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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/02/2026
was listening to SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR this morning and it is totally wild how much that record is a no skips, banger after banger, stone cold classic. you’re telling me at least four of the best pop hits of the 80s are on one album?!?
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Sandy Johnston @sandypsj.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
EMU vs diesel acceleration at Malden Center. Yes, my train is moving.
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Me: hello i’d like to order a pizza Domino’s:
The “I speak jive” scene from “Airplane!”
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This is fairly common in Europe and I, for one, would welcome that immediately. It provides built-in grace for having to speed up to avoid a crash while also providing meaningful enforcement of speed limits. The only reason I end up speeding is that everyone else is. I would prefer enforced limits.
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F @coolguy3410.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The old sodium vapor lamps are still on in the southern leg of the Scarborough RT
Old Scarborough RT ROW with some of the track lamps still on
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Streetsblog USA @usa.streetsblog.org · 19/05/2025
These federal research cuts are raising questions about why the Trump administration is scrapping basic programs that could make roads safer, more accessible, and less polluted, while telling the public they're curbing "woke" waste.
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What Are University Transportation Centers — And Why Did Secretary Duffy Decimate Their Budgets? — Streetsblog USA
University Transportation Centers are "where innovation happens." Earlier this month, though, the Trump administration took a sledgehammer to their budgets.
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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
1. 🧵 on both German intercity rail and the TCP high-speed rail proposal, inspired by someone on Twitter asking @mattyglesias.bsky.social about how I'm addressing Deutsche Bahn's own problems with reliability. So, to start with, here are some schematics; NEC is what we propose, not current service.
Schematic map of German ICE lines, labeled with speed and frequency.Schematic map of Dutch IC lines, labeled with speed (only one line is fast) and frequency.Schematic map of Swiss IC/ICE/TGV lines, labeled with speed (only the mountain base tunnels are fast) and frequency.Schematic map of our Northeast Corridor proposal and existing off-corridor Amtrak lines, labeled with proposed speed and frequency; NEC speeds change many times as the line is full of medium-speed restrictions.
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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
When navigating an intersection requires reading through so much text and looking at your watch, maybe our traffic management strategy is a bit of a failure...
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Canada should be getting rid of the tariffs on Chinese EVS and thinking about what the future of our Auto sector looks like partnering with countries that aren't America
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F @coolguy3410.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
at least its not for car accident lawsuits
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have left Houston, Tampa, New York and other major cities without head meteorologists just ahead of what will be another busy hurricane season This is straight-up life-threatening malpractice (h/t @lisamjarvis.bsky.social ) www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
A map of the contiguous 48 states titled:
Thirty National Weather Service offices are without a chief meteorologist
Some of these offices issue forecasts for major population centers such as New York City, Houston and Cleveland. Several are prone to hurricanes and tornadoes.
Callouts include: 
Upton, NY - Covers New York City and southern Connecticut
Tampa, FL - Hard hit by Hurricane Milton in 2024
Houston, TX - All management positions vacant
Paducah/Louisville/Jackson, KY - Nearly the whole state of Kentucky is covered by forecast areas without leadership
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Floridian traffic engineers are professionally bankrupt.
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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
You tell me, which one of these pictures is “freedom”?
Heavy traffic on the Eisenhower Expressway in both directions at AustinDrinking a tallboy Miller Lite on a Metra train
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Passing by the Finch Station Tim Hortons and thinking about how coffee lowkey smells better than it tastes 😭😭
Finch station tim Hortons, YRT side
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of the BP Disaster. I am going to re-do & edit a thread I wrote on Twitter for the 10th anniversary because it feels even more relevant today as fascism overtakes the country, and the very existence of our government's ability to respond to disasters is under threat.
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WB62 @wb62.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Fun Fact: Ever heard of GO Transit Detroit/Windsor Line? This line was proposed in 1989 by the Think Rail Group, as apart of a larger proposal for rail transportation in Ontario. The first phase of this plan recommended transferring all VIA Rail service running within Ontario to GO Transit.
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Doug @doug.city · 19/04/2025
Transportation, but that's just Transportation Camp, it happens several times a year in various cities already.
transportationcamp.org
TransportationCamp
TransportationCamp brings together thinkers and doers in the fields of transportation & technology.
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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This is the same perverse Nazi logic that led Hans Asperger to distinguish between Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: those children who would be killed and those who would be used. Don't get bogged down in arguments about ability or humanity. These are overtures to genocide.
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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
With the notable difference that, in Italy, when a judge ordered that the migrants be returned back pending the evaluation of their status, the government complied immediately. They complained about "ideological judges," but they complied. That's the entire problem of what's going on in the US.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 14/04/2025
bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record
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🌵 Sean Thurlow-Available for work @seanthurlow.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Favorite bg's from the first week of #pleinairpril. #krita #pleinairpril #pleinairpril2025 #environment #digitalpainting #painting #art
A smaller train with one cart is moving on a train track to the right.  The sun is starting to go down and the environment is bathed in orange light and mist.Painting of a cement underpass bridge taken down in the waterway during the daytime.  There is no water flowing below but there is plenty of grass and shrubbery growing under the underpass.A view of a Californian landscape with many rolling hills, tree's, and some city lights.  The sun is going down and the landscape is covered in a pink and purple haze.  A painting under a bridge.  It's very foggy with deep blues.  The ground has some snow and ice on it.  There is a building off the distance.  Two figures are walking toward the building to the left.  There are small street lamps off in the distance shining through the fog.
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
From my visit last week to the Topaz Internment Camp, where Fred Korematsu was interned. This quote still sticks with me.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/o...
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Opinion | The Theories Behind the Trump Shock
What Trump’s dramatic revision of the global trade system is intended to accomplish — and reasons for skepticism.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/04/2025
NEW: GlobalX flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers. Then the company started expanding into deportation flights. “They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”
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Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and…
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/03/2025
China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The U.S., the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing.
nytimes.com
Trump’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Hobble Earthquake Response in Myanmar
While China, Russia and other nations have rushed emergency response teams to the devastated country, the U.S., once a leader in foreign aid, has been slow to act.
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“To help understand how much our springs have changed I dug into the data. Tampa now hits 90 degrees about 35 days earlier than it did 100 years ago, as seen below” www.wfla.com/weather/summ...
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Summerlike heat springing much earlier
The weather is already warming up, but with low humidity, it still feels pleasant. That’s about to change. There are signs that a real taste of early summer is on the way. The models show the…
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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Disney world for conferences is Orlando! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_...
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Orange County Convention Center - Wikipedia
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Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
IT. IS. NOT. WORKING. MDOT's own data says - at current funding levels - our road conditions are about to fall off a cliff. AND YET, we just took on BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN DEBT to widen a bunch of freeways and add lanes to a system we already can't afford to maintain. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.
Graph of Trunkline Historic and Projected Pavement Conditions from page 21 of MDOT's 2025-2029 5YTP. It projects a steep decline in overall pavement condition at current funding levels, whereas with an extra couple billion every year, we could maybe stabilize the situation and eventually reach our target. Maybe.
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
American military equipment can’t be trusted. Canada needs to look elsewhere.
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This intersection is gonna go hard when it's done
Looking up a four towers
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I'm sure we can find some middle ground between the original grandiose renderings and this new unassuming warehouse entrance right?
Original exhibition station renderingNew exhibition station rendering
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Bruce Stiftel @brucestiftel.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"The federal government moved to end its lease for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office in Jacksonville, headquarters of the Jacksonville district and home to about 800 of the nearly 1,100 Florida-based employees." www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...
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Florida offices housing Everglades engineers, scientists on the Musk chopping block
At the same time, all remote federal workers have been ordered back to the office.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 02/03/2025
#AvGeek photo of the day
Aerosvit Ukrainian Airlines 767
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 28/02/2025
Let’s be clear: This is the end result of 30 years of conservative thought. Small government, free markets, blah blah, all of it ended with this: the indiscriminate firing of the scientists who predict the fucking weather. Their goal is to literally drag us back into the dark ages.
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Hallowed grounds
Philadelphia street signs that say 69th and Dicks
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Oran โอม @oranv.com · 14/02/2025
Was poking around Albuquerque and spotted this really cool map by @humantransit.bsky.social’s team analyzing the connectivity of the city’s street network. Because most transit riders are not crows, street design matters to accessing transit and everything else.
Walk Connectivity analysis of Albuquerque, New Mexico by Jarrett Walker & Associates. The city is divided into a grid of city block sized hexagons, colored in three degrees of walkability measured by percentage of land within half a mile that can actually be reached by walking half a mile or less. Most walkable is more than 50%. Somewhat walkable is 35-50%. Least walkable is less than 35%. Infographic in the legend compares the half mile circle radius reachable if flying and ignoring street design versus a half mile orange walking diamond when street design is incorporated. The area within the orange box is where you could read in half a mile in a well-connected street network. Walk connectivity is calculated by dividing the gray area by the area in the orange box.
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Telling people "street safety is a shared responsibility" is like saying school shootings can be prevented with bulletproof backpacks, ignoring the root cause while placing the burden on victims. 📸 - @stlurbanists.bsky.social
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F @coolguy3410.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
wild read
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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The symbolism of the Obama era starting with the Miracle on the Hudson, a demonstration of the potential returns of competence and professionalism, while the Trump-Musk era starts with the Army blundering in front of an airliner on final approach, cannot be denied.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I missed this entirely: The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines. Musk demanded he resign. He did. On January 20th. www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...
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FAA Chief Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign
Michael Whitaker had only been in the role for a year but the SpaceX chief accused him of “harassment.”
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 29/01/2025
it's been a rough week so i thought i'd rotate a gyro for everyone. as a treat
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Ranibow Sprimkle @laterbacon.space · 28/01/2025
Greyhound drivers may be rude, aggressive, and chronically late, but they sure as hell aren't snitches!
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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Probably one of the gayest and weirdest opinions of mine is I genuinely like minivans. I kinda want kids so I can have one
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F @coolguy3410.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
how is the jr app simultaneously so incredibly useful yet so unusable. Want to see a map? No, you’re going to safari. Want to see the trains on a line, plus any other operators on the line? We gottchya.
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Got to attend a presentation today about a Toronto-Chicago passenger rail connection through Detroit/Windsor! Amtrak has been able to negotiate using the CPKC Detroit River Rail Tunnel once a day without affecting freight operations. (1/2)
AMTRAK and VIA Rail Canada Logos

Toronto -- Windsor -- Detroit - Chicago International Passenger Rail

Background of a city skyline with a Canadian flagProject Objectives

Link three major North American economic epicenters
Address lack of Chicago–Detroit–Toronto rail service and limited transportation alternatives between Michigan and Ontario
Bridge gap between two existing rail passenger corridors
Leverage existing Amtrak and VIA Rail resources
Promote commerce and sustainable economic development
Project Map
The map illustrates a rail corridor linking:

Chicago (Amtrak, blue line)
Detroit (Amtrak)
Windsor (transition from Amtrak to VIA Rail, yellow line)
Toronto (VIA Rail, yellow line)
Stops on the Amtrak route include:

Hammond-Whiting
New Buffalo
Niles
Dowagiac
Kalamazoo
Battle Creek
Jackson
Ann Arbor
Dearborn
Stops on the VIA Rail route include:

Windsor
Chatham
Glencoe
London
Woodstock
Brantford
Aldershot
Oakville
Toronto
Logo: Amtrak

Detroit-Windsor Route
Map of route and border crossingAmtrak-VIA Connection in Windsor

Amtrak Chicago–Detroit Wolverine extended through CPKC Detroit River Tunnel to Windsor, where it will connect with VIA Rail to/from Toronto.
Passengers clear customs and immigration and change trains at Windsor station.
Cross-border ridership estimate:
66,500 in 2029

Proposed VIA/Amtrak Service Schedule: Toronto – Chicago
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lee @leehtml.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
hank won’t cross post what is, in my opinion, his best tweet, so i’ll just have to do it for him
a tweet from hank green that reads “It’s so sad that so many humans lived and died without getting to see Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood.”
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F @coolguy3410.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I think the ppl freaking out abt how cold it is down here being climate change are being a tad dramatic. It’s kinda normal fir it to get cold down here. Plant City kinda needs a few weeks of cold temps for their strawberries to ripen.
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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Merits of the specific project aside it’s a really bad precedent to set if one administration can withdraw a pre-fixed amount of funding from a project that’s already technically underway
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Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Thanks, Governor Whitmer! www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...
A SMART bus exiting a freeway, under an exit sign that says "COUNTYWIDE SERVICE", while the lane continuing on the freeway - the road not taken - says "OPTING OUT OF TRANSIT".

The original photo was taken by Mandi Wright for the Detroit Free Press (https://web.archive.org/web/20221030101341/www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2022/10/30/opinion-oakland-transit-millage-vital-lifeline-for-many/69599174007/), but unintentionally comes very close to replicating the meme template for https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/left-exit-12-off-ramp
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