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This video so efficiently illustrates the downside of streetcars. It will be required viewing in the course that I teach (*course does not exist) youtu.be/owLyAhJS6P4?...

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 86 comments

The push for ferries is often completely devoid of facts. The only rationale is "traffic bad, people like ferries". What's proposed here would be remarkably slow, expensive, and would often rely on transfers to buses, because MOST THINGS ARE NOT ON THE WATER. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Streetcar ridership did not merely decline. It was deterred. Streetcar passengers did not endanger motorists, but motorists endangered them. In every city, people boarding, alighting from, or waiting for streetcars accounted for a large fraction of pedestrian traffic casualties. ...

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

I wonder how long after the Eglinton Crosstown opening in September the first news reports of crowding and low speeds start coming.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

More @wmata.com momentum in May: - 50 straight months of ridership growth. - Crime down again in May, ~60⬇️ in 2 years - May Rail up 16% year over year - Lots of people using new Tap, Ride, Go credit/debit option Thx for riding 🇺🇸 Metro System. Great job Team Metro. Always onward!

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

It's underappreciated how much more pleasant streets have become on weekday evenings. The difference vs mornings is substantially larger. Biking home on a weeknight in Jersey City has gotten much better.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It gets a lot easier to get two trains in one photo when they come every 2 or 3 minutes. (Nanaimo Station, Vancouver.)

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Richmond, California legalizes community-built bus benches, an example of "guerrilla tactical urbanism." Every bit helps.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Speed cameras save lives. To keep New Yorkers safe, Albany needs to renew this essential program, and to pass the Stop Super Speeders bill. For the vast majority of speeders, tickets work to deter them. But there's a small number of repeat offenders that aren’t deterred.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

first, the bathurst bus lane NIMBYs harassed an art gallery on bathurst and suggested they were paid to support bus lanes, and a front. now they've suggested ttcriders is a front and put the address of our shared office space on an inciteful post. can't wait to get some visitors ig 🤷 this is wild

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

A few tickets remain for tonight’s talk with the one and only, Christof Spieler! 🕡 6:30–8:30 PM 📍 Boardroom, 475 W Georgia, Vancouver, BC V6B 4M9 📩 RSVP - actionnetwork.org/ti...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes my impression is that "normies" believe that our out of control construction costs are the result of some gross malpractice or, worse, blatant stealing by a few bad actors, so we can just get rid of those and, bam!, we get cheaper infrastructure! Unfortunately, that's not how it works.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Metra. Women. Food. These three beliefs underscore every facet of life in Chicago, but one of these core traditional values is under threat. Without a budget that saves Metra and the RTA from a fiscal cliff, there will only be women and food.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

This piece out of Charlottetown touches on the importance of public transit service improving along with population growth, and how we can plan growth to support transit ridership rather than car-dependency

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Most routes in Van only allow boarding at the front. Riders often break that rule to speed things up, which saves the agency $. Today on a bus, a person in wchr wanted to board, which takes ~40 sec at front. The driver yelled to the rest of the line: "board at back!" and he opened the rear door.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is an excellent point. When the marginal cost of driving goes down, driving will go up. Without road fares, we're looking at a congestion explosion

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This week's episode of Poker Face is must see tv.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I am still updating my map of intercity links, based on feedback from visitors to my site. There were a few services near Trois-Rivières that I missed before and are now added, for example. If you have any comments, let me know! seanmarshall.ca/transport-map/

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Excellent, very self-aware transit agency meme. But don't forget, people - don't just complain to the transit agency. Complain to the elected officials that control transit funding too!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Fascinating, infuriating article. Fossil fuel-generated electricity in AB can't compete with hydro from BC so the generators lobby the govt to do protectionism. I think we'll see more and more oil propped up by friendly govts, at the consumer's expense. www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/f...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The Pope calls for a ceasefire and respect for international humanitarian law in Gaza:

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

King Charles' recent visit to Canada:

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

This accurately reflects my impression of New York, every single time I've visited.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

In the southeastern suburbs of Florence, there is a 2.5 km inbound center-running bus lane, implemented between 2005 and 2011. It's just paint and a bunch of low-key island bus stops. The cost is so negligible that it doesn't even register on the press.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

here’s a crazy statistic: more people work for the MTA (~70K employees) than are coal miners in the entire country (~42K)

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

"Rails in the street make a service permanent," -- every urbanist but me circa 2000. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Did you know Metro Vancouver is THE North American hotbed for dense transit-oriented development? I’ll be touring a group of municipal leaders from Ontario for 3.5 days next month, riding trains & walking transformed station areas. Was out today scouting with colleagues at @movementYVR.bsky.social!

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

#BusNews: @AklTransport has confirmed that another 14 bike racks will be installed inside double-decker buses on the NX1 route over a 4-6-week period in during May and June 2025 as phase 2 of a bikes on buses trail. Phase 2 of the trial will run for at least a year.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Poast the change you want to see in the world

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

It isn't very sexy but one of TransLink's biggest barriers to transit expansion right now is a lack of space to store and maintain buses. The Marpole Transit Centre, currently under construction, will be full on opening day. We need to find funding to build more depots yesterday.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Do you ride the 502 or 503 buses? Tell us about it! We are gathering feedback to better understand how the Fraser Highway detour, due to Surrey-Langley SkyTrain construction, is affecting your trips. actionnetwork.org/su...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This is the way: see how things work elsewhere and figure out how to apply some of the lessons (positive and negative) locally

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

How can you think that bluesky is dead when we get content like this

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Bus lanes work so well and Edmonton needs more of them If you want to help us get bus lanes built along 101st street go check out edmontontransitriders.org/transit-101/

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments