This is completely unacceptable! AC Transit’s hydrogen fleet has 43%-64% availability depending on model, leading to canceled bus runs and stops in the middle of service. They must address this to retain/grow riders. Transit reliability is even more important to riders than speed or frequency.

Literally every railroad's creation, operation, and service is politics. I'm flabbergasted when modelers say otherwise, it's foolish. See ALT text below

Was looking up old timetables over the weekend, found this gem. "It gets there when it gets there"-ass railroad.

And ripping it all out, as planned, costs as much as operating it for another 15 years! Let’s have rail to St Cloud. It’s in the Legislature and MnDOT to make this happen.

The Midtown Greenway has never looked so good with the northern lights and recently repairs lights.

#OnThisDay Nov 7, 1938: Majorettes distribute flowers and release pigeons to celebrate new equipment on the Milwaukee Road's "Twin Cities Hiawatha." The streamlined passenger cars with unique "Beaver Tail" end design were pulled by the new F7 steam locomotives, among the fastest in the world.

And this is what it was before it was the bus barn. Behold "Snelling Station", the primary maintenance facility for the Twin Cities Rapid Transit streetcar system and major regional employer. Like the Pennsylvania Railroad, TCRT built everything in house, from the vehicles to the light poles.

If the media is going to keep pushing their crime & inefficiency narrative on public transit then agencies should fight back. Car dominance is personally and societally unpleasant, transit is by-and-large convenient, affordable, and socially beneficial. No more needless concessions to big auto.

we gotta do something about the european peasant mindset which is suddenly prevalent in seats in new amtrak cars i'm gonna be sitting there for maybe six hours or more, i need a fucking throne

A bit late to this, but the most absurd bit of the Northstar fiasco is that Met Council is...paying to demolish existing stations? BNSF I assume, but why waste public money on what is essentially salting the earth for future projects?

I spit out my drink infotel.ca/newsitem/mam...

May or may not have forgotten to do self-promotion on this. 😭

For the past year or so I've had this creeping feeling that an American Anni Di Piombo was descending upon us. And it's here, so now I'm terrified of how much further it will go.

The debacle with Amtrak’s Horizon cars makes me realize how much time I spend on researching MN’s transportation to the end of making my roommate wish he was dead. Writing articles isn’t enough, I need to yap for hours on end at least once a month.

Right after cosponsoring that insane bill which classifies anyone who opposes Trump as “mentally ill”. Every conservative accusation is an admission of guilt.

just want to point out that "privatization of amtrak" does in fact imply forcing the class I railroads to take back their legally-mandated passenger service

I’ve been doing a bit of digging at the library and on the internet about the Arrowhead’s rail history, to try and map out historical rail stations, freight depots, etc. What shocked me is that Duluth had 3 stations in Downtown, including Union Depot, on top of 4+ “suburban” stations.

Oh how we've fallen. The Japanese used to come to the US to get insights into how to build better railroad infrastructure and electrification

Rather telling that a so-called "transportation" engineering course has the energy of "Oh yeah, pedestrians and bicyclists, those chucklefucks".

Went to the opening day of Catzen Café in St Paul yesterday 💜

Federal government report in 1977: "The amount of catenary installed in the United States in the last forty years has not been sufficient to preserve and update the installation techniques and skills developed in the first quarter of the century." <<stares directly into the sun>>

We're headed toward a world run by a loaded roulette wheel where exclusionary systems simply reflect merit and broadly inclusionary ones are per se discriminatory.

if i can say anything to queer folk in these trying times, be unapologetically petty with your queerness someone tried to call a video game i did some work for "woke" so in retaliation i gave its cartoon goat mascot a transgender deer girlfriend that is now canon

By 1910, the network of interurbans in the US was so dense that a determined commuter could hop interlinked vehicles from Elkhart, Wisconsin, to Oneonta, NY—a journey of 1,100 miles—exclusively by electric trolley. 🚋🧵

Worth considering

look what these WOKE LIBERAL URBANISTS are doing to our beautiful ROADS, our CARS, and our TRAFFIC. they call this "TRAFFIC CALMING" for their FIFTEEN MINUTE CITIES, but i call this a TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE. #traffic #cars #urbanism

Our paper quantifying the negative effects of urban freeways on local neighborhood quality of life appears in the September issue of REStat. doi.org/10.1162/rest...

“No way to prevent this,” says only roadway where this regularly happens

The civil engineering office at UMD has this book on track engineering, has me thinking about how only like ten colleges in the US still have dedicated rail engineering classes. All of UMD’s “transportation” courses being highway engineering doesn’t help calm my conscious, either.

The 1940s Steam Engine pulled Hiawatha between Chicago and Milwaukee was 5-10mins faster than the current Amtrak service