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A lot is riding on Amazon successfully rolling out LEO on Delta.

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If the EU sanctions Musk we’ll probably be ok.

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Travis Fedschun @travfed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Only in the EU is a bottle of wine cheaper than a box of pasta.

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PATH proving increased weekend service reaps upping ridership. Now only if they would lengthen the window of increased service on weekends for after 9pm.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

August US transit data is in today, & all of the largest US rail networks are growing! Cali leads the way, with ridership up 15% on BART, 14% on Muni, & 10% on LA Metro PATH (NY/NJ) & MBTA (Boston) also have strong growth at 8%, while MTS (San Diego, +1.7%) is the slowest🧵

a graph of year-on-year growth in ridership

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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

PATH made major improvements to late night and weekend service this year and it is paying dividends.

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honestly this video communicates it pretty well. he makes a long and involved Wizard of Oz metaphor to implicitly call Roger Marshall a heartless, stupid coward and it lands

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EU ag policy is fascinating. It’s fantastic for making artisanal products plentiful and cheap, and terrible for mass commodities.

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Why is the line to Glurns randomly 25kv?

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Clearly they should just avoid the issue entirely and have trains use battery power in the tunnel.

Every one of the >6000 apartments in this photo will soon be inhabited by an educated professional who will be a down-the-line progressive vote. Only 20% of them will own cars. Another 20% will own a bike. At least half will ride transit daily. This is how you literally build progressive majorities.

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 07/10/2026

Has anyone actually ordered ML derivatives besides MARC and AMT though? And has anyone at all ordered the powered version? It was a shell designed for push-pull coaches that is now being awkwardly adapted for MUs.

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Please enjoy this minute long video of @governor.ny.gov struggling and failing to get one of @mta.info's new turnstiles to let her pass into her own press conference about the new turnstiles 🤣

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Haha yeah that’s an Alstom problem - and Alstom inherited this order from Bombardier and probably never wanted it in the first place. But much fewer things can go wrong when you are simply lightly modifying a European product instead of trying to cram propulsion equipment into an unpowered coach.

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The problem with ordering a bespoke product instead of ordering “off the shelf” is long fulfillment timelines. NJT should’ve never insisted on interoperability with the existing fleet. Meanwhile Metra’s off-the-shelf Stadler BEMU only ordered two years ago will be entering service at the same time.

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Bring back Amtrak California!!!

It’s almost like JPA is a terrible governance structure and Metrolink should be fully independent like BART is…

I at least understand some strict rules around alcohol…but hot food? Where is a night shift worker supposed to get a pre-shift meal?

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Won’t this drive up the cost of red-dyed diesel for farmers?

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That’s very specific to the UK. In the rest of Europe there’s a wealthy enclave in the city center.

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Can he walk with a friend’s older sibling or something?

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It’s still $29k before taxes. It’s not that cheap.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The people who want this and the people with the money/budget priorities to buy a new car are not the same people. New cars are just so expensive compared to even lightly used cars these days.

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People won't voluntarily give up their Kid-Crusher 5000s unless we make driving them considerably more costly and inconvenient, which is precisely what we should do.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

I think their funding is getting cut by the member agencies. That’s the issue pushing this bs.

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Holy shit.

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Did you just describe Fort Lee?

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To NJ boomer townies, a New Yorker is someone who rents and advocates for bike lanes, even if they are from NJ.

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Luis Paez-Pumar @lpp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why haven’t English regions and cities demanded the same level of local governance their compatriots enjoy everywhere else in the UK?

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Queen Hayley

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

So essentially it’s better to be in Japan than Singapore. I buy that I suppose.

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for a minute @hurricanexyz.bsky.social has been saying that Legend of the Galactic Heroes is his favorite piece of political theory and now that I am 15 hours into the series I get it. i’m totally Yang Wen-li-pilled.

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site

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We could do more of this in the NYC metro if we make through-running a reality. Obviously short-turning a train destined for NY in Newark or Jamaica would be a hot mess but short turning a late New Brunswick-Port Washington train in Great Neck generally would work just fine.

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Yeah but now those passengers at Dortmund going the other way need to be transported to Düsseldorf with enough lead time to catch their train. So the decision would need to be made well before the late ICE gets to Düsseldorf.

Before Secaucus this was not a critical point the same way because both Amtrak and NJT trains were simply going nonstop. Secaucus Junction really should included High Line quad tracking - then they simply could’ve moved the Amtrak-NJT traffic merge from Newark to Secaucus.

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Wait so DB will short turn a late ICE and make pax hang around and wait for the next one? Are all ICE lines frequent enough for this to work? This would be a disaster in Italy outside of the main HS spine.

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Less the tunnel and more the benefits of the supporting projects fully quad-tracking Newark-Secaucus - namely Sawtooth replacement and Portal South.

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Then there is ANOTHER critical point at Swift, where M&E trains merge in. One more point where trains can wind up out of sequence.

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This is a potential benefit of Gateway for runtime and reliabilit no one seems to be talking about. Right now if eastbound trains arrive in Newark Penn out of sequence it royally screws up the High Line/NRT, since a train skipping Secaucus needs to be let through before one stopping at Secaucus.

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David Lebo @leboism.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah the FL lines in Rome had way shorter dwells than the Cinque Terre locals despite both using Rock EMUs. I could tell there was a LOT of padding on the latter.

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For those not following NJ politics, please know that the Lt Gov resigned a few days ago because a report came out saying he did serial harassment, and yesterday he went on TV to say "i put that report through multiple AIs and they told me it wasn't sexual harassment." Former university president

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m gonna put my fist through a wall

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Does this level of rigid procedure inducing reliability hold on main lines where different-speed traffic intermingles? I noticed on the Genoa-Pisa mainline in Italy that headways for Cinque Terre locals were all over the place and IC and RV trains often ran a few minutes late.

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Super PAC money is a LOT less useful for TV than direct campaign cash. Gotta pay real advertising rates and can’t coordinate messaging.

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