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"i like summer" what if i launched you into the sun 🧡

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

How do we electrify/decarbonize our transit systems? They used to be 100% electric. We don’t need to wait for battery tech or hydrogen to “catch up.” We did this a century ago. Wires. It’s time for both the transit and environmental communities to collectively pull their heads out of their asses.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard

submitted 14 hours ago • 724 comments

this is great news! but the practice of assigning a top-level line identity to each branch is breaking under complexity. i got thinking about a different way to classify and group services in a network like this one. a little thread, for old times' sake 1/7

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Platform edge doors could be coming to the subway! The TTC plans to start with a pilot at TMU/Dundas Station, but only if approved by TTC Board members. Platform edge doors prevent people and objects from falling on the tracks and supports safe, reliable, and accessible transit. They save lives!

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I shouldn't have said anything lmao

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

line 1 might have the newer nicer trains but at least line 2 gets me to work on time

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

When your city’s LRT is so delayed you can gamble on when it opens Whats your bet?

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

everything might be bad rn but my band is playing in the LA Area on July 9th and 10th!! if you only know me from my silly transit posts pull up and say hi :)

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

next week at the TTC board, a report on platform edge doors will be presented. the cost is a whopping $4.1B for the entire system, with $44-$55m per station. while it seems like a pipe dream, staff are recommending installing PEDs at dundas station in 2026 with $40m~ in funding, as a pilot

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Chinese century (📸 @yonahfreemark.com )

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

wow i love taking the streetcar in toronto, canada

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

metrolinx's comms/PR department is above every other - operations, service planning, you name it. it's an agency that operates transit second, and a PR agency for the province first (despite the transpo ministry's comments). from there, you can understand how decisions are made at metrolinx

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

It's a depressing time in Toronto - a city that once had the continent's most ambitious city-building initiative. This transformation had 3 KEY PILLARS: 1. RapidTO 2. GO Expansion 3. Ontario Line Two pillars have been watered down beyond recognition - DEVASTATING for the region. Here's why: 1/🧵

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

if you want world class urban mainline, you need to adopt practices of world class urban rail networks. management at MX is too scared to change the operating model that they've grown comfortable in - satisfactory, schedule-padded, "99% on-time" commuter rail. www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone know this woman? She was parked in the bike lane on Madison by 14th in Oakland. After my friend said “you’re in the bike lane” as we passed, she chased after us, got out of her car, punched me in the face, and shoved me and my bike to the ground before driving off recklessly, running a red. 🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

i swear every other US transit agency is on the brink of fiscal death right now, and DC metro is just like ✨service increases this month 🥰 trains will now run every 4 minutes✨

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

if you weren't already convinced for the past several years that uber is an evil corporation because it refuses to pay its workers a living wage, actively lobbies against public transit funding, and worsens congestion while profiting off declining transit service, well here's yet another reason.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

rail expansion never guarantees more people on transit, as LA has continuously lost ridership since the 2000s. despite LA's rail expansion, toronto's subway ridership has increased more between 2000-2025 than the sum of all rail ridership in LA in 2025. many factors at play, but high-ridership 1/

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

i almost got hit by a car last night (again) while hopping off a streetcar with a friend at dufferin gate - on a street that looks like any streetcar road in toronto, as below - 4 lanes, narrow, no space for an island platform. this exact design could be replicated in toronto to save lives.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

i think it's so funny that there is 15 minute regional rail service on a sunday at 10pm (which I'll happily use to skip the slow streetcars and get from exhibition to union), but weekday midday 15-min service on the lakeshore line is still not a thing. about 3-4 years since that was cut.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments