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I actually think this framing is sorta wrong. Heathrow express has three features that are distinct from the EL 1. It’s nonstop to paddington 2. It terminates 3. Premium pricing.

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Edward Russell @byerussell.com · 31m

Is it time to end the Heathrow Express? Ending the pricey rail line that connects Paddington and the airport would open track space for Elizabeth Line trains that carry travelers into and through central London on only a slightly longer journeys.

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London transfer: is it time to kill off the Heathrow Express?

With fares high and passenger numbers low, plans for a third runway could bring the train’s future into question

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 2h

Wow, El Diario has a big visual feature basically showing exactly this – the rental aspect of Spain’s housing crisis is largely a transfer of wealth from immigrants to individual older, wealthy-but-often-not-filthy-rich Spanish apartment owners, not corporations bsky.app/profile/eldi...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3h

had the original version of this from Life Raft at Chubby Fish in Charleston a few years ago and I genuinely still think about it around once a month, if you come across Life Raft fried chicken ice cream: it is your duty to eat Life Raft fried chicken ice cream

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5h

This is an outrageous use of taxpayers money, they should be subscribing to niche paywalled local newsletters instead.

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Christof Spieler @christofspieler.bsky.social · 3h

Stumbled across this from the Swiss Rhätische Bahn -- is there any other railroad in the world that publishes daily rolling stock assignments on its website? www.rhb.ch/en/railway-e...

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 10h

Don’t want to call anyone out, but this sentiment is, if not ubiquitous, common in mass transit advocacy, but I think is just inaccurate. Everyone crooned over Josh Shapiro after he “fixed” I-95, but USA highway departments have shown a total inability to deal with complex structure issues.

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 11h

The Serra das Arraras is the single reason Brazil gave up on passenger trains between Rio and São Paulo, as it's a massive climb of around an 8% grade if you attack it directly. Worse yet, you never go back down. Meanwhile the road manages to be far more direct and is being upgraded right now.

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 19h

”There is a simple solution to most problems” was one of the poll opinions most correlated with Brexit support IIRC. Up there with pro corporal punishment

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 13h

Completion of Frankfurt-Paris when?

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 14h

@nomorefreewayspdx.com a friend of mine had an intriguing policy proposal that I think is worth investigating

Fischer, is it feasible to lower the drinking age in Oregon to 18 in order to cut off highway development

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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 16h

Just keep extending the light rail until you meet in red deer

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 19h

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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Borners @borners.bsky.social · 19h

The Japanese are Asia's crazy liberal hippies.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 29/09/2026

Yeah and it’s becoming increasingly irrelevant in NYC as people move away from buying food at these quirky places (bodegas, fruit stands, local supermarket co-ops) and shift buying to national chains (WFM, TJ’s, Aldi, Lidl) who are not sourcing from within the city at all.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Crying at how the new intern at work was born in 2005 and knows about the Blair government because "we studied it in sociology".

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ok talk me out of this It looks like a High Speed bypass from saves 70 km and something like 1.5 hours between Stockholm and Oslo. Feels like something the countries should be looking at, or is the geography just totally impossible even for the Norwegian tunnelers?

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well yeah, the beach existed and the shore was actually quite far away when they were built!

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3underscores.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The FAR density of 100 Gold St will be 30, which comparable to some of Namdar's Journal Sq towers (the one at Newark and Central will have a residential FAR of 38.6). By far the highest residential FAR of any Manhattan apartment building (NYC a FAR cap of 12 from 1961-2024)

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Daryl Sng @darylsng.com · 29/09/2026

A lot of today's discourse on AI/LLMs handling tasks feels to me like people who have little problem with executive function not understanding why people who have major issues with executive function can't just do things they see as very easy

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Daryl Sng @darylsng.com · 28/09/2026

Big fan of Jamelle but I speak to my spouse and kids all the time when we’re in person together and I can’t imagine not having my group chat with them. It would be very hard for me to manage my family stuff and schedules without it

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Germany is quite a strong performer globally! (note: south Korea should probably be several places higher, and Japan's lead larger)

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are in fact railroads worldwide that have made billions of dollars shipping ore often quite long distances. Admittedly said ore is mostly going to ports.

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Honestly curious why Drill and blast wasn't chosen here. Aren't the palisades the perfect environment for hard rock mining?

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 27/09/2026

Talking about my struggles with being overweight still makes me uncomfortable, since weight can carry moral judgment in ways that other health challenges don't. But that fear stops too many struggling from getting treatment that could extend their lives.

people.com

Gov. JB Pritzker Reveals He’s Lost 80 Lbs. with GLP-1 After Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis (Exclusive)

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker tells PEOPLE that a GLP-1 has contributed to his 80-Lb. weight loss, but that he initially started taking it after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Current station building has to be the ugliest major station in the country (currently 19th busiest).

A collection of ugly short buildings approximating a railway station.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 28/09/2026

The Walking Dead is such a silly show. 12th century technology like a moat would have made their settlements safe from zombies. Surely there were excavators just sitting around. They could have put their houses on stilts like they do at the beach.

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Clem Tillier @ctillier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I always thought under-slung BART wouldn’t fit through the Golden Gate Bridge towers, but it turns out BART is small and the bridge is huge. Here is a mockup in 1/100 scale, BART fits easily.

A photo of a 1/100 scale model of a tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, showing a paper cutout of a cross section of a BART line under the road deck. It fits easily.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 27/09/2026

Well at least they all comply with the 2% cross-slope standard

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

excellent column today which paints the history on broad strokes. in 2022, I attempted to fill in the picture with as many fine details as possible, including the men involved who helped kill the idea of BART on the Golden Gate Bridge www.substack-bahn.net/p/how-bart-o...

substack-bahn.net

How BART on the Golden Gate Bridge Died: A New History

"A Machiavellian plot" to kill a Bay Area dream

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 28/09/2026

Funny bit to get upset about a lack of alt text on an Instagram post by a bar located down a literal flight of stairs

Last Ditch, a basement bar down a set of concrete steps, beneath a Mexican restaurant, drew news coverage in Europe and the United States this week after a Boston Globe story about the bar's plan to lift its Covid mask requirement on Saturday
nights went viral.

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Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 19/03/2026

Since its founding, the California Coastal Commission, charged with a dual mission of protecting the coast & ensuring public access to it, has interpreted its mission through an auto-oriented lens. It has undermined transit & walkability by demanding ample, usually free, parking at every development

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Crazy the debacle of housing production in Mexico City: 2006: 18,000 units 2016: 13,000 units 2025: 2,000 units

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Targeting the British youth subculture of “Wilsonheads” who consider the late prime minister a style icon and role model. You can barely move for pipes in the clubs some Saturday nights.

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"An important factor in assessing the roles of the two forms of transport is the extent to which road operators are called upon to cover the cost of the roads which they use [....] there is a substantial disparity between system costs and the contribution paid by the operators."

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Raynell @raynell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

glad I didn’t do this

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Raynell @raynell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

is this the year I go all in on Maryland?

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just reading about Brisbane's crossriver rail and am I understanding it right that the government built a giant tunnel but won't tell anyone what the service plane is post-tunnel? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_R...

en.wikipedia.org

Cross River Rail - Wikipedia

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If wikipedia is correct, this basically means every train sells every seat at least once. This is very impressive!

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

does the EU have an equivalent to the US NTD transit ridership reporting? specifically something that aggregates data from a bunch of different agencies into a common format and methodology

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can I enter into a futures contract about kalshi on kalshi

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Love that this guy exists everywhere in the world: NYC, London, DC, Chicago, Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris. Doesn't matter.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Putney to Westminster is 19 minutes on the Underground.

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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I understand the ref has to keep it clean

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Dexerto @dexerto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Laughing Cow has replaced its mascot’s smile with a straight face on some packaging The new packs read “We need to talk,” but the company says she’ll explain “when she’s ready”

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