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[Rail Passengers Association @RailPassengers]

Starting next Monday (11/16), passengers of Connecticut's Hartford Line will have more options for getting around.

https://t.co/BP8zfLUTiV

[Trashed Panda @RailroadRaccoon]

Amtrak between Columbia & Savannah takes 2:40, driving takes around 2:30-3hrs. There's only one round trip between the cities & it's coming from Chicago or Miami

With minimal upgrades you could shave 20+ minutes & run 4+ round trips daily. Utilize existing corridors!!!!!! 🗣️ 🗣️

[Rail Passengers Association @RailPassengers]

Amtrak is converting a series of long-dormant mail platforms, through federal and local funding, into Union Station's first ADA-level boarding platforms, including a new climate-controlled waiting room and bathrooms.

https://t.co/7gQaquWG9K

[GovTech Research @GovTechResearch]

Have US environmental reviews become a costly, self service bureaucratic, consultant driven extractive eco-system that is used to block progress?

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

While we’re talking about much-needed environmental review reform: California High-Speed Rail had to study how running service on existing tracks between SF and San Jose would affect anchovies, sardines, mackerel, and market squid. The rail line has existed since the 1860s.

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

Happy 25th birthday to OV-fiets, the blue-and-yellow miracle that changed how the Dutch move!

It doesn’t just get people from the station to their destination. It makes the whole trip possible: More train travel. More biking. Less driving, A more accessible and prosperous place.

[Ian Griffiths @icgee]

We passed RTM, but folks in the Bay Area want transit to do more than just survive - we deserve a world-class system.

⬇️ My @sfchronicle op-ed highlights two urgently needed shifts: swiss-style service-led network planning & and fixing chronically high transit project costs.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

It’s been a week of Blexas and we already are talking about light rail connecting Austin’s Airport!

[Midwest Passenger Rail Association @MidwesternPRA]

Amtrak has begun construction on their $112mil expansion of the platforms at Chicago Union Station, re-activating currently dissued platforms for more capacity along with an improved concourse!

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

We’ve secured the government’s backing for the long-awaited Bakerloo line extension all the way to Lewisham - and now we’ve got options for funding it.

A powerful example of government and City Hall working together to invest in the major infrastructure projects London needs to support jobs, growth and prosperity for decades to come.

https://t.co/H5Rd1KAvGT

[GovTech Research @GovTechResearch]

Do you want more business from the UK Public sector?

[Tussell @Tussell_UK]

£52.9bn of government contracts held by the Strategic Suppliers expire by 2031. Which ones are in your sector, and who holds them now? Full rankings, sector breakdowns and expiring contracts in the free 36-page Strategic Suppliers Report 2026.

[Evan Schultheis @EvanSchultheis]

With NC Dems taking control of the house and maybe tie-ing the senate, it's time to repeal the 10% limit on NCDOT transit funding.

25% Cars, 25% Buses, and 50% Rail should be the new formula.

Build it all. Resurrect the Durham Light Rail. High Speed Rail to Georgia and DC.

[GovTech Research @GovTechResearch]

This is what happens when you prioritise people over cars, you get retail economic growth.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

The numbers are in: footfall *and* spending are up on Oxford Street.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

The most impactful project New England could build is the North-South Rail Link. Right now there’s a gap between North and South Stations in Boston, and connecting them with 2.8 miles of tunnel would drastically change how the MBTA and Amtrak would operate.

[Lindsay Loves Cities @LindsayJS]

Vision-Based Planning is when the rules follow the vision. Not: the rules create awful buildings with low quality units with massive carbon demand to cool the idiotic design (spend 2 days in a glass tower in Vancouver that is not built for their summers and you will be a believer in passive design)

[Chicago 2100 Urbanism @Chicago2100]

Parking minimums are just mandatory housing for cars

[createstreets @createstreets]

The point about beautiful places and buildings is never that they MUST be classical or vernacular or Gothic or Art Deco but that patterns of harmonious ornament, coherent complexity, colour, detail, biomorphic (i.e. natural) forms etc are consistently more popular with more people

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

Design for new apartments in Zurich, by Studio Esch Rickenbacher Architektur

As is often the case, each core (stair and elevator) serve two homes per floor. That means all apartments are dual aspect, with great access to light and cross ventilation. Plan is good (not perfect!)

[West=On=Track @WestOnTrackIRL]

Great news as platform extensions in all stations between #limerick & #galway approach construction. This will allow the use of 6 piece intercity trains providing more capacity on the heaving #westernrailcorridor @Limerick_ie @moranjohna1 @galwaytourism @galwayad @LimerickChamber

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

I'm a huge advocate for urban greenery. Paris has transformed the once concrete-covered Place de Catalogne into a green oasis by planting 470 trees. With summer temperatures regularly reaching 35°C, more shade and less concrete is exactly what cities need. A wonderful transformation! Your city can do the same by the way. Demand action!

[GovTech Research @GovTechResearch]

Can California reconstruct
its Railway system?

[Chicago 2100 Urbanism @Chicago2100]

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