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🖖 🚇 🚌 📻 📸 Ugly bag of mostly water. He/him. Random musings about such varied subjects as photography, urban planning, transit/transportation, travel, Star Trek, shortwave radio and more. My professional alter ego is @rickyleongyyc.bsky.social

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[…] Les déboires du REM produisent déjà un effet pervers : ils découragent des résidants de la Rive-Sud d’utiliser le transport collectif. Plusieurs, atteints d’une écœurantite aiguë, sont retournés à leurs vieilles habitudes automobiles. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...

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Produced from extensive research: this graph shows volume over time of positive comments about Connor McDavid from Calgary Flames fans

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Exhale.

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Titulaire de la Chaire Mobilité à Polytechnique Montréal, Catherine Morency appuie totalement cette idée. « Franchement, les concurrents du REM, ce ne sont pas les lignes de bus, ce sont les cinq ponts à côté », commente-t-elle. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/g...

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Shame on every "journalist" writing shit like this. Shame.

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Gare Saint-Lambert

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Once you recognize that widening roads always leads to more congestion, the case for (de)congestion pricing + transit investment is obvious. But if you need a study, here's a study: ssti.us/2025/02/03/c...

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One of many underground passageways in Montreal.

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How about a timeline cleanse? Here’s a beautiful mural at rue Sherbrooke and boulevard Décarie in Montreal. flic.kr/p/2qJVRwV

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I’ve seen these popping up along Centre Street North in Calgary the last couple of times I’ve walked around there.

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Just gonna leave this here for no particular reason … youtu.be/PegYJwsN4F4?...

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“(Brampton) is possibly Canada’s biggest public transit success story of the last decade, and the new light rail has nothing to do with it. Instead, it’s all about high quality suburban buses.”

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And here I go, helping to make this chart reflective of reality.

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Happy Lunar New Year!

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Found this screen capture of @kertrats.bsky.social and @brandiwine.bsky.social in my album … can’t remember why I even have it but if I had to guess, it was probably a hilarious final image frozen on my screen after an amazing stream! 🖖

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The Globe and Mail editorial board shares its take about the U of T School of Cities’ recent report about the escalating cost of building public transit in Canada: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

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Happy new year! #calgary #yyc

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Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people CHOICES to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.