Nilo
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Mentally I’m on the beach
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
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Actually thought this was a fairly good summary of the long distance procurement.
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Rail Passengers Association
about 7 hours ago
Rail Passengers President & CEO Jim Mathews dives into Amtrak's long-distance fleet replacement RFP Read more:
https://twp.ai/E5ADQ3
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Almost 1/12 LIRR riders board at JAM. The revolution is happening under the LIRR’s nose.
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about 2 hours ago
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Nolan Hicks
about 9 hours ago
In 1965, 1:4 LIRR passengers (20,000 in the peak direction) and 11tph went to Atlantic Terminal.
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David Shor
about 2 hours ago
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.
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about 4 hours ago
yes right that's all we want
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Stephen Jacob Smith
about 7 hours ago
One to three extra stories with a small, wheelchair-accessible elevator – this is what we’re fighting for
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Rich Mintz
about 4 hours ago
JFK Terminal 4 is really too long and wherever I am flying from the plane always lands at gate B999
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Stephen Jacob Smith
about 15 hours ago
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...
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Autonomous bus without safety driver hits road in Norway - electrive.com
For some time now, there have been trials with autonomous buses in Europe—though until now, a safety driver has always been on board. This is set to change
https://www.electrive.com/2026/05/04/autonomous-bus-without-safety-driver-hits-road-in-norway/
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Stephen Jacob Smith
about 4 hours ago
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)
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Chris Geidner
about 6 hours ago
Oh, this gets better. Shumate appears only to have tweeted that because Bloomberg Law’s Ben Penn had just reported on it.
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DOJ Offers Lawyers $25,000 Signing Bonuses as Hiring Lags (2)
The Justice Department is taking a new tack to overcome hurdles in attracting qualified legal talent and to prevent current lawyers from leaving: offering signing and retention bonuses throughout the ...
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/doj-offers-lawyers-25-000-signing-bonuses-as-recruitment-lags
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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.
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Nolan Hicks
about 7 hours ago
Pollen is absolutely off the Richter Scale today
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Hoping to live in one of these soon. Great job by Alex and the DC council.
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Brendan Dawe
about 10 hours ago
That would be so cool if it were true
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I’ll believe rich people will leave NYC when I see it.
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Martin Austermuhle
about 16 hours ago
One resident proposed some pretty reasonable ideas to manage crowds and make it safer and more predictable for everyone involved:
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Stephen Jacob Smith
about 16 hours ago
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.
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Would not surprise me if most gambling against other gamblers, ala a lot of horse racing, had similar distributions of profits.
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Liam Dillon
14 days ago
Affluent suburban homeowners: NIMBY is a slur. Rural residents against data centers: Keep that the hell out of my backyard
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Why is the DC red line running at 15 minute frequencies right now?
@wmata.com
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Stephen Jacob Smith
1 day ago
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
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This tracks
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One rail delivery body for California.
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑
1 day ago
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.
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Yonah Freemark
1 day ago
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.
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Robert Downen
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Michael Bradley 🍕
1 day ago
I wake up every morning wondering why I don't just open a gelato stand in Amalfi.
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Stephen Jacob Smith
1 day ago
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
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Rob
1 day ago
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!"
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This is actually huge news
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Nathaniel Barrett
6 days ago
No single man has done more to harm the urban environment in DFW than this one man. So long.
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Stephen Jacob Smith
1 day ago
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?!
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Brendan Dawe
1 day ago
The very obvious curve in the census tracts following the Arbutus Line
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Payton Chung
1 day ago
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
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Payton Chung
1 day ago
This calls for a Venn diagram
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Andrew Beaujon
1 day ago
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)
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Eric Goldwyn
1 day ago
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
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The Transit Priority Atlas · Luma
Join us for the release of the Transit Priority Atlas 1.0. The Atlas compiles data and case studies on global surface transit operations, namely buses and…
https://luma.com/rf2ehtyu
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Are there any systematic studies that try to estimate the ridership benefits of electrification.
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The Spirit of the Dingbat
2 days ago
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 :/
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Anthony Michael Kreis
2 days ago
Congratulations to the University of Minnesota. You have a real star on your faculty.
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Need
@ryanhassett.bsky.social
to confirm it was DoT not DoJ blocking this merger.
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The landmark FTA program of the Biden administration very well may have failed specifically due to buy America.
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Yonah Freemark
2 days ago
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.
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NYC without subways
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Pass the BUILD plan
3 days ago
when I walked past this, I told my friend "they're doing 'the two yard signs' meme!" Know Your Meme:
knowyourmeme.com/memes/nimby-...
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post malone ergo propter malone
3 days ago
we call those “bars” but I concede that if you hang around Pirro for a night or two the distinction gets blurry
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Xenocrypt
3 days ago
TIL Rochester, New York had successive nicknames of "Flour City" and "Flower City".
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Stephen Jacob Smith
3 days ago
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
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