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New York Regional Rail: Scheduling Trains of Different Speeds
The simplest train schedules are when every train makes every stop. This means there are no required overtakes, and no need for elaborate track construction except for reasons of capacity. In nearly...
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Too Many Branches, Too Few Trunks
A recent discussion on Twitter about the through-running plan offered by ReThinkNYC got me thinking about an aspect American through-running crayonistas neglect on their maps: the branch-to-trunk...
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Slotting Intercity Trains on Regional Lines
In 2011, Clem Tillier and Richard Mlynarik put out sample schedules for modernized Caltrain service, with an applet anyone could use to construct their own timetables. I played with it, and one of the...
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The Yamanote Line: a Ring or a Radial?
Note: I am going to take some suggestions for post topics in the future. This post comes from a Twitter poll I ran the day before yesterday. The Yamanote Line in Tokyo is a ring. Trains go around the...
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New York’s MTA Genius Challenge
I don’t like the word “genius.” When people use it unironically, what I hear is “we haven’t met many smart people, so the first one we meet looks like a genius to us.” Math academia is very good about...
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Branching and Transfer Breaking
This is the winning option in a poll I conducted among my Patreon backers. Thanks to everyone who participated. Another option, about commuter rail infill stops, came a close second, and I will likely...
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More Things that are not Why New York’s Construction Costs are High
The most annoying person I regularly deal with on social media is Walkable Princeton/YIMBY Princeton, a biology professor at Rutgers who constantly criticizes my writings on comparative construction...
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Infrastructure for Mature Cities
A post by Aaron Renn just made me remember something I said in the Straphangers Campaign forum ten years ago. I complained that New York was building too little subway infrastructure – where were...
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Anti-Infill on Surface Transit
I wrote about infill stops on commuter rail two weeks ago, and said I cannot think of any example of anti-infill on that mode. But looking at Muni Metro reminded me that there is need for anti-infill...
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Meme Weeding: Land Value Capture
Last month’s Patreon poll was about meme weeding – that is, which popular meme in public transit I should take apart. The options were fare caps on the model of London, popular among some US reformers;...
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