Railway signalling & communications specialist, electronics engineer, standardization zealot. Preaching system safety & security by design. (he/him) (en/fr-2)
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The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers.
@Microsoft @MicrosoftTeams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is "high priority"
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Yep, that's worked out well for Portland. Wait, let's check some avg weekday numbers to confirm that:
Portland MAX only - 74,800 rides
Vancouver SkyTrain only - 446,400 rides
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Canadas transparency problem. There just isn’t a culture of telling people what’s going on. Transit agencies act like they are guarding the nuclear codes.
It would be great if @Metrolinx and @GOExpansion would tell us publicly what long closures are for. Weekend closures are inconvenient and can be frustrating if riders don't know what they are for.
A thread worth reading. Diversity makes systems resilient, whether technical (vital computers on large aircraft) or human (groupthink and assimilation engineering culture). All the problems Reece enumerates can be solved - but first we need to decide we want to solve them.
We must reject this ridiculous false dichotomy: high speed, high frequency, and high reliability are NOT mutually exclusive. Spend time near the LGV Sud-Est or the WCML and watch how many high(er) speed trains they move. Nobody would prefer an RER to Lyon regardless of frequency!
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The first people paying to ride the REM are mostly from Toronto 😂 – at Montréal, Québec
The TTC website is more service alert than actual website. If everything is a priority, nothing is a priority. Why are escalator closures and late night construction sharing space with a partial closure of Toronto's second-busiest subway line?
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Huge day for this amazing project. First test trains over the viaduct. A full, 12 car set, powered by an MP40 & MP54.
It's funny to have watched this every day for the last three years & finally see the end result of all that labour. Congratulations to the whole project team!
Progress on the Davenport Diamond on @GOtransitBR is really shifting into high gear. Images from 9am, 10am, 11am & 1pm. The speed with which we're able to build this kind of infrastructure should be instructive for all sorts of transit projects across the City.
Great thread from Uday on the impetus behind building Mac Yard in Vaughan.
(This is also how the Milton and Brampton Subdivisions lost their names. The remaining chunks became the Guelph and Weston Subs, with the new Halton Sub connecting Burlington directly to Mac Yard.)
A small convoy of streetcars are reversing eastward in the westbound lanes of King St due to the flooding incident at St. Andrew. Unfortunately, the tracks on York St are closed due to construction, so they'll have to reverse all the way to Church St.
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6G Standardization has not even started but fake news and fake remedies have already started 🤦♂️
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as someone who got a traditional "look left, look right; one of you will drop out" engineering education i sure wish this was true. college is incredibly high-stakes today and it has reduced the quality of education and has wreaked havoc with students' mental health – at Philadelphia, PA
VIA Rail's operations are falling apart. The weather isn't in their control, but the communications strategy and disaster recovery plan are.
The front-line staff, stressed beyond belief, deserve praise. This is a structural failure, and I hope VIA does a debrief to find out why.
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Please @VIA_Rail you are NOT an airline. Please stop doing these dumb things : ⬇️ – at Toronto, Ontario
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Developing better industrial policy for freight transport is going to be essential for managing climate change. @EnglishRail and I are in Bloomberg today talking about the important role carload freight rail must play:
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Every time I come to the West Midlands, there's something new going on: tram extensions to Wolverhampton city centre and Edgbaston, protected cycle lanes in Selly Oak, a new bike share service across W Mids... wow! Things are slowly improving, little by little.
ALT a tram station with grass between the tracks
ALT a meandering cycle path in the median of a road with blue paint
ALT a bike lane at an intersection with a corner bump-out demarcated with reflective orange posts
ALT an instructional sign at a West Midlands Cycle Hire station
I'm so happy to see this becoming a regular sight. VIA finally has some rolling stock manufactured in my lifetime.
Heads up Ottawa ! Train 33 headed to you is on Siemens consist. @via_rail. So 24 should also be on the way back.