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OSCAR #Transport

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...I'm not sure if it will end up happening, but spending a lot of time in Pittsburgh I thought it was interesting that the Pittsburgh to Chicago commute seems to be serving as a test grounds for this technology.

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#transportgeogmcgill https://t.co/C9eO0WEEz4
In my adopted hometown of Pittsburgh, there is a proposed hyperloop system that can get people to Chicago (460 miles, 7+ hour drive) in one hour in special pods. This mode of transport was first proposed by Elon Musk and Tesla...

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...while it is terrible what happened, I wonder how necessary people feel this is. Obviously a barrier
shouldn't really have any negative effects on people so I guess there's not many downsides doing it.

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#transportgeogmcgill https://t.co/d4GwROt8Gq
In a similar vain to my last thread, in Chicago someone was pushed onto the subway tracks in the path of an upcoming train. This has prompted outcry for the CTA to implement barriers between the platform and tracks,...

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...or if there will be long-term consequences for this event.

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#transportgeogmcgill https://t.co/sd7TkZtxyD
The aftermath of the Brooklyn subway shooting has made transit systems across the world announce they are ramping up on security and patrols. I wonder if this will be just something for the short-term until people cool off and...

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...transportation planners, and it looks like this is a major step with regards to that.

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#transportgeogmcgill https://t.co/jn0LBdFE1I
I'm not sure if the new REM de l'est in Montreal will ever look like it does here in the rendering, but it would kind of cool if it did. Connecting the eastern part of the island to downtown has long been a priority of Montreal urban..

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#transportgeogmcgill https://t.co/DOb3vFejnH
The Montreal métro infrastructure is modernizing with "computer-based interlocking systems." This article is short and vague. What could it mean?

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#transportgeogmcgill https://t.co/7u8hTAUutT
Fascinating read on "urban air mobility", which may be a lucrative mode of urban transport in the near future. Are we really that close to the types of futuristic flying car cities depicted in 1970s movies?

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...a population of 1 million are highly unlikely to be true.

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#newcitiesmcgill https://t.co/O722qCsYp6
Burma's capital Naypyidaw was built in 2005 and is one of the world's strangest, enigmatic capital cities (which is saying something). I enjoyed this article because its description of Naypyidaw is simulatenously...

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in a country where electricity can be hard to come by, the capital city has very reliable electricity. The problem is, the massive city has barely anybody living in it--one drives around and there is no one. The official government claims that the city has...

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...and how the Covid-19 induced lockdown there led to missed shipments, severe medicine shortages, and skyrocketing prices. A new master-planned pharma-city sounds like hell to me but I hope they prove me wrong.

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#newcitiesmcgill https://t.co/RbRcoCDwal India's Hyderabad Pharma City just sounds corrupt and harmful for people, and further reading reveals that this is true. There is an empty site near Hyderbad that is eventually intended to...

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...concerning to say the least. The article points out that India's over-dependence on Hyderabad as the pharmaceutical capital can have unforseen consequences when disaster strikes. They recall China's fiasco in the Hubei province, which is their medicine manfacturing center,...