UK: closing ticket offices, cutting services, carriages crumbling, blind people falling off platforms, all while raising ticket prices.

Meanwhile Germany and France:

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2023/09/08/france-will-launch-a-49-rail-pass-after-the-success-of-the-deutschlandticket

#PublicTransport #TrainTravel #PublicInfrastructure

Framework for digital public infrastructure outlined by G20 https://www.fosslife.org/g20-group-outlines-framework-digital-public-infrastructure #UNDP #digital #PublicInfrastructure #DPI #HumanRights #privacy #software #policy #G20

#BakerySquare Expansion meeting: for now it’s just the process to get the zoning so that they can build. Not yet finished.
#mixedusedevelopment #publicinfrastructure
#communitybuilding

TGIF!

My quick Friday share this week:

Amazon recently "rolled out the Sidewalks" to 3rd party developers and start-ups. Could Public Transit and Public Infrastructure benefit from this?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tgif-april-7th-2023-michael-kohlman/

#infrastructure #amazon #publictransit #publictransportation #publicinfrastructure #technology #informationtechnology #makingadifference #makingadifferencetogether

#Journalism #LocalNews #Newspapers #USA #PublicInfrastructure: "It’s notable that even the voices that countered Madison and Jefferson (and ultimately prevailed) wanted a massive subsidy. Indeed, the postal subsidy played an important role in standing up our free press. Given the sudden interest in public policy to support community media — bills to help local news are popping up in both Congress and in state legislatures around the country — it’s worth revisiting and truly understanding the significant government intervention in newspapers that began in the founding era and continued until the mid-20th century.

The nation’s founders worried how a representative government could work over such a big land mass. How would lawmakers truly understand public opinion? “The larger a country, the less easy for its real opinion to be ascertained, and the less difficult to be counterfeited,” Madison explained in a major newspaper of the time. “The more extensive a country, the more insignificant is each individual in his own eyes. This may be unfavorable to liberty.”

But Madison had a solution: “Whatever facilitates a general intercourse of sentiments, as good roads, domestic commerce, a free press, and particularly a circulation of newspapers through the entire body of the people, and Representatives going from, and returning among every part of them, is equivalent to a contraction of territorial limits, and is favorable to liberty.”"

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/02/james-madison-subsidize-the-news-00090023

EPA mandates states report on cyber threads to water systems.

https://www.securityweek.com/epa-mandates-states-report-on-cyber-threats-to-water-systems/

#cyberattacks #cybersecurity #publicutilities #publicinfrastructure

I wanted to write a text to summarize my thoughts on how open software and shared protocols combined with federated and distributed services can contribute to the development of digital public spaces. But to get there, I first needed to give my view of the digital public space in the age of platforms. So I offer that text first, to come back later with the next more forward-looking text.

#democracy #platforms #publicspaces #publicinfrastructure

https://carlheath.se/the-digital-public-space-the-era-of-platforms/

Drunk from neoliberalism we stripped regulation protecting local residents and taxi drivers, let bucketloads of cash into our political lobbies, handed over treasure chests full of data, and passed off public infrastructure to telecoms giants with no incentive to reinvest, instead paying larger dividends to shareholders.
#politics #publicinfrastructure #fcc #netneutrality #politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLLxpAZzy0s

I wanted to write a text to summarize my thoughts on how open software and shared protocols combined with federated and distributed services can contribute to the development of digital public spaces. But to get there, I first needed to give my view of the digital public space in the age of platforms. So I offer that text first, to come back later with the next more forward-looking text.

#democracy #platforms #publicspaces #publicinfrastructure

https://carlheath.se/the-digital-public-space-the-era-of-platforms/

One of Switzerland’s largest energy companies, Alpiq, has outlined a range of threats to future power supply, including cyberattacks, life without Russian gas and Swiss exclusion from the European Union’s future energy market.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/-devastating--cyberattack-threat-concerns-energy-supplier-alpiq-48157472 #Switzerland #cyberattacks #publicinfrastructure #cybersecurity

Wow, I'm just stunned in awe by what is possible if you want to truly be transparent about your #PublicInfrastructure if you really want to be:
#Finland has a public #PowerGrid #Monitor for everyone to see the state of the current load on it 🤩
https://www.fingrid.fi/en/electricity-market/power-system/

Hey @bnetza, could you scale this up for #Germany's Grid? - It seems to be free software!🤔 🧐

Some positive news for your Monday morning:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/11/08/parks-trails-all-terrain-wheelchairs/
#Accessibility #nature #publicinfrastructure

@lauren I feel like we should be excitedly shouting this at every government employee/official we encounter on here.

Governments should be standing up their own Mastodon (or other Fediverse compatible) instances. It was never a good idea to rely on a private corporation's infrastructure as the best way to disperse information to the public.

#Government #Mastodon #Fediverse #PublicInfrastructure