Martin Gombert

Public transit professional. Passionate about old trains, planes, and history in general.

[Martin Gombert @MartinMagla]

@humantransit The data centers should purchase the water from the farmers when it exceeds the profit they’re making from producing almonds.

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

New York: Not sure the union is winning here.

[Martin Gombert @MartinMagla]

@Sammy_Roth I think I’m one of a few people that’s ridden Autopia and has dealt with CARB😂.

I’m surprised Disney staff didn’t think about compliance issues with those engines.

Hopefully CARB doesn’t go after the steam locomotive at Knotts Berry Farm!

[Martin Gombert @MartinMagla]

@newbeverly Like Blazing Saddles, you couldn’t make this film today!

[Trains Magazine @TrainsMagazine]

LA’s Metrolink to continue reduced operations https://t.co/cmzOHtcPQh

[Manny Randhawa @MannyOnMLB]

Shohei Ohtani meets with a 100-year-old Japanese woman who survived the atomic bomb in Nagasaki. Amazing moment at Coors Field.

[Jon Ostrower @jonostrower]

SPLASHDOWN!

[Martin Gombert @MartinMagla]

@humantransit Lots of data for MUNI at https://t.co/URm8jMDDKP but no productivity data.

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

Good move. The only way to redeem California high speed rail is to get some kind of service running through to the big cities as soon as possible.

[Will Guisbond @willguisbond]

New: Decades of aircraft and ground vehicle near misses at LGA preceded fatal crash, public safety databases show (via @theaircurrent -- no paywall): https://t.co/BTLojnVEPZ

[Martin Gombert @MartinMagla]

@sentdefender Let’s go back to 1955. The USAF put a reactor in a B-36 and it ran for 89 hours in flight.

https://t.co/tD2PKtI06y

[Martin Gombert @MartinMagla]

@humantransit @jahorne Let’s talk at the next APTA meeting.

[Martin Gombert @MartinMagla]

@humantransit @jahorne Agree to a point. Our upscale suburban area uses a local taxi company (yes, there are still taxis around) so we aren’t dealing with a lot of fixed costs.

[Rancho Palos Verdes @CityofRPV]

PV Transit will again offer free bus service transportation on the Peninsula on New Year’s Eve. This service will be provided from 6 pm on Dec 31 to 1:30 am on Jan 1. Reservation requests may be made in advance by calling 310-544-3710.

➡️ Info: https://t.co/XMs1MIBG1g

[Trains Magazine @TrainsMagazine]

California high speed project issues request for proposals for track construction https://t.co/ZATpi3PzQ6

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

Thankful for an account that posts pictures of people reading books on the Buenos Aires subway.

[Martin Gombert @MartinMagla]

@humantransit In 2019 I got a tour of the Boring Company’s test “track” in Hawthorne. We traveled the tube in regular Teslas. The young engineers told me they were planning on running small vans built on the Tesla platform. Looks like these vehicles (buses?!) are still under design.😉

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

Never assume that only leftists care about trains.