Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A train wouldn't be as good without a cute conductor like me :( 010
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Leeds could never, because this silly thing has less capacity than a bus 000
Reposted by Martha Laurenmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026awoke this morning with a Vision 49103231830
Reposted by Martha LaurenAlex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Reporter: You haven’t heard her name until now. She’s only seventeen years old. But White House intern Crespa Blumbo has been in charge of all nuclear missiles for the last two years and she just ordered the military to enact Project Acheron 553465509
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 16/05/2026As ever, I'm unconvinced that the general public are budget hawks keenly watching the efficiency with which trains from Castleford to Pontefract are crewed before they'll hear of Cross Gates getting quad tracked 100
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I would prefer that overall subsidy were higher, and that intercity and commuter trains had more capacity and lower fares. I don't think that subsidies to regional trains, which are prevalent in many countries, prevent this from being the case. 100
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 16/05/2026This graph seems to be telling me that TOCs which mostly operate intercity or commuter traffic over busy main lines need little subsidy, which TOCs which mostly operate regional traffic over secondary routes need more subsidy. This is the result I would have expected. 220
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Basically London spends enormous amounts on operating costs for local buses, the most labour-intensive way to provide peak capacity, because Westminster is allergic to capital spending on the most obviously necessary projects 160
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 16/05/2026London is excellent at running suburban rail into legacy downtown terminals. But I agree that we ought to have less of that, and more cross-city trunk lines. As for high rail fares and over-reliance on buses, that's a result of capacity, not operating cost. 160
Reposted by Martha LaurenGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/04/2026While we are transfixed by the antics of our supposed "leaders", a catastrophe of astonishing proportions has been creeping up on us. Climate scientists now believe it is more likely than not to happen, and soon. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comA catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it | George MonbiotScientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 551054645
Reposted by Martha LaurenExistential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 14/03/2026Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz? 9894032345
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I can confirm that you're neither the first nor the last American to do that 020
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 22/02/2026One day, North American cities will learn that faregates are much more effective when you show proof of payment to exit as well as enter 360
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 15/01/2026You know, Huntington, West Virginia would be a great small city but for the fact that much of the metro area's employment and retail has sprawled out along the stretch of US 60 just East of the city proper, which is one of the most wretched stroads I've ever escaped with my life 030
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 12/01/2026North Americans love to spend their lives on a dystopian treadmill working fifty hour weeks with one week's vacation to service their college, car and mortgage debt and then look down on Europeans because the number on our paychecks isn't as big 060
Reposted by Martha LaurenThe Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago 3204317615946
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Did you, perhaps, listen to New Year and then get the following track stuck in your head? 000
Reposted by Martha Laurenderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 31/12/2025for almost 15 years, i was willing to speak the truth even when it was unpopular. at first they mocked me, threw rocks at me, called me an "old man" who needed to "shut the fuck up." now they take these things as self-evident. 955258293
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Not an American railroad guy so this passed me by until WTYP mentioned it. PTC uses GPS?? Jesus Christ 150
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Kind of impressive how you can go through the history of any rock band and there'll have been a dozen different members at one point or another, and not a single woman among them 110
Reposted by Martha LaurenProf. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years 19672273
Reposted by Martha LaurenUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 06/10/2025The pricing software/ blackrock obsession is so funny to me because it basically posits that there was no housing crisis before, like, 2018. 1024531
Reposted by Martha LaurenAlissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Reflections on last week's #WeekWithoutDriving in a city that still refuses to acknowledge the existence of its nondrivers — which a comprehensive new report claims make up one-third of LA's populationtorched.laOne-third of Angelenos do not driveWalking back the "car-free" games promise is unconscionable in a city where the people who don't drive are also the most vulnerable users of our streets 318452
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Some of these interchanges on the RATP are ridiculous 060
Reposted by Martha LaurenCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak 13382381652
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Me: I'd like to go to Avignon please :) SNCF: *lights Gitane* Why must you make zis my problem? Can you not take ze bus? 0140
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I love how the SNCF journey planner is like 'have you considered not taking the train?' 2301
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 30/09/2025You forget Marco, this isn't for the sort of people who ride the bus, it's for the sort of people to drive. A sort of remote parking lot for downtown Toronto. One cannot expect them to wait in an open shelter any more than one could expect a nobleman to subsist on the serfs' coarse potage! 020
Reposted by Martha LaurenMarco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 30/09/2025A station that gets 6 trains per direction per day should look like Exo's stations, not like that, honestly. There are hundreds of bus stops that serve more people that need investment in fixed infrastructure more than this. Just build a platform and add 3 bus shelters. 2101
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Still, annoying I even gotta fly because Italy sucks for European rail staff discounts and trains in the Mezzogiorno are s l o w 040
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 29/09/2025My STN-CTA flight had held steady so I booked yesterday, today it jumped £9. My CTA-LTN flight had just gone up €25 so I waited, today there was one (1) place at the previous price. AirHint 0, my feminine aviation intuition 2 💅 120
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Is there anything in the world more satisfying than gaming air fare fluctuations successfully? 170
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 18/09/2025The YIMBY movement will not rest until every town has its own Tour Montparnasse 051
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Not to mention that the Federal Republic of Germany is a member state of the European Union, a federation of sorts. 010
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 12/09/2025So the UK is a country containing four countries, though some Cornish people will tell you that it's really five countries, and some Irish people will tell you it's three countries while the fourth is really the occupied territory of another country? 111
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 12/09/2025The fun part is that if you pick a definition based on national identity, statehood or sovereignty, you're still going round in circles because those are vague and complicated concepts too! 160
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Threads discovering that 'country' is an imprecise term with no specific definition 4191
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Bud Abbott invites Lou Costello over for Ethiopian food Costello: What's for dinner? [hilarious misunderstandings ensue] 040
