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Marc Ebuña

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🇵🇭🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 Transit wonk from Queens/LI working on digital passenger info systems www.MarcEbuna.info

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Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · Nov 14

So apparently there's a decent amount of interest!

✋ if you work in this space and would like to be added to a starter pack

Would love to continue raising awareness of these careers and key needs in transit

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · Nov 14

Any interest in a #transittech feed and/or starter pack to make sure the signal is stronger for real people doing real work to make transit ops and rider info better and overpowers the noise of gadgetbahns?

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David @dayvyd.bsky.social · 9h

CC: DC friends and folks in and around transportation.

This is easily one of the most fun (un)conferences I’ve ever attended. I’m looking forward to the NYC edition later this month!

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J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski.bsky.social · 10h

Excellent news!

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dan, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈👋🏾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 10h

transportation camp is a highlight of my year and I look forward to its return!!

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Kurt Raschke @kurtraschke.com · 10h

I literally owe my career in transportation to TransportationCamp, and helping organize the revival of TransportationCamp DC is the least I can do. If you're interested too, please express your interest!

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 10h

Thank you all for your work! Certainly appreciate seeing y'all responding to things on reddit, too!

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Doug @doug.city · 10h

This is extremely good news and I would encourage anyone who is interested to sign up for updates and attend if you can. (That goes for any city, but especially DC right now after the hiatus last year.)

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 11h

Every piece of maintenance infrastructure is being upgraded to accommodate the Type 10s since they're longer and the first cars with more than 3 sections so no, it's not necessarily that - maybe just maintenance preference for convenience/'quick access' for troubleshooting on the road?

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 11h

Yeah I wonder how much of that is really a drive to have more equipment share space inside the environmentally controlled interior rather than an actual lack of space to accommodate them above or below the passengers cabin

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 11h

The cabinets with access doors in the pics I just posted in another thread are just that. I don't know what's in there but I remember hearing feedback from mechanical about preferring some systems be accessible easily without a ladder or bringing the car to a catwalk for overhead maintenance

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 11h

The image above is facing the center section (mocked in the farthest section)

Here's another view from inside the truck section and facing forward to the cab respectively — tbh the CAF truck section seating arrangement you're sharing still looks better than what got presented in our mockup

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 11h

There may have been other maintenance-driven design at play here – i.e. make those components in the vehicle behind those access doors available without having to access them overhead/via catwalk

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 11h

I don't know honestly. I don't think raising the floor was the problem but:
- having enough head clearance for mounting the seats up a step as mentioned on our existing center truck low floor + bogie sections
- having a place for the mechanical to be mounted in the walls in that mockup

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 11h

That's literally what CAF did on the Type 9 center section to replicate the design of the Type 8s, however the ceiling is lower to accommodate more equipment on top of the vehicle

See the seating arrangement in that post I quoted for an example of how that same constraint is resolved elsewhere

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 12h

Our Green Line Type 10s will be localized variants of CAF's Urbos LRVs... When I see these elsewhere, I'm constantly left wondering how we landed ourselves with such an insane center & front section seating config... Did we tell CAF 'latitudinal seating only'?!

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 12h

Interesting... Is Osue a vendor and what does PSD mean?

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 16h

Thanks for correcting! I had been taught to *never* cross a double yellow except in emergencies

I'll say that the movement feels dangerous & the safer/faster move to North Station is a left sooner onto Valenti Way — turning here, you eventually have to make an uncontrolled left on Causeway

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 16h

I mean the double solid makes it illegal. Is it MUTCD for there to explicitly be a 'no left' at all intersections with prohibited turns? This is also very close to an intersection where lefts ARE allowed so a left turn prohibition sign on the right would have to be sufficiently close to be confusing

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 17h

Where do you put it when people turning left are looking left at oncoming traffic and are already positioned in the left lane and far from the right side where a sign typically would be

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 18h

OH Are these all of the same CAF Urbos 100 cars?

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 18h

Can we add flex posts or something here at Medford St on N Washington St @boston.gov @streets.boston.gov?

There are constantly drivers making illegal lefts like this car, rushing against oncoming traffic, often dashing in front of my 111 bus as fellow riders & I are trying to cross Medford St

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 9d

“South Shore had been a landing spot for many Venezuelans when tens of thousands of migrants were bused from the Southern border to Chicago and other Democrat-led cities.”

How traumatic for those poor people to be used as a political pawn not once, but twice. Absolutely awful.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 9d

“It felt like a war zone,” O’Loughlin said. “It feels like people don’t know the extent of what is happening unless it’s on Michigan Avenue.”

“They tore the whole building apart,” Szymanski said."

Armed Agents Raid South Shore Apartment Building Overnight Tuesday

The federal agents arrived in moving trucks and knocked down doors inside the apartment building, detaining as many as 40 people, witnesses said.

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Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 16d

Anyone have any pictures/videos of the new LCD screens that were installed on some San Diego trolleys recently?

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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 17d

Alviti must go.

Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 17d

Forgot to mention that RIDOT Director Alviti is also the Chair of the RIPTA Board of Directors! Make it make sense!! 🫨

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 19d

Oh shit. I need to find these contract terms and add them to my procurements 👀👀👀

Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info · 20d

Why do American construction sites always look so messy and chaotic but whenever I've seen a street reconstruction in Montréal it's been fairly tidy like this?