How can I stop paying into this system as a US citizen?
Oh, sure, it's been a while. I just wanted to point out that the system has a lot of positive inertia coming towards the end of the project.
For the record, I'm sad that a system this size still took almost an engineer's career to implement, time-wise.
In NYC this led to our buses having thick polycarbonate between passengers and the driver. I think it was for the same bus models.
Rip, bus driver dude. This shouldn't have happened, and I hope that perp gets picked up soon.
We the people are not fans of use of eminent domain. It severely damages a project's reputation, see Robert Moses' destruction of many parts of NYC with shitty highways.
We do need more rail, and it gets easy to build in flat, unoccupied areas. CA HSR is taking advantage of that, so will WA. Maybe some day they'll connect.
Seems like Seattle is doing ok.
Link across lake Washington was supposed to be done already, but the floating bridge itself has an issue with improperly made concrete for the tremendous additional tonnage frequent train service will add (particularly if there was a seismic event).
This has had a number of knock-on effects, particularly the lack of access to the main OMF (operations and maintenance facility) in Bellevue, so the 1 line only has access to the smaller facility near sodo. That also means the additional train sets ordered can't be stored in a useful place, and messes up the phases of other parts of the schedule.
Good news: tracks are done, most likely we should expect to get trains testing for a few months in mid to late spring, with the cross-bridge connection finally opening to the public in summer 25.
Little late, sure, but I'd say this system is coming along quite nicely, after having previously supported NYC's transit systems.
Nah those guys are getting 90k+ per year, almost best employee benefits in the city (after our sanitation guys), and a few other things.
Sluggish selection is a good question. If you look at a video of this incident, the Swedish cops on vacation broke up the brawl professionally and nobody got hurt.
Then and now, multiple people I've spoken with have expressed sincere doubt NYPD would have treated them as cleanly.
I'm not sure what changed, but NYPD et al have always been at least mildly corrupt. I wonder what changed that got them to forget to be honorable with the people they're supposed to help.
Like you said, I also doubt many could handle a day in another country.
😬 that's... Literally what I'm saying, fucky. Good luck out there.
If anything, now I'm motivated to check it out.
Now you know you were, fuckhead.
California gave me a machine to automatically do that when I reach for non-vegetarian products in the store.
My fucking question exactly. What the actual fuck??