AJ SadauskasThe happy yellow trams of Utrecht...<br>
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Here's a story I researched for Traveller back in the Biden era last year, has taken a while to be published - introducing travellers to LA's surprisingly useful Metro rail network. Includes a reference to Roger Rabbit!
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America’s notoriously car-mad, clogged city can now be explored by train https://www.theage.com.au/traveller/inspiration/america-s-notoriously-car-mad-clogged-city-can-now-be-explored-by-train-20250606-p5m5eo.html
‘Cleaner, greener and absolute reliability’: #trams make #UK comeback | #Road/transport | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/07/trams-uk-light-rail-transport-chancellor
The Guardian · ‘Cleaner, greener and absolute reliability’: trams make UK comeback
First "walking" test of a light rail car on the I-90 floating bridge. It _may_ be the first train on tracks across _any_ floating bridge, but that's just something I heard not something I know.
There will be a _lot_ more tests, and no doubt more rounds of changes and adjustments and all that, BUT
Only when #transit didn’t need to share the road with the car, & frequent service continued, was it able to survive. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-did-america-give-up-on-mass-transit-don-t-blame-cars #MassTransit #rail #PublicTransit #LightRail #StreetCar
PocketWhy Did America Give Up on Mass Transit? (Don't Blame Cars.)Streetcar, bus, and metro systems have been ignoring one lesson for 100 years: Service drives demand.
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Then there is Ford's baby subway, the Ontario Line. It will be:
- Incompatible with all other lines the #TTC operates (can't: build junctions later for interlining, can't share rolling stock)
- Smaller than Subways (Ford's logic: narrower tunnels means more distance for the same budget and more is better, never mind projected usage being higher than capacity!)
Billions wasted to satisfy our own Trump.
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Watching this video makes me lament for #Toronto and #Ontario and the damage done to it by Rob and Doug Ford.
As originally designed the Eglinton LRT would have spread throughout Scarborough and Etobicoke.
Instead Ford is wasting $3.5bn to bury the west end of the line, money that could've been used to build dozens of kilometres of on-street dedicated LRT lanes.
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i just realised i can
fucken BIKE
to uwajiamaya now
(via the 1 Line on light rail)
is the kinokuniya still there? holy shit
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And yes, I took the #NJTransit Newark #LightRail... I wanted to take a nice pic of train over #CherryBlossoms (Japanese style), but unfortunately the light rail mostly runs in cuttings, has few cherry blossom trees near the tracks (other than at Branch Brook Park station and north of Orange Street station), and has high fences...
HEY #SEATTLE
The old Bus Tunnel station rail lines need serious work and are gonna be semi-closed for like TEN DAYS IN APRIL, which sounds like a spy novel but is mostly just a pain in the ass:
https://www.soundtransit.org/ride-with-us/1-line-service-disruption
April 14 to April 23, they'll be letting like two trains an hour go through between stations and that's it. Outside the work zone will be normal.
Put it in your calendars!
www.soundtransit.org1 Line service disruption | Sound TransitGet information on Link service disruptions. Details are subject to change without notice.
YES! VICTORY! Public pushback makes a difference!
#MaineTurnpikeAuthority drops controversial #GorhamConnector project
by WGME Staff Thu, March 6th 2025 at 7:56 PM
GORHAM (WGME) – "The Maine Turnpike Authority is now dropping its controversial Gorham connector project.
"The project would have built a new highway from South Portland to Gorham, with the goal of easing heavy road congestion.
"The MTA paused the project last year after receiving backlash from local residents.
"The project would have required the demolition of nearly a dozen homes and confiscation of #farmland."
"'There was a lot of concern, and people wondered if it's the right-sized tool for the job, a lot of people have concerns that, building another highway, there's concerns that it will just fill up,' MTA Director of Communications Erin Courtney said.
The MTA says it's heading back to the drawing board to re-examine traffic conditions and review past mobility studies to find better ways to ease congestion in the area." [Like #LightRail, #RapidTransitBusLines and more #BikeLanes!]
https://wgme.com/news/local/maine-turnpike-authority-drops-controversial-gorham-connector-project-south-portland
#Maine #SaveSmilingHillFarm #SmilingHillFarm #InducedSprawl #GorhamConnector #MainersForSmarterTransportation #Maine #MaineNews #GorhamBypass #GorhamSpur #Maine #RapidTransit #SaveTheFarms #ProtectTheForest #InducedDemand #Sprawl #SaveRedBrook #ProtectTheWetlands #BrookTrout #SaveTheForest #Wildlife #HuskyLine #RapidBusTransit
WGME · Maine Turnpike Authority drops controversial Gorham connector projectThe Maine Turnpike Authority is now dropping its controversial Gorham connector project.
The front view of a Hudson-Bergen #LightRail #train behind a bumper block at #Hoboken terminal.
How suburbanites imagine riding on transit vs. what it's actually like. #transit #urbanism #trains #lightrail
Testing has officially started on the 2-line across the bridge! https://www.soundtransit.org/blog/platform/fresh-pics-milestones-reached-eastside-light-rail-projects #seattle #transit #lightrail
www.soundtransit.orgFresh pics: Milestones reached on Eastside light rail projects | Sound TransitCrews have been hard at work on the Link light rail extensions that will further connect the Eastside with the rest of the region via transit. There was so much
Days since Seattle light rail has had to share a track, causing delays: 0
I could pin this post and it would always be accurate. I could probably add "on the part of the track that runs through historically black and under served neighborhoods" because that seems to be where the delays always are. I cant qwhite understand why...
I would sure love to see ST ever meet their commitment to "trains every ten minutes" consistently.