donttouchthirdrail

donttouchthirdrail t1_jb3cvf6 wrote

Wow exactly the same age lol. Most of the stuff my mom would mention was doors opening in transit, lights going out, random stop and holds between stations and stuff like that. She said it was a hell of a lot less reliable.

She lived off the 123/BCK with my grandma and the DMQ with my grandad.

They did slow down the trains in the 90s after the union square crash in 91, and a lot of TOs go under the speed limit because a bunch of the two shot grade timers aren't calibrated well, but that was before I was born so I can't really comment on that.

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donttouchthirdrail t1_j6j4bem wrote

We need a massive, massive expansion of the state. These grants have lead to the decline of the government’s ability to provide social services, while being forced to shell more and more non-functional non-profits to provide a shadow of what they should be doing.

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