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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Allied strategic bombing killed as many French and Chinese as German bombing did British

kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Although worthy of celebration, it's also slightly suspect how XX Bomber Command, from its bases in China, decided to firebomb as an experiment, killing tens of thousands of Chinese civilians

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

or you could build everything on viaducts as in china and just leave the fenced off footings :)

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The two authors of this report are lifelong economists with likely no great subject matter expertise on the topic. Don't take something seriously because it has a government office's stamp on it.

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The PBO's cost estimate is the result of a weekend spent playing around with the Transit Costs Project spreadsheet and some typesetting. There is ~0 special insight and treating it as authoritative is silly

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

With the increasing length of the Expo Line, people often bring up the idea of making the SkyTrain faster by adding skip stop or local/express service patterns In short, local & express services should be possible with additional platforms at 4 stations This thread explores one way to do that

A map depicting Vancouver's SkyTrain network showing all lines with some form of local & express stopping pattern, also showing connecting RapidBus, planned RapidBus, B-Line, SeaBus, and SFU Gondola

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

*meant to mention - this is the Gyeongwon line between Seoul and Cheongnyangni stations, at Eungbong station

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Somehow, high-speed trains feel really huge when they operate on ordinary trackage.

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gyeongui-Jungang commuter trains, ITX-Cheongchung, and KTX-Eum trains share the double tracks. It's fun seeing them side by side.

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Gyeongbu line and Gyeongbu HSL racing out of the platforms at Daejeon

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

have you ever wanted a technical treatise on design of urban railways in the south korea context? i haven't either, but now i'm interested

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Six tracks of Hangang bridge at the end of summer

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you choose to view UPX and Kitchener as one line (on a messy mix of 2/3 tracks from USRC to Wice) then it's 8 per hour.

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Canada, unlike the US doesn’t have infinite money to waste so you’d think someone would care to do some cost control on projects but alas

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

🤓it is broad gauge actually. by a little bit

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

But then how would we able to run constant daily work on live track

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

the only thing worse than the actual structure of these new-town-centres is how many there are

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

the abundance of small suburban municipalities that all want their own new centres around subway/train stations means that there's like. competitive upzoning in horrific sifes

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Exciting news: TTC has awarded a contract to Hitachi for its SelTrac communications based train control (CBTC) on line 2 (according to the announcement, including on Metrolinx’s Scarborough Subway Extension). This will enable reliability, speed, and frequency improvements. @ttcriders.bsky.social

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TTC awards contract for Line 2 signalling upgrade to support more frequent and reliable service

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

St Clair Old Weston station's budget funds the City of Toronto's St Clair Ave West Area TMP which includes a couple of new road grade separations and a bunch of new roads, intersections, road widening, it's kind of ridiculous

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Isn't the money for QQE extension and miscellaneous road/utility stuff at the Parliament slip coming from WELRT. Like I thought there were a bunch of ducts getting relocated for this

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Americans' attitude towards Mexican food is like if the USSR was still around and its citizens were really annoying about the dearth of Uzbek restaurants worldwide

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Of course none of this is actually constraining but they are things that can be pointed to

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

There's something about rollunder space for track level workers (redundant with the napkinholder cages..) that has to do with how prevalent active hours track walks are. Unusual aspect of the subway

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This is the case too at Rosedale isn't it? Yonge line open cut stations in general

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

there are a lot of people who for some reason like to talk about PEDs as if it's an inherently ridiculous idea at the ttc and it's quite confusing

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

probably complaining about reduction in usable floor space. but half height doors reduce the loading so much by being lighter and having more favourable wind loadings!! tbh the big problem seems to be that staff just don't like the vibes

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

instinctually rejecting half height doors (solves ventilation and lower mass) with platform reinforcement like done for marunouchi and midosuji lines, both at least as old as the subway and similarly not designed for PEDs. all for the precious under-platform rollspace

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

there's a lot of admanance about how the cantilevered platform edges can't support doors and how they can't be reinforced because it removes the rollunder space. but little discussion of putting like. half height doors slightly away from the very edge

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Oooh this is neat. Shuttling 1138 bathurst is fun but i really want to see what it's like going up the hill

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The TTC really needs new maintenance of way equipment; the existing stuff is rotting away, to say nothing of the capabilities of modern vehicles

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Plus they had an explicit goal of 100% ridership recovery and poured resources in trying to bring it about

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The commuter rail was bearing some of the traffic from subway closures until the system was brought back into full service

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is somehow happening as multiple lines get closed every weekend for construction, as the Lakeshore lines have worse timetables than prepandemic and as overall transit ridership is still like -20% from 2019. everybody just loves the train

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

In absolute numbers the difference in ridership recovery between the LIRR and BART is really starkly visible

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Q1 2026 USCA commuter rail ridership update: - RTO policy is bringing up ridership overall - Caltrain electrification has grown ridership 70% - Only GO has exceeded prepandemic numbers; ridership grew 8.5% while local transit ridership fell ~5%

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It's been a couple years but I want to start writing Wikipedia pages for the London Clay birds again

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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Review of Eocene birds from the Walton Member of the London Clay Formation in England: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🪶🧪 (📷Mayr)

Fossilized foot bones of a variety of extinct birds shown to scale, all discovered in the London Clay rock formation in England.

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The core is just way denser and has a decent-good inherited local transit network ,right?

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Montreal has an urban clearance story but the Toronto expressways resulted in the loss of just 150 homes; there was the money to build through underused railyards and open space but not to do huge takings.

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I think so. But Vancouver also lost the Shenyang direct flight that was useful.

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I think YVR has more than SFO and the same as LAX (trading Hangzhou for Sapporo). For some reasons I expected it to be the American airports with the extra Japan route and the Canadian ones with the extra China routes but it's the other way around.

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Toronto has the exact same number of directly accesible East Asian destinations as New York, it just trades Fuzhou for Osaka.

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