First video with my new phone is of this beautiful evening from within a 12-car long Koploper. A rare breed nowadays.

Just saw 2 Arriva trains coming through Utrecht. What a day Seriously weird though that its a Southern and a Northern set coupled together

Save the day! 🇪🇺🇮🇸 Iceland will hold its referendum on whether to begin EU accession talks on 29 August. The 63-seat parliament approved the date with 34 votes in favour, 8 rejections, 14 abstentions and 7 absentees.

Robert Caro's The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. I grew up on Staten Island (left in 1968 to attend Naval Academy, did not return) and am fascinated by New York, history, and great writing.

Plans for the new tram line in Utrecht have been worked out even more and are now open for public comment. - Fully trenched and 75% covered (cut and cover) - 4 underground stations - 24x per hour frequency, 2.5 minute headway - €1.8b

More details were released today about the resumption of the Baku-Tbilisi night train, which was suspended since the covid pandemic. It seems that - unlike last year - it is seriously going to happen. www.bpn.ge/article/1525...

Hello, Montreal. Today is a new dawn for the @remgrandmtl.bsky.social with the (actual) opening of the Anse-à-l’Orme branch! 4 new stations, 14km of mostly elevated guideway.

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons for more walkable streets.

New mass timber apartment complex going up in Delft

Goodbye Moldova! ATR72 back home.

Collection of regular Moldovan buses and marshrutkas

Collection of Moldova trolleybus pictures

Another old Dutch bus in Moldova

Gidi Markuszower laat overduidelijk zijn ware aard zien. Oproepen tot geweld. Misselijkmakend en ziek. Het kabinet moet dit keihard veroordelen en duidelijk maken dat het onder geen enkele voorwaarde nog samenwerkt met deze haatzaaier.

This could be 6 cars instead.

Abandoned railway station of Tiraspol. No trains since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Former Utrecht bus driving around in Tiraspol

Tiraspol bus

Currently stuck in Ungheni for 3 hours in a planned stop. First border control and then they lift up the entire train to change the bogeys for the wider gauge in Moldova. 🇷🇴 ➡️ 🇲🇩

There are more curtains on this train than passengers

Departure board in Bucharest North station

Een vuurwerkbom door de brievenbus van het partijbureau van D66. Een laffe daad van intimidatie. Voor wie denkt angst aan te kunnen jagen heb ik een boodschap: wij laten ons in democratisch Nederland nooit het zwijgen opleggen door geweld. Veel dank aan politie en brandweer voor hun snelle optreden.

This weirdness aside, I love these lodger construction offices and wish we did more of them in NYC. In general, they’ve got tons of site offices in Europe that we totally lack in NYC, and I imagine workers are worse off for it.

One of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken. This is actually the construction site for Apple’s Parisian headquarters on Champs-Elysees.

Here is what it looked like from the work site during installation

NS is finally starting to clean their trains so I can once again enjoy the view

How do you get a 50cm diameter district heating pipe underneath an active mainline railroad? You lift it up and bore it under the tracks using a tiny tunnel boring machine for 300 meters.

If anyone can tell me why this contractor built their site office OVER the road instead of on the parking strip, that would be great. I can't find a single reason why they'd do it like this.

I have always appreciated the interplay between the 4th and the 5th of May in the Netherlands. Remembrance and solemness on the 4th Celebration of freedom on the 5th Now to make it a national holiday instead of this weird half-holiday, once every 5 years.

My favourite street

Dutch Cycling culture has officially been recognized as National Intangible Cultural Heritage! buff.ly/6GUo2TY

19,000 Utrecht employees have been told not to cycle or take public transport to work due to "unsafe cycling infrastructure and unavailable bus alternatives". It concerns all employees of the "Lage Weide" business park. www.mobiliteit.nl/beleid/2026/...

I always love looking at the exodus of finance bros and gals at lunch time. The bridge connects the offices to the city centre (where the sandwiches are)

Tell the Guardian what's up. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The most complete map of public transit in Mexico City that has ever existed. This should be everywhere. Amazing work from Clarion Project. drive.google.com/file/d/1Kh6i... ...

One of the things that has come out of DBs general renovation program is a massive improvement in the quality of the replacement services. Live displays, a new fleet of buses. Some with restrooms. A really impressive effort to improve what is usually a sucky experience at the best

Dutch voters try not to be volatile for 1 month: hard edition

Peak Southern Italy postwar infrastructure vibes here.

Pretty proud of this one. 1 guess city today Where Is That❓ #324 (22/04/2026) 🔥3 7,368 / 10,000 🚇🚈🚊🚆🚘🌊 Correct! 🥳 whereisth.at/shr

Good news, it seems like an NL-ticket-light is on the way this summer. €49,- per month for unlimited public transport travel in off-peak hours in the entire country. nos.nl/artikel/2611...

An epic bridge opening ceremony in #Helsinki on Saturday. So many happy people. #cycling #onelesscar #KruunuvuoriBridge

Why did we decide that 's-Hertogenbosch and 's-Gravenhage should start with an apostrophe. It breaks my code every time.

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Is making public transport free “effective?” “…the relatively small difference between Victoria and NSW suggests price is not the main constraint on mode shift. Access, travel time, service reliability and the ability to make specific trips appear to matter more.” Via @theconversation.com

Old vs. New platform roof at Amsterdam Zuid. Much more spacious even if only vertically. It makes it feel more comfortable and less crowded.

Sometimes I take the ICE home via Amsterdam as a treat. It might take longer, but the experience is 100x better and still free.

I think it's really interesting what Ottawa is doing with fare collection on its new multimodal stations. The whole bus terminal is a fare-paid zone with a small entrance house (yellow) with a fare gate line for both bus and LRT (pink). Image credit: @railfans.ca

Gewastypen in Nederland 📷: ESA/Crop Parcel Base Register

First day of buses back on the TU Campus!

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