After the jump, "Great Minds Think Alike," Helsinki edition.UPS proves that the technology exists to compute a customized route every day for every vehicle, all based on which packages need to go where. Imagine a DART system somewhat like a taxi service or a shared ride service, where passengers submit their desired starting location and time and their desired destination. A central computer would take those thousands of requests, compute the most efficient route for the hundreds of buses in the system, and report back to the passenger when and where his bus will pick him up.
Source: The Wheel.
Thursday, October 24, 2013
DART Should Copy UPS - ctd
Regular readers might remember my "blue sky" idea (adjective: fanciful, impractical, having dubious value) from 2012 that DART should be less like USPS and more like UPS:
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Room 237 (2012)
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Texas House Candidates Jockey for Position
The 2014 primary elections are still months away, but the candidates are already jockeying for position. The races for Texas House Districts 102 and 112, both of which include parts of Richardson, are particularly active, especially given the early date.
After the jump, a look at who's who.
After the jump, a look at who's who.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Thrills and Chills at BHS
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Saturday, October 19, 2013
Meet Adolf. Err, Paprika!
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Source: City of Richardson. |
Meet
"Cats that Look like Hitler."
Meet Paprika! She a sweet little medium hair kitty, about 5 months old. Paprika came to the Shelter back in July as a scrawny little kitten and has grown into a beautiful and sweet young kitty. She is up to date on all her vaccinations and gets along great with kids and with other cats. Please help her find a fur-ever home!
Source: City of Richardson.
Friday, October 18, 2013
S2L77: Uchisar, Aksaray and Konya
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| From 1977 04 08 Turkey |
From Uchisar, the highest point in Cappodocia, it's about a hundred miles to Aksaray. At Aksaray is a Seljuk caravansary, a fortified inn built in 1229 along the trade route from Persia to Constantinople. Sixty miles farther west is Konya, a large, industrial city with a history dating back to 3,500 BCE. Known as Iconium by the Roman Empire, Saint Paul and Barnabas preached here in about 47-48 AD (Acts 14:1-5 and Acts 14:21). Konya is maybe best known for being one of the most conservative religious centers of Turkey, home of the Mevlevi Sufi order of Islam, established in 1273 and known as the "whirling dervishes."
More photos after the jump.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
The Impossible (2012)
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Gravity (2013)
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Richardson's Empty Storefronts
Ever wonder why Richardson has so many empty storefronts? Maybe it's because Richardson's city council spends too much time keeping businesses out of Richardson and too little time attracting them.
Case in point: the following is a (lightly edited) slide presented at the October 14 city council meeting.
Case in point: the following is a (lightly edited) slide presented at the October 14 city council meeting.
- City Council has expressed an interest in making certain the City has a well balanced, diverse mixture of retail establishments.
- To that end, staff constantly looks for opportunities to enhance existing regulations, especially when it observes new trends in the community.
- Recently, an influx of applications for [a certain kind of] establishment have been received.
- Consistent with how other similar establishments have been treated, regulations regarding where these businesses can locate may be desirable to prevent clustering and ensure location appropriateness in keeping with the community’s standards.
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