August Blake 🚸🚲🚎

[August Blake 🚸🚲🚎 @BostonUrbEx]

I love you all. 🤗

[Simply Railway @Simply_Railway]

This is Mexico’s newest interurban train: El Insurgente 🚆🇲🇽

I tried it yesterday between Santa Fe and Zinacantepec, and this is commuter rail done RIGHT!

Except for a few things, it’s an amazing new service that will definitely help reduce traffic 🚫🚗

Here’s a thread 🧵

[Euro transit & urbanism @euro_projects]

When I was in Toronto, I was surprised to see streetcar shutdowns for renovations/upgrades.

In European cities, they install temporary switches overnight, which allow trams to keep running normally. Funnily enough, they are called "Californian points" in some European languages.

[Steven Lucy @slucy]

People think Europe never let cars overwhelm their cities, but it’s been more impressive: they did let that happen, and then they undid it.

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

American traffic engineering exists to ensure that cars can drive as fast as possible everywhere, all the time.

There is nothing engineers won’t sacrifice—pedestrian and cyclist safety, urban neighborhoods, quality of life, even motorists’ lives—on the altar of Level Of Service.

[Chip Goines @chipgoines]

@gintautasd He's running.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

A slow train that takes 6 hours longer than flying is already taking 15% of the market share, and I'm supposed to believe this country has no demand for actually fast and frequent trains?

[August Blake 🚸🚲🚎 @BostonUrbEx]

@hahayesvery @ThunderWolf08 Hell yeah. And as the crews wrap up with that, get them going on extending all the way through to Atlanta.

[Chris 🦝 (READ BIO!!) @TrashPanda08x]

Construction begins on the S line today (Between Raleigh and Wakeforest) this'll eventually allow Amtrak trains running South of DC between Richmond and Raleigh to run at 110-125mph shaving almost 1 1/2 hours off DC - Charlotte travel time and massively improving frequency

[Jarjoh 🟥🚰🌇 @jarjoh]

Now that's leadership on housing. #Mapoli mayors, the playbook is right here.

Not waffling or triangulation. Not housing that meets 15 criteria, just pro-housing.

[August Blake 🚸🚲🚎 @BostonUrbEx]

@kubectlget @Markness @DogMomToIsabell @migikun12 @Pflax1 @SealBeachPolice @ChefGruel Seems soft and wasteful. People should be free to opt out of that.

[August Blake 🚸🚲🚎 @BostonUrbEx]

@Markness @kubectlget @DogMomToIsabell @migikun12 @Pflax1 @SealBeachPolice @ChefGruel Common sense like not designing society to require a 100 sq ft living room on wheels just to run an errand.

[August Blake 🚸🚲🚎 @BostonUrbEx]

Alright, who put the Prada Saugus sign on the infamous Carla's Shoes building? 🤣

[Caltrain @Caltrain]

You asked, we listened. We can easily say, we know who won this race! 🤭

Electrification coming Sept. 21st!⚡️

[Miles in Transit @milesintransit1]

WE'VE DONE IT, AN HOUR GAP!!! I haven't slept in a bed in 30 hours. This is obscene. It's driving me crazy that if these were just normal, still quite clean hybrid buses, it'd be BETTER for the environment because it'd run on time and people wouldn't be leaving for Ubers.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

STUDY: “Pretty remarkable.”
A new study found that e-bike rebates led to a surge in ownership, with 60% of purchasers being entirely new to cycling. Those who took part also reduced their weekly vehicle travel by 48km on average, a decrease of 30-40%. https://t.co/fbPhzzJf30

[RAIL Magazine @RAILMag]

Neglected Mexico 🇲🇽 in my intercity rail positivity post the other day: in ~1 year, MEX has gone from a single but very good regional line (Tren Suburbano) to adding Tren interoceanico & partial launch of Tren Maya & Tren Interurbano after decades of barren passenger rail options

[August Blake 🚸🚲🚎 @BostonUrbEx]

First thunderstorm of the year. ⚡️😍

[August Blake 🚸🚲🚎 @BostonUrbEx]

@Ted4P ☝️🤓 Actually window is always best

[August Blake 🚸🚲🚎 @BostonUrbEx]

@ChristoSilvia @MilesPerHoward They should, but if they can get people unrepresentative of the city onto the Council, then they never will. There needs to be a big effort to replace these people and get better people on the Council.

[August Blake 🚸🚲🚎 @BostonUrbEx]

HOAs would be way cooler if the fees maintained a neighborhood garage fully stocked with a variety of power tools, instead of everyone owning their own table saws or angle grinders that barely get used.