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Abandoned Stained Glass Locomotives
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BART's twitter manager drops truth-bombs, world cheers
On Wednesday night, the person who runs the Twitter feed for San Francisco’s BART system began answering riders’ frustrated tweets with frank, honest statements that eschewed the bland “thank you for your feedback” and the chipper “we’re working on it!” norms of corporate social media in favor of brutally honest assessments of the sorry state of the system, starting with, “BART was built to transport far fewer people, and much of our system has reached the end of its useful life. This is our reality.”
BART’s twitter manager, Taylor Huckabee (who tweets in his personal capacity as @iwriterealgood) turned #thisisourreality into a hashtag, and continued to answer (and sometimes rebut) riders with open, truthful statements about the state of BART, a cash-starved piece of critical infrastructure in a city that’s bursting at its seams.
Public reaction has been gratifyingly sympathetic: it turns out that riders and customers don’t want to be spoon-fed bland reassurances; they want to know what is going on, where the problems lie, who is at fault, and what can be done about it.
There’s a lesson here for other businesses.
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1 dead, dozens injured after smoke fills DC Metro station
Washington Post:One person was killed and two people are in critical condition after a Metro station in Washington, DC, filled with smoke Monday afternoon. More than 60 people were taken to area hospitals.
Officials have yet to find the cause of the smoke.
Photo: Passengers react Monday afternoon as smoke fills a Metro train in a tunnel outside the L’Enfant Plaza Metro station. (Saleh Damiger)
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A Russian tank manufacturer has unveiled a new tram design that it plans to start mass-producing in 2015. These beautiful pieces of engineering will hold 190 to 270 passengers and will be able to traverse on even the older, worn out Russian tram tracks.
