Not an American railroad guy so this passed me by until WTYP mentioned it. PTC uses GPS?? Jesus Christ

Kind of impressive how you can go through the history of any rock band and there'll have been a dozen different members at one point or another, and not a single woman among them

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

The pricing software/ blackrock obsession is so funny to me because it basically posits that there was no housing crisis before, like, 2018.

Reflections on last week's #WeekWithoutDriving in a city that still refuses to acknowledge the existence of its nondrivers — which a comprehensive new report claims make up one-third of LA's population

Some of these interchanges on the RATP are ridiculous

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

I love how the SNCF journey planner is like 'have you considered not taking the train?'

Remember this genius innovation?

A station that gets 6 trains per direction per day should look like Exo's stations, not like that, honestly. There are hundreds of bus stops that serve more people that need investment in fixed infrastructure more than this. Just build a platform and add 3 bus shelters.

Is there anything in the world more satisfying than gaming air fare fluctuations successfully?

Don't count your blessings before they've hatched

The YIMBY movement will not rest until every town has its own Tour Montparnasse

Threads discovering that 'country' is an imprecise term with no specific definition

Bud Abbott invites Lou Costello over for Ethiopian food Costello: What's for dinner? [hilarious misunderstandings ensue]

One of my favorite bits was when we just got nationalised and for a while I was like 'welcome on board this SNCB train to Shepperton' or 'this is your Grote Britse Spoorwegen service to Woking' or 'thanks for traveling with Brit Államvasutak'

So what precisely do the right want to do about the white working classes? Certainly not go to university, as they want numbers down. Nor to have a unionised manufacturing job, as they don't want unions. No, they just want pawns as part of their culture wars. They don't give a toss.

(me taking the train home following a few pints after work) ah, so the PTI hazard observer becomes the PTI hazard

King County Metro states 55% of fare revenue comes from ORCA Business Passport (employers paying per head for their employees to have annual transit passes). Does that mean that uptake is exceptionally high, or that fare evasion is the norm for everyone else?

As Robert Moses once said, you need to put everyone’s homes on one side of the Intercoastal and FECR and all the Targets and Publixes on the other

It's because trains are good

“Some of his subcontracted immigrant workers are demanding extra wages for running the risk of being detained by ICE. That has pushed individual daily labor costs to $400 to $500, up from between $200 and $300 a day.” www.reuters.com/world/us/thi...

This whole europoors thing is just American liberals coping with the cognitive dissonance of believing in global warming while maintaining an extremely energy-intensive lifestyle, by framing conveniences like keeping your house a constant 70 freedom degrees as the baseline of a civilised existence

Hot n spicy take: Meal kits suck in many respects (excessive packaging, immiserated warehouse workers, semi-scammy subscription model) but if the use case is an alternative to meal delivery they're an unequivocal good

The two best value mcdonalds items (wrap of the day and double cheeseburger) have both increased in price by 20p in London, this is my radicalising moment

If I were Houston I would simply tear down all freeways inside of the 610 loop, build automated metro lines along those freeway corridors, and use planning policies to concentrate development within that area

In Hamburg plainclothes inspectors check bus tickets and enforce the newish alcohol ban. Unlike New York they don’t stop the bus. Forgot your pass? You can show it later and pay a €5 fine. youtube.com/watch?v=JvHH...

US freight rail can't manage to run to a fucking schedule, it's completely given up on any remotely time-sensitive cargo, several times a year it derails hazardous cargo, world's best my ass

What's that meme? I spent 86.5 million on oilsands, someone who is good at the GHG emissions please help me budget this. my carbon budget is dying.

There are many ways for traincrew to fuck up, but only three ways to get fired. First, gross misconduct, like assaulting someone or going on the fiddle. Second, showing up intoxicated. Third, lying to cover up a safety incident.

Wherever car domination prevails, versions of history excuse the status quo and deter constructive change. “Maybe it’s not perfect,” these contrived histories tell us, “but that’s what everybody wanted.”

Someone on my train is speaking loudly into the phone in Danish and it's such an unserious sounding language

My hot take re driver controlled train operation on main line rail is that most discussions are badly myopic. Can a driver safely dispatch a train using cameras? Sure. But does the additional workload impact upon the driver's ability to focus on their other safety critical duties?

Re cafe cars vs more capacity: An option is to design a flexible car with a small serving area plus reasonably comfortable seats around tables (like the British Mk3 coach interior pictured), used for cafe seating most of the time, and as a class of seating accommodation at the busiest times.

Janice, 83: "Put this in your newspaper," she told me, "people need a roof over their heads more than a garden."

Weird take that Montréal's transit system is going to be ruined by the stipulation that other agencies don't compete with the REM. In an efficient urban transit system, buses are coordinated with your high capacity rail system, not in competition with it!

Girl,

tbh I think more transit lines should pivot towards murdering car drivers

‼️ This amendment is up for a vote TODAY, and it's likely to be very close. If you care about ST3, consider giving public comment either in person or by calling in, or emailing [email protected] asking to reject any amendment from CM Rivera adding additional requirements to light rail permits.

You can find this in the shittiest neighborhood of any European city

This is the most tragically American thing I’ve ever read www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

I lowkey love these socialist make work jobs, having grown up on stories of 80s Hungary where it took four people to serve you a beer. A conductor in the front cab who operates the doors, another who apparently just stands at the rear saloon door just in case, and a dispatcher? That'll do it!

If you agree that it's in society's best interest that a man who mowed down three pedestrians is put back behind the wheel as soon as possible, you'll find this ruling - and in fact, every British ruling on traffic violence - to your liking.

Light wood frame multifam is pennywise, pound-foolish. But it’s so deep-rooted that a developer can’t even avoid its consequences and build different. The tradeoffs – in codes, in how insurers treat buildings, in how ordinary people view apartments – have been made at a societal level.

Sir my posts are not "material." This is my life, I have to live like this, I have a condition.

Saying it again: laws that fast-track sprawl and kneecap affordable housing choices harm the environment. We’re long overdue for making sure CEQA et al. match intent with outcome.

It's so clear there was a whole Thick Of It type situation in which the department planned to unveil a whole new GBR livery and corporate identity, and after a series of mishaps and poor choices, ended up bodging together a sticker with a little union jack on it

Honey I’m afraid Yurtel went bust and now we’re yurtless for our glamping. No they didn’t take credit card. Anyway we’re out over ten thousand pounds and they’re not doing refunds

I wonder how my downstairs neighbors would feel about this.