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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And then realizing when you make your own that even the “bone broth” isn’t the real thing 🙃

Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Oh, they are talking about quad tracking the line to Rosenburg to deal with the increased traffic from the base tunnel. Even still, most of that won’t be passenger traffic, and so most of it won’t be going to Munich Central station.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Yeah I know Austria is annoyed with Germany for not prioritising the connection from Munich to Austria. But how many trains would this be, realistically speaking? More than one per hour? Austria has been doing a lot of rail upgrades in this area, apart from the base tunnel.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It didn’t escape my attention that they’re building their second sbahn tunnel right now. Going to be a pretty nice network once they’re done with it.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

What about Munich? Or is it sufficiently at “the edge” of Germany not to matter so much?

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I miss Giorgio Mammoliti sometimes.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I hope they don’t pick another dud. Ontario politics hasn’t tended to attract the best and brightest.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

GCN has been making videos like this for a while and I love it.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Working 100% remote, I can relate.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Same with cycling directions in NL. Doesn’t work.

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3underscores.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

This is like the tenth research group using a totally new dataset to reach this same conclusion: building new market-rate housing helps low-income tenants. "These findings demonstrate that housing supply expansions benefit lower-income households through moving chains"

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I really love his writing. It’s so good.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Bewildering that anyone can think AGI is on the horizon.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Personally I loved it. But I have always been in a story for whatever it had to share with me.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Most of the criticism I read was due to Joel being killed off at the beginning and then being forced to play as a character you hated, for half the game. But perhaps that was just a shield for hating it because lesbians. Hard to say. I loved the game either way and planning another play through.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

It’s one of the things that is really core to the human experience in my opinion and I legitimately have a hard time understanding or relating to people who don’t or can’t cook and only ever reheat their food at a maximum.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I always thought my mother didn’t think much of videogames, turns out she was watching me play Ocarina of Time all the time when I was younger and liked watching me play. I guess I never noticed or didn’t remember.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Bingo. Solving emissions doesn’t solve traffic or urban planning. Environmentalist vs Urbanist. (You can be both, but I guess many aren’t)

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

And to be honest, I like the Caisse model. It’s working out much better than whatever they are trying in Toronto right now. Wait 2 years and see who is happier with their new “light rail”, Toronto or Montreal. Spoiler: it’s gonna be Montreal, hands down.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The REM runs on standard gauge, nothing wrong with it.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I wish people would do this more often. Now I’m just left to doubt whether it is or is not LLM generated.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Is anyone talking about a Summerhill HSR station?

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Adam Sandler is in the same category for me.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

What makes you think software should be reliable

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Usually the rails are welded in the hottest time of year, so in the summer they are not under much tension. In the coldest months, they experience the greatest tension, but it should all be within spec.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I’m also on fastmail. But there are cheaper options and I’ll probably switch to one after my prepaid subscription runs out.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Very glad I ditched Google for email years ago. Start today, register your own email domain.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Or bus lanes, or car lanes (I live in Utrecht and it snowed a lot last week) Actually they do plow some priority routes, but it’s basically just stay at home and enjoy the snow.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

What is even the theory behind this? If you can’t run a gigantic plow doing the whole road at once, it’s a “nightmare”?

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Ergens is het adembenemend, vind je niet?

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This was such a great “talk” to see in person. Highly recommend.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The worst example of this in my opinion is Nieuwegein. There is a "sneltram" that goes to Nieuwegein. But it's not actually fast, and it takes too long (30m to Utrecht Centraal). Completely unusable and Nieuwegein has high levels of car ownership.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This is the problem with Dutch transit. It's geared towards accessibility, layered on top of an inefficient built form. If Leusden was built with more density, and Amersfoort had something better than busses, you could compete with the car.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The bus seems okay, but it takes 20 minutes to get to stn Amersfoort from the middle of Leusden. It's just not competitive with the car. In 20m you're already in Utrecht. In a real city with rapid transit, 3km would be a 6 minute trip.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Yes, it was closed 100 years ago and on the edge of the town. My impression of Leusden is that it's a low density car suburb. I'm sure people do bike the 3-5km into Amersfoort, but I think a lot of people never leave their cars. This is all they've built for us for almost 80 years.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I'm actually kind of surprised nobody is covering it, because it's a fantastic project, one of its kind in the Netherlands, and I believe it's going to be the start of a massive levelling up of the country's transit infrastructure at the end of the day. We have so many underutilized corridors here.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Especially since we want to do this on the cheap. Well, what can be cheaper than upgrading an existing right of way from 2 to 4 tracks and running more trains on it. It's a big experiment, the City Sprinter between Dordrecht and Leiden, and it will be a blueprint for the future if (when) it succeeds

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Anyways, we are in a housing crisis now, and I think the only way out is to build more density with TOD. I think there is an interesting effect where the highway system is finally becoming saturated, and new development almost impossible. So we are being thrown back on rail to solve our problems.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

You either have density or you don't have density. If you legislate for low density, you are never going to have good transit services. We are lucky to have high density for a car-oriented suburb (compared to eg Mississauga) and they planned ahead with a BRT. So Leidsche Rijn is bearable.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Almere, Lelystad, Zoetermeer, these are all cities that were built since the 70s. They all have rail to the city center. But they are mostly built for the car, and modal shares reflect this. Leusden - is an example of a postwar suburb that got nothing. Total car dependency.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I live in a huge new development (Leidsche Rijn), which they built 3 new train stations for. Problem is, outside of rush hour, they only get half hourly service. So we take the bus, or bike, and many people just drive.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I think the comparison with NL is not super apt then. In NL the problem is not that they haven't built rail to connect new suburban developments, the problem is more that these developments are limited in density by mandatory parking norms, which means there is no base for decent service.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Overall I don’t know if I can say that I have been to many transit stations in NL that have not served an actual center (or as close as they could get in the 1930s or whatever). I do fully agree with the transit-less sprawl of the past 60 years. Inflection point hopefully incoming though.

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Derek Kraan @derekkraan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Gotcha. Duivendrecht just happens to be at the intersection of 2 train lines and a metro, which probably explains its odd placement. The Uithoorn extension appears to run on a reactivated disused line. So in a sense that’s an infrastructure decision from a century ago. Not sure where #3 is.

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