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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This should be a surprise to no one, tbh. In fact, controversial opinion, but a park & ride here is minor necessity since the station won’t serve Altgeld properly (although it should be a garage + housing, not just a surface lot)

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This article is a great example of why the $1.1b in funding for the RLE would’ve been better served investing in the feeder bus network on the Far South Side (among other avenues). No need to drive to 95th if your bus comes every 10 mins or better news.wttw.com/2022/11/11/p...

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Park & Ride Disparities Leave South Side Red Line Commuters Without a Spot

Due to the lack of CTA-provided parking options, South Side commuters are often forced to park on streets, sometimes illegally, risking a ticket or a tow. If they choose to drive the entire commute, ...

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Sandy Johnston @sandypsj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This project is happening in large part because of perceptions that A Promise Was Made and not doing it would be Breaking Trust, with some of the poorest areas in Chicago. We need to be able to have hard conversations about when a promise is no longer the optimal solution. And that's really hard.

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Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 10/09/2026

Who needs a folding phone when we’ve got bending buses

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Right now, I’m headed to Boston— entirely on public transit. 4 bus rides, 3 train rides, 4 different agencies, nearly 12 hours and some definite tight connections. Wish me luck!

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is my once quarterly request for a Gurnee Amtrak station for the Hiawatha & Borealis

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Joining the Chicago neighborhood fray (basically everywhere I spent time as a kid lol + idk how to drive)

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Once again stressing the need for a Gurnee Amtrak stop for the Hiawatha & Borealis

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I wish people would stop bring their dogs and other pets on public transit outside of a pet carrier

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Reddit is discussing how there needs to be a transfer between the Blue & Pink lines and there are some legitimately peeved comments that this doesn’t exist, but I feel like in terms of missed CTA connections, this one is just way out there in terms of necessity

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

My version of what an ideal PATH expansion would look like! Complete with EWR AirTrain to Newark Penn & Hoboken Terminal now through-running!

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Balu Puppy @balupuppy.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

RIP Riley O’Neil.

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I’d like to see the CTA pilot weekend service for the 100. The last weekend service pilot, the 39, was successful and I think the 100 could be the same

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Step 1) this Step 2) starting on Illinois intercity bus network Step 3) ???? Step 4 (usually profit, but since this is the state, the feeling of a job well done?)

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Benefit of my not being from here is that I’m strongly against NY exceptionalism & have honed my ability to discern between fake & real challenges here. Shutting down half the subway overnight, even for a good reason like achieving SOGR, is a *real* challenge, to which this proposal isn’t a solution

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Various places to start with this, but this is like straight up politically and operationally infeasible. The land takings alone needed to expand depot capacity to actually park trains instead of leaving them on express tracks or in service would immediately snarl this. The bus operator costs too…

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I’m loving this new Metra Rock Island schedule… for the weekday lol— why are we still consigned to every two hour service for the weekend? Weekday off-peak and weekend demand is not that drastically different! I’d rather more thru-trains if it meant hourly or better service than this

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

PATH can move more people, faster and is better integrated with the transit networks on each side. $6 is such a nominal difference that this argument is basically why don’t we prop up this failing service (the ferry) vs improve the mediocre one with good bones (PATH)

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Multiple times a week, I think about how much worse DC would be if councilmembers had prerogative lol

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This somewhat reinforces my personal opinion that bus electrification is not really working out for any medium-to-large scale transit agencies, and unless we’re going to put money and effort towards ETBs, we’re better off leaving it alone until the technology improves (at least for America)

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Emily Hugan @changeurbanlife.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Discuss electric buses and how they may not pay-off in the long term. Check it out substack.com/@brickandwhe...

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The Social Cost Of Electric Buses

How our funding may not align with our climate goals.

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Return what you took from us, CTA 😭

The 11 Lincoln prior to being truncated on the CTA system map

The 11 Lincoln timetable/map to being truncated

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Check out this map I was commissioned to make for a realistic idea of Milwaukee’s transit future!

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I commissioned my friend @pyzc773.bsky.social to make a transit diagram of my realistic idea for what rapid transit could and should look like for Milwaukee and this is the final result. I’m very happy with the way it turned out and I hope it can be a model for future plans for the region.

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My current controversial bus idea for the CTA is what all our north-south crosstown routes would look if we Torontofied them and split them in half at Congress or created an overlap zone btwn Cermak for north side routes and Lake for south side routes

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

NTSB is going to own DC for like half a year after this week lol

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Despite having lived here for 9-11 (no pun intended) months so far, I am only loosely engrossed with NYC politics lol. I think keeping up with Chicago & DC from afar + loose tabs on Baltimore & Philly have put me at political capacity 😭

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Kimball Yard dispatcher returning from taking their lunch and realizing they forgot to send the trains downtown lol

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

One step closer towards being able to build the intrastate bus system Illinois needs

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Better Streets Chicago @betterstreetschicago.org · 14/04/2026

🎉 BIG NEWS: the Community Development Commission just unanimously voted to recommend that City Council purchase Chicago's intercity bus terminal! This is a HUGE step forward in our years of advocacy to save intercity bus travel in Chicago.

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I think my first Medium article is going to be on how to fix this unfortunate coincidence occurring at Montrose/Cicero

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Hi all— I've recently decided to start selling prints! This is all transit photography, from around the US (main focus on Chicago, DC & New York). Take a look here! pyzc.darkroom.com

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Darkroom

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I agree with this in principle, but in reality, too many of these communities are hypocritical, engage in “othering” & are very willing to pull the ladder up behind them. What sense is there in cherishing & embracing mem. of a 42-sty condo community that don’t want a 36-sty one going up next door?

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Like so, SO many things in our greedy, selfish, stupid, pretentious, entitled society, this is case of something meant for the disabled being so grossly abused by everyone for personal convenience that the inevitable backlash will ultimately result in life being harder for disabled people

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Lowkey it’s kind of annoying that the NICTD/SSL station and the Amtrak station aren’t in the same place. And with the Amtrak station so far outside Dyer anyhow, they should move the Amtrak station back

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Should I start a substack? Or a medium?

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ren they/them 🏳️‍⚧️ @renzaro.com · 30/03/2026

New video. It’s like when I upload a YouTube short, except this one’s long. I think you’ll be pretty shocked at just how absurd this truly law is 👀

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Right Turn On Red was a failure.

YouTube video by Ren Zaro Fitzgerald

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It’s 8:37a and while it’s my fault for not checking before I tapped in, it’s still insane that my would-be walk (11 mins) is shorter than the wait times for 1 of 6 (!!!) westbound services

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Hell, I would be happy if most people understood the difference between capital funds and operating funds.

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Still in awe that Stratton’s race ended up being JB Khan vs the CBC in the background lol

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Yeah, after thinking about it for an another day, I think the MFL might be my worse heavy rail experience in North America, and I’ve been on 17/22 of the total systems! If I count only America, I’ve been on all 14 and the MFL would still rank bottom

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Monon corridor starts 3/31 and I will be in town and riding on Friday 4/3! Let me know if you want to join along www.nictdwestlake.com

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West Lake Corridor Project

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Seeing pets on transit outside of dedicated/secured carrier devices is rapidly becoming one of my top 5 pet peeves

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Derek of WayfindDesigns @dmholmer.wayfinddesigns.com · 20/02/2026

It seems counterintuitive, but the bigger an agency is, the harder it can be to implement operational and technological change.

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