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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 12h

Extreme FOMO rn lol (also, I just miss Chicago)

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hey, at least it’s mot just the trolley network— Memphis’s entire transit system hasn’t fully functioned in a decade!

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is my beef— there’s so much green space right across the street from the Gardens, I don’t see any reasonable obstacle that couldn’t have the train station here, as part of the community and not forced short car rides, unnecessary bus transfers and crossing 130th

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PYZC - A. Philip Railroad @pyzc773.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Honestly, looking at the map, I think 130th is unfortunately going to be pretty sorry as a bus terminal. I only see the 34, 353 & 358 going there, sans any new routes

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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

Building anything other than huge housing development with ground floor retail (like a supermarket!) would be a huge mistake.

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

Simultaneously largest and most feasible Promise™️ + rail extensions are Sexy™️ $1.1b into improving 95th’s feeder bus network, improving RID/MED frequencies & fare parity within city limits would not have garnered nearly as much traction or praise, despite it being a much better use of funds

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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

Oh, sorry, travel— 147 to Michigan/Randolph, switch to MED

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

Oh man, have fun! I miss APTA, especially since I effectively can’t go to conferences anymore w/o paying out of pocket

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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

Yeah, they want an infill transfer there. Some people have said to just walk, which I think is a little blasé, but more importantly, anyone who needs to make that transfer is likely someone who’s refuses to take the bus for no good reason and as such, I’m not inclined to cater to them in this way

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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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His loss is being felt deeply across the department, and he will be greatly missed.
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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 · 04/06/2026

Electrification to Patchouge or Oyster Bay

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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

A Schedule straight up nukes the QBL instead of running all local or all express, only taking 2/4 tracks out at a time. Not saying th way MTA address maintenance backlogs is the most effective now, but this feels like when all you have is a hammer…

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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 agree but I’m not sure that this is an equipment thing— they have the trainsets & operators to do this service on the weekday. I can’t imagine that’s the limitation that prevents hourly weekend service

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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...

substack.com

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 · 29/04/2026

+1 for this— I went during APTA a few years back and it was pretty nice!

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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

Yes, a Cicero-Montrose-Kostner-Irving Park loop would be likely be easiest on paper, but still has a few logistical issues. Chief one is suitable layover; unlike with say, 47th Red, there isn’t a dedicated space at Montrose Blue, so any bus would just be laying over in the travel lane

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