Spending that money to optimize all of the bus routes to minimize wasted time, etc. is a good use of money.  Those are not easy calculations to do and sometimes, what laypeople come up with sound good, but don’t work worth a damn when the rubber actually meets the road.

You shouldn’t even need to tap. Plug in the car and have it handshake, including sending payment information. No thought or effort required.

That’s 2lbs per square foot.  Building codes are already way above that for wind, snow, rain.  Hell, just having the roof strong enough to have someone walk on it requires 100lbs/ft2.

How dare you say the 3 HB isn’t among the beautiful list.

We do bridge inspections at my company. Typically smaller bridges/culverts that you don’t even notice when you drive over them. I pay my people well, but I lose the contracts to someone paying minimum wage for professional engineers to inspect.

And on the day you the inspections need to be done, you had a 126.8 miles of track that should have been walked???

I’m glad to see that Kinja is horrible for you guys as well. (And Still in the Greys)

Years ago, I was in Casablanca and we needed to get across town for a meeting. We grabbed one of the little red cabs ‘Petit Taxi’ and let the guy know that we were late. Big mistake. He kept the foot to the floor the whole way. I’m pretty sure he was on the sidewalk at one point. I had a seat belt in the front. My…

I know the detail for the bridges in Ontario have a detail to specify what that gap should be based on the temperature for when the contractor is building/repairing.

I keep hearing people complain that EVs are maintenance nightmares.  Please expand on this and explain what the issues are.

One of the counter arguments to this was along the lines of:

The best thing for the environment is the vehicle that is already built and running.  Anything new will always result in an impact to the environment.

Provided someone didn’t cut the Cat out and weld in a cheater pipe.

This is where a European sign makes sense.

Is the other side an advanced green?  Don’t start moving just because the otherside has started?

However the program fell apart in 2014 following Russia’s invasion of Crimea and explosion from the G8.

Or a car instead of a CUV.  Please.....

And in 2 weeks, he’ll be working for another department.

I used to work at this exit.

Notice that the train didn’t even slow down when it hit the truck.