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Ricky Leong

@rickyleong.com
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🖖 🚇 🚌 📻 📸 Ugly bag of mostly water. He/him. Random musings about such varied subjects as photography, urban planning, transit/transportation, travel, Star Trek, radio and more. My professional alter ego is @rickyleongyyc.bsky.social

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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 03/08/2026
this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 03/08/2026
REM near the Exo yard and Via’s Montreal Maintenance Centre really is foamer central.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 29/07/2026
This also applies in Calgary, to a point. Many people love mid-rises … as long as they are somewhere else in the city.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 28/07/2026
Yes to this entire thread 👇
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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
All over the transit industry, zero-emission bus mandates, like those of California, are colliding with Buy America requirements that deny US transit agencies access to a competitive bus market. The result is a wave of lousy buses that are impacting service. 1/ nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/07/27/b...
nyc.streetsblog.org
Battery Drain: MTA Trims New Flyer Electric Bus Order Amid Tech Growing Pains - Streetsblog New York City
The MTA will buy 85 fewer electric buses as its manufacturer tries to sort out a way to keep them in service without breaking down.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 27/07/2026
@64streetcar.bsky.social I wonder if SEPTA is getting all of Exo’s Comet cars? If so, the ones in the front row are eventually headed your way!
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 23/07/2026
My buddy at work got to interview Anson Mount ahead of the launch of Season 4 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: calgaryherald.com/entertainmen...
calgaryherald.com
To have boldly gone: Anson Mount talks Season 4 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Production wrapped on the fourth and fifth seasons. While fans have 16 episodes to look forward to, Mount's journey has come to an end.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 22/07/2026
@milesintransit.com 👀
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 10/05/2026
Evidence for previous message #calgary #yyc
Sunset in Calgary
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 10/05/2026
Someone in the vicinity of Centre Street and Bow River Pathway could be heard exclaiming “It’s a beautiful fucking day!” Hard to argue. #calgary #yyc
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 25/04/2026
The legendary William Shatner regales the audience at Calgary Expo.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 25/04/2026
Elijah Wood, speaking at Calgary Expo, opens door to possibility that a hot dog is more like a taco than a sandwich but strongly urges it be given its own food category.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 16/03/2026
Look forward to more of these getting rolled out on Calgary Transit!
Calgary Transit bus live information screen
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 23/02/2026
TTC Line 5 👌 #Toronto #transit
TTC Line 5, light rail vehicle standing at Eglinton StationTTC Line 5, light rail vehicle standing at Forest Hill StationTTC Line 5, public art at Eglinton Station
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 18/02/2026
“Blue. Blue. Blue.” — Lt. Cmdr. Data
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 17/02/2026
Happy Year of the Horse!
Lunar New Year decorations at Montreal Eaton Centre
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 16/02/2026
Re-cycling. #art #streetart
Street art and blue bins in Saint-Lambert, Quebec.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 12/02/2026
REM foamer view 😁
REM Station Deux-Montagnes
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Calgary Transit @calgarytransit.com · 02/02/2026
We’ve arrived on Bluesky! No fare needed, just follow along for service updates, tips, and a peek at how we keep Calgary moving. #CTRiders
A red LRT train arriving at a station platform
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 01/01/2026
Continually resisting the urge to wipe my glasses! #calgary #yyc #fog
Foggy weather at Downtown West-Kerby CTrain station
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 31/12/2025
Huh, I am now in possession of a transit relic. Goodbye, MetroCard!
MTA MetroCard
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 27/12/2025
If you want to truly own books/music/TV/film/etc., buy physical media, perhaps purchased from a local retailer, if feasible.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 25/12/2025
The phone says it’s -10C outside but it feels like -30C. You have been warned! (Seems it’s much warmer immediately west of Calgary …)
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas!
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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Picard management tip: Think.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
What does it take to move 1000 people? Smart infrastructure supporting choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money etc). Mobility in cities is about space. Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
Graphic asking “What does it take to move 1000 people? One linked train with four cars, 15 buses, or 625 cars requiring over 5 acres of parking.”
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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Is your transit agency "succeeding"? It depends on the definition of success, and not everyone agrees on that. Here's my timeless article on this, just now updated a bit. humantransit.org/2018/02/basi...
humantransit.org
Basics: The Ridership - Coverage Tradeoff — Human Transit
Is your transit agency succeeding?  It depends on what it’s trying to do, and most transit agencies haven’t been given clear direction about what they should be trying to do.  Different people have di...
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 27/09/2025
It took a few days of near-obsessive listening during non-work hours … but I'm finally caught up with @shieldpodulation.bsky.social
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 07/04/2025
Watch this now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7-e...
youtube.com
These Ugly Big Box Stores are Literally Bankrupting Cities
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 06/04/2025
Choices!
Supertrain 2025 Olympic Oval Calgary
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 25/03/2025
The inverse is also true: Calgary’s sprawl (and some transit-unfriendly suburban neighbourhood design) makes excellent public transit an expensive proposition, from an operational standpoint.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
For 60 years, car advertising has programmed us that driving is freedom, that cars are how we get around, that driving — even reckless driving —is a symbol of status & power. But what if a car marketing vet used his skills to highlight the insanity of car culture? sf.streetsblog.org/2020/11/05/r...
“If children walked to school in our bike lanes, would paint still be enough protection?”“just be grateful you got a bike-lane.” (Kid on bike in painted bike-lane next to massive truck creeping over the painted line)
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 15/03/2025
Reuters: Voice of America staff put on leave after Trump orders cuts www.reuters.com/business/med...
reuters.com
Trump signs order to gut Voice of America, other agencies
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at gutting the parent of U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America and six other federal agencies, his administration's latest step to shrink bureaucracy.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 06/03/2025
Leaving this here for no particular reason 🇨🇦 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...
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We Are Canadian
YouTube video by Jeff Douglas
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 22/02/2025
[…] Les déboires du REM produisent déjà un effet pervers : ils découragent des résidants de la Rive-Sud d’utiliser le transport collectif. Plusieurs, atteints d’une écœurantite aiguë, sont retournés à leurs vieilles habitudes automobiles. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...
lapresse.ca
Ras-le-bol du REM !
« Vouloir » et « pouvoir » sont deux choses bien différentes avec le Réseau express métropolitain (REM).
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 21/02/2025
Produced from extensive research: this graph shows volume over time of positive comments about Connor McDavid from Calgary Flames fans
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 21/02/2025
Exhale.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 20/02/2025
Titulaire de la Chaire Mobilité à Polytechnique Montréal, Catherine Morency appuie totalement cette idée. « Franchement, les concurrents du REM, ce ne sont pas les lignes de bus, ce sont les cinq ponts à côté », commente-t-elle. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/g...
lapresse.ca
Réseau express métropolitain | « Ça prend de grosses améliorations »
Le Réseau express métropolitain (REM) n’a plus d’excuses et doit offrir un service de meilleure qualité rapidement, plaident des experts et des regroupements d’usagers. Devant ce ras-le-bol, le gouver...
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Shame on every "journalist" writing shit like this. Shame.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 14/02/2025
Gare Saint-Lambert
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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Once you recognize that widening roads always leads to more congestion, the case for (de)congestion pricing + transit investment is obvious. But if you need a study, here's a study: ssti.us/2025/02/03/c...
ssti.us
Congestion pricing could be the only path to managing gridlock
Transportation agencies in the U.S. spend billions of dollars each year expanding highways to ease gridlock. Yet commute times have increased 20% over the last 50 years and traffic congestion is still...
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 09/02/2025
One of many underground passageways in Montreal.
Lights illuminating the RESO Montréal underground passageway
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 04/02/2025
How about a timeline cleanse? Here’s a beautiful mural at rue Sherbrooke and boulevard Décarie in Montreal. flic.kr/p/2qJVRwV
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Raconte-moi une histoire
Montréal. (février 2025)
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 04/02/2025
I’ve seen these popping up along Centre Street North in Calgary the last couple of times I’ve walked around there.
Pedestrian and road safety sticker
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Emma Cardinal-Sirois @emmacardinal.com · 02/02/2025
de plus, il n'existe pas d'horaire pour les navettes d'autobus du rtl et de la @stminfo.bsky.social. seule la fréquence des navettes est publiée en ligne. attendre 10 à 30 min dans le froid hivernal, ce n'est pas idéal. publier les horaires améliorerait l'expérience clientèle significativement
capture d'écran du site web du rem de la page qui affiche les fréquences des navettes d'autobus.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 02/02/2025
Just gonna leave this here for no particular reason … youtu.be/PegYJwsN4F4?...
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Vive la Canadienne (Quick March of the Royal 22e Régiment)
YouTube video by Commonwealth Marches
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 30/01/2025
“(Brampton) is possibly Canada’s biggest public transit success story of the last decade, and the new light rail has nothing to do with it. Instead, it’s all about high quality suburban buses.”
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 29/01/2025
And here I go, helping to make this chart reflective of reality.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 29/01/2025
Happy Lunar New Year!
Decorative lanterns hung in Montreal’s Chinatown to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 28/01/2025
Found this screen capture of @kertrats.bsky.social and @brandiwine.bsky.social in my album … can’t remember why I even have it but if I had to guess, it was probably a hilarious final image frozen on my screen after an amazing stream! 🖖
Still image from video, screen captured from “The Unready Room”, a YouTube show covering Star Trek.
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