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Transit geek. Planner. Cat dad. Cubs fan. Deputy Director of Regional Transit Planning at MBTA. Blogging much less than I'd like at www.itineranturbanist.wordpress.com. Opinions my own.
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A profile of my organization in Slate, by @henrygrabar.bsky.social: slate.com/business/202...

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

Prosecution’s rebuttal:

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

I wish that studies like this would focus on how we could overcome the obstacles (simplify permitting, provide federal loans/funding) rather than just saying "nope, too hard, can't do" A lot of things are infeasible until we decide we want to do them and will make the changes necessary to allow it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Upon further investigation, a boxcar dropping a truck might have contributed to this derailment.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Apparently a railroad from Alaska to the Lower 48 is a top priority of new Alaska congressman Nick Begich alaskawatchman.com/2025/02/26/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Hmmm www.kbtx.com/2025/02/27/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

French justice system cancels the A69 highway project between Toulouse & Castres: It’s the first time in French history that a highway has been stopped because its environmental costs outweighed its other benefits.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Late afternoon JP walk shadows, with bonus train

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Fascinating headline: Green Mountain Transit projected a 15% drop in ridership from reinstating fares, but instead saw a 1% increase. But they're still going to have to cut service because fares aren't solving their financial issues. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Oops, call the wreckers!

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Scroll to 2:11:40 or so of the recording of today's MBTA board meeting to hear my division chief affirm that I am, in fact, a human (and available to be a point of contact for municipal and regional coordination) vimeo.com/event/4867722

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

So hard to tell where one cat ends and the other begins

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Local train museum!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Verkehrsbünde are older than you probably think!

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Absolute legend

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump admin is causing chaos in transport research. Studies have been canceled, datasets have vanished, and experts have been fired. The Nat'l Academies’ Transportation Research Board has caved to Trump’s demands for censorship, triggering upheaval. Its future is in doubt. From me (w/scoops) 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Northstar on the way out? www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

> However, this requires abandoning the project-driven approach typical of the anglosphere and embracing a more old-fashioned but, I believe, more effective State-led approach made of plans, programs and long-term policy commitments.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I am extremely confused. Did they just give up on solving the technical issues about the different power systems and signal interference (IIRC) for running M8s into Penn Station?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is an extraordinary story. And yet I would imagine also a typical one.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Truly truly special

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

The Dallas Fed's Manufacturing Activity Index records comments every month from its respondents (factories in southern NM, TX, and northern LA). These typically run pretty far to the right of the WSJ Editorial page. Anyhow, here's what they're saying this month: www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

conventional wisdom is that travel times haven't fallen in the congestion relief zone, according to readings from congestion-pricing-tracker.com. but it's not true anymore, and it was only ever true because google maps interpolates historical data.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

The Detroit-Windsor tunnel bus is one victim of tariff warfare. windsorstar.com/news/local-n...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

👇👇👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/mark-w...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment