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niyarest

morning mobility routine

mellifexfarm

anyone want this

kcrossvine

coffee-and-cusswords

LEAKED MORNING ROUTINE:

-i need to be held

-i’m fine

-i’m beyond saving

-we’re back

-it’s over

-swag city

segamascott

learning a new art program feels like getting a new set of arms that are about 2 inches longer

#all my shortcuts are moved around and i keep having to correct my muscle memory for the dashboard

weresobjork

seattle mentioned.

weresobjork

glad to hear that nobody likes this one even at all

everymournfulbreath

I’m drunk and I can’t read and I follow a bunch of Marxists so it’s just texts posts like fuck my life

puppygirllaika

I can be trusted with the washington state department of transportation budget please give it to me please i need it please oh god please let me at it let me at the planning department please god i can do this please

puppygirllaika

I CAN FIX HER!!!!! LET ME AT IT!!!! LOOK HOW GOOD SHE COULD BE!!!!!!! THIS IS BEFORE ADDING THE BUSSES!!!! THIS IS ALL RAIL!!!!!!!

fleshengine

what site are you using for this it looks fun. (Also yay Seattle trains, we need more of those pls pls pls)

puppygirllaika

A site called MetroDreamin. If you wanna see my project in detail, you can find it here:

MetroDreamin' | This is a long-term project designing what I would personally consider the ideal rail-focused transit map for the entire pac

puppygirllaika

I'm already thinking of the ads I'd make to get people taking the high speed pacific northwest rail corridor. I'm thinking of producing the first ever government sponsored lesbian porno and using the less explicit bits of it as ads. a scene of one girl convincing another to take the train instead of her pickup 'cause of the privacy of the roomettes. a discussion about how they're just going from seattle to portland, so they only have 90 minutes to get each other off due to the new high-speed line, little things like that. end every ad with the tagline "lesbians ride the train. why don't you?"

oregoncoastfox

If you get a chance could you add some lines going inland from the coast? There are good natural paths going from Florence to Eugene and a bit off the bottom of the map from Coos Bay to Sutherlin and Roseburg. You would be able to take advantage of a lot of existing infrastructure and not make people go all the way up to Astoria and down the full length of the Willamette Valley.

puppygirllaika

yup! I'm already planning lines from tillamook to portland, from newport to corvalis, from florence to eugene, and more lines further south. This whole map is a big work in progress that i play with when i'm high and need an activity to do. The reason i haven't worked on those lines yet is because the longer distance lines are often more of a commitment when it comes to making vaguely accurate routes instead of just links from place to place. As you can see on the yellow high-speed line, i haven't done the detail work anywhere south of portland, the accurately placed rail lines switch to just being straight lines connecting the stations. I want to take care of that first before doing the coast-to-valley routes. also need to run lines out to bend and mt hood, and look into making better connections to some of the reservations. also need to look into extending the high speed line down to ashland, or see if switching to conventional rail for that bit makes sense.

puppygirllaika

@oregoncoastfox added the first coast to valley line, the Newport Limited

Stopping in...

Newport

Toledo

Eddyville (request only)

Summit (request only)

Blodgett (request only)

Wren (request only)

Philomath

Corvallis

Albany

Lebanon

Sweet Home

Lake Foster

Like swiss trains, many of my rural low-speed services use a request button both on board and at the station, so the train doesn't have to stop at the very small platform-only stops if no one needs to get on or off. These are usually for towns of less then a thousand people, where there may only be a handful of people using the train per day, but whom would still benefit from having a local stop. These stops can be built inexpensively, and don't slow down rail service for busier destinations as it's unlikely a given train will stop at more then half of them in a given run.

puppygirllaika

The oregon end of the network is growing...

puppygirllaika

#look i absolutely get it#but as someone whose oregon life involved a lot of trips from salem to the coast#i look at that last map just like ‘oh’

I've been looking into adding a line from salem that would connect into the lincon city line, but the problem is existing rail infrastructure. To keep costs to a minimum, I'm trying to use as much existing rail infrastructure as possible, and the smaller the population centers connected by the network the harder it is to justify new construction. Salem is big enough that it marks a stop along the high speed line from eugene to vancouver BC, but there's not much existing rail between salem and the coast, at least not directly. That said, the high speed to newport transfer would be very fast, and i may be able to add a small connection that would link it to lincon city with only one stop. Just trying to figure out the best way to do that.

jpegwoe

Far too many writers have never had to take the bus to work

cryptotheism

hey man what did you get for breakfast today?[remembers that nostalgia is a reactionary poison] "material circumstances"

ayeforscotland

Inscriptions on bullet casings include:

Hey fascist, catch!

O Bella ciao, Bella ciao

If you read this you are gay lmao

adhrac

But honestly, "the BBC reporting on Utah's governor reporting some investigator" might be the lowest level of trust I've had for any info relating to this at all