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Sorry Fedifriends, I am going to keep banging on this drum from time to time:ORGANIZATION AWARDSOutstanding Public Transportation System - Monterey-Salinas Transit (MST), Monterey, CA<a href="https://aptapassengertransport.com/apta-to-honor-awards-winners-hall-of-fame-inductees-top-organizations-leaders-at-transform/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aptapassengertransport.com/apta-to-honor-awards-winners-hall-of-fame-inductees-top-organizations-leaders-at-transform/">https://aptapassengertransport.com/apta-to-honor-awards-winners-hall-of-fame-inductees-top-organizations-leaders-at-transform/</a><a href="/tags/mstrocks/" rel="tag">#MSTRocks</a> <a href="/tags/publictransportation/" rel="tag">#PublicTransportation</a> <a href="/tags/publictransit/" rel="tag">#PublicTransit</a>

Announcement honoring Monterey-Salinas Transit as the Outstanding Public Transportation System for 2025 (systems under 3 million passengers annually)

August 13th, 2025

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Did you know that the Toronto Zoo used to run a monorail (ish)? The 5.6km transit system closed down in 1994. However the concrete structure that supported the rail is still around in the middle of the forest near Scarborough/Rouge Park.I knew it was reachable because of an old reddit post and also because we can see it from Google Maps.But I didn't know "how" to get there. So with a few friends we decided to find out<a href="https://jeromegagnonvoyer.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/finding-the-toronto-zoo-monorail/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="jeromegagnonvoyer.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/finding-the-toronto-zoo-monorail/">https://jeromegagnonvoyer.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/finding-the-toronto-zoo-monorail/</a><a href="/tags/publictransit/" rel="tag">#publictransit</a> <a href="/tags/torontozoo/" rel="tag">#torontozoo</a> <a href="/tags/toronto/" rel="tag">#toronto</a> <a href="/tags/monorail/" rel="tag">#monorail</a>

Photo from 1977 where we see the Toronto Monorail on an elevated concrete rail going through nature and forest in the winter

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Too true<a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/trolleyproblem/" rel="tag">#TrolleyProblem</a> <a href="/tags/trolley/" rel="tag">#Trolley</a> <a href="/tags/autoindustry/" rel="tag">#AutoIndustry</a> <a href="/tags/publictransit/" rel="tag">#PublicTransit</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a>

A meme showing the common trolley problem image only there is no trolley and the tracks are covered in weeds and clearly abandoned. The man stands at the lever.

The text reads "There is no trolley. They were killed off by the automobile industrial complex. The tracks are now unruly and wild. The people once tied to them killed in crosswalks by giant trucks and SUVs. But sometimes you come pull the lever to reminisce on simpler times."

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FYI - The Monterey-Salinas IT department issued a RFI (Request For Information) this last Friday to gather data ahead of plans to replace our closed, proprietary GoPass Bus Pass with one that uses an open, non-proprietary cEMV solution.RFI <a href="/tags/26/" rel="tag">#26</a>-01 can be found here.<a href="https://mst.org/about-mst/procurement/" rel="nofollow">https://mst.org/about-mst/procurement/</a> <a href="/tags/publictransportation/" rel="tag">#PublicTransportation</a> <a href="/tags/publictransit/" rel="tag">#PublicTransit</a> <a href="/tags/opentechnology/" rel="tag">#OpenTechnology</a> <a href="/tags/openstandards/" rel="tag">#OpenStandards</a>(I'll be adding to this thread as I get time today on why this matters)

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Out for a bike ride around Lake Merritt on a beautiful day in Oakland today, I *very* slowly approached a group of three elderly women walking toward me on the shared mixed-use path section, so they could safely pass while I waited for space.(Yes, there are separated bike lanes, but they just abruptly end and route you back onto the shared path: <a href="https://www.oaklandca.gov/Government/Oakland-Improvement-Projects/Lakeshore-Avenue-Separated-Bike-Lanes-Project" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.oaklandca.gov/Government/Oakland-Improvement-Projects/Lakeshore-Avenue-Separated-Bike-Lanes-Project">https://www.oaklandca.gov/Government/Oakland-Improvement-Projects/Lakeshore-Avenue-Separated-Bike-Lanes-Project</a>)One of the women complained to me "why do we have all these bike lanes if you ride here anyway?"So... I circled back and politely explained to her that the bike lane ended back behind us, and that I encourage her to vote for more bike lanes so I can stay out of her way.Her friend was visibly amused, and another passerby stopped to affirm I was in the right, and literally fist-bumped me, so I'm delighted to have done my small part for cycling advocacy today <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/social.lol/prami_contented.png" class="emoji" alt=":prami_contented:" title=":prami_contented:">---Without a *connected* network of *protected* bike lanes, most people simply won't ride bikes! You wouldn't drive a car without a connected network of streets either!Always remember <a href="/tags/cardependency/" rel="tag">#CarDependency</a> has us fighting each other over table scraps. It's a simple (and *solved*) geometry problem.<a href="/tags/carfree/" rel="tag">#CarFree</a> <a href="/tags/urbanism/" rel="tag">#Urbanism</a> <a href="/tags/publictransit/" rel="tag">#PublicTransit</a> <a href="/tags/walkablecities/" rel="tag">#WalkableCities</a> <a href="/tags/cycling/" rel="tag">#Cycling</a> <a href="/tags/biketooter/" rel="tag">#BikeTooter</a>

Photo of a highway with a section of road conspicuously missing, with the text: "WE'RE NOT SEEING DRIVERS USING THE NEW BRIDGE WE BUILT."

And then "CONNECTED NETWORKS ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE ON BIKES AS THEY ARE FOR THOSE DRIVING CARS."

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