michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 13/10/2026There's no way SEPTA isn't gearing up to reopen the connection between the East Market and South Broad concourses. That Metro ad did NOT exist when the SBC reopened earlier this year 070
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 11/10/2026one of my friends was curious about the junction at Erie, so i sketched it for them. i thought it was good enough to post here :) the layup tracks are at the same level as the freight line, so they unfortunately can't be recycled for the @blvdsubway.bsky.social 251
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 10/10/2026Always impressed by Toronto's transit network planning. the near-dogmatic (and officially codified) insistence on supplying ~every old and new subway stop with at least one feeder route makes for one hell of an efficient network, even if you will probably be using 3 or 4 vehicles 130
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 09/10/2026The more things change, the more they stay the same. Personnel were complaining about the sorry states of the trolley stations barely five years after they opened 010
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 08/10/2026Was I comfortable? No, not really. But I got some good flicks so it's OK #photography #philly 040
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 08/10/2026finally taking this silly billy, the Cynwyd Line 381
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 04/10/2026(coughs loudly) bullshit all of the concerns that are brought up to the Responsible Gaming division of DraftKings are thrown out by the rest of the company because the irresponsible people make up the lion's share of their revenue 000
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 04/10/2026y'all know those trite graphics showing the street space occupied by automobiles vs. transit vehicles? they were a thing as early as 1951, seen here in a documentary published by the Philadelphia Transportation Company 000
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 01/10/2026This type of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most of the United States. Yes, that *is* former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin playing Minecraft. Why do you ask? 000
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 30/09/2026I nominate the Daxing Airport Express. Business class and baggage cars with a maximum operating speed of 160 km/h 010
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 27/09/2026www.cornellsun.com/article/2026... Just bumping this because I haven't seen anybody talking about it on my TL and that bugs me 130
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 22/09/2026reading through the Reimagining Regional Rail report. it is so funny how all of the bottlenecks are written like "we know this is a huge problem but uhhh we'll figure out a specific solution later" 16th Street Junction by itself will probably be a billion dollars and several years of disruption 040
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 22/09/2026Yeah. It'd be somewhat similar to the way combined 15-minute service was delivered in the early 2010s, though it'd head up to Glenside instead of just Jenkintown 030
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 22/09/2026dude, SEPTA barely needs new extensions as it stands and we're already doing a massive gamble by publishing this vision when funding's still scarce. pick your battles @alanthefisher.bsky.social 3100
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 22/09/2026good morning! today SEPTA has dropped a retooled vision for the future of the system wwww.septa.org/accelerate/ 57211
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 20/09/2026L'Enfant Plaza in Washington DC. I love the Metro's waffles 0282
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 20/09/2026L'Enfant Plaza. The overlapping waffle ceiling is so gorgeous 000
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 14/09/2026"holy shit the Bears scored 59 points" "were the Rams frauds the whole time?" Falcons subplot: 010
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 06/09/2026The most Philadelphia sequence of events I've seen since the 47 got stuck in cement at Termini Bros wait, that was only the other day? goddammit 000
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 04/09/2026yerp, it was. in an impressive feat of 1920s Engineering™️, they thought it'd be smart to put a flat junction at the top of a 5% grade with one branch going straight and the other making a 180-degree turn 131
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 28/08/2026philadelphia man tries to understand a south jersey bus schedule, fails and sinks into a deep depression this is the most frequent bus in the entire region, by the way 060
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 22/08/2026why limit the Silverliner VI to two entry channels at high-level platforms? the Vs have three and their trapdoors don't require manual operation 000
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 20/08/2026surely Brooklyn didn't already have trolle- ah crap 110
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 19/08/2026i fully expect a strike to happen here in PHL once the (2-person operation capable) Silverliner VIs arrive and SEPTA justifiably attempts to cut crew sizes down lmaooo 000
michael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 11/10/2025so many characters in One Piece are written in *such* a captivating way. I've been reading for like 8 years now and I still can't tell anyone my favorite of the bunch 010