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Bikemore @bikemore.net · 22/09/2026

This year's state capital transportation budget (the CTP) is out. Bikemore and Central Maryland Transportation Alliance read it and compared it to previous years. Click through to read our findings. www.mdotctp.com

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What the draft budget does to Baltimore transit — Bikemore & CMTA

Bikemore and CMTA read MDOT’s draft FY2027-2032 transportation budget against the plan enacted before it: the Red Line goes unbuilt, Baltimore transit repair is cut, and highway widening and…

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Riding the MCDOT FLASH to Silver Spring from Columbia, which just began service earlier this week.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The MCDOT FLASH extension to Columbia *finally* begins service on 9/8 next week, but weekday rush hour only service really leaves a lot to be desired. This route could be transformative for the US-29 corridor if it ran every 15-20 minutes all day rather than just at peak.

MCDOT FLASH map showing the extension to Columbia

On Tuesday, Sept. 8, the Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) will expand its US 29 Flash Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Blue Route to serve four new stops in Howard County. The Flash Blue Route will provide weekday, rush-hour service every 15-20 minutes from 5-9 a.m. and 3-8 p.m. between Downtown Silver Spring and Downtown Columbia.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It is extremely frustrating that the only part of Anne Arundel County with high capacity transit is covered in low density sprawl that is not conducive to transit ridership, and the only places left to build greenfield higher density housing are marginal wetlands next to coal power stations.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 02/08/2026

a lot of US/canadian "better bus" redesigns involve more significant cuts in bus network coverage where ridership isn't offset by frequency boosts elsewhere service hours per capita for most bus systems are just too low to begin with, it's hard to see huge gains without properly funding the bus

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Metro tried to make bus service better. Somehow, ridership and speeds are both down

A year after Better Bus, reviews are mixed.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Playing MDOT MTA's Ride & Seek transit scavenger hunt

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

6⃣ Also in Maryland: Amar Mukunda over Nancy King

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Looks like the Transportation and Climate Alignment Act is back on the menu, Mukunda's successful primary of King is a huge win for progressives in the MD State Senate

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Visited the Laureate at Shady Grove, the first social housing constructed by Montgomery County's Housing Production Fund.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

First ride on MDOT MTA's new Gillig Low Floor hybrid, pretty nice bus.

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Doug @doug.city · 01/06/2026

Hard to overstate what a big problem this is, and it rears its head in basically *any* kind of transportation research you might try to do, at least in the US. Data on non-commute trips is, more often than not, just nonexistent. Unless you have the resources to collect your own data, good luck.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Working on some maps for a report that I hopefully will be sharing soon.

Map of two existing MDOT MTA bus routes plus one proposed route

Isochrone of areas accessible to Tradepoint Atlantic in Baltimore County via transit between 7 AM and 8 AM, with 15, 30, 45, and 60 minute cutoffs

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

As written, this bill would effectively ban automated traffic enforcement, including red light and speed cameras. Not great!

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Also of note, the bill will reduce the federal cost share of transit bus replacements from 80% oft the total cost of a bus to a maximum of 70% of the *average cost* of a new bus, based on a 5 year average of transit bus purchases to be calculated by the FTA, phasing in between FY2029 and 31.

(iii) FISCAL YEAR 2031.—For fiscal year 2031 and in each fiscal year thereafter, the maximum Federal payment amount shall equal the average of all of the products of 70 percent multiplied by the price of each procurement for a bus rolling stock combination of similar propulsion type and vehicle length procured within the most recent 5 years.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/05/2026

incredibly depressing that the reimposition of jim crow districts across the entire south is getting nothing more than generic horse race coverage

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Once again the Maryland State Senate has adjourned sine die without a third reader vote for the Transportation and Climate Alignment Act, which has passed in the House of Delegates three years in a row. Disappointing that Senate leadership has repeatedly failed to bring this bill to a floor vote.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The last ride of the DC Streetcar

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The MTA's own modeling shows bus rapid transit both attracts significantly fewer riders and requires 3-4 minute headways to meet capacity needs. "Red Line" BRT is not the Red Line at all. This corridor both justifies and deserves the rail it has long been promised.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

An update on this: it seems that this was likely a placeholder in the draft of the CTP, MTA is now procuring 5 battery-catenary hybrid locomotives in a joint procurement agreement with the MBTA.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

New transit oddity in my possession: a bus fare reader retired from an Austin CapMetro bus.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The fact that I'm able to board a Metrorail train at 1:45 in the morning rules so much

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Mike English @mocomikee.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Once again, opposing housing near you is a fundamentally conservative proposition, and a lot of people on the broader left who share the thoughts in this video need to take some inventory of themselves.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/01/2026

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.  ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

LA Metro having the single most ambitious transit expansion plans in the United States while simultaneously opposing transit-oriented development at their stations truly is peak Californian governance

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

In the final draft of the Maryland Consolidated Transportation Program FY2026-2031 budget, there is now a line item for the purchase of ACS-64 electric locomotives for the MARC Penn Line. This will enable much faster electrified service on MARC's busiest rail line.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Baltimore, Charles St and North Ave

Abolish ICE billboard on an old bank building at Charles St and North Ave in Baltimore

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The suburban transit experience: try to book a microtransit trip, it fails to book twice give up and walk 20 minutes to an hourly bus bus isn't tracking bus shows up 3 minutes early

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

New Baltimore Metro railcars are in service!

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Meant to post this last night but my first transit ride of 2026. This year marks what will likely be the last year of service for the aging Budd cars on the Baltimore Metro, as new Hitachi railcars enter service hopefully in the coming weeks.

A Budd Universal Transit Vehicle on the Baltimore Metro SubwayLink

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The Bay Bridge should not be rebuilt, full stop. At the upper range of $17bn, the new bridges would be the most expensive built in *human history.* There is zero need for 8 lanes across the Chesapeake, just maintain the spans we have. Mindboggling that the MDTA approved this.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Local lawmakers need to begin work on a congestion pricing zone and VMT tax for AVs, these things are going to choke our streets and tank transit ridership if we aren't careful.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Baltimore being #3 and BWI being #6 really speaks volumes for the necessity of the MARC Growth and Transformation Plan, faster and more frequent electrified service will be a game changer.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Five billion dollars for a fairly unremarkable 4 lane cable-stayed highway bridge. It's not just transit projects, this country is incapable of building any modern infrastructure.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Ridiculous and cowardly move. The risks of *not* aggressively pursuing redistricting are so much higher than the "risk" of legal challenges against it, as more and more republican states redraw their maps.

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Will Fedder @willfedder.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Attention: for all you housing lovers along the Northeast Corridor - Baltimore’s City Council just passed single-stair reform AND repealed residential parking minimums AND reduced setback requirements one-after-another this evening

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The 31 Av bike boulevard in Astoria, this city is genuinely incredible

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The 14th Street busway at Union Square in New York, this could be Baltimore Street if we were brave enough.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The northeast is the single greatest region in the world, I left home at 6:45 AM and 5 hours later I am in Flushing Queens after taking a high speed train and an express subway line

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Good morning from the Amtrak NextGen Acela, my first ride on the new trainsets.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Sketched out the 1968 Baltimore Region Rapid Transit System plan in Subway Builder. The game simulates about 122,000 daily riders on the system's five lines and 62 stations.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Trying to take transit in Baltimore City on a Saturday evening is so painful, Navy and 65 don't show, nothing is tracking.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

MDOT MTA's request for proposals for new 70% low floor LRVs for the Central Light Rail line is out. The base order includes 52 LRVs, with options for up to 50 additional LRVs for the Baltimore Red Line project.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

In spite of a tough state budget year, today's MTA Maryland service changes modestly expand transit service in the Baltimore region. This is in stark constrast to the 20% SEPTA service cuts which went into effect in Philadelphia today. The public transit death spiral is an avoidable policy choice.

MTA Maryland fall service changes: service enhancements on five routes and additional trips on four additional routes.

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