Andrés Valencia 🚅🌇🚲
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Cities & Transportation, thoughts on making our cities better for everyone. UWaterloo planning🇨🇴🇨🇦
📑🏙️ First article is out! 🙌 Today, we're on the news! Discussing Toronto's Finch West LRT opening, how we can learn from Waterloo's ION LRT success, and the bigger conversation of prioritizing speed in our generational transit investments! Take a look below!🚈6️⃣
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Light Rail: Toronto's Struggles With Speed
The irony of Toronto’s transit politics and a hope for future projects.
https://open.substack.com/pub/urbanplusultra/p/light-rail-torontos-struggles-with?r=1vdp7d&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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Hey Everyone! I’m super excited to share a new project I’m working on. Urban: PLUS ULTRA is a space for discussion on Transport, Infrastructure, and Urbanism on a roughly weekly basis. Take a quick read at the link below! 😄
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Urban: PLUS ULTRA
What does it mean for cities to go 'further beyond' (plus ultra)?
https://open.substack.com/pub/urbanplusultra/p/urban-plus-ultra?r=1vdp7d&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
about 1 month ago
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With the announcement of 300km/h high speed rail in Canada my only true hope is that political infighting doesn’t kill it… for now, CANADA IS GETTING HIGH SPEED RAIL!!!
www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
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Canada is getting high-speed rail
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that Canada is developing a high-speed rail network in the Toronto-Quebec City corridor.
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2025/02/19/canada-getting-high-speed
about 1 year ago
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Could it be?? IS IT HAPPENING?!? Please let Canadian high-speed rail happen 🤩🤩🤩
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Trudeau government to announce high-speed rail plans from Toronto to Quebec City: sources
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Transport Minister Anita Anand were slated to make an announcement Wednesday which two sources confirmed to the Star will be to build high-speed rail from
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/trudeau-government-to-announce-high-speed-rail-plans-from-toronto-to-quebec-city-sources/article_076f9e40-ee61-11ef-bd95-8fa1649eb6a7.html
about 1 year ago
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Seoul’s Central Station is probably the most European style High Speed Rail station in all of east Asia… you can really see SNCF, and Alstom’s influence. And not just because their first gen trains are literally adaptions of the French TGV. (🧵👇)
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about 1 year ago
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Yesterday (Dec 28), Seoul’s GTX High-Speed metro/regional rail line opened its section from Seoul Station to the Northwest at Unjeongjungang. A🧵👇
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about 1 year ago
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So tell me, is your Asian city rail network in it’s “brand new and rapidly growing” phase or in it’s “old but perfectly maintained” era? 📍1) Xiamen
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about 1 year ago
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It says a lot about a city when the primary front entrance to your major world class airport is almost completely dedicated to an Airport Express train for both arrivals and departures… Hong Kong is just on another level🤩
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about 1 year ago
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Wait why is this so cool?!😭
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about 1 year ago
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reposted by
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JRUrbaneNetwork
about 1 year ago
Wild that Rio de Janeiro Metro Line 2 used to be be a pre-metro using LRVs in the 1980s. As time passed the line was slowly upgraded and grade separated into a full blown metro line using third rail. LRVs drawing overhead power were used on the line well into the 2000s.
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Some fantastic work on a hidden but extremely controversial problem. Infrastructure costs ballooning is not normal everywhere, and it genuinely might be more damaging to building a better future in the Anglosphere than any NIMBY. We need change👇👇
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about 1 year ago
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reposted by
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about 1 year ago
Gonna have a hard time believing we are taking the housing "crisis" seriously when we keep putting shadows as a higher priority than affordable homes
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There’s a SHOCKING amount of urbanists/YIMBYs who make the argument of high rise vs midrise housing. WE. NEED. BOTH. Toronto is never going to get better housing if we rely solely on skyscrapers. Loving this new report by EnviroDefence 👇👇
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New Expert Report: Ending Restrictions on Mid-Rise Apartment Buildings Necessary to end Housing Shortage - Environmental Defence
New report spells out the steps all levels of government should take immediately to clear obstacles to deliver 1.5M new homes by 2031.
https://environmentaldefence.ca/2024/11/13/new-expert-report-ending-restrictions-on-mid-rise-apartment-buildings-necessary-to-end-housing-shortage/
over 1 year ago
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Taking a deep breath over the use of the word ‘light rail’ for the REM in Montréal😤, that being said… MONTREAL TRIP FALL ‘25 LETS GOOOOO🚊🤩🎉
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REM: Entire light-rail train network in service by 2025
The Caisse de dépôt is now targeting fall 2025 for the start-up of the Deux-Montagnes and Anse-à-l’Orme branches of the Réseau express métropolitain (REM). The net cost of the project is now $8.34 billion, up 4.9 per cent from the last financial update over a year ago. CDPQ Infra’s president and CEO spoke on the […]
https://montreal.citynews.ca/2024/11/14/rem-train-network-service-2025/
over 1 year ago
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This reminds me of a mid-2000s documentary I remember watching that said we could build trains through the middle of earth propelled by gravity alone… egotistical tech bros will do anything other than supporting sound-tried and tested technologies for city building😪
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over 1 year ago
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On a related sidenote, VIA HFR better be announced as true high speed rail, I know it’s not set in stone but it would be a nice pick me up after this disastrous couple weeks.
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over 1 year ago
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Hi Bluesky! Let’s kick this thing off with some
#nozomi
vibes!⚡️
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over 1 year ago
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