Why jeopardize your safety? You just are living your life and your friends are too, mostly. We don't really hear from some of the more opinionated ones anymore but they were grating and buzz kills.

Instead you see just enough or you hear about it every so often, so you start to internalize that it could be a risk to speak out. You think on the margin maybe there are some things better unsaid and eventually your friends do too.

I think I valued the pictograms more for the sense of place I felt implied by them, than by the utility in wayfinding and so the numbers strip all of that away.

Correct. I mean it doesn't look like they define signage in the law, so you could make an argument that only platform signage counts and everything else is a placard?

I think there were pictograms on directional signage and I don't remember what the legal requirements are, since the state decided to require pictograms or numbers.

The line seems to operate ok, and yet other agencies seem to take more than 10 years to select a preferred alternative.

It was built in 3 years, at a much lower cost per mile than many New Starts systems. It's far from perfect, it navigates through warehouses, has single track sections and often runs single car trains but it doesn't perform that much worse than FTA funded systems and performs better than others.

I was deeply confused by what the numbers meant when I visited last. I prefer the pictograms to the numbers.

This does not mean I don't support accepting contactless credit cards or allowing people to pay by phone. Merely that I don't prefer it and believe that transit agencies should support that.

I have slowly come around for airfare but nobody checks tickets after you board for airfare. You normally have time during a transfer. These are not true of urban mass transit systems.

I guess Tom Homan has somewhere to go now 😁

I remember growing up, people would say there's no such thing as a foreign policy voter and politics ends at the waters edge.

But I think to assume every democratic country is going to be a US ally, feels crass and misguided to me.