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Sanders: “White people?!”
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has launched an initiative to create a “national transit map” that will display stops, routes and schedules for all participating U.S. transit agencies.
The department is asking transit agencies to voluntarily permit the collection of “general transit feed specification data” from their websites on a periodic basis, which will allow the incorporation of routing and schedule data into the transit map, USDOT officials said in a press release.
This kind of data defines a common format for public transportation schedules and associated geographic information, according to Google’s Developer page.
With that information, USDOT, planning agencies and researchers will be able to identify and address gaps in access to public transportation. To participate in the national transit map, transit agencies must register their data with the department’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and agree to standard terms of use.
The first “collection day” for the transit map will be March 31, when BTS will download and begin processing agencies’ registered datasets.
To develop the method for collecting, storing and publishing the map, BTSย worked with the USDOT’s chief information officer and office of transportation policy, as well the Federal Transit Administration.
This sounds like a fantastic project!
Well, the big “enchilada” for them is pictured at the top of the page.
I’m sure they could handle Baltimore
But they are assembling all sorts of “horses” (even Google) to work on this, so let’s see how they do.
Great comment from Robert R. Bullardย of Tulane University
A dynamic interactive real time map of all local, regional, intra-state, inter-state, national and North American public surface transportation systems may be a web site that is self-supporting with advertising. The data matrix could be routes, fares, transport unit features and limitations, real time schedule up dates, etc, a single source for North America of all public surface transit. Finally, the site could be used to collect data from users as to opportunities for the alterations/ expansion of systems to accomplish such things as adding nodes to connect local, regional or inter-state systems to each other. I certainly believe the for-profit long haul passenger carriers would support a system that would ehance the conveyance of ridership to their transport nodes.
Years ago I had an elderly friend who once a week made a round trip from Richmond, CA to Menlo Park, CA around SF Bay on only local buses involving 11 tranfers each way. I met her at the local stop in Richmond a little after midnite on her return trip to give her a ride home as she fell asleep in the passenger’s seat. Her experience caused me to fantasize about public transportation being so well developed in the US that I could access every community of a population of 1,000 or more in the lower 48 at least once per week by either bus or train.
By the time the New York subway system is in complete working order, many of todayโs commuters will be dead and buried.
A scathing report has found that it will take until the year 2067 to get the entire system out of disrepair because the MTA is focusing too much on expansion and not enough on necessary work.
โThe stations wonโt be in good repair basically for the foreseeable future,โ said Jamison Dague, a research associate at the Citizens Budget Commission, which performed the study.
The group blamed the seemingly eternal dilapidation on the MTAโs failure to spend the money for a complete renovation.
The report said that 25 percent of the systemโs thousands of structural elements โ including stairs, platform edges and columns โ are in major disrepair in New Yorkโs 467 subway stations.
In 33 of the stations, more than half of the structural elements are badly broken, the report said.
The report focused on the state of the subway stations and did not make any findings on the condition of elements such as the tracks, signals and trains.
The commission recommended the MTA hold off on expansion projects such as the Second Avenue Subway until it can get existing stations in order.
โWe respectfully disagree with their recommendation to reduce spending on expansion projects,โ said MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz.
โAt a time when growing ridership is leading to crowding and delays, we must pursue expansion projects that will accommodate more customers as well as provide new connections and opportunities for our customers.โ
The report compared the MTA โ which consistently pushes back its repair target dates โ to the Greek myth of King Sisyphus, who was punished by being forced to forever push a boulder up a hill, only to have it roll back when he got to the top.
In 1981, the MTA plan was to have the total renovation project completed by 1991. In 1992, it pushed the date back to 2009, and by the mid-1990s, it was aiming for 2019, a full 38 years after it originally started working on the project.
Last decade, the MTA completely gave up on setting a date for the projectโs completion. In that time, it has spent nearly $7.3 billion making the same repairs over and over again.
The MTA has budgeted $26.8โbillion for its as-of-yet unfunded 2015-2019 capital plan. Even with those funds, the MTA wonโt be on track for a full fix.
The worst stations in the system are the 52nd Street station on the 7 line, the 85th Street/Forest Parkway Station on the J, and the 175th Street station on the A line.
Additional reporting by Amanda Woods
Daylight Saving Time (United States) 2016 begins at 2:00 AM on Sunday, March 13
March 13, 1884 “Standard Time” takes effect for the railroads, with four time zones across the United States. Standard time will not be official in the U.S. until 1918.
So how did this all come about by actions of the United States railroads? Would have thought it was a law passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the President? Would have thought it was carefully considered by the Executive branch: Departments of Homeland Security and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. But neither of them were around in 1884.
The United States was divided into four time zones on November 18, 1883, and jurisdiction for the zones was given to the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC). All places keep the same time within each time zone. The zones in the United States were intended to represent the mean times of four different meridians (not including daylight saving time):
A congressional act transferred the ICCโs responsibilities on time zone boundaries to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) in 1967. Today, the United States and its territories observe standard time within nine time zones. The United Statesโ time zones are defined in the U.S. Code, Title 15, Chapter 6, Subchapter IX – Standard Time. The US law on zones for standard time also states the term Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), referring to it as the time scale maintained through the General Conference of Weights and Measures and interpreted or modified for the United States by the Secretary of Commerce in coordination with the Secretary of the Navy.
DOT is also responsible for the rules governing DST (not all parts of the United States observe daylight saving time). Daylight saving time in many parts of the United States is in line with section 110 of the United Statesโ Energy Policy Act of 2005, which states that daylight saving time would begin on the second Sunday of March and it would end on first Sunday of November. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 does not alter the rights of the states and territories that choose not to observe daylight saving time.
States and territories in the United States that do not observe daylight saving time include: Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and most of Arizona except the Navajo Nation Community. Some parts of Indiana previously did not observe daylight saving time but the state is now united in observing the schedule despite being split into different time zones.
When Hillary Clinton launched another misleading attack on Bernie Sanders, she was signaling that her campaign does not think they have the nomination wrapped up. If the Clinton campaign thought they had the nomination in hand they would not do anything to jeopardize winning over Sanders supporters.
It was by far the most spirited debate of the cycle. It was Bernie Sandersโ best debate, and could add to the momentum generated by his win in Michigan. Some point to his positions on Cuba as a reason Sanders lost the debate. They are wrong, and fail to see the generational divide in the Cuban community. When President Obama eased the sanctions with Cuba and restored diplomatic relations, Cubans under 65 supported the move.
Florida International University has polled Miami-area Cuban Americans since 1991. In its most recent survey, a slight majority of them supported lifting the embargo and a large majority, 68%, favored reopening diplomatic relations.
Older Cuban Americans, many of whom left Cuba in the years immediately after Fidel Castroโs revolution, still supported the embargo, the poll found; those younger than 65 did not. And letโs remember, the hard line anti-Castro Cubans will be choosing between Marco, Ted, and The Donald next Tuesday.
So once again the corporate media, with their lazy analysis, is peddling the outdated narrative that Cuban Americans are anti-Castro and would not support a candidate who wants to normalize relations and lift the embargo. Times have changed, and Bernie Sanders got it right.
On the environment, Sanders called on Clinton to join him in supporting a carbon tax and ending fracking. I have not heard any response from Clinton to his challenge.
Sanders renewed his call for Clinton to release the transcripts to her speeches to Goldman Sachs, saying they must have been great speeches to warrant the hundreds of thousands of dollars she received. Clintonโs response has always been that she will release the transcripts when all of the other presidential candidates release theirs. Bernie threw his arms in the air and said, โHere are the transcripts to my speeches to Wall Street โ there are none.โ
Time after time, Sanders put Clinton on the defensive. On the few occasions when Bernie was attacked, he easily deflected the attacks. Clinton returned to her auto bailout claim that has already been debunked by the media and fact checkers. Doubling down, she tried to tie Bernie to the Koch brothers. Anyone who knows Bernie knows that nobody has fought the Kochs harder than he has.
On immigration, they both scored points, and then both agreed to not deport children or illegal immigrants with no criminal record. I thought Bernie was more direct and believable when making the pledge. Hillaryโs claim about Bernie voting for indefinite detention and support for the minutemen was similar to her auto bailout claim. On the minutemen, it was an amendment to a bigger bill that was deemed meaningless. It was designed to kill the bill, but was just ignored by Democrats because it was nothing more than a resolution and had no authority.
Hillary Clintonโs best moments were when she was defending herself from questions by the moderators on Benghazi and her emails. I didnโt see her lay out a vision for where she will take the country.
Overall, Bernie showed the country why he is doing so well in blue states. He forcefully laid out a true progressive agenda and forced Hillary to try to tell Democrats why the policies they believe in are not achievable. The crowd rose to its feet at the end, when Senator Sanders laid out his agenda and said, โThat is why I am running for President!โ
There is only one candidate that will motivate the blue team to turn out in November.
By Scott Galindez, Reader Supported NewsSanders Campaign Reacts to Michigan Win
keep hearing the talking heads on the corporate news saying “nobody” expected Bernie Sanders to win Michigan. It’s a good thing that many Americans have stopped listening to the pundits. Most Americans are not sitting around waiting for CNN to tell them what will happen.
Gone are the days of reporters waiting for a story to develop. Instead they try to shape the story themselves. There is a place for opinion-based journalism. I for example donโt hide my support for Bernie Sanders. The problem is when reporters are selling themselves as nonpartisan but are participating in the selling of one candidate.
RSN readers know we are a progressive site that has endorsed Bernie Sanders. CNN, MSNBC, and other news networks claim to be nonpartisan. We see them constantly creating their own reality.
Without a doubt, Bernie Sanders still has an uphill battle to overcome the lead that Hillary Clinton has built up in the South. The delegates are out there though, so they should stop saying that Bernie canโt win.
Jeff Weaver, Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager, has started to float the notion that Hillary Clinton is a regional candidate. She won Massachusetts and Nevada, but the majority of her victories have come in the South. Her only wins out of the South have been very close races. There is no doubt that the Sanders campaign failed at connecting with African Americans in the South. They still have work to do but made progress with African Americans in Michigan. Hillary Clinton got 65% of the African American vote in Michigan as compared to 31% for Sanders. It was a different story in Mississippi. Clinton won the black vote 85% to 11% over Sanders. Sanders’ gains in Michigan were fueled by young black voters where one exit poll had Sanders only losing by 1 point with black voters under 35.
The Mississippi win helped Clinton to increase her lead in pledged delegates. The problem for the Clinton campaign is that there are no more southern states left.
North Carolina and Florida do not have the same demographics as the southern states that she dominated.
Sanders must now win about 56% of the remaining delegates to win the nomination. It won’t be easy, but his campaign team stresses that the path ahead includes more states that play to his strengths.
The spin continues, we watch reporters on CNN and other networks making excuses for the Clinton campaign. It’s almost as if CNN is the Clinton News Network. Bernieโs win should change the narrative, but donโt be surprised if the pro-Clinton spin continues.
The lesson the media should take from tonightโs results is to let the peopleโs vote determine the winner. On to Ohio, Illinois, Florida, and North Carolina.
After winning three straight games, the Utica Comets were cooled off to the tune of 3-1 by the Rochester Americans Friday night at the Blue Cross Arena in downtown Rochester. It was the just the second time this season, and the first since the American Hockey Leagueโs opening night, that the Amerks defeated the Comets.
Chris Higgins (1-0-1) and Andrey Pedan (0-1-1) accounted for all the Comets points, while Richard Bachman made 27 saves in the loss.
The Amerks new guys once again wasted no time making a mark on the game. After scoring twice in his Amerks debut last week, Eric O’Dell staked his new team to a 1-0 lead when he flipped a rebound over the glove of Bachman, from his knees, 7:55 into the game. Cole Schneider, also acquired in the same Senators-Sabres trade, picked up an assist on the goal after grabbing three assists in his Amerks debut.
The Amerks struck again and doubled their lead just 55 seconds into the second period when Justin Bailey converted on a perfect back door feed from William Carrier.
The Comets clawed to within one in the third period when Chris Higgins redirected an Andrey Pedan shot past Ullmark at the 5:03 mark of the third period.
The Amerks added an empty-net goal with 30 seconds left to account for the final tally.
With the win, the Comets record dropped to 30-20-5-3.
The Comets three-in-three weekend continues in Albany tomorrow night at 5pm. The Albany Devils are just eight points up on the Comets for second place in the North Division.
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