u/CuyahogaBurner

For those who are unaware:

The RTA Board is voting on Tuesday to decide whether they’ll be pursuing a .25% or .5% sales tax levy at the ballot box in May 2027.

The .25% increase is good and welcome, however does not fund and IMPROVE our transit in the long term.

The .5% increase allows for upgrades such as better/more bus shelters, better/more real-time info boards, increasing transit access, and even a potential re-route of the Shaker rail lines all the way to the airport 👀!

Come to the Cleveland Public Library downtown and leave a public comment for RTA, so our voices can be heard!

Seen in the Collinwood yard last night, they’re arriving from the Port of Cleveland

these aren't for major systemic problems like "it doesn't go anywhere useful" or "it gets stuck behind traffic" - more those little things that drive you nuts way more than they really should.

here's mine - the old Kinki-Sharyo LRTs on the Seattle Link system have electronic rollsigns which display the final destination in a *really* slow marquee. this was OK when we had one line, but now with two lines, the rollsigns slowly scroll through "DOWNTOWN REDMOND 2 LINE" which seemingly takes longer than the actual dwell times of the trains. this is actually kind of annoying when you're running down the stairs at Westlake and don't know if you should get on the train at the platform or not. what's wrong with just showing "2 - REDMOND" or something without the scrolling text?

thankfully the refurb program for the KS trains include new rollsigns, if the pictures some people have snagged are any indication (though FEDERAL DTWN is dumb - just say FEDERAL WAY")

I hope this segways nicely into the arrival of the new train’s. A better fare system and fare enforcement would do WONDERS for this system.

via @ridegcrta on Instagram

Decided to take a crack at making a transit diagram for how I think the GCRTA rail system should expand. I appreciate any feedback and discussion!

Via @ridegcrta/IG