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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 15/10/2026

Delayed InnoTrans post— Kid: I wanna visit Caltrain! Mom: We have Caltrain at home. Caltrain at home: (Kid: Mom, you're *Austrian!?*)

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 14/10/2026

Yes. Wait, what do you mean that's a different tower!?

New York State Pavilion towers from the 1964 World's Fair

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 13/10/2026

For the first time since I started coming up here, the construction fence is finally down outside Charlottetown's Province House.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 13/10/2026

"Why doesn't the city have enough grocery stores?"

What the zoning doesn’t allow is a grocery store. To add a supermarket of roughly 10,000 square feet and a small café, the developer needs a commercial overlay. Adding one takes a full trip through ULURP (the community board, the borough president, the commission and the City Council), about seven months in all. So far, nobody has argued against the store, and HPD, the city housing agency financing the project, wants supermarkets near the buildings it funds. It’s the least controversial part of the project, and the only part that needs a vote.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 12/10/2026

The conclusion. For those who don't know, gauntlet tracks are two sets of tracks that interlace and share a single bed so they can run very close together. AFAIK, this is possible thanks to being able to drive line of sight. A clever solution! (Thanks to @82streetcar.bsky.social for showing me!)

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 12/10/2026

Something for your (various North American) holiday Monday: In Amsterdam, sometimes trams narrow down to a single "lane" using gauntlet tracks so they can travel down narrow and busy streets. Fun to watch!

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 10/10/2026

I was watching a video about driving through the deserts of California the other day and come across this. How is this bike lane appropriate for a four lane rural highway? maps.app.goo.gl/2JtLVTaexYxE...

Google Street view of adding a "bike lane" to a four lane rural highway

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 10/10/2026

Or at least, so I would have argued strongly a few years ago. Modern low-floor vehicles have actually really gotten rid of much of the gap.

Low floor tram with basically no wheel set intrusion

Ikea-ass low floor tram with basically no wheel set intrusion

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 09/10/2026

Why you don't get traffic engineers to paint lanes on your pedestrian and bicycle bridge, Starlight Park edition:

Overly complicated bike and pedestrian markings on a ped & bike bridge that no one will follow

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 07/10/2026

You know, I never quite groked how similar the 2 euro coin and the Canadian toonie are until playing with them in my hand just now. Nearly the same size, very similar bimetallic design.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 07/10/2026

Behold, an Italian-designed solution in New York!

Panorama at the Pier Luigi Nervi-designed GWB Bus Station

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 06/10/2026

Best office. If your newfound privileges allow you to head up to the glass catwalks in the windows, take it. They are absolutely amazing to experience.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 06/10/2026

So, I left a review for the giant fox in Rotterdam. And no, Google Maps, I cannot add more detail. I think my review summed it up perfectly. 5 stars, fox, no notes.

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Bospoldervos - Florentijn Hofman
Fox!
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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 04/10/2026

You may not like it, but this is what peak North American Railroading looks like.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 30/09/2026

Behold, the most orderly city possible—indeed, a city as diagram—all created before zoning.

Maps from "100 Years of Land Values in Chicago"

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 30/09/2026

Two days ago, I was in Rotterdam with @82streetcar.bsky.social. Today, I'm in Charlottetown, and what do I come across but a cruise ship registered in Rotterdam. Both a small and large world at the same time.

The Zuiderdam cruise ship out of Rotterdam

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 29/09/2026

I almost forgot: at least from this Haarlem you can get a train straight to Flushing...

Sign showing a train to Vlissingen on the Haarlem Centraal platform

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 29/09/2026

Also, sometimes you just get lucky with photos.

CN Tower through the window of a landing plane

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 29/09/2026

How could anyone hate these beautiful babies?

Dutch train with an elevated cab so that, when coupled, passengers can walk through.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 29/09/2026

Speaking of, Europe seems to love these inclined travelators. Me, not so much.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 29/09/2026

Madness-inducing at Schipol if you try to sit by a travelator: this plays every 5-10 seconds.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 29/09/2026

Dutch coffee lids are weird. You think they are upside down, but that's just how they go. Recyclable, however.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 29/09/2026

Man, after a few days of riding the Dutch railway network, I'm spoiled. Universal tap in / tap out with contactless payment, electrified with fast speeds and fast acceleration, and hop on frequent train services travelling all over the country. If only the Northeast Corridor worked like this!

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 28/09/2026

Walking through Amsterdam, I was at first confused about what these structures were... until I saw a car pull into one. It's an automated underground parking garage. I knew these existed, but had never seen them before. Very cool in a sci-fi/engineering way, but not exactly a great use of money.

A glass structure on a sidewalk/slow street area with a metal pad inside.

Car on the elevator / storage pad in the glass box

User control screen for the underground parking.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 27/09/2026

I'm not saying I went to Rotterdam just to visit this fox... But I'm also *not* saying I didn't go to Rotterdam just to visit this fox 😁🦊

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 27/09/2026

(video compression does this no favors, have a photo)

Dutch countryside and highway interchange in the distance

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 27/09/2026

I guess you could say that these are my... *puts on sunglasses* Hollandaise.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 27/09/2026

You could never guess what country I'm in. Nope, no way to tell.

A bike path with windmills in the background

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 26/09/2026

You better believe we did! Went with a colleague & friend and although we only had around 1.5 hours, we motored through as much as we could! (Mostly trains)

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