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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 1h

I guess I'm not above shitposting sometimes

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 1h

Unfortunately, plans for the Baltimore Metro never really came to fruition.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 1h

If there is one thing that seems clear about Cubic, it's that they hate everyone equally.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 1h

something something paving the way to join the eurozone something something

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 1h

Some of my friends just store the questions and generated PW answers in their PW manager. Not exactly a great solution, but it's something, I guess? (ALSO LET ME USE AN AUTHENTICATOR APP INSTEAD OF SMS FFS!!! </soapbox>)

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 1h

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 · 1h

In all seriousness, that's an *incredible* amount of ventilation for a bus station that is open... What are we protecting against here, exactly?

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 1h

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 · 20h

Very much agreed. Ability to have retail in most places, with a lot of it concentrated on the primary market streets.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 20h

The first major subway change that happened when I was a riding adult(ish) was the opening of the south side of the Manhattan Bridge and closure of the North Side. All the sudden, the Broadway BMT was where it was at! Bring back the <Q>!

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 20h

When I'm in Canada, Bluesky often gets confused and thinks I'm in Texas and wants age verification. Normally giving geo-access fixes it but it's weird.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 20h

I know some get carried away with the idea of activation, and there has been pushback against eg zoning for ground level retail in multifamily housing. I get it, and not every street can or should be a shopping street. But you only need to go to a few places like this to understand the problem.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 21h

HOW COME THIS COLLECTION OF DISPARATE PHENOMENA I HAVE REIFIED IS NOT ABLE TO ANSWER A SIMPLE QUESTION!? CHECKMATE AND CASE CLOSED!!!

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 06/10/2026

I'm trying a new thing: Automatically posting updates when new transit lines open around the world. Follow @thetransportpolitic.com if you want to know when new transit lines open around the world.

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

😅 Sadly, time was limited. Somehow, I managed to see parts of Leiden, Rotterdam, Den Haag, and Amsterdam in two days. My legs are still feeling it. All credit to NS.

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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.

Longer reviews get more attention.
Can you add more detail?
Bospoldervos - Florentijn Hofman
Fox!
Edit your review

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 05/10/2026

I love this! Our transit agencies could all use a bit of whimsy.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 05/10/2026

Of course, if I want to call it that, it would actually need to have trains for New Jersey, we can't just expect people to transfer at Heraldplatz.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 05/10/2026

I guess it's better than my brain getting stuck on German. Can I start calling it "Großartig Zentralbahnhof?"

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 05/10/2026

I spend three days in the Netherlands last week and my brain has decided that of course the correct name for a station is "Centraal"...

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 05/10/2026

"Ultimately, the new Penn Station will be built — the president is going to see to it... We are on track to deliver with or without [the MTA] and we’d like them to share in the glory." That is one way to phrase things from Andy Byford, I suppose... www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/05/t...

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The MTA is blocking a new Penn Station

Since taking on the Penn Station Transformation Project, I’ve spoken with thousands of New Yorkers and visitors. People are quick to point out the dated station’s obvious shortcomings: the narrow and ...

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 05/10/2026

Doing Anything but Stringing Up Wires, now for over 50 years!

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 05/10/2026

The official way of paying for things on the DB app with non-EU credit cards is to use PayPal. No, I'm not kidding.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 04/10/2026

Random thought: even for believers in ultra-local, neighborhood-level democracy, CBDs are always a weird exception. After all, as Whyte reminds us, where you put your head down doesn't always represent where you spend most of your time.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 04/10/2026

Small things can make travelling feel much nicer.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 04/10/2026

So good! Took me a moment to grok what it was meant to do, but once I got it, it was so nice. Click on the phone, the light goes from green to red, all is done. Way it should be.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 04/10/2026

This was a large part of Robert Moses's success. He had the capacity through TBTA revenue to keep teams planning projects for the future. Thus, when money was available (as it became post-Depression), guess who was ready with a plan?

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 04/10/2026

Of course, I'm mostly worried about Amtrak being able to keep it functioning. They have not historically been great at that, and while I understand the reasons, they only go so far: they compete in the same market today. This tech shouldn't be beyond them, but I'm not hopeful & I don't like that.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 04/10/2026

It's great seeing things like this start to filter in. Having just rode a few trips on Deutsche Bahn, I loved that seat reservations were shown on the screens. Even better, if your ticket was on the app, you could self check in at your seat and not even have to interface with the conductor.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 04/10/2026

(When I was an impressionable teenager, I thought this might actually be the future. Have pity for me).

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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 · 04/10/2026

Kinda curious where Winnipeg's system falls on the Toronto/Montreal <- Minneapolis <- Houston sky/subway ranking system I literally just made up

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 04/10/2026

Man, the Backrooms would be less creepy if they were more Aesthetic like that.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 04/10/2026

People say the US can't innovate in rail anymore, but you just wait until we come out with the world's first diesel-powered maglev.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 03/10/2026

Sipping red wine, eating smoked meat sandwiches, and having a great time with 3,000 of my closest friends inside a concrete sarcophagus. What's not to love?

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 03/10/2026

Worst place I've ever seen a baseball game (laudatory)

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 03/10/2026

Would be a hell of a tabloid headline for a hypothetical francophone New York.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 03/10/2026

I'd be right there with you. Well, if done for the right reasons. Done for the wrong reasons, it's less fun... bsky.app/profile/thef...

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 03/10/2026

I grew up in a house with a nicely sized front yard, and a large backyard. I think I can count on one hand the number of memories I have of actually doing anything in the front yard. And one of those are needing to water it.

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