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[onion-bagels]

I like trains and making maps, so I made a map of the transit agencies providing special services for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour concert in the San Francisco area on July 28 and 29

cuz apparently everyone in our local government agencies are swifties

[lawyeronabike]

Misadventures in American Public Transit #3: The San Jose International Airport

Silicon valley is where the future is invented. This is not always a good thing.

It's practically ground zero for surveillance capitalism, and the center of all sorts of products that are bad for us yet we can't put down. (Facebook, etc.).

With that being said, let's check out the airports. San Francisco's airport has a BART station that runs right into the center of the city. Fantastic. The Oakland Airport has a peoplemover that delivers you to three different BART lines and an Amtrak station. Excellent.

San Jose's airport has no rail transit to the airport, and thanks to the lunatics on the San Jose city council, they won't have it for a very long time.

Instead, they intend to spend half a billion dollars on autonomous "Personal rapid transit." It means dedicated path for tiny driverless, vehicles to operate on.

The capacity will be tiny. Flying with a Utah sized family? Forget it. You will have to take more than one pod. Americans are so averse to sharing public spaces with others that they will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on not yet existing technologies just to have to avoid seeing a stranger on a train, or even more scandalously, a bus.

Currently, there exists a bus route from VTA light rail to the airport. Clearing a dedicated route for it to operate without private vehicles could drastically speed up the bus. Or they could build a people mover like in Oakland. Or they could extend the VTA light rail to go to the airport (probably the best option, albeit not the cheapest, as this allows people to go straight to downtown, and lots of other destinations, without a transfer). Choosing currently nonexistent, nonstandard technology with extremely low capacity is the wrong choice. It seems this time, in the heart of silicon valley, public officials have drunk their own coolaid.

[kyaramaru]

https://twitter.com/nijisanji_app/status/1614819982113734657

EVERYONE SIT DOWN NEW DEBUT GROUP + VTA ROCO IS COMING HOLY SHIT. WE FINALLY HAVE NEW DEBUT FOR JP. ROCO AAAAAAAA I THOUGHT YOU WERE GONE FOREVER. 

This means all active members of VTA gen 1 are now officially a part of nijisanji! :’)

[hayayaya888]

[santaclaralocalnews]

VTA has just made a $76 million purchase to help bring BART to Santa Clara. The transit agency purchased its Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), a massive piece of machinery that will drill a tunnel for the BART tracks to travel through to connect San Jose and Santa Clara. VTA has already started preparing for the TBM’s arrival at its work site. Read complete news at svvoice.com.

[hynterlads]

パン

[mosqitofood]

[cree-words]

021-ahkostimiwew

Verb; Transitive;  Animate

Translation: S/he gets people all wet.

[martinstieger-blog]

Alma Mater Europaea und VTA errichten ein Institut für Gesundheit, Umwelt und Wissenschaften

Alma Mater Europaea und VTA errichten ein Institut für Gesundheit, Umwelt und Wissenschaften

Die Alma Mater Europaea, kurz AMEU, eine 2010 gegründete Förderinitiative der Europäischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste mit Sitz in Salzburg will Wissen vermitteln und hat dazu bereits acht Institutionen in der Alma Mater Europaea Alliance vereint, die zurzeit rund 22.000 Studierende in mehreren europäischen Ländern betreut. Nun ist mit dem VTA-Institut für Gesundheit, Umwelt und…

[amimuu]

“Dream logic.”

Guilt can sometimes find some very interesting ways to manifest itself in.

Listen. So if you were to ask me what in the scallop is even going on in this comic…I don’t know either—I passed out and four hours later this was on my screen with a blurry effect to make emphasis on the “dreamy” vibes.

STILLLL THATS a lie because I do know what’s happening. I present to you: pre-story VTA!Narinder being bullied by a dream version of the Lamb….it must be quite the experience to see the face of your devoted vessel whom you killed in cold blood every time you try to get some shut eye because sleeping is kind of the only thing you can do when you got no one to spend time with, huh.

If you wonder what’s up with the Lamb’s extravagant outfit, that’s simply the clothing they put on the day they died. And so the form that their dream self chooses to manifest itself in.

Y’know when it’s the day of your death but also the day your god whom you love more than anything will be liberated and you’ll finally be able to rest…in some way it could count as the “happiest day of your life” which is also another way to call your wedding day…ykyk

Anyways I am sorta falling asleep so I’ll be leaving this here and going to bed— Until next time!

[jaroftears]

HRK HOLY CRAP IT IS FINALLY DONE

Original is @amimuu

AFTER SEVERAL WEEKS AND THROUGH A THROAT DESTROYING COUGH, I HAVE FINISHED THE DTIYS >:D

AAA fr this was so much fun to draw amimuu’s DTIYS never rlly done anything like this soooo hope u like it :)))

[poughkeepsies]

I know you all didn't know we were competing but I won

[kyaramaru]

V-VTA BOYS???? THEY DEBUT ALREADY??? LETS GOO

[your-subby-creature]

I love every time I get to update my map of how I react to altered states, someday I've gotta make an infographic of it or something

[santaclaralocalnews]

If you’ve driven through the De La Cruz Boulevard/Trimble Road area along the border of San Jose and Santa Clara recently, you’ve noticed the massive construction project adding to the congestion...For more updated news visit SVVOICE.