The Red Line Podcast Alex Fielder, Kyle Holland, and "Three Raccoons in a Trenchcoat" Dunstan

Today, we're discussing one big city, and one small city, and the ways in which they're making urbanism work. All this, after The News!



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Timestamps

4:05 The News (including a lengthy segment about UTA Change Day)
23:09 The Show

References & notes

[1]Mass Transit: New five-point plan to address safety concerns of New York subways
[2]Utah Transit Authority: August Change Day 2024
[3]FTA Agency Profile: City of South Portland (2022)
[4]FTA Agency Profile: Greater Portland Transit District (2022)
[5]FTA Agency Profile: Casco Bay Island Transit District (2022)

Your favourite hosts visit (with pictures!): the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, the Japanese Church of Christ, Temple Square, the Cathedral of the Madeleine, the First Presbyterian Church of Salt Lake City, and St. Mark's Cathedral.

Follow along for a guided tour of architecture at each church and history and drama as we walk between them. Viewers on YouTube can enjoy Alex's pictures of the beautiful buildings.



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Thank you to our Patreon supporters for equipping us for this episode, and thank you to participants in the inaugural SLURM event for helping us hash out the tour.

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro banter
1:16 Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral
4:56 Defining "apostolic Christian"
8:53 Japanese Church of Christ
9:23 Magisterial Protestants
10:37 Pentecostals & Evangelicals
17:40 Heretics
18:14 Temple Square - Assembly Hall
20:35 Salt Lake City Temple construction
22:08 Churches are build the way they are for a reason
31:36 Who builds big stone churches?
33:36 Versus populum vs. ad orientem
38:19 Cathedral of the Madeleine
48:42 First Presbyterian Church of Salt Lake City
55:44 Types of crosses (Latin, Canterbury, etc.)
59:26 St. Mark's Cathedral
1:09:42 Thanks to our Patrons!

We ride the Red Line from Central Pointe to Daybreak and back, all the while discussing sights, sounds, current issues, and more with several of our Patreon supporters.



CW: very busy audio with train noise, announcements, and many people having a fun time

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Today, we're discussing another strange east coast light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina. Just how did the Queen City end up with something more like a light metro than a light rail, and where is their transit going next? All this, after The News.



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Timestamps

13:25 SeeCATS System Map

References & notes

[1]Mass Transit Jobs: Chief Financial Officer for BART
[2]Mass Transit: PRT'S Monongahela Incline reopens after state inspection
[3]Charlotte Business Journal: CityNerd's Ray Delahanty on Charlotte: 'World Capital of Sprawl'
[4]Charlotte on Google Maps
[5]American Public Transportation Association: Public Transportation Ridership Report, Third Quarter 2023
[6]Charlotte Area Transit System: Silver Line
[7]Charlotte Area Transit System: Red Line Commuter Rail
[8]Charlotte Area Transit System: Gold Line Extension
[9]WCNC Charlotte: Charlotte city leaders hope to revive Red Line project
[10]Wikipedia: Lynx Silver Line
[11]Charlotte Area Transit System
[12]Wikipedia: Charlotte, North Carolina
[13]Wikipedia: Charlotte Area Transit System
[14]Wikipedia: CityLynx Gold Line
[15]Wikipedia: Lynx Blue Line
[16]CATS System Map
[17]Wikipedia: List of tallest buildings in Charlotte

Today, we're discussing one of American transit's archnemises; the Koch Brothers. Just how have these diabolical oil billionaires worked to derail our transit projects, and what can we do about it? All this, after The News.



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Timestamps

6:51Follow along on the WeGo system map
33:50Read about 'the 435' and what they're doing for Utahns

References & notes

[1]Mass Transit: New York Gov. Hochul, MTA roll out R211T open gangway subway cars on C Line
[2]KC Streetcar: Welcome KC Streetcar #807
[3]In These Times: What Uber and the Koch Brothers Have in Common: A Plan to Destroy Public Transit
[4]The New York Times: How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country
[5]The Guardian: Why are Koch-funded activists trying to derail a US city's public transit?
[6]Americans for Prosperity
[7]WZTV Nashville: Report: Nashville ranked worst city for commuting
[8]Wikipedia: Nashville metropolitan area
[9]Wikipedia: Nashville, Tennessee
[10]Wikipedia: Americans for Prosperity
[11]WeGo Public Transit
[12]Wikipedia: WeGo Star § Ridership
[13]Wikipedia: Let's Move Nashville
[14]WKRN News 2, Nashville: WeGo Central Station renamed to honor Nashville, TN's first female bus driver
[15]Wikipedia: Spokane, Washington

Today, we're talking about the longest light rail system in the United States, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system. We'll talk about the Metroplex's delightfully extensive and incredibly strange rail system and what it needs to become the nation's finest after The News.



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Timestamps

24:50 SeeDART rail map
38:28 SeeDART system map

References & notes

[1]Mass Transit: Valley Metro celebrates opening of Northwest Phase II extension
[2]WHYY: Shapiro to propose multi-million dollar plan to save SEPTA
[3]Regulations.gov: Proposed Nonavailability Waiver of Buy America Requirements: Nevada Department of Transportation to Purchase Certain High-Speed Rail Components
[4]Alan Fisher Extras: Brightline West HSR is Potentially Delayed if this Waiver is Blocked
[5]Wikipedia: Dallas Streetcar
[6]Wikipedia: DART Light Rail § History
[7]Wikipedia: Dallas Area Rapid Transit
[8]Wikipedia: Trinity Metro
[9]Wikipedia: TEXRail
[10]Wikipedia: Trinity Railway Express
[11]Wikipedia: A-train (Texas)
[12]Wikipedia: Denton County Transportation Authority
[13]Wikipedia: Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
[14]Wikipedia: M-Line Trolley
[15]Wikipedia: Knox–Henderson station
[16]Wikipedia: D2 Subway
[17]Wikipedia: Silver Line (Dallas Area Rapid Transit)
[18]Wikipedia: Cityplace/Uptown station
[19]Trinity Metro: System Map (Sept. 2023)
[20]Trinity Metro: Routes & Schedules
[21]Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Streetcar operators once thrived in Fort Worth. And then buses and cars came along.
[22]Dallas Area Rapid Transit - 2019 Annual Agency Profile
[23]American Public Transportation Association: Public Transportation Ridership Report, Fourth Quarter 2019
[24]McKinney Avenue Transit Authority: History Corner: End of the Original Dallas Streetcars
[25]DCTA: A-train
[26]DART: Silver Line Project
[27]CBS Texas: North Texans seeing more DART Silver Line construction as completion date nears
[28]D Magazine: Dallas Public Transit Was Better in 1919 Than It Is in 2019
[29]DART: DART History - 40 Years Going Strong
[30]DART: DART Rail Lines Map and Schedule
[31]DART: Schedules and Maps
[32]Vanishing Underground: Dallas' Light Rail & Commuter Rail Network Evolution
[33]OpenRailwayMap