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Julian Villafuerte

@julian.city

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Transit planner in Montréal // UBC and McGill alumnus // Data science, urbanism, & brighter futures ☀️🌏🌕 🇨🇦🇨🇴🏳️‍🌈 Je m'exprime à titre personnel et non au nom de mon employeur julian.city

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 18/05/2026

Today the STM launched its redesigned bus network. Modifying 80+ lines and impacting a zone of 600K+ residents, it is the STM's most significant network revision ever and among the top 3 in Canadian history. Among the benefits: more frequent lines. It was a privilege to contribute to planning it!

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 23/04/2026

The decline of Stack Overflow, presumably in favour or directing coding queries to LLMs, appears to be reversing rapidly (!!).

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 17/11/2025

I calculated change in access to jobs by transit before and after Winnipeg's bus network redesign. 🚍 The median resident experienced an increase of 4% in access to jobs within 45 minutes, according to my analysis in R. The redesigned network gets more people to more places within the same time.

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 11/08/2025

TIL that St. John's is called "San Juan de Terranova" in Spanish

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 01/07/2025

Aujourd'hui j'ai pris un mulo pour récupérer les dernières choses qui traînaient dans mon ancien logement ! Déménagement terminé 😌😌 @mulocargo.bsky.social

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 06/06/2025

Took a mulo cargo bike out today for a costco run 🚲 Was quicker, cheaper and more pleasant than using car share which is how I usually go. Great initiative that just launched this month in Montreal @mulocargo.bsky.social

Rental cargo bike filled with costco groceries on the sidewalk next to a bike lane

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 13/02/2025

Si on dépasse une profondeur de neige de 54cm à Montréal, ce serait le montant le plus important de neige au sol qu'on aurait vu depuis plus de 50 ans !

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 28/01/2025

Pretty funny how the company whose AI technology is considered a "black box" compared to the remarkable openness of DeepSeek is called "OpenAI" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 27/01/2025

I had some fun with the weathercan library today in R. Two illustrations of how much milder Canadian winters have gotten : days with sub-zero temps in Vancouver and maximum snow depth in Montreal.

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 21/01/2025

Oh it's totally bonkers! The project is called the Celestial Beacon and it was heavily pushed by the mayor Drew Dilkens who loves his vanity projects. The bill was ultimately $10M+. Meanwhile, City of Windsor wants to cut $1.4M from the Transit Windsor budget for 2025.

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 21/01/2025

In the good old days of Twitter, I made sassy commentary on the misplaced values of political leaders in Windsor, Ontario (my hometown).

tweet: "All you need to know about the municipal politics in Windsor is that the people in charge today believe that spending $7M to put an old streetcar in a glass box in a park is essential but investing in an actual public transit system is a "fairy tale".

tweet: Windsor is a city run by people who believe $500K for a planned & well-needed express bus route is "nice to have" but essential are $7M for a bizarre monument to public transportation, $4M for a golf course club house, and $1.9M extra for police.

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 21/01/2025

I just deactivated my account on X. Before departing that space forever, I wanted to return to a tweet by @qagggy.bsky.social from a few years ago that really stuck with me:

tweet : "Most of the solutions to climate change actually make life better, not worse. So we should be moving towards that better future with great joy and haste."

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 23/12/2024

Took a trip with Metro Connect today, Greater Portland Metro's new on-demand transit service that they launched this month. Pretty neat!!

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