Allison Korinek

Learning and Training Specialist @ridertd. Alumna @nyuhistory @frenchstudiesny @riceuniversity. She/her.

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

I know that many Americans don’t feel safe on big-city transit, but I also know that many people are not used to normal urban diversity and misread it as danger. This vignette is a nice explanation of how actual urban people navigate transit and its hassles without fear. 1/

[Kristi Yamaguccimane @TheWapplehouse]

90’s COUNTRY IS FUCKING BACK

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“The United States, with its enormous highways, sprawling suburbs and neglected public transport systems, is one of the most car-dependent countries in the world. But this arrangement of obligatory driving is making many Americans actively unhappy, new research has found.” Via @guardian
https://t.co/bjKziuchnI

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

'It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.' — Mayor of Pontevedra (re-elected 6 times) Via @fietsprofessor

[Alyssa 🖤 @a_lil_bow]

Accidentally radicalized myself by asking questions and reading a lot

[vivi @mooncatvivi]

if we were both cats i’d share my sun spot with you

[Nostos @NostosLit]

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[Meg Reid @meg_it_happen]

but that was my emotional support daylight

[hellogan1 @gebrauchsmusik]

And lead us not into penn station

[frye @___frye]

the sixth love language is navigating bureaucracy for someone

[Liz @lizdoesfilm]

@Doug_Pembry We must Ask Jeeves to save the planet

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up."

Love anyway https://t.co/3E4FhntaTj

[The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka]

Dearest, with this better stationery let us also start a better life.

Franz Kafka, 1912.

[Allison Korinek @arkorinek]

It's working 🤩

[Allison Korinek @arkorinek]

"A transit system that can be safe, reliable, and universally accessible. The proof is in the numbers: Fare-free service improved public transit by virtually all measures." Yes, this.
https://t.co/Pk1Q0A9XCu

[Greater Denver Transit @GreatDenTransit]

We wholeheartedly condemn the placement of racist signs at bus stops in Denver. There is no place for hate on our transit system.

If you see any racist signs, here’s how to report them to @RideRTD with the 5-digit bus stop number: https://t.co/TWSV1iACg4

[Allison Korinek @arkorinek]

"[The U.S. highway network] has become a monument to an auto-centric lifestyle that fouls the air and depletes the public coffers. Neither the country nor the planet can afford to keep expanding it." @davidzipper via @slate
https://t.co/hr39JEv5vW

[Nathaniel Minor @nbminor]

"yeah boss i'm working"

*actually is reading this long /r/denver ama with a traffic engineer*

https://t.co/QBw5B4Kr5o

[Back in Time West London @OldLondonW14]

The London Transport posters for Wimbledon are fabulous in the 1930s

[Allison Korinek @arkorinek]

@cjdenial I forget where I read it, but Robert Caro's refusal to include his wife as a co-author despite her work on every stage of the manuscript has infuriated me for YEARS. One example of the integral role she clearly played: https://t.co/Ram8EbOKgl