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NCS Enjoyer

@fixingnorthamerica.bsky.social
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AKA ninjadude752 Opinions are my own, and do not represent any group. Go hawks! Public Transit & Cities should be better.

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NCS Enjoyer @fixingnorthamerica.bsky.social · 12h
I don’t like takedowns of people giving public comment but uh it really can’t. 14th street is old, and was designed to only serve one railroad. In fact, when Amtrak started they had ANOTHER Chicago yard that the Santa Fe Railroad used to use.
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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
CTA hiring a VP of technology chicagotransit.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Vice President, Technology
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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mel in ballhalla 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
STOP DOING MIXED-TRAFFIC LIGHT RAIL!!!!! “yes i would parking violators blocking my transit system” “yes i want my transit slowed down by drivers” “yes i want bus bunching on high capacity transit” —statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s interesting that there is a road building cost crisis just like transit but it doesn’t have a constituency pushing to fix it like transit. The us has just given up on some advanced features (tunnels) but otherwise seems content to throw money at roads forever?
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NCS Enjoyer @fixingnorthamerica.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m hearing reports that the sirens work
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Better Streets Chicago @betterstreetschicago.org · 06/10/2026
👏👏👏 We couldn’t agree more!
When you take a transit vehicle with strangers, there is an inherent trust you're giving to one another. That trust in each other is so essential to the health of our larger society and our democracy.

When we start to drive people away and send messages that that shared space is not a place to be, you're going to see our institutions and our societal structures start to dismantle. I believe in CTA not just for Chicago, but really for our country.
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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
so generic state DOT talking points then
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NCS Enjoyer @fixingnorthamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pls install more everyone. Cover the CTA and city in them (and the suburbs too!)
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Kara Transit Authority @stormykara.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This must feel so good if you’re a bus
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NCS Enjoyer @fixingnorthamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My god I need a haircut. Anyways, some info I got from Metra! These will be 4 car sets eventually, and will have bathrooms. They can charge via lineside power & will have overhead chargers.
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Kara Transit Authority @stormykara.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ft. @fixingnorthamerica.bsky.social in the battery compartment hallway corridor passageway
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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
THE PEOPLE CRAVE CAR-FREE STREETS AND OPEN PLAZA EXPERIENCES AND HANGING OUT OUTSIDE
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Balu Puppy @balupuppy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Whereas in Chicago cdot designs car brained streets, even when “improving” for shit like this “advisory” @granvillebikelane.bsky.social Whoever approved advisory lanes on Granville is a fukwit. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/04/m...
bostonglobe.com
Somerville is intentionally making roads harder to drive on. It’s getting results. - The Boston Globe
To make roads safer, the city says, sometimes you have to put some obstacles in drivers' way.
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cmitown @cmitown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If Applefest is super crowded, then clearly we need more Applefests in the city. Close more roads for the weekends and give pedestrians rule over the streets!
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cars have a geometry problem. The massive infrastructure dedicated to them is an illusion of poorly allocated space. Cities run best on walkability, bikes, and transit. The personal automobile has no rightful future dominating our streets. Autonomous, EV, nor petrol.
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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think a lot about how we currently live in the utopia imagined by the dreadful midcentury lawmakers who wrote codes like this—dominated by cars and highways, neighborhoods sapped of people and commerce, everything segregated to oblivion—and how we can and should put all their ideas in the trash
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is why I'm so in favor of accessory commercial units. Just getting people in the US used to **walking** for a cup of coffee or a sandwich in the neighborhood may finally do something to rid Americans of our terminal car brain.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 04/10/2026
Because they're....drumroll please...cars.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 04/10/2026
Waymo is not a last-mile solution, nor a transit solution. And most certainly should not benefit from any of the transit funding we won in fighting for NITA. It is a car-centric proposal that offers no real systems change, shares all the same geometry, capacity, and environmental ills of cars.
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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Some advice from SF: 1) Don't let perfect be enemy of good 2) Start with quick-build 3) Focus on all aspects of delay and reliability, esp congestion, signal and dwell delay, plus headway management 4) Make continuous progress Links: www.sfmta.com/projects/mun... www.sfmta.com/reports/fast...
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Muni Forward
Muni Forward improvements make transit service more reliable and safer.
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lefhawk.bsky.social @lefhawk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Different year same story. Defense, special teams keeps us in it and if we could get just average QB play, we’d be in the lead. Hank has been really bad today.
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Jakub M. @iliekmudkip.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In Cook County, our residents need greater access to frequent and reliable public transportation. People choose their own vehicles or Uber/lyft rides now because public transit can take a multiple amount of time longer. Give our residents a serious alternative to private vehicles.
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SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
You love to see it: A courtyard building with a coffee shop on the ground level.
Six stories of a stately courtyard building with a brick facade and a sizeable tree out front. A yellow sign for Saturn Coffee is mounted over the nearest bay window, with some seating outside near it.
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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My broader point with my opposition to Waymos is that even if they are individually "safer than a human driver," they will entrench all negatives of car-prioritized society to a degree that is harder to deal with and causes more harm in the long run vs non-Waymo urbanism.
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American Public Transportation Association @apta-info.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Public transit is one of America’s smartest investments. It creates jobs and keeps the economy moving. The Continuing Resolution cuts the investment to keep public transit and passenger rail in good repair. Restore the funding to keep America moving > apta.com/transitimpact #ThatsTransit #aptaEXPO
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Calm
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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NITA moment: CTA and Metra are joint releasing information "you can take either of us to get here" about an event
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NCS Enjoyer @fixingnorthamerica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Suburban Tribune strikes again. Just change the name at this point
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Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
if the people in power wanted buses to be faster than driving they could do that tomorrow and the only reason they don't is because to them the ability for anyone to travel quickly across the city is a threat
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Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Columbus always has like 0 traffic, it would be so easy to just reroute cars from Michigan either down Randolph on the north side and roosevelt on the south side
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Illinois Department of Transportation @illinoisdot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Help @nitachicago.bsky.social prioritize the improvements that matter most to you! Take the online survey and share your priorities for everyday transit service and long-term investments as NITA develops its first regional budget for CTA, Metra, and Pace.
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SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The legislature already handed them the lanes, they just have to vote to take them.
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Active Transportation Alliance @activetransportation.org · 29/09/2026
"The Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA) wants to hear from you! Your input will help shape how we invest in our transit system. Please take a few minutes to tell us what matters most to you for the 2027 Regional Transit Operating Budget" @nitachicago.bsky.social
polco.us
What Moves You? Help Shape the 2027 NITA Budget
Polco is a secure and reliable place to provide input directly to local and state leaders, as well as other socially minded organizations.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 30/09/2026
Fund 1,000,000 social housing units Build and operate BRT lines in every city E-bikes on separated bikeways for all Massive development on public land around every rail station
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Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com · 29/09/2026
Tonight (9/29) at Clarendon Park from 5:30-7p. The Park District wants to create additional rules for e-bikes in its parks as allowed by the new micrmobility bill. I expect they may be tighter than the bill passed. Come tell them to leave e-bikes alone. www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/micromobilit...
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Micromobility in the Parks
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Geometry hates cars
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Chicago 2100 Urbanism @chicago2100.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On this day in 1997, CTA decided with less then 24 hours of public notice, city workers move in and dismantle the Cottage Grove-Dorchster segment of the Green Line. Why? What it would take to get it back? 🧵
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NCS Enjoyer @fixingnorthamerica.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I NEED Chicago star to succeed long term so we can have a sick ass FCS stadium right along Metra Electric.
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NCS Enjoyer @fixingnorthamerica.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hawkeyes after dark I guess
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SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Public advocates need to insert themselves into procurement processes whenever possible.
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NCS Enjoyer @fixingnorthamerica.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Did a weird bus route today just to feel something
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 25/09/2026
I didn’t attend climate week but: 1—US is falling way behind on electrification 2—even if US electrified, electricity generation isn’t decarbonizing fast enough 3—public incentives & land use policy are still vastly weighted toward inefficient cars & trucks 4—transit ridership remains in crisis
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pretty remarkable how quickly the idea of Low Traffic Neighborhoods has gained traction in New York after working in London.
gothamist.com
NYC lawmakers want 'low-traffic neighborhoods' with more speed humps, street changes
The bill mandates a select number of "traffic-calming devices" in five different neighborhoods.
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NCS Enjoyer @fixingnorthamerica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Another highlight with the NITA act, they’re allowed to lease out land they own toto developers to build buildings, which they’re… not doing.
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Thomas Bamonte @thomasbamonte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great opportunity for leadership for next Chicago Mayor and current @illinoisdot.bsky.social Secretary (many CTA bus routes run on IDOT-controlled streets).👇
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes! Image a future where parents put their kids in driverless cars to take them to school while they themselves get in different cars to go to work. Instead of one or two cars chaining trips, now you might have four separate cars making four separate trips. Would be a disaster at scale.
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Alder Andre Vasquez, Political Account @andrefor40th.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today, I, along with @daniellaspata.bsky.social and an overwhelming number of our colleagues, introduced the expansion of the Smart Streets pilot! When this passes, the map with be citywide, and it will be an ongoing program, not a pilot! We will also partner with the Mayor’s office to budget it out
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NCS Enjoyer @fixingnorthamerica.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s quite jarring to, as someone who wasn’t into urbanism during the rise of uber/lyft, just see the same talking reports repeated when I find stuff from the time. People saying they will reduce traffic or whatever and they didn’t! The skeptics were right! But it’ll be different this time right?
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To be fair, this is exactly what people said about Uber and Lyft. And there have been studies about how much more people drive when they don't have to worry about parking on one or both ends of their trip. There's little reason to think driverless cars won't lead to an explosion in VMT in cities.
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B.J. L-R @westtowns-urbanist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And for the second time this week, I get to notice a digital signage update at my home station: this time, a new real time display showing all 3 service boards 😍
Metra display in Harlem/Lake-Oak Park lobby showing Metra UP-W, CTA 90, and Pace 318 departures
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