Carl Sundberg’s European-made Remington Portable Typewriters by [[Robert Messenger]]

Bank branches are not destinations

Banks situate themselves along the paths that people travel...they are not destinations in and of themselves. So placement of branches are guided by modes of transportation: easy car access when cars at the main mode of transport; near transit stops when public transportation is the main mode.

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metrolinx. (2020, November 19). How COVID has impacted transit – Metrolinx releases ridership map covering all GO Transit rail routes. Metrolinx News. https://blog.metrolinx.com/2020/11/19/how-covid-has-impacted-transit-metrolinx-releases-ridership-map-covering-all-go-transit-rail-routes/

Socialism for the oligarchs, the pointy end of capitalism for everyone else.

Though NYC has probably the most comprehensive transit capabilities in the US, and it somehow fails to charge for parking permits. Surprisingly, SF appears to be the "big winner" here, $12/month for a parking permit and $81/month for a Muni pass. (However, in these pandemic times, I wonder how much buying monthly passes has decreased. And for a compact city, so much SF stuff still assumes you have a car.)

Also of note: huge swaths of SF are SFH yet still have (one-car) garages so you don't have to park your (first) car on the street. Compare how many cars per household in SF, in the Bay Area, and contrast with NYC.

$70 for a monthly transit pass vs. $2.25 for a monthly parking permit. I wonder what the price for a monthly parking permit averages out to among the cities that DO charge.

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9 cities world wide have 24 hours service on some line every night. 14 cities world wide have 24 hours service on some line every weekends. Which lines, which nights, should it be in KL? https://twitter.com/sabre23t/status/1071943579025661955

Never heard of it.

Those loyalty programs are pretty interesting. Wish the same existed for day and monthly passes.

For once, this isn’t a buried lede.

Like Waze for public transit? Way to merge official Open Data from municipal authorities with the power of crowdsourcing mass transportation.

I only skimmed this, but I think I got the point. You move more people faster on escalators when none of them are reserved for walking -- simply because not enough people are willing or able to walk. If you have walking lanes, they are under-used, and the standing lanes are over-crowded.