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How is metro north paying ~$20M per locomotive for some untested vaporware product that hasn’t been tested and isn’t even projected to exist in a serviceable condition until after Penn Station Access (which these are supposedly being bought to serve) is supposed to open. Truly what are they cooking.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

new S(ubstack)-Bahn post: It feels comically small stakes to write about the state and the prospects of American public transit in the breakneck throes of a second Trump administration -- but I put together 11 thoughts I have been gestating for a long time www.substack-bahn.net/p/end-of-the...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Always is fun to come back here and still be amazed at the sheer number of people this system moves

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

So are we the 11th province now

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

MTA suggesting that you'd need to go through NEPA to shut down congestion pricing is lol, dare I say it, L M A O storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

The TTC is an embarrassment at this point. Every train runs slower than jabba the hutt moves, they have derailments and then lie harder than the north korean propaganda agencies about the causes (until the truth inevitably comes out) and can’t even fire the chief executive properly. Shameful.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

evergreen

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

30 years ago, Breda meets world. The first car arrived a month earlier, but various complications (such as its size, it hit multiple poles and walls when they first ran it around the yard) caused the public presentation to be delayed. 30 years later, less than 60 cars remain.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Imagine being Chris Paul No rings, and your legacy is 1) rejected trade and 2) this

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

The fix is in already 💀

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

It's time to modify CA ICT and turn it primarily into an ops grant program that scores proposals on mode shift impact. The current structure is pushing agencies toward risky tech with high operational overhead at the exact time there is no room for ops overhead.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Alstom disasterclass with a new high speed train?? Impossible! Totally haven’t heard that before. Who could imagine such a crazy situation??? www.lesechos.fr/industrie-se...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

today is just international trade malpractice day

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I thought I got Centel’d dude

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

this is crazy, how do you have a 432% increase in guideway costs for *at grade* construction. genuinely who did these estimates because that isn’t at all normal to see increases that insane over just seven months… unless the budget was previously a sham

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submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

It's crazy the extent we go to prevent an extremely rare occurrence like a catastrophic fire in a metro station, and then we just shrug for a much more common occurrence, someone falling in the tracks, saying installing platform barriers even in brand new systems is too complicated or costly.

submitted 38 days ago • 15 comments

Universities are one of the biggest generators of transit trips, up there with downtowns and hospital complexes. The busiest light rail and subway systems in the US all serve universities, and 1/2 of the top universities in the US have a rail connection. But campuses are also uniquely hard to serve.

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Inshallah she kills him too

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Off by a few days, but happy 30th Bredaversary to all foamers who celebrate

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Not one of the things that will get highlighted prominently, but this plan also gets rid of the debt for the big dig that insanely was assigned to the MBTA in 2015. Wasn’t something people were necessarily expecting with this announcement, but it’s extremely good news that she’s pushing for it.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments