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kojiarakiartworks · 9 months

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February 2007 PDX Portland Oregon U.S.A.

■Calendar of 2023 August

Daily life and every small thing is the gate to the universe ：）

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retropopcult · 7 months

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Toledo, Ohio, October 1905. "Post Office on St. Clair Street."

#vintage #1900s #horse and buggy #street scene #downtown #trolley tracks #horse drawn cart #streetcar #turn of the century

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360nw · 5 days

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Portland Streetcar NS Line at OHSU Commons - Portland Oregon - February 2011

#portland oregon #oregon #the great pnw #photographers on tumblr #pnw #oregonexplored #original photography #the pacific northwest #light rail #portland streetcar #streetcar #electric train #public transit #trains #transit #track #train

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newyorkthegoldenage · 2 years

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A workman is pouring molten borax into the opening where two streetcar rails join together, ca. 1927. This was part of the track-welding program to reduce noise in the city.

Photo: Underwood Archives via Fine Art America

#New York #NYC #vintage New York #1920s #men working #labor #streetcar #track welding #borax #road work

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iowacitypast · 2 years

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Streetcar, Iowa City, Iowa, between 1913 and 1920

Creator: Kent, Frederick Wallace

https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3Aictcs_366

#Streetcars #Tracks #1910s #Close Hall #Horses #Wagons #People #Trees #Hotel Jefferson #Iowa City

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fagtendo64 · 1 month

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I Miss The Fucking Light Rail :(

#jackieposting #fr tho what the fuck #there's even tracks here already #north carolina step the fuck up #we don't even have a streetcar for downtown #this place is my hell

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thedailymobile · 10 months

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“Track Level”

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#Leslie Barns #public transit #red #streetcars #Toronto Transit Commission #tracks #TTC

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anonuid · 2 years

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3rd Ave. between 38th and 39th St., 2022 . . . . #brooklyn #sunsetpark #trolley #streetcar #tracks #abandoned #streetphotography #streetshot #ig_street #justgoshoot #nycphotography #nyclife #newyork_ig #what_i_saw_in_nyc (at Sunset Park Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci_1chiustJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#brooklyn #sunsetpark #trolley #streetcar #tracks #abandoned #streetphotography #streetshot #ig_street #justgoshoot #nycphotography #nyclife #newyork_ig #what_i_saw_in_nyc

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pedestrianlens · 2 years

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#chicago #logan square #streetcar tracks

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letmeliedown · 2 years

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i miss the 360 and the way that whole neighbourhood used to be so much i’m going to die

#even though i always nearly killed myself getting over the streetcar tracks at that intersection

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kojiarakiartworks · 3 months

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December 2003 PDX Portland Oregon U.S.A.

Daily life and every small thing is the gate to the universe ：）

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retropopcult · 1 year

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“Main Street. The Five Cents Savings Bank, Fall River Electric Co, and Shoe Hospital.” Photographed 1915 in Fall River, Massachusetts.

#vintage #1910s #street scene #trolley tracks #automobiles #small town #pedestrians #streetcar

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amtrak-official · 2 months

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Can you tell me why streetcars are better than bus networks???

They are about the same speed or higher speed at times but shouldn't get stuck in traffic as they typically have dedicated rights of way and are higher capacity and more predictable as a result of the tracked infrastructure, a streetcar will always show up even if it gets stuck behind something. They are also more accessible and have smoother rides in than a bus. Also this is an unfortunate benefit, but it will usually get higher ridership as it won't be seen as something just for poor people.

#asks

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sapphixxx · 9 days

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Honestly find it a little frustrating that so much of mass transit conversations focus exclusively on trains. Trains are great don't get me wrong, but buses are relatively extremely cheap and require very little in the way of city infrastructure planning and construction. You can establish or reroute a bus route basically in the span of time it takes to make that decision and communicate it (both to riders and in terms of training drivers). More buses, staff, and signage may need to be acquired, but are also fairly straightforward and attainable with modest investment even by smaller or poorer municipalities.

Establishing a train line, though, or even a streetcar, requires acquisition of real estate, public comment, environmental impact studies (among other types of research), construction of tracks, stations, and other infrastructure, and so on. It's a long expensive process with many steps that can be delayed for very long spans of time and the result is fairly permanent and for the most part can't be changed.

When there's a problem with the train cars or infrastructure it is very expensive and takes a long time to repair, and whole stretches of the system might be out of commission in the meantime. Buses, on the other hand, are very adaptable. If a road becomes unavailable due to construction, road damage, or other issues, the route can simply change to drive around it. If a bus breaks down it can be towed away and replaced without the same technical issues of, for example, making sure the car is compatible with the rails and other infrastructure.

Here in Seattle the light rail system has been in development for decades and still doesn't reach most neighborhoods, let alone nearby cities. It has not and fundamentally cannot keep up with the pace of population growth in the area. As much as I would love to be able to catch a quick train to visit friends in Olympia or Everett (there is Amtrak but it only runs a few times a day and is pretty expensive), I kind of wish that money had instead been put towards a good central bus station and a large fleet of buses to run frequent trips to all corners of the city and beyond (one bus every 30 minutes is not frequent, sorry).

The cost really can't be brushed off, too. That relatively low minimum investment in time and money makes it possible for buses to serve poor communities, even when people get pushed out of central neighborhoods. Which is important to consider when, well, if homes or businesses need to be demolished for new infrastructure, who do you think they tend to belong to? And who gets pushed out when the area around those new stations suddenly becomes very desirable? Whose voices are prioritized and listened to when this much money is on the line, the white single family homeowner with and HOA and a job that accommodates going to public listening sessions that might not even be accessible by bus, or the renters, the people who work graveyard shift, the single parents who can't afford an extra day of babysitting, the people who might speak English as a second language or not at all?

#op

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master-of-47-dudes · 1 month

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So I showed the early stuff off a bit a few months back, but I've finally completed the first draft of Act 1 of my Lancer adventure path, Kindness of Strangers! The deets can be found on the pilot net discord, but:

LRBT-III, otherwise known as Blanche to the locals. This sun-baked dustbowl of a planet has the high honor of being one of the few habitable terrestrial bodies that anyone has discovered in the Long Rim- and probably the only one that's actually any use to anyone. Luckily- or not so luckily, if you ask some people- it was Union that found it first. Well, about 70 years ago when they stumbled across this star system they got it in their heads that the Long Rim's days were numbered. There’s untold millions living out there scattered along the emptiest shipping lane in the known galaxy who'd need a way out once no one needed to pass them by, and by Christ the Buddha Union was gonna be there for them waiting with open arms.

All of that is background, though. You? You’re a bunch of mercenaries who got their hands on a couple of GMSes, decided to make your manna selling violence for pay. Worlds like Blanche don't take to colonies very well, so even two generations in there's still plenty of frontier out there being settled and railroad tracks being laid. The people out there struggle day by day to survive, and people like you are there to protect them from those who got sick of the hard life. Not everyone out there has the guts to stand up for the little guy- that's why you're called Lancers.

A setting and a campaign all in one, Kindness Of Strangers and its (eventual) follow-up Dancing With the Devil are a series of Wild West-themed 2-mission adventures intended to take players from 0-12 as they find themselves embroiled in the midst of a corporate conspiracy to overthrow the Union-backed government of the isolated colony of Blanche and a ploy to seize control over a nearly completed Blinkstation. All the while, a strange religious movement worshipping an eons-dead alien civilization grows ever more influential in the background...

This campaign tackles themes of colonialism, nationalism, corruption, and conflict between indigenous peoples, settlers, and immigrants, all in a world where well-meaning intentions have gone sour and the ghosts of the past have come back to haunt it. It comes with:

- A setting guide for LRBT-III and its weird-as-hell star system!

- A 0-12 campaign split up into two books, Kindness of Strangers and Dancing With the Devil, that are made up of three 2-mission adventures each. And then a final mission to tie things up.

- 4 Alt-Frames: the IPS-N Nemo, the SSC Painted Lady, the Horus Roper, and the HA Grant (still working on these)

- New Reserves! (still working on these)

- New Exotic Gear (still working on these)

- New NPCs! (still working on these)

Things to look forward to:

- Rallying a town to fight off a horde of bandits!

- An epic duel at sunset!

- Accidentally walking into a partial metavault and escaping with the only scars being mental ones!

- A weird amount of references to the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, like a probably legally dubious amount!

- Exploding plants!

- Exploding wildlife!

- The **CHRISTHEBUDDHASAURUS**

- Helping striking miners fight off Pinkertons!

- Investigating the bombing of a water filtration plant!

- AND MORE

...so this is really my first time doing this kind of thing so I don't entirely know what all to put here BUT I've put together first drafts of both the Field Guide to LRBT and Kindness of Strangers Act 1: A Streetcar Named Desire. They're not in any state where I can charge for them- I'd call them "playtest and editing ready" rn- but I figure I can share them here so people can give notes. If people think it's cool I could possibly do a kickstarter or something to get the money needed for art and help with editing and lcps and such.

Field Guide to LRBT:

Kindness of Strangers Act 1: A Streetcar Named Desire:

#lancer #lancer ttrpg #lancer rpg #third party content #huge success for me!!!#im happy to finally be ready to share it

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threadatl · 8 days

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Population growth & rail stations need better alignment in Atlanta

Darin Givens | April 10, 2024

Check out the maps above. They clearly show that the highest density of light rail & heavy rail stops in Atlanta is in Downtown, but that only a small amount of land near those stops is populated by any level of residential development.

This is data that we likely already knew, but seeing it mapped out so clearly is impressive. And it should make us think about whether we're doing all we can to make the best use of our biggest investments in rail.

As we've found out the hard way over the last 30 years, building new rail lines or infill stations is incredibly expensive and doesn't happen quickly (the last rail line MARTA built was the one to North Point Station which opened in 2000).

We shouldn't stop planning for expansion of rail, such as the line promised for the Beltline, but making the best use of land near our existing rail service is at least as crucial as expansion.

Our track record is grim. Many parking lots and empty buildings sit within a couple of blocks of the Atlanta Streetcar tracks. And this, below, is the blighted area surrounding Garnett MARTA Station in Downtown.

Matching development -- with a big dose of residential density -- with our rail stations is common sense, Urbanism 101 stuff. It shouldn't be as hard as we've made it out to be in Atlanta. We can and must do better.

These maps at the top of this post were made with an impressive mapping tool, Close.city at www.close.city

The tool was built by Henry Spatial Analysis in Seattle. It lets you create walkability maps of various data points such as supermarkets, libraries, transit stops, and more.

#atlanta #urbanism #urban planning #urban design #housing #transit

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