"X > Y, because ..."
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1733 on: July 16, 2019, 01:06:29 PM »
The posters around here mostly say they prefer X over Y, not that X is better than Y, period.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1734 on: July 16, 2019, 01:17:18 PM »
"Mostly"
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1735 on: July 16, 2019, 01:26:39 PM »
Granted, I think most seriously negative opinions about places are silly. There's a saying about bad weather. That weather can never be miserable. It can only be itself. The miserable thing is the mental attitude some people pick to have about it. I happen to think that's a good and widely missed point.And the same has to go for places. A given spot in the U.S. doesn't have to be exclusively rainbows for everyone. Picking our opinions about places is obviously personal. So, someone can pick to be miserable about a place. But the place itself wasn't sufficient for that emotion, nor did it make it inevitable. And there's truth in pointing it out.
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