Me whenever I see a country with a functional railroad system convert a mainline to a tram and then have it dwaddle through the middle of town at one of the ends

Actually thought this was a fairly good summary of the long distance procurement.

Rail Passengers President & CEO Jim Mathews dives into Amtrak's long-distance fleet replacement RFP Read more: https://twp.ai/E5ADQ3

Almost 1/12 LIRR riders board at JAM. The revolution is happening under the LIRR’s nose.

In 1965, 1:4 LIRR passengers (20,000 in the peak direction) and 11tph went to Atlantic Terminal.

Just to emphasize how bad of a hole the Trump Administration is in right now, gas price approval this morning literally plummeted so far we had to fix the Y axis of this chart.

yes right that's all we want

One to three extra stories with a small, wheelchair-accessible elevator – this is what we’re fighting for

JFK Terminal 4 is really too long and wherever I am flying from the plane always lands at gate B999

Norway’s regulator has approved Vy Buss’s plan to run a route in Stavanger without a driver. The private operator has been piloting the autonomous bus with a safety supervisor on board; later this month, it is set to become fully driverless. www.electrive.com/2026/05/04/a...

The examples of intercity rail with security checks are Spain (with its notoriously underutilized HSR network) and Brightline (which is about to go bankrupt due to its capital debt burden, in part from building airport terminal-style stations to accommodate airport-style security)

Oh, this gets better. Shumate appears only to have tweeted that because Bloomberg Law’s Ben Penn had just reported on it.

Airport security is high because you can turn a plane into a missile that kills thousands. No comparable risk exists in train travel. In fact any would be assassin would be able to drive anywhere.

Pollen is absolutely off the Richter Scale today

Hoping to live in one of these soon. Great job by Alex and the DC council.

That would be so cool if it were true

I’ll believe rich people will leave NYC when I see it.

One resident proposed some pretty reasonable ideas to manage crowds and make it safer and more predictable for everyone involved:

These South American systems are really not a good model for NYC (or, frankly, even for South America, which really needs more metros). We should be looking to more surgical and less space-intensive models like in Central Europe.

Would not surprise me if most gambling against other gamblers, ala a lot of horse racing, had similar distributions of profits.

Affluent suburban homeowners: NIMBY is a slur. Rural residents against data centers: Keep that the hell out of my backyard

Why is the DC red line running at 15 minute frequencies right now? @wmata.com

People often struggle to recreate @conradspeckert.bsky.social’s graphic because the scale of difference is so vast, and they may even find it a little uncomfortable to consider the implication of it – which is that a country of the US or Canada’s income level should really be allowing 20+ stories

This tracks

One rail delivery body for California.

I find it personally maddening that California hasn't made any substantive progress on single-stair, even after the enormous amount of effort that we have put into it.

An interesting phenomenon that feels underdiscussed: wealthy people moving into neighborhoods, converting apartments into single family homes, or doing tear downs. @stevevance.net & I were walking around Chicago’s Ravenswood last week, noticing dozens of examples of these going up in last few years.

I wake up every morning wondering why I don't just open a gelato stand in Amalfi.

Too lazy to look this up and see if it’s correct, but as I recall, EU GDP growth has actually tracked US growth pretty closely, it’s just that the fastest growth has been in Eastern Europe, which American do not know exists

The "bastards" part reminds me of when I was first in Seoul, on the train from Incheon. When the guy in front of me learned I was from Brazil, he asked "do you know what our countries have in common?" I meekly offered "Soccer?" but he said "no - we're the two most corrupt countries in the world!"

This is actually huge news

No single man has done more to harm the urban environment in DFW than this one man. So long.

TIL that one of DART’s two trunks has a 2.7-mile interstation between Cityplace/Uptown and SMU/Mockingbird, with this dense collection of retail, townhouses, 5-over-1’s, and even a few glassy office towers and concrete high-rise residential towers right in the middle?!

The very obvious curve in the census tracts following the Arbutus Line

Alexandria began annexing outside the DC diamond not long after it was ceded, but most of its area outside DC (i.e., most of the Fairfax annexes, vs. Arlington co.) was added in 1952 tropicsofmeta.com/2013/03/14/t... Virginia began restricting annexations shortly thereafter

This calls for a Venn diagram

In 1952 Alexandria annexed a part of Fairfax that originally bordered the neighborhood. Other fun names persist: Arlandria (Alexandria near Arlington border), Edlandria (apartment complex on Edsall Road), Shirlington (Shirley Highway + Arlington)

Join us on 5/15 at 9am when @chittimarco.bsky.social debuts the new Transit Priority Atlas. Marco collected surface transit operating data for 32 global cities & documented interventions--bus lanes, tsp, etc--so we can combine to achieve better outcomes & more ridership: luma.com/rf2ehtyu

Are there any systematic studies that try to estimate the ridership benefits of electrification.

Hanna is legit scary bc it seems to come out of nowhere. Then again it did not stop me from going to Mammoth this year :/

Congratulations to the University of Minnesota. You have a real star on your faculty.

Need @ryanhassett.bsky.social to confirm it was DoT not DoJ blocking this merger.

The landmark FTA program of the Biden administration very well may have failed specifically due to buy America.

Since 2010, 15 largest US cities all added population, but changes differ by race/ethnicity. —NYC, LA, Chicago, Philly lost a large number of Black residents. Chicago lost 19% of its Black residents! —All cities gained Asian residents, & those with 2+ races. —Most cities gained Hispanic residents.

NYC without subways

when I walked past this, I told my friend "they're doing 'the two yard signs' meme!" Know Your Meme: knowyourmeme.com/memes/nimby-...

we call those “bars” but I concede that if you hang around Pirro for a night or two the distinction gets blurry

TIL Rochester, New York had successive nicknames of "Flour City" and "Flower City".

Another way of thinking about this is that Germany’s electrical grid could’ve been almost completely decarbonized by now if they hadn’t shut down all the nukes