if only that Waffle House lady had been there

kid named High St

last chance to see

Intro to Sustainable Water Management Construction Design Natural History Professional Practice Transport Planning, Modelling and Economics

The mythical Grape Fanta tree

TIL the East Kilbride Line was electrified late last year www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnlO...

Brand new electric bus vibes

V15 at Parramatta, from my last visit to Sydney in 2023.

Alamein train switches to the local tracks to stop at East Richmond

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The travel modelling that underpinned the Metro Tunnel and other railway expansions and extensions assumed that Melbourne would have this bus network by 2031. Red: 50 "SmartBus" lines, 10-minute headway. Green: 128 "direct" lines, 15-minute headway. How much of this has been realised?

nice that Taitset has inspired youtubers from around the world to make junction explainer videos

Transit Systems 43 loses its 401 shuttle livery, ahead of the new Route 241 starting on Feb 1.

At @drdrehistorian.bsky.social ‘s happy place

The peak of Facebook was in like 2011 when you could join a private group called “people named Matt Ward” and one of the Matts would periodically comment “what’s up Matt Ward” and get like 30 “what’s up Matt Wards” in reply. that was the top.

finally www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

A Class downsides: small and cramped inside upsides: you can fit three on a 45m long platform

One of the other issues with buses in Melbourne: congestion. We need more bus lanes and queue jumps!

dry January (no sweet wines for a month)

It’s real. (from Facebook)

Choose your fighter

A rare visitor on Collins St

BREAKING: The TTC is getting new Line 2 subway trains (55 trains), manufactured right here in Ontario in Thunder Bay. They’re based on Alstom’s Metropolis platform, and look extremely modern. More here: news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

The 235, one of the few bus routes in Melbourne to run every 10 minutes on weekdays.

Not so fast, Ford Ranger driver

prompt: repost with your home river yangtze river (nanjing) ➡️ yarra river (melbourne)

QOTD: What car do you want most, but know would be an absolutely miserable experience to own?

LA is so beautiful

Big Switch timetables are out!

Melbourne February train timetables are now online! 6 MetroTunnel trains per hour offpeak & up to 17tph peak Sunbury and Pakenham/Cranbourne lines still separate at Town Hall for some reason railmaps.com.au/routedetails... Frankston line now runs through City Loop railmaps.com.au/routedetails...

You’ve heard of quad track, now get ready for quad bike lanes

giving all of the Burnley group stopping patterns names like they do in Japan

thinking about the one SJ X2000 that went to China and was later brought back to Sweden

slightly diminish a band: Pearl Coulis

Interurban guy

G class night testing. Hopefully they'll enter service by the middle of this year www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alrx...

Getting a bunch of PhD candidate accounts in my insta feed

trains at South Kensington

Finally caught one of these guys in action

Hungarian language version of Bailamos called Villamos

Most Chinese buses just have the standard door arrangement of front door and rear door ahead of the rear axle, but some dare to be different

friends, on this most tram of Tuesdays, let me take you on a little journey into a tale of two new tram systems here in Ontario, just 80km apart as the crow flies but a world apart in operations: the Kitchener-Waterloo ION tram, and the brand new Toronto Line 6 Finch West tram

Trams in the park

introduce yourself with what almost killed you: I am a jar of lupini

Curitiba testing the trackless tram

You would think these guys would appreciate a smaller, lighter, lower profile train

great to see they're running 12 car sets now with the new trains www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwSg...

to be on that train that was going across the harbour bridge while the fireworks were going off...