Reposted by Jedwin MokJRUrbaneNetwork @jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Excellent article on the emerging field of high speed metros, which are blossoming across China with operational systems in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Chengdu, Ningbo, Nanjing and Beijing while Shanghai, Shenyang, Changsha and Wuhan are planning theirs. 3445
Reposted by Jedwin MokReece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Asian cities are experimenting with an entirely new high speed transport technology. Today's collaboration with @infrastory.bsky.social is on high speed metros. Read now: www.thetransitbrief.net/p/the-future...open.substack.comThe future of urban public transit.High speed regional rail will forever transform cities. 814732
Reposted by Jedwin MokRodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Bike lanes on Adelaide yesterday morning. Over a dozen cyclists taking up the same space as one or two cars. 411221
Reposted by Jedwin MokOh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Same thing on housing. Zoning reform is “just a band aid” — real affordability comes by overhauling how housing is built/owned. Ok, but when can we expect this to happen? 5 years, 10 years, 50 years? If we’re holding off on zoning reform for this revolution, can you guarantee me that it’ll happen? 5755
Reposted by Jedwin Mokaugust 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 25/09/2026my bad, I'll start the world socialist revolution this monday instead of petitioning against transit service cuts🥀 101329
Reposted by Jedwin Mokren they/them 🏳️⚧️ @renzaro.com · 24/09/2026Joel Young is at a rail transit conference in Europe tonight (AC Transit has 0 railroads) and I am in Oakland waiting for a bus that has been 0 minutes away for 10 minutes 3679
Reposted by Jedwin MokDamien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A Milton GO line stub into Square One would be the move but of course we can't even run full day service let alone double track and electrify it before 2075. www.thestar.com/news/gta/may...thestar.comMayoral candidate Bonnie Crombie wants the TTC subway extended to Mississauga’s city centre. But will Doug Ford buy in?Mississauga mayoral candidate Bonnie Crombie is pitching a Line 2 subway extension. Can she convince Doug Ford to help fund the massive project? 8388
Jedwin Mok @jedwinmok.com · 24/09/2026When discussing transit project delivery we focus on “who to learn from.” But equally important is: “who is entrusted to learn?” “how are you learning?” “What are you learning?” @alonlevy.bsky.social has a great piece on this. pedestrianobservations.com/2021/12/31/i...pedestrianobservations.comInstitutional Issues: Who is Entrusted to Learn?I know I’ve been on hiatus in the last few weeks; here is the continuation of my series on institutional factors in public transportation. I have harped for more than 10 years about the need … 2111
Reposted by Jedwin MokFastTrackTO @fast-track.to · 22/09/2026Yesterday, Sep. 21, we sent out pledges to a total of 175 city council candidates running in the 2026 Toronto municipal election. Candidates were asked whether they will work implement the policies from our 10-point plan if they win on Oct. 26 🙋 1222
Reposted by Jedwin MokMarco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026As a comparison, Lombardy, which has "only" 10 million inhabitants, way less than the population served by Metrolik, run between 2,200 and 2,500 trains per day. 29012
Reposted by Jedwin MokDenis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It always blows my mind how much faster electric trains are than diesel 415017
Reposted by Jedwin MokMore Transit Southern Ontario @moretransitso.bsky.social · 19/09/2026How much faster would GO trains be if they used electrical multiple unit (EMU) trains? Today, a 33.7km trip from Pickering to Union station makes 6 stops and takes 45 minutes Our proposed local EMU service would make 13 stops, and take only 36 minutes. 510818
Reposted by Jedwin MokMarco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Finally some good news for the dysfunctional circumvesuviana. With the new Stadler trains progressively entering service, EAV will introduce a 30 minutes clockface timetable starting October 17th (it's now 36') on all it's limes. www.ferrovie.it/portale/arti...ferrovie.itFerrovie.it - Linee Vesuviane, dal 17 ottobre nuovo orario con frequenze ogni 30 minutiNuovi treni e un nuovo modello di esercizio per le Linee Vesuviane. Regione Campania ed EAV hanno... 5645
Reposted by Jedwin MokOh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I want Canada to have more mobility with Europe. Not because I think vast numbers of people will use it initially. But having it as an option opens your mind for the future. “Maybe I should pay attention in that language class?” “Maybe there are more places in the world than just the US?” 81769
Reposted by Jedwin MokReece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Another episode of the RMTransit podcast is here! You can subscribe to The Transit Brief (for free!) to get these episodes a week early! youtu.be/eNIzHndQQsU?...youtu.beHot Transit Debates | RMTransit Off-ScriptYouTube video by RMTransit 2253
Reposted by Jedwin MokJackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Auckland has officially opened Aotearoa New Zealand’s longest and first true underground railway: the City Rail Link! The former terminal station Waitemata (formerly Britomart) is now a through station with additional underground CBD stations at Te Waihorotiu and Karanga-a-Hape serving all lines. 57710
Reposted by Jedwin MokJonathan English @englishrail.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I love this so much. Ridership in Burlington up 49% since 2019, after they improved service on a bunch of bus routes. That's at a time when many cities were experiencing post-pandemic stagnation. This is a notably affluent, low density suburb. burlingtonpublishing.escribemeetings.com/filestream.a...burlingtonpublishing.escribemeetings.com 1398
Reposted by Jedwin MokRodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Shocker: people love pedestrian spaces and want it to return next year—including residents, visitors, businesses, and councillors. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caVancouver wraps Granville Street pedestrian zone, with hopes it will return | CBC NewsLabour Day marks the final day of Vancouver's Granville Street pedestrian zone, but the city is already facing calls to bring it back next summer. 29914
Reposted by Jedwin MokTTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Just as the school year begins, GO Train service is being cut. One fully-loaded GO Train can take up to 2,000 cars off the road. Doug Ford is allowing train service cuts while throwing money at new highways & bike lane removals, worsening traffic congestion. Details + how to take action!⬇️ 36828
Reposted by Jedwin MokOh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 09/09/2026People want the “empty apartments” thing to be real so badly. Article about “thousands” of empty luxury apartments in Montreal. Comments everywhere online: I knew supply and demand wasn’t real! I knew no one lived in those! You read the article: vacancy rate of 12%. So, 88% occupied. 3766
Reposted by Jedwin MokJRUrbaneNetwork @jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A new collaborative post with Reece on their excellent public transportation newsletter The Transit Brief. In this joint effort, we propose a more focused perspective on normalizing transit costs by using ultimate capacity of a Metro project’s design.open.substack.comSubways are costing even more than we think.A new angle on the growing Anglosphere cost crisis. 0225
Reposted by Jedwin MokCalifornians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 09/09/2026Too often the North American response to escalating transit costs is to aim lower - hydrogen instead of electric trains, low- instead of high-speed rail. We need to fix the root cause of high costs - onerous permitting, weak state capacity, unreliable funding - not settle for less. 111627
Reposted by Jedwin MokDamien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 09/09/2026We live in a world where every part of the political spectrum is committed to building the worst transit idea in the city. 1273
Reposted by Jedwin MokStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 08/09/2026I’ll believe it when I see Canada accept the European elevator standard, *like every other country on earth except the US and Japan already does* 611312
Reposted by Jedwin MokReece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The latest post on The Transit Brief comes from Chinese transit aficionado @jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social and myself and discusses how transit might be costing even more than we expect. www.thetransitbrief.net/p/subways-ar...thetransitbrief.netSubways are costing even more than we think.A new angle on the growing Anglosphere cost crisis. 1283
Reposted by Jedwin MokMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 04/09/2026The California Environmental Quality Act is bad for the environment because it gives litigious busybodies the power to delay and block environmentally friendly projects like bike lanes on the grounds that the government has not sufficiently analyzed the bike lanes’ “environmental impacts.”sfchronicle.comA Berkeley bike lane would eliminate 145 parking spaces. Residents are suing to stop it.Plaintiffs argue that Berkeley City Council approved the Hopkins Street bike lane project without conducing necessary environmental reviews. 1650263
Reposted by Jedwin MokDr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 05/09/2026They are blocking a bike lane to a middle school on grounds that it would remove parking for Monterrey Market. As if the market didn't already have a giant parking lot, a bus stop in front, and shoppers couldn't ride ebikes in the new bike lane. 1057563
Reposted by Jedwin Mokbrianbswizzle.bsky.social @brianbswizzle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Streetcar ops taking over bus ops is basically an apocalypse level event in Toronto. TTC actually went, “what if we took North America's best bus network and made it more like the world's slowest streetcar network?” 2182
Reposted by Jedwin MokDamien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This is the escalating application of building code brain to Toronto's transit ops. "Well logically having the bus slow down around stations and lights is safer so we'll just do that. No, we didn't estimate benefits, costs, or consider adverse consequences, why do you ask?" 2549
Reposted by Jedwin MokFastTrackTO @fast-track.to · 04/09/2026FastTrackTO has learned that the posted speed limits for buses on the brand new Scarborough Busway will be 30 km/h near stations and signals. 🐌 This is disappointing, and reduces travel time savings that the busway is meant to provide. Especially re: any express buses. 45613
Reposted by Jedwin Mokaugust 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 02/09/2026neither the ontario liberal party or the ndp have made a peep about bike lanes. you'd think they'd attack ford over GO train cuts though, given how unpopular train cuts are in the 905 ridings that he depends on for blue votes (newmarket, barrie, etc). ontario's political outlook is so cooked 513119
Reposted by Jedwin MokReece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026My attempt to answer the million dollar question: why public transit now costs so much in the English world (there are at least 52 reasons). www.thetransitbrief.net/p/why-transi...thetransitbrief.netWhy transit suddenly costs so much.The English-speaking world’s cost crisis. 59320
Reposted by Jedwin MokBrendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Tabloid-ass article from the G&M Ottawa bureau chief 2314
Reposted by Jedwin MokJRUrbaneNetwork @jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Different countries' crowding measurement standards create confusion when comparing international data. In this post, I dive into differences which shape policy and public views of a railway system. You can read below:jrurbanenetwork.substack.comHow Crowded is my Train?Different countries' crowding measurement standards create confusion when comparing international data. 04911
Reposted by Jedwin MokMarco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The bad news is that the first pedestrianization is always very hard. The good news is that, after you reach a critical mass, even the most conservative places, like the posh neighbourhood of Outremont pictured here, will find it "normal" to pedestrianize their main street every summer. 213516
Reposted by Jedwin MokMarco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Montréal's blue line is an example of how space-intensive our current station designs have become in North America. Despite using a cavern + transept shaft concept since the 1960s to minimize surface disruption, the transept shaft has grown so big that it still imposes road closures 46010
Reposted by Jedwin MokJRUrbaneNetwork @jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Changchun opened Line 7 yesterday at 8:08 AM. Line 7 is a 23.2km long fully underground 19 station southern suburban tangential line. Estimated to cost 210 million USD/km to build. The Changchun Metro is now over 140 kilometers long. Pictures by 樱桃小丸子🍒. 1134
Reposted by Jedwin MokMarco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Something reminded me that a few months ago I prepared a few graphics about the problem of "feeder" suburban bus service for a medium-sized city tram network (e.g., Zurich, Strasbourg, or Bologna), so I'm going to share and discuss them here (everything to procrastinate on annoying academic tasks). 57414
Reposted by Jedwin Moksick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 25/08/20261) amazing dataset 2) you're telling me it's 3x expensive to build HS2 than putting a 31 mile undersea tunnel 3) surprised by how "expensive" Taiwan (Taipei-Kaohsiung) and South Korea (Seoul-Busan) HSR was (I have some ideas why for SK) 6463
Reposted by Jedwin MokJRUrbaneNetwork @jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Below is an excellent summary debunking the pervasive myths about the history of Toronto's transit system and a step in the right direction on correcting the record driving Toronto’s ridiculous transit discourse. A must read. 1124
Reposted by Jedwin MokJonathan English @englishrail.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My latest Infrastory post is a bit of mythbusting around Toronto transit. There are a lot of things that we've often heard repeated that aren't quite accurate when you dig into the documents. infrastory.substack.com/p/a-lot-of-c...infrastory.substack.comA Lot of Conventional Wisdom about Toronto Transit is WrongA quick fact check on many of the ideas that have floated around for years. 1338
Reposted by Jedwin MokRodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Already missing how lively Church St used to be when pedestrianized… People felt free to sit, linger, chat, & hangout instead of just walking by or heading straight into the bar. 912423
Reposted by Jedwin MokOh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Some of the best urban transformations happen incrementally. See the gradual reclamation of this street between a church and a park (in the Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough of Montreal). 510618
Reposted by Jedwin MokOh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I would personally propose: 1. Mid-rise (5–10 storeys) allowed on every residential lot in Toronto 2. Gigantic towers allowed within walking distance (15 mins) of any subway or GO train station 41148
Reposted by Jedwin MokObserving The City @observingthecity.ca · 18/08/2026Morning commute on a bike lane that Doug Ford wants to rip out. 21 bikes and 4 cars clearing an intersection in 23 seconds. Which mode fights congestion? 13506137
Reposted by Jedwin MokRodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Thank you to the up-and-coming urban planning YouTube channel Northbound for interviewing me & creating this amazing video about the Church St Pedestrianization! Come along with us to tour the street and learn more about the challenges and opportunities. Make sure to give him a like & subscribe!youtube.comToronto FINALLY Got a Pedestrian StreetYouTube video by Northbound 15710
Reposted by Jedwin Mokjustin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Finally bought Illustrator again and back to crayoning Union signage. Thoughts on this concept? 2251
Reposted by Jedwin MokDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Ugh. This is a disaster for Toronto. Ripping out protected bike lanes on Bloor Street, Yonge Street, and University Ave will gut the city's bike network. Crashes will increase. And no, traffic will not be faster.cbc.caOntario appeal court says Ford can rip out Toronto bike lanes | CBC NewsPremier Doug Ford’s government can rip out 19 kilometres of protected bike lanes in Toronto, the Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled in a decision released Friday, reversing a lower court decision m... 1329466
Reposted by Jedwin MokOh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Bad news for cyclists in Toronto (and those of us who care about them). Court rules Doug Ford can remove bike lanes. 139814
Reposted by Jedwin MokStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 12/08/2026Maybe Canada's urbanism problems just come down to just the gravitational pull of the US. Canadians talk a big game lately about being independent of the US, but they sure don't act like it. They seem very happy to just defer their thinking on these issues to their idiot cousins to the south. 6756