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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 · 01/08/2026
There are a startling number of people who believe a family cannot properly raise children without a large private yard surrounded by a white picket fence (or something to this effect).
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 29/07/2026
🤔
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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 · 24/07/2026
I was just going to say …
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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 · 07/07/2026
My condolences, Jörg, very sorry for your loss.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 26/05/2026
Sometimes, if it’s early on in the buildup, even a puff of compressed air will do the trick.
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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 · 18/03/2026
The first time I attempted to order an all-dressed pizza in Western Canada, I was met with a blank stare.
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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 · 16/03/2026
I wonder if there was a detour or something at the time? The airport bus is supposed to stop at René-Levesque and Mansfield, which is close to the exits on the northwest corner of Gare Centrale.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 01/03/2026
Oh, I misunderstood what you meant! That is kinda wild 😅
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 01/03/2026
They must have some kind of white-label agreement. Calgary Transit used to promote a reskinned version of Transit App in this way. When Transit received a major revision a few years ago, Calgary gave up on that and straight-up told riders to switch the new version of the OG Transit App.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 23/02/2026
I’m curious how this will change with the REM offering an alternative for trips to the city centre. I can confirm from recent experience the 165 something of a school bus during the pm rush, however!
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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 · 22/02/2026
You and me both
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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 · 14/02/2026
I have a black microfibre cloth that came with an older MacBook when I bought it way back when … and wouldn't you know how surprised I was about all the pigmentation that leeched out the first time I hand-washed it!
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 12/02/2026
REM foamer view 😁
REM Station Deux-Montagnes
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 08/02/2026
When you make it to Calgary, it would be my pleasure to show you around!
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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 · 31/01/2026
Amazing.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 18/01/2026
Have you noticed how the only two Lanthanites we’ve met both have palatial quarters? 😆
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 14/01/2026
I'm sure you are well take care of but *hug* anyway. Bon courage.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 14/01/2026
So … my day job is being a journalist. The trouble isn't the truth-telling but rather to get people to *see* said truth-telling. The influence of our own platforms has diminished with the decline of print/broadcasting and online distribution remains heavily algorithm-driven. This is the conundrum.
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 08/01/2026
You are learning what I have noticed doing my job: it seems a lot of folks don’t think to look at what you’ve written before to get a broad sense of your point of view.
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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 · 30/12/2025
Were you around for the 1998 ice storm? 😅
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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 · 26/12/2025
Discount chocolate + reward point redemption = post-Christmas indulgence
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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
Also: Merry Christmas!
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 25/12/2025
I was on the bus earlier today so I could deliver some gifts and visit a little with friends …
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas!
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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 22/12/2025
I’m sorry you had to experience that.
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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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Ricky Leong @rickyleong.com · 19/12/2025
Amazing!
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