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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I made a system to depict Québec's 5-party system in one diagram, and then the CAQ collapsed and it kind doesn't work anymore whelp (left = as of July; right = as of today)

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've always assumed that someone would be getting the prime à l'urne, though it pretty clearly won't be the CAQ. They will underperform and I assume PCQ will overperform

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Though I was able to dig up the 2022 version of this... generously put, polling for city council seems quite difficult web.archive.org/web/20250227...

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Finally sitting down and wrapping my head around this

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I realize this gives “increasingly nervous federalist: “ but I distinctly remember 2018 also feeling like a stalemate, and then at the end it just wasn’t (my guess is the CAQ gets the bandwagon again)

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wave buttons are a bit sleeker than push buttons, but the icons are still confusing. A general ”open” button should not be represented with a wheelchair icon because then you just look around for the non-wheelchair option - opened lock, closed lock.

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(8/5, London) Somehow had never listened to Rach's 2nd symphony but it's iconic. Beautiful concert hall. £8 tickets for standing room, which I actually preferred (I get antsy and prefer being able to pace)

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(6/12) So cool that Beethoven's iconoclastic statement breaking all the conventions of symphonies was about joy, purely and simply. Third movement drags on a bit though

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(5/2) More pianists should write their own pieces and improvise. Conservatories spit out competent pianists by the thousands and competitions feel like a crapshoot - you really get to know a musician when they write

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

New York Soft Power is unavoidable

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Somewhat surprising views from the Lotte World Tower

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The GTX is incredibly cool, also extremely necessary since there are no express stopping patterns on the Metro (despite many having 50 stations!)

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Really impressed that they put the whole network map on every station. (Not true of Tokyo, with its various networks, so no map shows everything.) I get why they show Line 2 as the central circle but really it should be an ellipse (cf Jug Cerovic's map: www.inat.fr/metro/seoul/)

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(This is Seoul, which I never clarified) Ngl my main impression was how much more chic Korean Tim Horton's was and how chic they make Canada look

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Urbanist pilgrimmage to the stream that used to be a highway but they tore it down. On one hand, yes good on them for doing that, on the second hand it's *crazy* they ever had a highway so in the middle of everything, but on third hand Osaka still has highways covering up central waterways so

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(Again, catching up on months of travel posting) Korean food is amazing but also I already have it most weeks in Toronto "I don't want to overdo the carbs so I'll get the sausage" Turns out the sausage is also just filled with carbs

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Some more benign Japan stuff (including a joint tourism pitch from two prefectures that don't border each other - but what they have in common is that they are the two "literally who" prefectures of Kyushu)

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Being able to deposit your baggage at the central station before boarding the airport express is pretty neat, but I think it'd just make me more worried

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Oh the one big revelation: umbrella-share. Haven't seen this in Japan

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Anyone else read Artemis Fowl as a kid and recall they mentioned the elevators of Taipei 101 in Book Five

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(Clearing out the backlog of travel photos I meant to post) It's clear being in Taiwan that Japan is viewed very favourably, but there was some straight-up nostalgia in the Railway Museum (the third photo is "how to identify enemy aircraft"??)

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My contribution to Iceland discourse is that it's nice that the warm colours are the governing parties and the cool colours are the opposition

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Got flamed on Reddit for suggesting that the "4th largest city in US+Canada" referred only to the municipality. I realize the CMA is underbounded, but even using 8.3m (GTHA), not sure if you can get to #4. Obvs depends on how you count eg. Washington-Baltimore and Bay Area

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Oh huh. One cheap way to maximize through-running given the North-South imbalance in Tube vs. mainline is... just connect the two major southern mainline terminals. Literally RER C www.eta.co.uk/trust/southe...

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Do we just no longer do the rule where it's "de" when the adjective comes before the noun?

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Fyi, a long-term Quebec polling average from @realliv04.bsky.social from the other site (x.com/RealLiv04/st...) There's often a ton of last-minute movement, and this time I suspect it will be particularly seismic

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

To combine the stone-pavement-makes-things-better thread and the too-many-new-neighbourhoods-are-colourless thread: putting bright red stone pavement in these areas would really restore a bit of visual balance, I think

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just purely from looking at the map, it does look like large chunks of Bourgogne and Champagne (basically the whole Seine/Marne basin) point to Paris more than Strasbourg/Dijon. But I guess this would go against the spirit of regional decentralization

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Very clear regions for Toulouse, Bordeaux, Aix-Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Strasbourg + two regions with obvious identities in Bretagne and Normandie. Having 2 Loire regions is awkward; Bourgogne-Franche-Comté has no metro but is apparently a coherent linguistic unit at least?

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

On the topic of redrawing regional maps, I am a lot less miffed about the new larger French regions than before - they're hobbled by ludicrous names but the thought process is clear. France has few secondary population centres; the new regions were drawn to represent their catchment areas

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

@hankgreen.bsky.social 's and my notions of difficulty are so close yet so far away.

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Three polls in the last month put the Nova Scotia NDP at first, second, or third, all by sizeable margins

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The thing about this Taylor Swift lyric is that it's not correct English grammar but it is correct German grammar

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Oh thank god, a bit of colour-coding to impose some order on the spaghetti. Will start off from this and do some further sorting I think content.tfl.gov.uk/strategic-ca...

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Wanted to know how certain components of the Paris rail network fit together so I just cooked this up. Where are tramways deployed relative to heavy rail (and which of those were tram-trains), and what gaps in the network the Grand Paris Express are meant to fill

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

(Population wise, Toronto+Hamilton+Oshawa comes here) 10. Atlanta. A proper 2-trunk Great Society metro, but with 2 stations built in my lifetime; recent expansion has focused on LRT/BRT (not appearing to bear fruit yet). Again, ROW map for reference

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

9. Philadelphia. I've tried wrapping my head around this system so many times and I still have no intuition for it. There are 3 rapid transit lines and 1 is an extension of another (+ also there's Mirror Image PATH)? There's a regional rail tunnel but a bunch of lines feed into the wrong end of it?

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

8. Houston. The LRT as a whole dates from 2004; they have two downtown trunks (street-running) and they're expanding. I wish them the best (Another ROW map for reference)

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

7. Bawston. I get that the North-South link has been discoursed to death across decades, but man, the regional rail has so much potential relative to the relatively sparse metro

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

6. Dallas. Somehow I had it in my head that this was a Great Society metro that nobody took, but it's actually a more recent LRT; a new circumferential line opened just last year. The 4 services run through a downtown transit mall (which is suboptimal) (Also a map of all ROWs for reference)

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

5. Bay Area. Caltrain electrification was good. BART to San Jose is apparently a quagmire. I gather San Jose has increasing weight within the region but VTA doesn't appear to have much ridership

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

4. Chicago. Most Metra appear to be all-day two-way already, StarLine is a plan to achieve through-running. I get the Loop is iconic but I don't know if 5 lines sharing tracks with level crossings is optimal

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

3. Washington-Baltimore. Love the Metro but there's still a lot of area left to cover. IAD extension was great for coverage, though there's a tendency to spam new services serving the same 3 downtown tunnels. Commuter rail is bad, sparse, & thru-running is hard www.youtube.com/watch?v=636r...

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

2. Los Angeles. LA Metro's continuing buildout is impressive but they have a *lot* of catching up left. Metrolink has good coverage but just offers peak-hour service

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

1. New York. Honestly quite good coverage (with glaring exceptions). Commuter networks are all-day. Through-running at Penn + a GCT connection are the ideal next steps for connectivity www.etany.org/modernizing-...

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

For the most part, in Western Europe elections are fought between unitary parties, while CEE has "lists" so various microparties can glom onto a major party (or each other) Exceptions: France + Italy have "list"-based elections, lists are uncommon in Czechia and Slovakia

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Koji reads about the Japanese economy, a thread. I have indeed wondered many times why the Abe full-employment economy didn't lead to wage growth. Low rates of job switching would explain it (and good to see how much higher it got so quickly) richardkatz.substack.com/p/why-hasnt-...

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It does look like Paris-Berlin is getting an hour faster. But overall, a conspicuous Germany-shaped hole in the middle of Western Europe transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/...

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