#functioning public transportation system

[9w1ft]

Don't you find the strict rules of society in Japan overwhelming for you and the kids?

not one bit

#i can’t express how safe i have felt here versus the US over the past several years specifically #no guns… good healthcare… clean environment… good childcare benefits… good food… #no strong religious chokehold permeating society #vaccines and masking aren’t a moral conundrum #functioning public transportation system #functioning postal system #don’t have to worry about people randomly yelling at you #many convenience stores open 24/7 #focus on seasonal eating so produce tastes better and you appreciate it more #i can walk the streets at night #in my city all childcare costs and child medical costs are waived up to 3 years old #cost of childbirth fully covered including a week long stay in the hospital after #you can drink the water #early public education has a focus on community and natural science #credit cards are automatically set up to autopay out of your bank account #my company does my taxes for me #did i mention no guns? #i could go on #like i have my philosophical issues with the country for sure but my base needs are covered and that means a lot as a parent

[mityenka]

i don't care about THE US!!!!!!!! *my telekinesis throws everything across the Room*

#if i have to see another psa adressed to 'all students' or 'everyone between the ages of 18-25' that actually just applies to us americans #i'm going to commit homicide #also every post that is like 'The education/public transport/prison system is good/bad/functional/whatever' like oh yeah?? which one

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

i need you to know you’re wrong england can’t make fun of the usa, u said look at us but y’all are worse boston tea party patriotism bald eagle usa 5eva baby (just kidding bro (i hate america (england worse tho (lol))))

so quick question for y'all over the pond, on average what % of your yearly earnings go towards the Bulletproof Vest Budget?

#the q's n a's #cold-butter-warm-toast #you misunderstand the boston tea party. it was all a ploy #now the whole OCEAN will be tea!!!! #MWA HAHAHAHA *lightning cackles around me* #at least here we have public transport! and a (somewhat) functional healthcare system! #and gov workers that are legally allowed to strike! #and recent polls that suggest the tories are getting bumfuc nothing in the election #politics tw #uk politics #usa politics #ask to tag

[thetidemice]

WHY am i getting pro-car-centric-infrastructure posts on my dash... you are not welcome here.... give me working bus routes or give me death

#theres a lot of nuance to it but um #“anti-car” does not mean anti-convenience #anti-car means we shouldnt have 100 people driving 10 minutes to the same workplace because there's no bus that takes them there #it doesnt mean you should walk eight miles to the supermarket. cars are convenient and carry your luggage. we just rely on them way too muc #for short commutes that could so easily be replaced with functional public transport! #every day i wake up and mourn the tram system that used to run in my city. its not there anymore because everyone started driving cars

[silvery-bluish]

Unusual muse associations

Tagged by @astarien and @sidestepping , thanks for the tags both of you!

I’ll go ahead and tag @rosaindomitus, @the-cooler-sidestep, @dogueteeth, @cigarettesandinevitablebetrayal, or anyone else who sees this and is interested, if any of you would like to :)

Arsinoe Becerra (Fallen Hero)

SEASONING: Rosemary

WEATHER: The overcast/dark/windy just before a thunderstorm actually hits

COLOUR: Bright teal Dark green, greys

SKY:  The slow brightening of the sky just before sunrise actually begins

MAGICAL POWER: Telepathy

PLANT: Thistle, maybe?

WEAPON: Their mind. Failing that, anything they can get their hands on.

SUBJECT:  Programming. Linguistics.

SOCIAL MEDIA: Never.

MAKEUP PRODUCT: Whenever they get back around to it, nail polish.

CANDY: Chocolate-covered espresso beans

FEAR: Being unknown. Being seen and judged.

ICE CUBE SHAPE:  Spherical ice cubes

METHOD OF LONG-DISTANCE TRAVEL: Does legs count? They’d prefer to stick with running.

ART STYLE: Modernism

MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE:  I’ve got to say ghost. Echoes of memories, the past-gone-by, all that. Haunting and haunted.

PIECE OF STATIONERY:  Notebooks. So many of them. No unifying theme in the design of their covers.

THREE EMOJIS: 👁️ 🏃 🤲 (with a shout-out to the surprised pika emoji I can’t do on tumblr)

CELESTIAL BODY: Stars

#fhr #fallen hero #arsinoe #bookish.txt #'mind' as in both telepath brain and tactician brain #i really don't think LD has a functioning train system. but if they did. #ars would appreciate a good long-distance public transportation option.

[nordic-language-love]

Random af sentiment but my God I love the trains in Japan

#i never thought i could experience a functional public transport system #a functional affordable and CLEAN public transport system #did i mention how genuinely fucking SHOCKED i was when i saw the state of the london underground?? absolutely disgusting honestly #victoria's big japan adventure #my japanese tutor was telling me how she'd just been to the uk and it was really amazing and it was a beautiful country #and i was like #did you see the tube though #and she was like '...yeahhh the tube was kinda dirty'

[sunjoys]

you ever desire trains carnally?

#im really into functioning public transport systems #greter #<- my train friend #argentashes

[miss-umman-manda]

getting my cardio in by doing the fucking death sprint from the bus bay to the train

#dc get a functioning public transportation system challenge

[foxglves]

reading about proposed expansions of my city’s transit system and looking at hypothetical subway maps shes so fucking hot I wish she was real

#♡♡♡ #/text #i just think if a city has more than half a million people living in it it should automatically have a functional subway system #like that shouldn't even be a question #and I'm overstating that threshold #any place with people living in it should have accessible public transport

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

Iarnród Éireann doing DART works like "If you need to go anywhere on the weekend, no you don't"

#functioning public transportation systems would have a replacement shuttle service or something at least #but that's far too advanced for Ireland

[marijkeoo]

i luv montreal so so so much like its the dream city for me

#and i cant even speak french that well #i luv the metro #acc maybe thats why i luv montreal sm... like its the first place ive been that has a functioning public transport system... #montreal and amsterdam have my heart <3

[sku11s1asher]

hi! i loved what you wrote for my request 😭 it was so cute, i didn't really specify it bc i forgot but yeah u did it amazing <33

and yeah u can totally make a part 2! actually i was thinking about it bc i can imagine a meeting between furina and the natlan archon while neuvi and reader are just giving glances to eachother 😭 reader looking like a total meanace but in his mind like "damn he's handsome" almost burning his cheeks and the seat lmao

neuvillette x m! reader (part 1)

note: ngl i feel like i do good at posting then smth with school pops up and i don’t post for like a month.. sorry y’all. also please tell me im not the only one who’s been on and off sick for the past month, rn i have a runny nose and a sore throat AGAIN. i just got over that like, barely 2 weeks ago.

tw: y/n is a bit of a weirdo with his thoughts since he doesn’t understand anything w/ love, internal homophobia (not really but kinda?), y/n is all over the place

After centuries of fighting, killing, and not showing emotions to anyone, all that can end because of a guy with beautiful long hair. The more y/n thinks about it, the more embarrassed he gets. He’s known for being a fearless and intimidating warrior, just for that whole facade to disappear just over a man out of all things.

This whole scenario came into place because his nation archon just had to have a meeting with Fontaine's archon, Furina, at least y/n thinks that’s her name. The meeting consisted of figuring out how to make the justice system within Natlan better and a way to make transportation easier between the two nations. y/n didn’t pay attention to the little details, he was only there to ‘protect’ his archon and make sure things went smoothly.

However, he didn’t realize that the other archon would be bringing a guest with her until a day before the meeting. It did tick y/n off a little bit that he would get notified so late but does it really matter? All y/n is doing is protecting and making sure everything doesn’t go south.

Well, it did go a bit south, as soon as Furina's guest arrived, y/n's mouth went dry. That man did things to him that he didn’t even know could happen. Maybe it was the long hair on the other man that made y/n feel warm inside, it definitely couldn’t have been the slight scent he had. No, definitely not.

Okay, y/n takes that back, he feels like he’s getting intoxicated by the proximity of the other male. It wasn’t hard to figure out that the guest, was a dragon, all it took was a quick look and a secret deep breath to figure it out. He had it figured out, his body wasn’t used to being by another dragon, and he hadn’t seen one in what, centuries? This feeling would go away in maybe 20 minutes, hopefully.

20 minutes later and y/n feels like he’s going to light the whole place on fire. His whole body feels like it’s melting, and to no one’s surprise, it’s all due to the long-haired man in front of him. The stranger might genuinely be the hottest person y/n has ever seen in his entire life. That long hair makes y/n want to run his fingers through it, maybe brush it, but that might be a bit too much to think about.

Once y/n saw the man look at him, he quickly looked away, how embarrassing.. he got caught staring hardcore. He took a deep breath before listening back into the conversation, “Ah, yes, I suppose it would do both nations good to do something like that. Maybe combining a bit of power.” the lovey talk of archons, always talking about power; like it’s the only thing that matters to them.

Power is important though, y/n is in the position he’s in right now because of how powerful he is. In complete honesty, he’s probably too powerful for his own good, only knowing how to use it to protect his nation from people deemed as enemies; even if they aren’t in the public eye. Power rules everything at the end of the day, nothing can function without power.

The more he listens into the conversation, the more he realizes he was glad he was never born as an archon; he’s been around one most of his life and it’s always been boring. Listening in did provide small details though, like the mysterious man’s name.

While y/n was somewhat able to keep his focus off of the other dragon in the room, he managed to not burn anything. But, he had a feeling his archon caught on as they gave him a questionable look; it was a very subtle one that only he could catch onto but it was obvious they knew something. Nothing is going on though, right? The man can’t help it if he gets a bit flustered whenever he remembers Neuvillette is near him.

Gosh, y/n probably looks like a blushed teenager who just confessed to his crush. Well, he at least thought he did. To everyone else though, he looked like he was on guard and was going to fight anyone who even took a step too close to his and the Natlan archon's bubble. y/ns hand accidentally gazed at the chair near him, which caused the leather to burn where his touch was. Good thing no one was looking, right?

y/n couldn’t wait any longer for this meeting to be over, his brain was thinking too many things while he was focusing on every single move everyone else did. It would be overwhelming for anyone who wasn’t trained and as skilled as he was, but that tiny overwhelming feeling didn’t compare to how fast his heart was beating. y/n hoped the other male couldn’t pick up how he was feeling, thankfully Fontaine's archon seemed to be happy with the deal she and the other archon came up with.

In Neuvillette's mind, he could tell that the fire dragon was on edge. He could also tell how much the dragon was staring at him, it was a little nerve-racking. Once Neuvillette caught a glance at the chair that was touched, it made him a bit surprised but he didn’t show it. Maybe he would talk to the other male after the meeting, for work-related things of course!

#genshin impact x male reader #neuvillette x male reader #gay #male reader #mlm #oneshot #genshin impact x reader #neuvillette x reader #reader is in love #request #fluff #first meeting #midshot #x male reader #genshin x male reader #neuvillette

[mariacallous]

An air raid alert has just started when Victoria Itskovych joins a Zoom call from Kyiv. “It’s, like, a usual situation,” she says. “But really, it’s not usual.” February 24 will mark the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. For nearly two years now, Kyiv has been under bombardment. Some weeks, people have to trudge to their shelters night after night, checking text alerts and Telegram channels to figure out where the missiles are falling and when it’s safe to come out—although, it’s never really safe.

That relentless stress, and the trauma of losing family, friends, and colleagues on the front, has taken its toll. A poll by the city government last year found that 80 percent of residents reported symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has exposed the whole of Ukrainian society to battle shock. “We’ve all suffered from this,” says Itskovych, who is director of the Kyiv City Council’s IT department. “Almost every person has somebody who was injured or died during the war, or lost their home or lost their health.”

In the face of such widespread injury, the Kyiv government has turned to Ukraine’s now-famous civic tech infrastructure for help. As the war enters its third year, the municipal government is starting to build a citywide system for providing mental health support to citizens. It’s a vast challenge, but also a unique opportunity—the first time that such a mass-trauma event has happened to a society that has already built the tools of digital government. Dealing with the mental health impacts of the invasion will be absolutely vital to keep society resilient, functioning, and committed enough to repel the invaders. It’s also the key to Ukraine’s postwar recovery, laying the groundwork now for a society that can rebuild itself physically and psychologically from the horrors of war. “This is the future of our society,” Itskovych says. “We are building the basis for the resilience of the community itself.”

At the heart of the plan is the Kyiv government’s digital platform, Kyiv Digital, which it launched in 2017. Before the invasion, it was largely used to manage parking and public transport, and to notify residents of disruptions to services such as road closures or power outages. When the war began, those notifications became more urgent: incoming attacks, the locations of bomb shelters, and the safest routes to reach them. Like other parts of Ukraine’s civilian technology, the city pivoted its tools to keep people safe and support the war effort, bootstrapping and rewiring the systems at pace.

“The first changes to the notifications we did in hours,” says Oleg Polovynko, adviser on digitalization to Kyiv’s mayor. Since then, the digital teams have been engaged in a constant cycle of innovation, trying to figure out what services they can bring online. The war has pushed them to act more quickly, to adapt tools they have and invent things that don’t exist.

They’ve expanded tools for civic participation, letting citizens vote on petitions, send feedback to the city government, and ask for help, such as financial support to repair bomb-damaged homes. And they’ve collected a lot of data, which is how the Kyiv government has been able to measure the scale of the city’s distress—and people’s reluctance to seek help. Of the 80 percent of residents who show signs of trauma, “40 to 45 percent are afraid to have contact with doctors who can help,” Polovynko says.

But this is only half of the problem that needs solving. For those who do want to seek treatment, there simply aren’t enough resources to help them. Clinical psychologists are supposed to limit the number of patient consultations they do in a day, so they don’t burn out. Before the full-scale invasion, Inna Davydenko saw a maximum of four patients daily. Today, Davydenko, a mental health specialist at the City Center of Neurorehabilitation in Kyiv, sees twice that number. When we speak, she’s just finished a video call with a soldier stationed near the front, whom she’s helping cope with stress and anxiety.

Even before the war massively increased the number of people dealing with trauma, depression, and anxiety, Ukraine’s medical system suffered from an underinvestment in mental health provision. “In most hospitals, you have maybe one psychologist. In good hospitals, it’s maybe two,” Davydenko says. “A lot of people need psychological help, but we can’t cover everything.” There is simply no way that the current system can grow to match the enormous jump in demand. But, Davydenko says, “almost every Ukrainian person has a smartphone.”

This is exactly what Polovynko and Itskovych want to exploit, using Kyiv Digital’s platforms and data to digitize mental health support for the city, and so close the gap between need and resources. Their project will focus first on those they’ve identified as being most vulnerable—war veterans and children—and those most able to help others: teachers and parents. The next six months of the project will be a “discovery stage,” Polovynko says. “We need to understand the real life of our veterans now, of the children, of the parents, what’s their context, how they survive, what services they use.”

The project will track people through the process of recovering from trauma, monitoring the treatments they ask for and the ones they receive, their concerns as they move through the mental health system, and their outcomes. Once the team has a detailed map of services and bottlenecks, and data on what’s working and what’s not, they can match individual needs with treatments. A full roll-out is scheduled for early 2025.

“It doesn't mean that the whole chain of the service will be absolutely digital,” Itskovych says. Some patients may be directed to group therapy or one-on-one meetings with psychologists, others will be given access to online tools. The aim, she says, is to create efficiency, to close the service gap, but also to provide comfort, meeting people where they are. “For a big part of our clients, there is more comfort with getting the service online, in different ways. Some people are not comfortable meeting a specialist one-on-one; they prefer a digital way to get the service.”

The project is being supported financially and operationally by Bloomberg Philanthropies, a charitable organization created by former New York mayor and Bloomberg founder Michael Bloomberg. James Anderson, head of government innovation at the organization, says that the project comes at a critical time for Kyiv, where people continue to suffer even though global attention has shifted away to other crises.

“There's always a tremendous amount of attention when the immediate crisis hits,” Anderson says. “But mayors continue to have to deal with the human costs of crises, long after the newspapers have turned to new subjects. That’s certainly what we sense and see in Kyiv.”

The size of the challenge in Kyiv is clearly daunting. But, Anderson says, there are reasons for optimism. Cities have got better over the past two decades at responding to common crises, such as Covid-19, which also required rapid, mass digitization of services. “Every crisis is distinct and different, and awful, in its own way,” Anderson says, “but there are lessons learned.” The Kyiv government, and Ukrainian society more widely, have demonstrated a capacity for rapid innovation to meet urgent needs, and Anderson hopes that success in this project could see it replicated internationally. “This is not the last war. This is not the last crisis,” he says. “I think Kyiv has lessons that they can share with cities around the globe.”

For Kyiv, and Ukraine, the crisis won’t end when the war does. “Psychological health is the number one problem for Ukraine,” Davydenko says, before correcting herself. “Number one is Russia, number two is our psychological health,” she says. “PTSD is our future.”

[curiositykilledtheradiostar]

[I would like to clarify that this is not accusatory because it was an Ordeal to mod my ds to get a chance to play these games and it’s fair if other people can’t/won’t do that sort of thing]

so I’ve been playing pokemon black and finally beat the main game, and I’ve now got a list of things I see missed by submas fic authors who probably haven’t actually played it! as follows:

Nimbasa is not the biggest city in Unova. it’s definitely Castelia (or Black City depending on how fast you get there which I. didn’t), or debatably Opelucid. even Driftveil is bigger area wise I think

Nimbasa bears a lot more resemblance to Las Vegas than New York as far as I can tell (I have never been to either, for the record) [EDIT: apparently Nimbasa is based on Coney Island, which is pretty neat]

Nimbasa has no sky scrapers. I’m serious. very wide open streets. Castelia, Opelucid and Black all have skyscrapers so it’s not just a restriction of the game format

Opelucid, Drayden’s house included, is very cyberpunk-esque futuristic. (I often see it described in fics as traditional or along that vibe) [EDIT: I have been informed that it's very traditional in White, it's a version flip-flop sort of thing]

no houses have chairs, just floor cushions, I can understand brushing this one off as graphics restrictions, I personally think floor seats are fun

the subway doesn’t actually stop in any cities except Nimbasa and Anville Town. Retconning this for a functional public transport system is fair though

bonus (I think it would be funny if someone acknowledged this)

people canonically can’t run without Running Shoes on

#the rest of the pearl clan baffled by Ingo’s point blank unwillingness to move faster than a power walk away from wild pokemon. #Ingo unable to explain this beyond ‘wrong shoes’ which makes no sense even to him. #Emmet’s utter shock at seeing Ingo jog lightly in his normal work shoes after his return #curio chatter #submas

[solar-sunnyside-up]

Does anyone else ever think about how much traffic we could eliminate on the roads if things like cargo trucks where automated with a really good cargo rail system+ a short distance cargo vans instead?

How few roads we'd need if light rail/trolly systems where in cities with buses actually functioned properly? Like I know we all know many more ppl buses can be put on a bus compared to individual auto, but seriously. Seriously sit with it for a moment, how much of our current road usage is a combo of "Getting to/from work/school" and "transporting goods to stores" just those 2 functions taken off the roads bc they are the same all the time would let us get rid of sooo much asphalt!! Think of how bare the roads where during 2020 due to remote work alone. It made the idea of highways look dumb to me!!

It just makes self driving cars seem idiotic as the main transportation option.

Self driving cars should be for grocery drop offs!! and mobile libraries!! and for the train system going downtown to be automated so we can have 24 hour trains!! For booking an appointment with a specialist and having it show up outside your door when its time for your appointment!! For first responders to get to fires/medical emergencies!!

But god we need public transport the primary usage for the public, we need cargo systems off the roads.

#self driving cars #public transport #rambles #solarpunk #hopepunk #anticapitalism #community

[reijnders]

TRAINS! TRAINS!

Train systems and public transport in general are not handled by the Coalition, even on their stations, and thus have different organization and ranking. while trains with faces are not actually In my canon, its fun to draw em >:) these two trains do exist in my world tho

bottom one is inspired by @charseraph 's use of nonhumanoid(if a train can even be humanoid) trains. i'll say more about that later below the cut :)

Ti Mañorrosn'sit

AKA The Tomorrw-Sunset. This train was named and drafted in the futureEarth nation of Texas, but constructed in the Venusian nation of Dallas, so the train as a whole is named in Earth Texan, while the faces are nicknamed in Venusian Texan and Vietnamese respectively. Tomorrow-Sunset is a passenger train, operating on a planetside waystation that acts as the main transport hub between the surface of Venus and the VOIS station in orbit around the planet itself. Trains of the Namgheen classification utilize a (very handwavey) magnetic pole to accelerate. Having the train use a tube to suspend itself allow it to "dodge" potential obstacles by tilting, or, in emergencies, doing a lil 180. To ensure as many eyes as possible are on the lookout for danger, these trains have two faces, along with a conductor, to give practically 360 degrees of vision. Right and Left get along pretty well, and they both have a dry sense of humor.

Nenyu Nuyuyu

AKA The Long Story is a yotavuș-built train. It's very small, and fully automated, so has no conductor. It's used for short distance transportation on the Darheiszing space station, orbiting the yotavuș homeworld Taŧeșě. The doors use a pulley mechanism so that the bottom of the door is in sync with the top, and you pull at one of them to open the shuttle body. Unlike the face and head of a regular yotavuș, the train faces have no ears, and within the mouth there are no venom fangs. The matti is present visually, but functionally is very different in that it is used to regulate internal temperature of the shuttle, rather than detect external changes in temperature.

#that there art #the railway series #my canon #my gougars #YEAHYEAHYEAH #LOVE TRAINS FUCKIN. LOVE TRAINS #no schedule today boys we post at 8:35 pm like men #yotavus #human #starflight to the edge! #sftte!