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@Honesty4OhioEd Story is unclear. What happens if a student tries to transfer at the downtown hub? Is there something special and visible about the pass? How does the state leg even dictate a bus transfer policy? Help me understand what exactly is being reported on.

Dayton Public Schools students will not be able to use school-issued Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority bus passes to go through the downtown Dayton RTA hub next school year under provision in state budget that Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed Monday daytondailynews.com/local/dayton-p…

@humantransit A couple times I've seen the tracking system rewrite history. You check on Monday and the package is in Denver. You check on Tuesday and the package was NEVER ANYWHERE NEAR Denver.

An urgent package that needs to get here before our wedding on July 13 is en route from Savannah, Missouri addressed to me in Portland, Oregon. So far, it's been to Chicago and now it seems to be in Denver. The tracking system gives only enough info to maximize panic. 2/

I'm having an interesting personal experience with the Trump Administration's ongoing efforts to wreck the US Postal Service, and thereby to wreck the countless small businesses that rely on it for affordable shipping. 1/ @USPSHelp

@cleveland19news This is in Leonvill LA. Thank you as always for your laser focus on important local news in Cleveland.

A special education teacher at a high school is accused of stabbing his 6-year-old stepson, who is a brain cancer survivor. cleveland19.com/2025/06/03/spe…

@RealNewYorker2 @Kenneth_Belkin Bike lanes are bad because they don't leave enough room for double-parked cars. Okay.

@RealNewYorker2 @Kenneth_Belkin The correct number of double parked cars is zero.

Wondering why you are stuck right now on McGuiness Blvd ? This truck can’t make the turn because our genius lawmakers put a protected bike lane on the biggest truck route in the area- they hate cars and hate business.

@Rooivaulk @metrolosangeles Wait. How do you spend $143MM on a 5.5mi bike path? That's $5700 per foot.

Checked out LA’s newest bike path today. Despite a $143M price tag & delays, the @metrolosangeles “rail to rail” trail somehow manages to end 2 blocks short of both the A & K line stations on either end despite fenced off empty lots of former ROW between it & both stations… 🫣🤦🏼‍♂️

@gggirl924 Yo.

I’m convinced that age doesn’t make you forgetful. Having way too much stupid things you remember makes you forgetful. I have 72 yrs of dumb stuff stuck in my head so I’m running out of room for new stuff 🤔🥴

@the_transit_guy This is totally a thing! The rules on gifts to public officials are that strict.

I wanted to buy a local elected official a hamburger and beer to talk about transit policy in the state and he couldn’t accept the meal because it could be considered a bribe. The President:

@multimodalLA And there is *so much headroom* on ridership. The environmental (and other) gains from simply *replacing more car trips* are so much bigger than the (totally valid and real) negatives of diesel fuel.

@Roxanneaff @MarkWSchumann @ChachaMarquis @humantransit My belief is that every dollar spent on electrification is better spent on providing more frequent and reliable service. Frequency is what drives ridership, not electric buses.

Just asked a California transit manager if the state's Zero Emission Bus mandate is causing them to run less service than they otherwise would. He said: "Yes, definitely." A diesel bus only has to get 4 ppl out of cars to be better for the planet than an electric bus. Hmm.

@jake_zuckerman Nitrogen is non-toxic and "boneless" wings can have bones. Okay.

The nitrogen gas that suffocated a 32-year-old TimkenSteel security guard within seconds of him walking into a room full of it was ‘non-toxic,’ Republicans on the Ohio Supreme Court rule The distinction means his widow loses out on potential millions. signalohio.org/ohio-supreme-c…

@AZinCLE @RiverTamYDN BSing its way through topics it doesn't know is really what ChatGPT does.

@RiverTamYDN Learning how to BS your way through topics you don't know is a much more useful career skill than cheating with ChatGPT.

If you can ace a college class by letting an LLM do all your work, then it's not really a college class.

@ClevelandScene On what basis do you claim that the Browns organization would be doing the renovating? It's not like they're paying for it. Also, they always switch the conversation to aesthetics when the fiscal case for subsidies inevitably falls flat. Vince, this is bad reporting.

Exclusive: Rendering shows how the Cleveland Browns would renovate existing lakefront stadium clevescene.com/news/exclusive…

@Roxanneaff @humantransit Most routes do not go anywhere near the depots. Sure you can do it if going electric is your highest priority.

@MarkWSchumann @humantransit The new driver parks at the depot, gets their briefing and route assignment, and heads out with a fully-charged and clean bus, while the driver ending their shift returns their bus to the depot. It's clearly not zero overhead, but it's also not the end of the world either

@Roxanneaff @multimodalLA @ChachaMarquis @humantransit n = 1 but Cleveland RTA hasn't exhibited competence with *much* less challenging problems. Also: Seems like *replacing car trips* is the highest-leverage environmental strategy in most places outside the cities that are already transit-rich.

@multimodalLA @ChachaMarquis @humantransit Your post actually illustrates my point well It's so easy to approach this with "it's too hard, I can't do it". But if we instead approach it from the perspective of "let's try" we might realize that there are solutions and we actually can do it! Just like other countries did

@Roxanneaff @humantransit I'm just a regular transit user, but... no. Shift changes tend to be at the end of a route, and the end of a route is rarely where you'd have a charging facility.

@humantransit I think you're lacking creativity. Drivers don't work 20 hour shifts, so vehicle rotation at shift change requires minimal overhead. Most agencies have some peak surge periods, after which some vehicles are returned to the depot. Also a great time for rotation without overhead

@meatballtimes I apply Adelberg's Razor at work *all the time.* And stuff I learned in my 50% Economics program. Abstract Algebra came up recently, which was fun. Sure, I could have chosen not to learn these things. That would have been my fault, not the college's.

@meatballtimes Disputing #3: If you want to avoid learning in college, and then go on to live an ignorant life, it's always been possible and it's always been done. Not sure that's college's fault though.

has anyone stopped to ask WHY students cheat? would a buddhist monk "cheat" at meditation? would an artist "cheat" at painting? no. when process and outcomes are aligned, there's no incentive to cheat. so what's happening differently at colleges? the answer is in the article:

@Boenau Not enough bricks.

Cyclists are so obnoxious.

@BrennanforOhio Also it needs to be said: If a thing *does* "generate" some amount of tax revenue, *that is the public's money.* It does not belong to the landlord or the developer or the team.

Recently, I requested an analysis from the Ohio Office of Budget and Management of the $600M state loan to subsidize the new Browns stadium. Today I received it and wish to report that I am vindicated, as my predictions that the Haslam’s tax generation and job creation numbers were way overblown. Here is a summary of the findings. By the way, the analysis does not include the hundreds of millions taxpayers will be on the hook for infrastructure renovations in the area, especially highways.