Ian Gaida

The Ever Given doing its thing

Iran has deployed the ultimate blockade to the straight of Hormuz

You can lead a horse to bath water but you can't throw him out

Homes.com, agency is Lakes Area Reality

Yep that's the one. Could be yours today for a measly quarter mil!

Or probably less because holy fuck this needs work racketmn.com/northeast-mi...

What's the name of that abandoned house on Central and 18th? Looks like it's for sale, $242k

The only consensus is that 280/Snelling don't

I've posed the question "what intersections in St Paul have TSP?" many times and have gotten different answers every time, all from people who should know or be able to get the right answer!

Reminder that there are ways to fight high fuel costs without kneecapping state capacity

RIDE YOUR CITY BUSES AND HELP AMERICA FIGHT INFLATION

You could do this, or you can continue to complain on the internet

action alert! ask your legislators to support HF3176 | SF2887 image of inside of observation car of empire builder

Support expanded passenger rail! Ask your legislators to support HF3176 | SF 2887, directing @mndot.mn.gov to submit applications to the Federal Railroad Administration to study two corridors.

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Relatedly: there's 6x as many people working in tourism in the arrowhead than mining, but which group do we always hear about?

Fuck this shit I'm out

LIKE HELL I CAN'T BUY MY OWN REACTOR

Ironically AMC also pioneered the fuel-efficient compact, all the way back in the 1950s!

Every couple of months I checked @metrotransitmn.bsky.social careers page and I've seen LRT Operators a grand total of ZERO times

Every chance I get to talk to anyone in charge at the agency, I bring up the need for (funded, planned) 10-minute headways and better signal priority. Nothing meaningful has changed since they went from 15- to 12-minute headways about 2 years back...

Met Council report on ridership is up, 55M in 2025, roughly 3% decline from '24. Note that they've started collecting data differently last year. '24 ridership revised up to 57M

LRT drives the decline, highlights importance of restoring 10 minute frequencies

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It's not a productive trend, but with every passing day I think I get more hung up on how massive the contrast was in 2024 and how easy the choice should've been for voters. And I get angrier and angrier about the people who muddied that contrast and the people who chose to vote for *this.*

THIS is the future LEFTISTS WANT for our HOMES!!!!!!!!!!!

Well it seems the winter snow and plowing have completely removed that line so now it's even worse

To be clear: this was immediately obvious to anyone with *any* kind of transportation expertise.

(This understanding did not preclude large engineering and design firms, such as my former employer, from accepting money from gullible states to conduct "feasibility studies" of this risible concept.)

honestly the light strips work fine (well the color temp is fucked but w/e I fixed that) it was everything else that was the problem

Former GN AC&F 36 seat diner in Amtrak P1 paint

Former Penn Central Budd Baggage-Lounge in Amtrak P1 paint

"Come on, in and out, 20 minute adventure"

One whole ass week later I finally got 2 of the 3 lighting kits I wanted installed

how it feels taking public transit rn

A General Motors Canada GF6C

One of the arguments the Class Is and AAR put up any time anyone talks about freight rail electrification is that there's no electric locomotives designed for US/NA freight service. While on the surface this claim is true, it's also not a big deal

To prove it, let's talk about this fucking thing

This bus driver is honking at everyone parked in the bike lane

I approve

Bush-ism

Of course Platner knew what his Nazi symbol was. It changed his life. His tattoos were reviewed when he asked to return active duty; a trained officer looked for violations. The sleeve tattoos were OK. The Totenkopf was not. Platner chose to keep it. Somewhere in DoD, it’s all written down. 5/

throwing "the law and order party" into the trash bin next to "party of small government" "the party of small business" "the silent majority" etc etc

Nope, it's CID.