Last year 138 social service organizations throughout King County distributed over 1.4 million bus tickets to the people they serve: low-income youth, the homeless, the unemployed, refugees, veterans, seniors and people with disabilities living off meager social security payments.
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Would it be possible to order one-time use paper ORCA cards and load them with a day pass valid on Sound Transit and King County Metro? That would ensure that boarding is quick and reduce the stigma of using tickets. Also if passes are stolen or suspected of being sold for fraudulent purposes, they can be deactivated.
The homeless pay a negligible amount of sales tax, especially since their biggest expense, unprepared food, is not taxed. Metro should give away an unlimited amount of tickets to the homeless, but at their current average fare to make it revenue neutral (which would be about 10% less than the ORCA LIFT fare).
One of my concerns for agencies distributing fare media to homeless or other very-low-income clientele is a variation of the artificial scarcity problem. Given the choice to distribute one ticket or several, the agencies seem to default to giving out one. Removing the arbitrary limit might help, but the agency is still charged by the trip or pass.
Given the choice to give out tickets costing the agency 50 cents, Link day passes costing the agency $1.00, or both, agencies have overwhelmingly chosen the cheapest option (giving out one ticket at a time), even when giving out only one ticket does not provide for a return trip for the client.
Meanwhile, you have to focus on the harbors: depending on your tickets, they have the ability to earn you tremendous bonus points, yet they can prove devilishly difficult to complete. The harbors make the wild cards highly prized, and in our games, players are frequently grabbing for them.
With the new Train and Ship cards, you will be able to claim the routes on the map, and also use them to build harbors and maximize your score. Double-Ship cards are included to quickly cross seas and lakes. Last, but not least, a new type of ticket appears: the Tour tickets, listing between three and five cities, that must be connected together at all costs, and rewarded with many victory points.
The game's original version is played on a board depicting a railway map of the United States and southern Canada. Localized editions have subsequently been published depicting maps of other countries, cities, and regions. Players collect and play train car cards to claim train routes across the map. Points are earned based on the length of the claimed routes, whoever completes the longest continuous railway, and whether the player can connect distant cities which are determined by drawing ticket cards.
At the beginning of the main game, players are dealt four train car cards as their playing hand. They are also dealt three Destination Ticket cards, each showing a pair of cities on a map of the United States and southern Canada. These become goals, representing two end-points that players secretly attempt to connect. The player must keep at least two of these destination cards and discard unwanted tickets, if any, to the bottom of the stack. Once kept, a destination ticket may not be discarded for the rest of the game. Each player selects a group of 45 colored train pieces with a matching scoring marker.
On their turn, a player can claim any route on the board that has not already been claimed, regardless of whether the route helps to complete their destination tickets. The routes score points by themselves, as mentioned above, but routes not connected to a player's destination do not help them reach the destination or complete their destination ticket.
The game ends when one player has only two or fewer of their supply of coloured train pieces. When this occurs, every player then plays one additional turn, after which they each reveal their previously hidden destination tickets.[4] Additional points are awarded for having successfully connected the destinations on the cards, whereas points are subtracted for any incomplete tickets. A ten-point bonus is awarded to the player who has the longest continuously connected set of routes.
The original game features "railway routes connecting cities throughout North America",[5] and was released in 2004. In 2008, Days of Wonder released USA 1910, a card expansion that contains additional destination tickets and a full-size deck for both routes and railway cards to replace the much smaller ones included in the original game.
In September 2012, Zug um Zug: Deutschland ("Ticket to Ride: Germany") was released by Asmodee GmbH, Days of Wonder's German distributor. It was developed and produced specifically at Asmodee GmbH's request (as Ticket to Ride: Märklin had gone out of print) and was only available in Germany and Austria.[8] It is an adaptation of the same map and routes in Märklin, set in turn-of-the-20th-century Germany. In 2015, Asmodee GmbH released Deutschland 1902, a card expansion for the German map that contains additional destination tickets. In 2017, Ticket to Ride: Germany was released in the US.[9] It is a combination of Zug um Zug: Deutschland together with Deutschland 1902.
Released as an exclusive item in Target stores in 2016,[11] First Journey is designed for children 6 and up. This version is for 2 to 4 players. The board is smaller than the base version, connections are shorter, and game time is quicker. There are no points in this game, but players race to complete six destination tickets. In 2017, Days of Wonder would also create a version for Europe, with the same rules but a European map.
For every political candidate rescued by straight-ticket voters, another is doomed. The most recent election offered some case studies. Every county-wide election in Harris County went to the Democrats, as did straight-ticket voting.
Texas lawmakers regularly propose getting rid of it, either all the time or in all judicial elections. The list of lawmakers who have, in recent years, filed legislation to abolish or limit straight-ticket voting includes then-Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston and state Rep. Joe Straus, R-San Antonio. They have since become, respectively, the lieutenant governor and speaker of the House and for all of the regular chatter about House-Senate wars, they have some common ground here.
Dallas County Republicans are regulars among the straight-ticket abolitionists. Reps. Cindy Burkett, Morgan Meyer, Ken Sheets (who lost his re-election bid this month), Ron Simmons and Jason Villalba have all sponsored bills. So did Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston. Former Reps. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, Craig Eiland, D-Galveston, Anna Mowery and Kim Brimer, both R-Fort Worth and Rob Junell, D-San Angelo, all tried. Former state Sens. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, and Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock, took swings at it.
Thus, this emerging research shows that in addition to potential abundance-based movement into the phloem, some RNAs grab a tRNA ticket for a ride through the phloem and that the joined mRNA can be translated after transport. Such active transport, which can occur bidirectionally, and the specific mechanisms for routing these RNAs to their destination, remain intriguing questions for the future.
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I don't know about the specifics here but as someone who bikes a lot myself, I'm okay with the idea that bikers can be ticketed too. The operative word is "too" -- I'd like to see some real enforcement of the cars that run red lights and park in bike lanes. But many of my friends who don't bike (or drive) hate bicyclists for not respecting pedestrians. We cyclists need friends and allies in this hostile street environment and we won't get them by scaring pedestrians or denying them access to crosswalks.
Remember:Bikes pulled over by cops for "disregarding a red" (even in this case) get a $210 ticketDrivers who blow through a red light governed by automated enforcement get a $50 ticket in the mail with no points!Drivers are the true victims(Also, there is case law that declares the "crosswalk shoal" as not illegal, and it's not expressly forbidden either if the cyclist is dismounting. So this is an unenforceable ticket. But the nice lady will burn up a vacation day worth more than the ticket to address the charges in criminal court - not traffic court! That's totally fair, ain't it, to impose some vicarious justice against a long-gone messenger who once brushed by you too closely)
Officer with tatoos was no doubt a wiseass in high school. HOPE he matures as a cop. I would like to see tickets to cyclists blithely talking on their phones. Or cyclists with no lights. True safety hazards. Also don't like it when cops brazenly and unnecessarily break traffic laws as they are enforcing them.
This is pretty absurd. There are plenty of no gray area intersections with red lights that bikers just blow through on the regular at fast speeds. I'd have no problem if they were ticketing there. They always try all this cheap shit for ticketing bikers, when there are TONS of bikers who are blatant in their disregard for traffic devices.
I wonder if the cyclists-can-do-no-wrong posters harangue the police when they arrest burglars because murder is worse than burglary. More enforcement against drivers can go hand-in-hand with more enforcement against cyclists. The problem with cyclists in the city - and I think this is why one poster noticed citibikers as the worst culprits - is that they import suburban norms of space into an urban environment. Out in the burbs, you can run reds and salmon because there isn't a ton of traffic or pedestrians. Not the case in the city. Clearly, cars are a larger physical danger to pedestrians (and cyclists). However, city drivers are very aware of and cater to pedestrians who can dart out into traffic at any moment. Cyclists who think there's nothing wrong with running a light, salmoning, blocking the crosswalk etc have a larger adverse impact on the walkability of the city, and they should be ticketed. To be clear, I don't drive, supported congestion pricing, and would even support banning cars entirely from Manhattan save for taxis, delivery vehicles, exemptions for the elderly and disabled etc...but in the day-to-day commute, cyclists are the bigger problem. 2ff7e9595c
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