We’re launching a bold plan to make high-speed rail the fastest, more sustainable way to travel across Europe by 2040. It’s a concrete timeline to remove bottlenecks, unlock investment, and harmonise rail systems ⬇️

incredible work from the city of Portland to center users in their signal timing - with a direct modal hierarchy

I’ve decided we can’t call it an AI bubble until OpenAI sponsors Sundance

Are you not entertained

very cool job in the MTA in their new "global benchmarking" group doing in house transportation data analysis and comparing MTA to global peers careers.mta.org/jobs/1691404...

I no joke thing the Submerged State is one of the most influential books on my personal policy thinking and how to design policies most effectively press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

9 minutes till weird baseball

Turns out with so many Japanese players the dodgers unlocked a curse turns the World Series into the Koshien

If the Santa Anas came one day earlier we woulda won this game

The prophecy must happen

is there any good writing on how mexico is building and financing the huge Claudia Sheinbaum rail expansion? mexicobusiness.news/infrastructu...

grilling season never dies

LA undefeated

issuing a category 5 sicko alert for next Wednesday, 10/29 when the academy museum is screening MICHAEL CLAYTON * ** * In 35mm ** with tony gilroy giving a talk www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/...

there are obviously challenges and we’re starting from literally nothing in basically my lifetime, but wild that this (Metro’s A Line extension to Pomona) is the 6th new train line / extension to open in the last decade

Honestly these are two of the best new buildings in LA over the past 5 years, affordable or not.

how did I not know that they are making a movie about making of the Grand Arch in La Defense featuring a very pissed George Pompidou??

extremely fun job working on data pipelines for transit and transportation at Caltrans calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

super excited to see another open loop system come online here in CA with OCTA, and w/ LA Metro + rest of Clipper coming late this year or early next, a huge milestone for the state www.masstransitmag.com/technology/f...

if you're every wondering why Trimet and portland transit feels so... well, seamless and easy to use, this is a great history of how federal grants were well leveraged to do "integrated mobility" learn.sharedusemobilitycenter.org/casestudy/th...

extremely cool job title alert (even if you do have to live in Boston) - Director of the Better Bus Network at the MBTA www.governmentjobs.com/careers/mbta...

obviously there's a lot of talk in LA about how the economy having issues due to secular hollywood issues but in terms of jobs, trade and light manufacturing are HUGE in LA and absolutely getting hammered by the feds trade and immigration policies

extremely curious what this Brightline West equity raise is going to look like

excited to get @meghanmccarron.bsky.social on the Michelin beat but outside of France, Italy and Japan Michelin's business model is extracting tax dollars / tourism spend subsidies that could be better spent on local media IMO www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/d...

really impressive to see the IBX moving into environmental, what, 24 months after really getting going? Also, compared to CA, I believe they have already done partial design, but I could be wrong www.progressiverailroading.com/passenger_ra...

one weird trick to reduce US power prices (although really the big driver I believe is still on install and permitting hard / soft costs)

wake up new Jenny Chase 2025 solar opinions thread just dropped

LA: a collection of 5-10 job centers all 45 minutes from each other

pull forward effects are real

in one of my occasional, perhaps it is problematic that the City of LA has at least 3 and maybe 5 agencies who oversee major street redesigns, let's check in on "Rock the Boulevard", the BSS led project to transform Eagle Rock Blvd* storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/300a...

found myself being like “oh yeah it would be cool to get to go to Japan again” and then just realized 4 different people I know are there right now and posting on IG

the revolution will not be televised, grid scale battery edition

this is such a fun re release and now I wanna rewatch the movie

holy shit they cracked kryptos one of the worlds greatest nerd sniping art projects

The WSJ produces just as many hate reads as the NYT but the paywall keeps it from the mass outrage

sure let’s do private capital in equity 401ks

gotta be honestly I’m pretty shocked at how much Claudia Sheinbaum selling passenger train content I get on instagram www.instagram.com/share/_cyY35...

solo dinner at home means chicken fat rice with three cup chicken

one of the most interesting parts of attitudes from trump 1 Biden trump 2 is the shift among lib attitudes from delieverism to something that vaguely resembles the 1970s California tax revolt in terms of attitude

extremely excited to see new housing in my neighborhood on an under utilized Metro-owned parking lot w/ this and a few of the new development really shows a new micro-neighborhood growing

in a true only nixon could go to china it does appear that only the trump administration could do market-socialism www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/t...

the 21st century will belong to whichever country stops hitting itself www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/w...

The 6th (now 8th) largest North American metro is in Monterey (pop 1M city / 5M metro), has 3 lines, and opened 1st line in 1991. Better things possible

obligatory Bluesky I’m at the Rilo Kiley show post

the way I can instantly tell that band photo was shot in Chicago but nothing else about the band is … not great for my cultural capital

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I gotta be honest I have been historically skeptical of the idea of digital twins but recently I learned that Japan's MLIT built an entire 3D model of every building and road in the country with semantic and underlying use information, so uh... maybe less skeptical www.mlit.go.jp/plateau/en/

tired: Mexico City gentrification discourse wired: Mexico City chefs are “in dialogue” with US experience

vignelli 100% vindicated