Canada: 30% on-time

https://media.viarail.ca/en/press-releases/2025/q1-2025-time...

I think this is a part of work that now allows you to run System 7 on machines as new as a Mac Mini G4, which was discussed more broadly in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46084956

For urban gyms, at least in Montreal, a slider for bicycle parking is more useful than a checkbox. Some gyms have many more bicycles parked than cars, sometimes in winter too. Many gyms don’t even have car parking because transit/bike/walking is the expected way to get there.

Interesting! Noted!

I've started using Bastille recently, it allows using Dockerfile-like 'templates' to provision jails. I like this because I can destroy and recreate the jails easily, particularly to move to a new release (without having to do in-place upgrades synced to the host version, which is how I used to do it).

Overlapping zigzags quickly trap them. Since ‘trapped’ appears to be determined by the rate of bounces, you just need to divide the area as much as possible.

Reminds me of the Brandon Sanderson novel, The Rithmatist, where creatures are also trapped in drawn shapes.

I would support re-testing on some interval like every 5 years. That said, so much could be done to make the environment safer. Lower speeds, more traffic calming, safer intersections, safer alternatives (public transit, walking, bicycle).

I can't help but think about the failures of basic human-oriented infrastructure when I can't safely ride my bike to the grocery store 2 miles from my home. I don't know what it'll take to change this in our cities, and it feels like an uphill battle when seemingly very few people care about problems like these.

"Safely" is a subjective term. Plenty of motorists are injured in MVAs on 2 mile drives to get groceries too. What cyclists should pursue is an accident rate equivalent to cars, per hour in traffic.

Better to design a street that can generally be crossed safely, than to make a road so dangerous that pedestrians have to use tunnels and bridges. People should be able to cross a street safely anywhere.

I mean, not exactly with the cities that already exist. I mean, we could do what you say, but you'd get voted out of office and hung on a cross for the immediate economic crisis you'd create in most major cities. You simply can't have 1 to 2 vehicles per household as exists in our suburbs now with all the places those cars go miles away. It will cost places like the US tens to hundreds of trillions over decades to 'fix' this issue.

I'd be happy if whoever built the road (municipality, state, etc) had civil liability for deaths and injuries, in cases where it could be shown that an inadequate effort was made to protect pedestrians, drivers, and cyclists (nearly all roads in Canada/US, unfortunately). Maybe that could be a positive incentive for safer design from the people with the power to change the situation.

But it's not just the road. The road itself is an outcome of the buildings on it. When you have things like Super Walmarts/Targets taking up 500,000 square feet, with another 500k sqft of retail shopping surrounded by single family homes you pretty much guarantee that people have to drive there. The entire parking lot is pedestrian unfriendly from the number of cars that arrive there to the excessive heat generated in summer, especially in the southern US.

It's the single family home buyer with two cars and is a registered voter that is demanding the human unfriendly architecture at this point. We are getting more integrated architecture and people seem to like it, but it doesn't replace the millions of miles of bad design we already have.

Inevitably you'll have to grandfather in existing infrastructure because a lot of it is from ancient times and all you'll do is make it impossible to have a Chinatown, or a NY brownstone. So what you'll get is that almost nothing new gets developed because the cost structure makes it impossible.

Everyone always thinks "why don't we make it harder to make things and that way they'll be nice" but they can't connect the dots to "but to do that we have to grandfather in the existing stuff" and from that to "nothing new will happen and all the old things will stay that way".

Thing of the obvious effects, man. Come on.

> Inevitably you'll have to grandfather in existing infrastructure because a lot of it is from ancient times and all you'll do is make it impossible to have a Chinatown, or a NY brownstone. So what you'll get is that almost nothing new gets developed because the cost structure makes it impossible.

I don't see how that's true - if you create cities or neighborhoods which are more walkable, such as New York's Chinatown, then you'll have less civil liability than suburban car-centric infrastructure. I would think that NY style neighborhoods would be MORE incentivized

Why couldn’t you have a China town or brownstone? If the infrastructure is unsafe for cars, don’t allow cars there.

Because you people and the sum total of the "well intentioned" regulation you peddle across the myriad of issues you peddle it render the kind of organic incremental and piecemeal development that yields those sorts of neighborhoods an economic non-starter.

… huh?

I mean, seems like a smart idea until you realize at least the US is a democracy (well hopefully still) and the moment you tell people they can't drive their car home they will vote you out or lynch you. So there's that.

Unfortunately the answer isn't going to be telling people they can't do something. We already don't give a damn about the number of deaths we cause, so the actual answer is probably somewhere closer to attempting to educate people so eventually we won't want it.

Usually the problem is the locals do want traffic calming but they are overruled by suburbanites who have more power and want to force their cars in to old neighbourhoods (and then complain about parking)

Who builds five lanes of high-speed traffic where people live and would want to cross the street? The problem is the design that puts danger where people want to be.

No. It was purposefully put there, with crosswalks, designed to make lip service to pedestrians while maximizing their chances of dying.

The street was almost certainly there a long time before it was turned, to the detriment of other aspects, into the current lane high speed boulevard it currently is.