Certified loser behavior

Do not threaten me with a good time.

Looks so much better than SNCFs boring all-white livery or Amtrak’s weird white and grey one

*Amtrak, serving me a microwave cheeseburger* this is the best right? *me, stupid grin, nodding vigorously*

God gives his most beautiful routes to his strongest gilligs

The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable. The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back. We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.

Schrödinger’s Straight: it is both mined and not mined until someone hits a mine

My radical opinion is that if you are on the governance board of a transit agency you should not be allowed to own a car

The answer: spending millions on consultants to do things like cost estimating or routine environmental work that can be done by Caltrans for less. CV rail might be a one-off for RCTC, but CA will build dozens of projects like it in the State Rail Plan. We need to build this capacity in-house.

An extremely rare case (in the US at least) of the final design looking better than the concept art

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

The VIA Rail Canada ritual: passengers standing in line half an hour before departure, 7 employees standing by as if guarding the baggage scale

Blows my mind it hasn't even been a full year of congestion pricing in NYC yet. Years of cranks whining about it and then you just DO IT and everything is instantly better and everyone gets used to it and moves on. We should do good things more often! PS - T-minus 12 days to Streets Mayor Mamdani!

I believe that car dependence and suburbia are significant causes of American political decline. Day to day benign interactions with different people build trust. Seeing them do the same things as you and the emotions on their faces build empathy. Interactions in traffic are hostile, impersonal.

I blame TikTok for normalizing this behavior and also making it so much more obnoxious. Everyone’s scrolling endless looping videos instead of silent posts now, with their brains completely off. And the noise pollution of TikTok sounds meta is so much worse than a regular video or music.

The American centrist punditocracy has decided that what the US transit industry needs are endless lectures about the importance of security. These writers misunderstand the problem, and are making things worse. 1/ www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

There is literally no good that comes from this. Why do we let a couple freaks get mega rich by creating society destroying technology

The #1 piece of advice that TransLink's CEO offers other North American transit agencies: Provide frequent service

The transition from Norfolk Southern track to Amtrak/SEPTA track at Harrisburg should instantly convince anyone that railway nationalization is necessary and important. It feels like stepping forward in time a half century or entering a proper country.

On a completely sold out Pennsylvanian from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia. Almost like there should be more than one (1) train per day between two dense cities with high transit ridership 250 miles apart. FlixBus/Greyhound has 16-18 daily trips charging a minimum of $46 a month in advance.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

One of the City Center rail stations of all time

Final thoughts on SLC. The UTA is a really impressive transit agency and there’s lots of good TOD recently completed and under construction around the region. But the walkability and overall urban fabric is still pretty bad thanks to being masterplanned with slavish devotion to cars.

UTA has a new “BRT” service in Ogden branded as OGX. It connects the Frontrunner regional rail station to Weber State University and a major hospital. It features a mixture of mixed traffic running, dedicated center-running lanes and a dedicated ROW on the university campus.

Sacramento LRT uses high-floor vehicles, but many stations are on street, while even stations on dedicated ROW use this tram-style design without platforms and with the ‘inner’ track closer to the entrance paved over to facilitate access to the ‘island platform’ and ‘outer’ track.

In approximate order The Yard Bootleg Football The Layover Fantasy Football with Josh & Hayden The Urbanist Agenda

Hoping for more of this and less talk of free bus fares. Follow the Swiss model, not the failing American suburb model!

Not sure I've ever written anything that has made men so mad. badfaithtimes.com/self-censors...

Trump-supporting economist who is anti-union is also at the Abundance conference as a speaker lmao

it should be at least 400 times harder to get a driver's license

I still can't believe Councilmember Padilla used *forcing a developer to reduce the size of an affordable housing project* as an example of how she is making housing more affordable for the people in her district!

Juneau gave final approval to the Telephone Hill redevelopment (210 units of new TOD right next to downtown replacing 13 decrepit old units, been in planning for over a decade) and it’s got the NIMBYs so mad they’re starting out with the dictionary definition arguments lmaooooo

it's pretty frustrating how republicans can just spew endless lies about city life with zero repercussions but the moment a dem disparages a pickup truck it's open season

MOTHAAFUCKING FIRETRUCK COMING 🚒 🚒 🚒 NYEAHA 🚒 🚒AAAAAARAH 🚒 🚒 🚒HAHAHOO WHAYUSHOUTAUH 🚂🚂 HAHAHA

Which makes it extra sad to hear Ezra Klein type liberals spend an entire podcast episode talking about how people are lonely, children have no freedom anymore, etc. And yet never stumble upon the second biggest cause (after the internet ofc): EVERYONE'S STUCK IN CARS AND CUL-DE-SACS

Elon Musk's DOGE wasted more than $21 billion in just six months. Other studies have found that in the long term it may cost the government more than it saved, while resulting in millions of deaths. www.commondreams.org/news/doge-wa...

Motherfucking wind farms…

Helsinki hasn't had a traffic fatality in a year: "Helsinki's current traffic safety strategy, covering 2022–2026, is nearing completion. It has focused on improving safety for children, youth, pedestrians and cyclists with safer crosswalks and smarter intersection design."

35. I kind of like driving, I just never want to *have* to do it to get places, and also being in traffic is miserable no matter what

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

is that good

This thread is getting an unreasonable amount of hate. It’s not anti-Mamdani! It’s just pointing out that one of his signature policy proposals is not good for the transit that he clearly cares about improving, and isn’t even popular among the low-income riders it supposedly is for!

Guy who thinks running over 1st graders with your SUV fucking rules:

Functionally what is the difference between this and totalitarian state controlled media

The Venn diagram of accounts on this app with horrible elitist takes and accounts that spam AI generated images is a near-perfect circle. These aren’t bots, they’re humans who reduce their lives to copy+pasting AI text and images. These losers are real and they walk among us. Remember that.

Forgetting to delete the opening quotation mark on the prepared statement someone provided to you😭

This really offends me, because it’s classic propaganda: misusing a journalistic form to give a false impression. Financial disclosures are supposed to be warnings: “This person may gain financially from their argument, so keep that in mind when evaluating it.” That’s not the case here.

"I don't understand why maintaining and renewing our infrastructure cost so much!!!" Screamed the desperate local councillor while looking at the Red-Square-Military-Parade-sized suburban residential road in front of his eyes.