Seeing a whole lotta of posts about the LA fires blaming billionaires and the insurance industry, and very few even attempting to grapple with the land-use policies that got us here and related societal changes that are going to be necessary to get us out
Kathy Hochul does this thing where she separates "working New Yorkers, hard working New Yorkers" from people who take the train. As if those people are not workers
Melissa Barrera to star in western thriller ‘IN THE CRADLE OF GRANITE,’ the English-language debut of director Ariel Escalante.
Set in the brutal American west of the late 1800s, where a young mother struggles to provide for her family after her husband passes and the local town folk won’t do business with her.
You gotta start
-Buying track for passenger rail
-Streamlining the construction process
-Working toward making it cheaper to build transit
-Start finding revenue streams to keep transit funded
-Keep building housing, and notably PUBLIC housing to make housing really cheap.
@dirdwolf thank u for sharing. this stuff needs to be talked about and i have a feeling this thread will help a lot of people. focus on yourself and don't let people who have no idea what they're talking about get you down. you got this!
@relatable_gatos Agreed. Also people act like free access to transit and frequent reliable service are mutually exclusive.. which makes no sense. Obviously funding is an issue but US highways operate w/ $50-100+ billion annual subsidy... so let's start there
@iloveportwine @velo_voyager It is Albany! (different perspective to show the newer livingston ave RR bridge, i believe the maiden lane bridge is in the 1924 photo)
if you are into trains, you've probably seen a pic credited "Roger Puta photo", they're everywhere. Roger Puta was one of the most prolific photographers of trains, mass transit, etc. of all time and he died in 1990 at age 46 of AIDS. About Roger Puta: