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TIL via the @taras-grescoe.com post below that there's a private train line in Florida that has killed (counts on fingers) an average of 1 person every ~3 weeks since it opened in 2018. Which, yikes.

submitted 38 minutes ago • 1 comment

I love passenger rail. We need more of it on; we’re decades behind Asia and Europe in building true high-speed rail. I took a ride on #Florida ‘s Brightline. It was better than driving from #Miami to #Orlando. But it has serious problems. Starting with fact that it’s not high-speed at all… 🧵

submitted 54 minutes ago • 2 comments

Uplifting. (Montreal's walkability on our trip last summer was a huge + for a city even with so much other allure.)

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

excellent write up from Taras on the private equity-built Brightline, which is a diesel train disguised as HSR, regularly kills people, and whose bonds do not benefit the public as a public HSR project would. Remember Obama offered federal funding for this region, and Florida turned it down

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

This month we closed the street in front of our #Montreal school to cars—and now we have a problem! (But it’s a good one.) Everybody’s walking or coming by bike. Which means there’s no room to park the bikes. We’re going to need more racks, fast… 🧵

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

In many ways, I enjoyed riding the Brightline, #Florida 's passenger train line from #Miami to #Orlando. Attentive service, clean and impressive stations, smooth boarding. But "high-speed" rail it was not... 🚄🧵

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

"Cars make us lonely." —Donald Appleyard, Livable Streets, 1981. 🧵

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

This month we closed the street in front of our #Montreal school to cars—and now we have a problem! (But it’s a good one.) Everybody’s walking or coming by bike. Which means there’s no room to park the bikes. We’re going to need more racks, fast… 🧵

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

Need some positive news? Around the world, a passenger rail renaissance is well under way. I document the train-love in my weekly newsletter HIGH SPEED. 🚅🧵

submitted 77 days ago • 5 comments

"I unfriend thee, I unfriend thee, I unfriend thee." —Space Karen

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

At least one dozen writing systems have resisted all human attempts to decipher them. These include Linear A, the Harappan Script of the Indus Valley, and Rongorongo, inscribed with shark's teeth on wooden panels on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Now, thanks to artificial intelligence... 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Artificial Intelligence tools can help researchers crack some of the hardest problems in deciphering ancient languages — but these tools only work in concert with human ingenuity and expertise. @taras-grescoe.com on the ancient codes that AI can't crack: longnow.org/ideas/the-co...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

AFTER | BEFORE 🧵 After 4 years, we managed to close the street in front of our kids’ school to cars. Here’s what it looks like today:

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments