Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Let your haters become your conveyors when you sit down at the water table of success. 091
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The consequences of Facebook for the American railroading industry have been severe. No longer can a railroader maintain a wife and children at each terminal. Each wife must now absorb twice the hate. 110
Reposted by Conrad PoppenhusenCalifornians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 21/07/2026One contributor to NCTD's fiscal challenges is the high cost of hydrogen fuel. Running hydrogen trains on the Sprinter will make this problem worse, not better. NCTD, say no to hydrogen trains! voiceofsandiego.org/2025/11/25/n...voiceofsandiego.orgNorth County Transit District Struggles to Afford the Price of Being Carbon FreeThe district, trying to meet a state regulation, can’t operate all its hydrogen buses due to the expensive cost of fuel. 2133
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026His grift continues. That Nat Ford keeps getting jobs is a real indictment of the scruples of our industry. 1140
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026the new york times building is beautiful. we should take it from them. those should be government offices 020
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026"The JTA is operationally strong and well-positioned for the future," Ford said. "I have full confidence in the leadership team's ability to continue advancing our mission." lmao buddy.transittalent.comJTA CEO Nat Ford announces resignation, will step down in January 020
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026starmer is out. what does this mean for the 2 train? 000
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Everybody knows y = cos x where y = signaling project scope and x = time 020
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 06/06/2026we proof of payment in this motherfucker. take your sensitive ass back to long island 030
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 06/06/2026NY Senate just passed the 2PTO bill again 120
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026My Marco Chitti tattoo is raising a lot of questions already answered by my tramp stamp of the full text of “Down with BRT, long live the bus” 010
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026trying my hand at making jesusy billboards how’d i do? 030
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 25/05/2026A Request for Information is flirting, a Request for Proposals is foreplay, a contract award is intercourse, and delivery is climax. Don't forget to practice after care by awarding a maintenance contract. 110
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I like heritage locomotives as much as the next degenerate train enjoyer, but they really do represent an interesting kind of self-soothing and self-flagellation by railroad execs in a world that increasingly doesn’t proclaim its caring for causes railroaders find important. 100
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Every day I wake up and see OCTA doing some new Hitler shit. 020
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Goodnight Moon but every page is a different MTA union 030
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 09/05/2026It’s the weekend, you know what that means: a bunch of dummies crowding the doors inside and out on the E train 010
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 09/05/2026keep honking i’m seein’ my opportunities and takin’ em 101
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026has the GOP thought to run curtis sliwa? i think he’d pull reagan numbers in 2028 020
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I apologize for my grave and offensive mistake. It’s obviously babies, not sheet metal. 010
Reposted by Conrad PoppenhusenBen K. @benjaminkabak.com · 30/04/2026That Xochitl Gonzalez (b. 1977) article today on smoking is a real triumph for the "still eating lead paint" generation. 1335
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The G train is undergoing signal modernization (and infrastructure repair), so I made this logo to help communicate that to riders 000
Reposted by Conrad PoppenhusenDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Scoop from WIRED's @aarianmarshall.bsky.social: First responders have warned feds that Waymo is backsliding. Head of San Francisco emergency mgmt: “We are actually seeing something interesting: backsliding of some things that had [been] improved upon. They are committing more traffic violations.”wired.comEmergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month. 510829
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Good policy alert www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukSmoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreedThe 110
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I think it is good that NJ Transit will be charging wealthy ticket holders going to see a prestige sporting event at great cost to the host state a substantially higher fare, especially considering how much this is all disrupting normal service. 151
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Talked to a guy on the train today who worked at Cisco translating engineer speak into things their salespeople could say. Need him to work in CBTC badly 010
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026If I were a somewhat major figure in the online public transportation scene (cursed), I would not doom post about how one bad project that everyone agreed is bad made me loose my interest in public transportation. That’s lame behavior. 120
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 21/02/2026“they’re the ones that fund the MTA.” most certainly not! 010
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026I suspect Julie Menin spends her free time eating sheet metal 010
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Breaking, from me: Sources show that the Interborough Express (IBX) rail line will be operated by MTA Regional Bus, a little known MTA operating agency. This comes amid speculation about operation of the line, whether it will be contracted, and what crewing will look like. 1190
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Streetsblog Empire posting a piece that makes a lot of easily discredited claims about the Newburgh Beacon ferry and bus service is disappointing. The new bus is a huge improvement over the ferry, in terms of both departures and service span 020
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026People making faces at Melania documentary ads on the Outfront screens in midtown, lol 010
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Cubic Systems of San Diego has received an award from the Civic Software Institute for their monumental achievements with Clipper 2, including being the first fare system to use a single JSON file as a database. Congratulations to everyone at MTC and Cubic on this achievement! 140
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026If you preach specifically at queer people at Penn Station you are allowed to be thrown onto 21 track 110
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026NJT and Amtrak cancelling everything over a foot or two of snow is really pathetic and unacceptable. The LIRR is still pumping out trains without problems. 120
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026"Urbanist" as a LinkedIn headline just means "unemployed consultant" right? 010
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I’d like a word with whoever put a work zone on the entirety of the flushing line in queens. 220
Conrad Poppenhusen @poppenhusen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Hopefully Deutschreichbahn is hiring in 2 years so Andy Byford can get a job 110
