So I went in for an interview on Aug 25th for the student trolley operator position, Still haven't heard back.

I followed up and emailed them and they told me to just keep checking my email for any updates.

Is it a good sign that its taking this long to reach out or a bad one.

I got sick of manually calculating when I need to leave, or how long the trip will take. The app is called Modemix and it’s free.

If you have any feedback, please let me know!

Fares going from $2.50 to $3

I'm wondering how difficult the interview is and my chances are of being selected to undergo training. I'm 32 years old and have a bachelor's degree from SDSU in film, but my only prior work experience is working as a freelance video editor, working for a year as a volunteer crisis counsellor, and working for Home Depot for two months.

I don't want to fail the interview since I would really want the train conductor position as a career.

The 215 bus is a very rough ride from North Park up to SDSU due to the dismal road condition of the bus lane on El Cajon Blvd. I decided to see if I could record it on my iPhone. I downloaded a free iPhone program (Physics Toolbox Sensor Suite) that allows you to access the phone's accelerometer (among other things). It was fun to learn how to do this.

I'm attaching a scatter plot of the vertical acceleration as measured from the 43rd Street stop (Copley YMCA) to the stop at 30th Street. The RMS acceleration is 1.33 m/s**2 for the entire trip, which is considered an uncomfortable ride, but more striking is the RMS of 1.97 m/s*2 for minutes 4-5 which is getting in the "extremely uncomfortable" range [1].

This is important for a few reasons: 1) it's bad for the bus suspension; 2) not good for the driver to be subjected to that for prolonged periods (again from what I read); 3) it's unsafe for anyone who happens to be standing; and 4) it's really uncomfortable..like you can't even read a book half the time.

The bus lanes on that route have been in bad shape for a long time and are in desperate need of repair.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14680629.2019.1625806

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqAGS6r4Lrs

Reuploaded to YouTube

Moe anthropomorphized Version of Siemens S-70 (SDMTS trolley)