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corbinkramer.bsky.social @corbinkramer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Its ridership is mostly tourists but its utility is real - it connects an otherwise isolated neighborhood to 2-minute bus frequency to downtown

Screenshot showing upcoming trips for the inbound bus stop at the lower Duquesne Incline station. Frequency is every 1-5 minutes at peak hour, split between multiple routes

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corbinkramer.bsky.social @corbinkramer.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The styling dropped off a cliff by the 1960s 😥

A slightly later Paris Metro schedule and map book than the OP, "Plan-Guide Repertoire des rues Paris par arrondissement metro-autobus"

A map of the Paris Metro, "cartes taride metropolitan urbain et suburban"

A map of the first arrondissement and the transit lines crossing through

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corbinkramer.bsky.social @corbinkramer.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Really something that sorting by this metric gives you a group of New York, California, the Deep South, and the Rust Belt. And NYC is still getting a boost from NJ/CT residents moving across state lines

Table listing US Urban Centers by their percentage of residents born in other states. New York is at the 16th percentile, listed near cities such as Saginaw, MI and Canton, OH

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corbinkramer.bsky.social @corbinkramer.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

All excerpts from this remarkably prescient 1959 report

Book cover, "Anatomy of a Metropolis" by Edgar Hoover and Raymond Vernon

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corbinkramer.bsky.social @corbinkramer.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

always a good reminder that the overall decline in manufacturing jobs predates interstates, foreign competition, shrinking union membership rates, etc

Text excerpt noting that from 1947 to 1954, most large cities including NYC, Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh saw an absolute decline in manufacturing jobs

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corbinkramer.bsky.social @corbinkramer.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Interesting how much the geographic deconcentration of manufacturing may has been due to overall industry consolidation over time...

Data table showing that manufacturing firms' locations in the NYC metro in 1956 varied significantly by size; only 8% of firms with 240+ employees were based in the City while 61% of firms with <60 employees were

Table showing the changing proportion of NYC metro manufacturing firms' locations share within the City over time. While both small and large companies steadily moved out of the City, larger firms did so more rapidly

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corbinkramer.bsky.social @corbinkramer.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This central FL high school has had hundreds of students commuting by cart for at least a decade

Grass parking lot outside a suburban high school filled with golf carts

Aerial map of a high school with its dedicated golf cart lot circled

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corbinkramer.bsky.social @corbinkramer.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

If you ever add a similarity score type of metric I think we've got a "winner"

Screenshot from Urbanstats listing off various statistics where one of Belle Glade/Ithaca is in the top percentile among Metro Clusters and the other is at the bottom

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corbinkramer.bsky.social @corbinkramer.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The Transit Tunnel is closed until the Fall... But that means street-running light rail through Allentown!

Pittsburgh Regional Transit map showing the light rail detour while the Transit Tunnel is closed for construction

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corbinkramer.bsky.social @corbinkramer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Transit Infrastructure is my passion.jpg

Tamiami Trail and SW 87th Ave, just West of Miami
Featuring bike lanes and a bus bay

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corbinkramer.bsky.social @corbinkramer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Starting to think some of these Vision Zero Resolutions might not be on the level

Brevard County (Florida), every municipality within, and the school district all adopted Vision Zero in 2022

Brevard County's TPO announces that construction could begin as early as 2026 on the "County's top transportation priority:" the widening of a 2-lane road to four travel lanes to relieve congestion en route to the Melbourne Airport

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corbinkramer.bsky.social @corbinkramer.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Not the most urbanist, but Rochester, MN has a bunch of amazing stats considering its size

Screenshot of Urbanstats showing statistics of the Rochester, Minnesota MSA. It has low rent, a low % of car commute mode share, low poverty, among others

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corbinkramer.bsky.social @corbinkramer.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Surprise Georgism cameo in the Johnstown Flood

In an excerpt from David McCullough's "The Johnstown Flood," two residents of Johnstown are described as "devout followers of the great economic reformer of the time, Henry George"

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corbinkramer.bsky.social @corbinkramer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Two very different schools of thought on grade separation...

Aerial map of Fort Pierce showing a bridge over the FEC corridor immediately South of the proposed station site

Aerial map of Stuart showing a complex roundabout intersection at-grade with the FEC corridor immediately North of the future Brightline station

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corbinkramer.bsky.social @corbinkramer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Stuart has a slight edge here since their site is a touch farther inland

Map showing an approximately 1km radius around a potential station site in Fort Pierce and the residential population within: about 1600.

Map showing an approximately 1km radius around a potential station site in Stuart and the residential population within: about 2100.

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corbinkramer.bsky.social @corbinkramer.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

They're not too different, but Fort Pierce is closer to the midpoint of Cocoa and WPB and has a much more intact street grid network. Also worth noting that Stuart is whiter, wealthier, and much much NIMBYer. Hard to see them taking full advantage of this

Map showing a 5km radius around downtown Stuart and the population within: about 63k

Map showing a 5km radius around downtown Fort Pierce and the population within: around 69k

Table comparing demographic statistics of Fort Pierce and Stuart. They are similar except Fort Pierce is much more diverse and poorer.

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corbinkramer.bsky.social @corbinkramer.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

Matthew Isbell/MCIMaps covered this back in 2021, hopefully he'll do an update soon mcimaps.substack.com/p/issue-6-mi...

Haitian Share of Population by Census Tract in Florida, 2020 Census - Statewide 2.2%
By Matthew Isbell, MCIMaps

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