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I can make a good argument that greed, rather than Regan, brought down the USSR.

If I remember correctly (and if I was taught the truth🤔) Orwell's #1984 was about #communism but I think, in light of the present, that the moral applies equally to any society led by elitists.

I don't think limited #capitalism (with #publicsafety, #corrections, #masstransit, #education & #healthcare excluded) is that bad.

I think it's the greed & arrogance that bring the fall of all

#Google #London #England #GoogleStreetView #rail #MassTransit

'Transport for London (TfL), Network Rail and Google have launched Google Street View within stations across central London.

TfL said that customers can now access the virtual representations of locations within 18 stations across the Tube, Elizabeth line and Network Rail stations – including Oxford Circus, London Bridge and Tottenham Court Road, with a further 18 stations live before the end of the year.'

ukauthority.com/articles/googl

Dear Friends, Once upon a time here I tried out the hashtag #TransitTuesday to highlight the virtues, fun, oddities, perils, or whatever, of public transportation. Locally our #MassTransit lives center on the east-west running Long Island Rail Road (190 years old). The view out the windows on older trains is getting foggy. The polymeric plastic windows are sun damaged. This is what it looks like through the windows at the Jamaica Station transfer point.
#photographer #trains #PublicTransport

Dallas brings in consultant to study economic impact of high speed rail project 🚆

Dallas city leaders are moving forward with an economic impact analysis of a proposed high speed rail line to Houston.

City council members on Wednesday voted unanimously to approve a more than half-million dollar contract with The Boston Consultant Group to conduct the study.

keranews.org/news/2024-10-24/d

Kiss buses, trains & any other forms of mass transit funding goodbye if Fat Nixon wins.

"With the federal government facing mounting debt, the best course of action would be to remove federal subsidies for transit spending allowing states and localities to decide whether mass transit is a good investment for them."
- Project 2025, page 636

After the war, consumer demand and public policy swung the other way. Many white commuters took advantage of the GI Bill, federally subsidized mortgages, an expanding highway network and cheap automobiles to escape #MassTransit – and the neighborhoods that it served.

Black Americans, in contrast, were largely shut out from access to these benefits, keeping them trapped in decaying urban cores.

usa.streetsblog.org/2024/08/20

So, racism turned public transit into the Cinderella of US transportation.

usa.streetsblog.org · This Single Photo of a Packed Trolley Illustrates the Ups and Downs of US Public Transit — Streetsblog USAThe last national transit boom can explain the challenges that confront modern transit agencies, says the author of 'The Great American Transit Disaster.'

When I was a kid, before the expressway, the fastest and cheapest way to Cincinnati from Madisonville, was to catch the B&O at the station down the road at Oakley, Ohio.

I loved being close to those massive rumbling engines and the sound of the steel wheels' click-clack on the rails, but nothing was like walking into that gigantic art deco dome and seeing all those hauntingly beautiful, building-size color murals by Winold Reiss.

Largest Half-Dome built in the western Hemisphere
Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio
#History #CriticalInfrastructure #MassTransit #TOD #Architecture #Rail #Trains
youtube.com/watch?v=zaWqf_FHIJ

This is desperately needed here in the USA.

US High-Speed Rail Map Shows Proposed Routes 🚂

Under the plan, which the USHSR proposes to build in four stages, it would be possible to travel between Seattle, Washington; San Diego, California; Miami, Florida; and Boston, Massachusetts, entirely on 220-mile-per-hour high-speed rail lines.

newsweek.com/us-high-speed-rai