Today, RFI formally activated the full electrification of the Treviso-Montebelluna-Feltre-Belluno line, completing a multi-year effort to electrify most lines in Veneto's piedmont. Electric service will start at the December timetable change.

🤩 Fin de la rénovation de la station République. Supression de toutes les publicités et œuvre artistique dans la totalité de la station. ✅

The problem is not really TER, because they already work everywhere through subsidized contracts, where the competition is "for the market" rather than "in the market". The real question is about the long-distance TGVs which aren't profitable and might end up under the umbrella of PSO contracts

US Congress is already discussing reauthorizing transport programs funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in 2021. Our team @urbaninstitute.bsky.social recommends how Congress should use new legislation to improve effectiveness, environmental sustainability, & access in the transport system ⏬

I dislike the framing of winter as an “excuse”, as if you can wish it away. I see it as an additional *challenge* that is *surmountable*. Winter cities need to (1) design bike infrastructure for snow, (2) care about plowing, and (3) learn how to do a good job of plowing/maintaining the bike lanes.

This, in Berlin, is wild: "Residential parking permits have been capped at just over €10 per year since 2008 – far below the administrative costs incurred to issue them and less than the cost of a 24-hour metro ticket."

Another one for you, @dlknowles.bsky.social

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

Le sujet des logements vacants revient souvent dans mes discussions sur la crise du logement, mais ce sujet est présenté de manière trop simpliste.

There is for sure some allegorical beauty in the fact that the opening days of the most important segment of the REM, possibly the most transformative transit project in Montréal in a genetation, perfectly overlaps with a 48-hour total blackout of transit in the entire island.

The entire stock market is based on LLMs being able to virtually any task

Build baby build! A 19-storey student housing complex under construction by non-profit UTILE in Montreal’s Griffintown neighbourhood, near downtown. To total 285 apartments for 353 students.

"Here’s Jeffrey Epstein complaining about SEO" one of the more cursed @miasato.bsky.social posts in a while www.theverge.com/news/820165/...

“Lack of zoning does not mean that land use…is unregulated; instead, it means that property owners get to conceive and enforce many of the most important rules through covenants written into deeds.” —Samuel Stein

A new low in approval. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

‘The latest cache also reveals that Michael Wolff, a prominent New York journalist, offered advice to the disgraced financier. The two men discussed both Epstein’s PR and that of their mutual acquaintance Woody Allen,

This is a wild misunderstanding of what cities are like and who lives and works in them. Unless you work in commercial real estate, remote work isn't destroying your city.

We dropped a new report re: train operations, everyone’s favorite topic. There’s some backstory that we will get too. But, the basic takeaway is modern train systems have moved away from two-person train ops. New York should, too! transitcosts.com/Train_Operat...

New Marron survey of 400+ subway lines across the world from London to Paris to Shanghai finds just 6% still use two-person train operation, which would be required by a TWU-backed bill. “It doesn’t really matter to us what the data shows,” says TWU boss Samuelsen www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...

Great article on the past, present, and future of New York’s Penn Station. “Maybe the Train Daddy will figure it out and get it done, but the fundamental issue here is not one of personality or incompetence. It’s a political octopus built to fail.”

‘The biggest obstacle to a total overhaul of Penn Station is the arena that replaced the original station in the 1960s. Any rearrangement or expansion of the tracks and platforms on the bottom must first grapple with the forest of steel beams holding up the Garden.’ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“By cutting aid for permanent housing by 2/3 next year, the plan risks a sudden end of support… beginning as soon as January. All are disabled — a condition of the aid — and many are 50 or older. The document does not explain how they would find housing.”

Newly published messages from the late sex offender have become the latest flashpoint in the US between the Republican and Democratic parties on.ft.com/4nSU2Pp

Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines. Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context. I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.

Enrollment by major in the UCSD remedial math course teaching “elementary and middle school math concepts”. Bad news for anybody planning on seeing a human doctor in 2060 and onwards:

"Fast and free!" That's what Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani promised to make #NYC 's city bus service. What kind of impact has free transit had in other cities? #Montpellier , #France is the largest city in Europe to make transit (5 tram lines, 41 bus lines) free for residents... 🧵

Québec: we need to integrate transportation planning with development better! Also Québec: we can't really say where stations are going in this project because this will lead to land speculation and bad behaviours from prospective expropriated landowners.

Jaw dropping anecdotes in the piece that put colour on the China shock “A Munich-based compressor maker has two offers for a new wire-processing machine. A quote from a Swiss-based European company stands at €130k, compared with one from a firm based in China’s Zhejiang province for less than €28k”

A simple observation should give it away: manufacturing is 19% of German GDP. Even if defence spending goes to 3.5% of GDP - a massive surge - only a fraction of that will go to equipment vs soldiers wages pensions etc. The arithmetic of rearmament saves German industry just doesn’t add up. 5/

Must-read post article from Olaf Storbeck and the team at the FT. I hope this is carefully read in all German ministries. 1/ www.ft.com/content/239e...

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

@70sbachchan.bsky.social You'll enjoy this piece research.gavekal.com/article/unra...

You may feel informed about the changes in Paris if you follow me, but the change is so massive that I can’t post about everything ! For instance, I have not yet shared anything about Place Félix Éboué in the 12th arrondissement, even though its conversion into a pedestrian area is spectacular !

Avant / Après la voie de bus Rue de Tolbiac dans le 13ème arrondissement de Paris. Documenter ces évolutions est très peu photogénique, mais au moins ici on voit les flèches directionnelles du temps où la voie de droite était une voie générale, ça accentue la différence !

Disturbing read with striking charts, especially on the new capital goods trade deficit with China and on the share of sectors in which DE and CN share a comparative advantage. People have been warning that the export-led model was headed for this wall for many years... www.ft.com/content/239e...

NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

BREAKING: European Sleeper will start a Paris-Berlin sleeper train from 26 March 2026, after Nightjet pulls out in December. It'll run via Brussels (with Eurostar connection from London) 3 times a week. This + existing train = Brussels-Berlin 6 times a week. www.europeansleeper.eu/paris

Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers. It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.

Ingraham: Does that mean the h-1b visa thing will not be a big priority for your administration? Trump: You have to bring in talent Ingraham: We have plenty of talent Trump: No, you don’t Ingraham: We don’t have talented people here?

En tout cas, c'est toujours beau quand la première neige arrive.

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

By learning from other countries and adopting international best practices, California High Speed Rail was able to cut its costs by $14 billion and cut 70% of tunnels. This is a big lesson for transit projects both in NY & around the US: start by learning from other countries. tinyurl.com/mvsmfxa2

“Sales fell 35.8% from a year earlier ..” @reuters.com $TSLA www.reuters.com/business/aut...

‘Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946), starring Jimmy Stewart; Robert Wise’s “The Sound of Music” (1965), starring Julie Andrews; Robert Redford’s “Ordinary People” (1980), starring Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore; and Roberto Benigni’s “Life Is Beautiful” (1997).’

Maple leaves on new-fallen snow. (And #Montréal still has five weeks of autumn to go.)

New Zealand's transport minister knows that congestion pricing's popularity always rises: "[Once] benefits start to flow in terms of smoother journey times, reduced traffic at peak times, smog goes down, safety improves, people go 'this is fantastic,' and immediately public opinion turns around."

If you're ever upset about the state of US land use policy, just spend 30 seconds reading anything about the UK. Automated NIMBYism! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Empires will come and go, mountains will become dust, great cities will rise from ruins… but British voters will always want Scandinavian public services for American tax rates.