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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

New trading cards binder came in today! Page 1: Delta trading cards 2: The Bite Club (Fuecoco and Gible) 3: Salamence

Teal colored VaultX binder cover with two Fuecoco stickers on bottom left and a TRA EMU900 train sticker on bottom right

Delta A321, A330, A350, 737 trading cards

Top left to bottom right: Skeledirge, 2x Fuecoco, 4x Garchomp, 2x Gible cards

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JRUrbaneNetwork @jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Fuzhou Metro Binhai Express Line F1 started dynamic testing today for 2025 opening. The Binhai Express is an express metro with passing loops for express local trains. Services will to operate up to 140kph to allow express services to connect Fuzhou Changle Airport and the city center in 30min...

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

New Delta trading cards arrived, love the extra glitter effect

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I met an international student at my uni from Wuhu. Thry asked me how I knew about that place, and it’s bc of the monorail. But otoh, I have to explain where Fuzhou/Fujian is to some ppl when talking about my ancestry

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Amtrak has announced the Hoosier service between Chicago and Cincinnati starting on June 2, 2025, supplementing the existing Cardinal service. Trains will depart Chicago in the morning and from Cincinnati at midday. Coach fares will start at $30 each way for Chicago-Cincinnati.

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Elon Musk has entered Lumiose City

Guy named Zach in the Legends ZA nighttime battle tournament thingy saying “I’m going to reach Rank A and abolish all forma of transit in Lumiose - except taxis!”

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Fixing a Southwest Airlines ad after recent news (Original ad on the right)

Edited Southwest ad saying “Fares are feasible. So fly with ‘em” in yellow text with a blue background

Original Southwest ad saying “Fares aren’t feasible. So fly without ‘em. Two bags fly free.” in yellow text with a blue background.

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Someone just passed out during a fare check on the streetcar that I was on

Westbound 505 Dundas streetcar stopped, with emergency vehicles on its right

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Just missed an hourly GO train because there’s no signage on which platform goes to Union, and I guessed the wrong side (Platform 1) bc I thought the trains run on the tight. What a fcking joke

GO train Milliken station with labels only for Platform 1 (right) and 2 (left).

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A little bit of O’Hare plane spotting, featuring Eeveelutions (for those wondering, I’m flying to Sideways Chicago today)

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Going though my Tokyo trip photos from last year, and a bit of sloppy photoshop later… (Ochanomizu station, Tokyo)

Ochanomizu station with red Marunouchi Line train in left crossing a river, blue/white Chuo Line Limited Express E353 in middle, and yellow E231 Chuo-Sobu local train on right.

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I like the starter options this time too. Lots of people complaining about there being two Johto options, or that they’re all unpopular (more reason they need spotlight). Hoping for a Water/Dragon Mega Feraligatr 🙏

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My croissant boi Mega Salamence returning in Z-A 👀

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

NIMBYs in Cincinnati's Clifton neighborhood objected to a Hamilton Ave BRT stop in their downtown area. This has to be one of the more comical list of reasons I've seen. Yes yes, unlike buses, cars "fit in with the area’s historical context" and are not "inviting danger with stop-and-go traffic”.

In its letter, the Clifton Business Association objects to the stop for the Hamilton Avenue Metro Rapid line being placed along Ludlow Avenue between Whitfield and Clifton avenues. Metro plans a stop along Ludlow between Middletown Avenue and Telford Street, which is close to an existing Metro stop in front of the Esquire Theatre. It also is conducting a traffic analysis in the neighborhood.

The association lists eight objections. Among them:

Ludlow Avenue is too narrow and too busy with many storefronts to handle a large bus station
On-street parking “is at a premium”
Ludlow Avenue is “an area with many schoolchildren” and bus stations would be “inviting danger with stop-and-go traffic”
Ludlow already has bus stops on other routes
The rapid transit stops “do not fit in” with the area’s “historical context.”

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

For those with a Kindle and looking to get transit/urbanism related books, I found out today that these 3 great options are on sale for $5 each: - Killed by a Traffic Engineer (Wes Marshall) - Human Transit (Jarrett Walker) - Better Buses, Better Cities (Steven Higashide)

"Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System" by Wes Marshall, with a broken stop sign on black background, on sale for $4.99 for Kindle edition

"Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives" by Jarrett Walker, with a purple background and transit line on map forming a train on cover, on sale for $4.99 for Kindle Edition on top right.

"Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit" book by Steven Higashide, with an orange cover, on sale for $4.99 for Kindle edition

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Salamence in steroids came in the mail

Special art Roaring Moon Pokemon TCG card, with other past paradox Pokemon in the background

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Moonbus Monday, but it’s bunched with Sunflowerbus (both on route 13)

Left: Moonbus. Right: Sunflower bus. Both buses operating on 13 Silver Loop

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Wild seeing one of my school’s profs mentioned here

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Happy Moonbus Monday to all that celebrate!

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Cincy’s reaching a high of 65 today

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

A quirk of the reductions: 5 went from every 25 to 50 mins (schedule still shows as 25 min with cancelled trips instead of 50 mins), but now run bendies??? Guessing Citybus has the assumption that students are “captive ridership” and would ride the bus regardless?

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Citybus staffing shortage getting so bad that my local bus route (which dropped from 20 to 30 min frequencies last semester already) now has half of its morning trips cancelled… If this continues, would be difficult to justify WL’s #6 ranking on @nerd4cities.bsky.social’s video yesterday

Every other trip on Citybus route 23 cancelled, effectively turning the route into hourly frequencies (aka unusable)

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Boy dinner (with a side of chopsticks skill issue) Yes Ik it’s Lunar New Year eve, but my laziness transcends all holidays

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Glad that Miles got the same Pizza Head treatment that you gave me. Btw, did you take him inside Jay International Food nearby, for the old flags if not anything else?

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Unlike Champaign, I’m not expecting Lafayette/WL to make the video bc of our rent housing cost issues. But we’re still a good college urbanism-wise though

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

But otherwise, I would still say that Champaign and Lafayette are two of the most similar cities in the Midwest. Anchored by a large STEM school with decent amenities/urbanism in their area

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Hoping more new apartments (even if expensive) means that the rich kids move there, while dropping pressure on the older units

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Yea, it was me. Blaming it on Purdue admitting way too many students in recent years, and both the school and city not building enough student housing Good news is that there’s a new 13 story apartment building on the site of a strip mall under construction now

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I was referring to national chain asian markets. Independent/smaller chains are much more common in college towns, like how both Champaign and my college town of West Lafayette have a Fresh International Market (which compares pretty well with H mart/99 ranch for selection tbh)

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Related, I found out today that Champaign opened a H-mart recently. You only see them in big cities with a high asian population, not a college town

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Every college town needs a secondhand bookstore that’ll take hours to browse through their messy (in a good way) selection

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

After an extended absence last semester, the Moonbus is back when we need her the most, on this snowy day

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

It going to Flushing is enough for me to like the 7 train, literal Disneyland for foodies

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Chicago asserting supremacy in LA’s airport

Chicago “Voted best big city” ad in LAX airport’s TBIT

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

There were so many good designs I wanted to pick up, had to restrict myself to these three in some way

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Np. I was with family this trip, so it’s a bit complicated for me too

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Transit card collection update, after acquiring San Diego’s Pronto from past week’s trip, Indy MyKey from trip a couple months ago, and Minneapolis’s Go-to from @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social (Thx again :3)

Asia (left 3 columns). From left to right, then top to bottom:
- Beiking Yikatong
- Tokyo Suica and Welcome Suica
- Tianjin
- Tokyo Odakyu Romancecar Ticket
- Taipei 101 EasyCard
- Pokemon EasyCard
- Taiwan HSR Tickets
- Taipei Main iPass
- Hong Kong MTR Octopus
- Taiwan TRA Tickets
- Kuala Lumpur Touch n Go
- Singapore Pokemon EzLink
- Sanrio EzLink

US (remaining columns). From left to right, then top to bottom:
- Seattle Orca
- Minneapolis Go-to
- Cleveland RTA single ride ticket
- Boston Charliecard
- SF Clipper
- Chicago Ventra
- Indy MyKey
- Philly Septa Key
- NYC Metrocard
- LA Cesaer Chavez Tap
- St Louis Gateway
- Cincinnati Streetcar ticket
- DC Smartrip
- San Diego Pronto

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Delta confirmed it, Cincinnati is in Kentucky. Suck it, Ohio

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It’s 2025 and the Regional Connector tunnel has no cellular connection. Massive disappointment for a new segment… Anyways, enjoy an A line train wrong-railing at Little Tokyo

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light rail tourist @dancvg.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Last bit of SD Trolley foaming, with the Surfliner I’m taking to LA in the back

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