𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

Author of Straphanger | Words @nytimes @natgeomag @guardian @wsj | Latest book @lostsupper | | Talks:

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

"A passionately argued and important book." —The Guardian

In #Straphanger, I travel world looking at best (and worst) in transportation + urbanism.

(NEW: Buying here directly funds my writing—and my new project, about the passenger rail revival.)

https://t.co/umFJdioIpJ

[Dario Hidalgo Guerrero 🇨🇴 @dhidalgo65]

Bogotá gets its Metro
L1 ML1🇨🇳🇨🇴 @MetroBogota
As Colombia Votes, Chinese-Made Trains Are Being Tested in South America's Next Mega-City
https://t.co/6LrotLyIp1
#HighSpeed @grescoe
Dispatch from Colombia 🇨🇴🙋🏻‍♂️

[Dario Hidalgo Guerrero 🇨🇴 @dhidalgo65]

Gracias a la invitación de @grescoe
@TransMilenio llega a #HighSpeed
Mirada a esta aplicación pionera y al futuro 🚌🚌🚠🚈
#TransMiCumple25Años 🎉💛❤️
https://t.co/8cEQ2cA6hC

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

Can't think of a better way of pissing off Trump than for #Canada to go ahead and build its proposed Alto high-speed rail project.

A multi-billion-$ megaproject, delivering faster trains than the US has, using Canadian steel + aluminum.

Might even kick off a new space race.

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

Not to worry: Straphanger is alive and well! I'll continue to post about transit, bicycles, and alternatives to car-based urbanism under the "Straphanger" tag.

https://t.co/D8pLDqWEyV

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

Need some positive news?
Around the world, a passenger rail renaissance is well under way.

I document the train-love, as well as the latest in sustainable urban transport, in my weekly newsletter HIGH SPEED.

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[Maclean’s Magazine @macleans]

Canada’s gridlocked cities are global stragglers at building efficient, effective mass transit. A new Montreal megaproject has the solution we need. https://t.co/EW0ISK42Ja

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

Compare this to #Amsterdam, where 7% of space is allocated for micromobility, and large parts of #Berlin, where 8% is set aside.

The authors conclude Montreal could *double* the space allocated to bike lanes (still just 3%) with no impact on automobile traffic flow.

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

...and they still don't get to work on time.

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

Need some positive news?
Around the world, a passenger rail renaissance is well under way.

I document the train-love, as well as the latest in sustainable urban transport, in my weekly newsletter HIGH SPEED.

🚅🧵

[L’actualité @Lactualite]

Tout ce qui brille n’est pas or, a constaté notre chroniqueur Taras Grescoe en se rendant en Floride pour vérifier si ce train de passagers du XXIe siècle tenait bel et bien ses promesses. https://t.co/Z3MwDJBMS1

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

@edwardrow The weirdest thing is there are no exterior shots of the train. I sent them plenty!

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

@edwardrow Bummer they didn't use my photographs, or video recordings, grumble grumble.

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

Not to worry: Straphanger is alive + well! I'll continue to post about transit, bicycles, and alternatives to car-based urbanism under the "Straphanger" tag.
Check out the new site, sign up using the "Subscribe" button for dispatches in your mailbox. https://t.co/EZYrneQP3R

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

High-speed rail, which has already transformed Europe + Asia, is coming to North America. But the newsletter's about more than bullet trains, shinkansens + TGVs.
I'll be posting dispatches about the latest in sleeper trains, budget services, + regional and inter-city rail around the world.

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

Welcome to HIGH SPEED!

Today I'm launching the newsletter of the global passenger rail renaissance.

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[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

For more accounts of my travels by train, as well as dispatches on transit and passenger rail, sign up for my weekly newsletter:

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#trains

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

I've got a #longread in the @globeandmail today about #Florida's Brightline, and the promise of privately-run, for-profit passenger trains in North America.

Spoiler: Not all "high-speed" rail is created equal...

#trains

https://t.co/zbphSBapXe

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

I've got a #longread in the @globeandmail today about #Florida's Brightline, and the promise of privately-run, for-profit passenger trains in North America.

Spoiler: Not all "high-speed" rail is created equal...

#trains

https://t.co/zbphSBapXe

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

Now I need to have a shower...

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

By 1920, the network of interurbans in the US was so dense that a determined commuter could theoretically hop interlinked services from Waterville, Maine, to Sheboygan, Wisconsin—a journey of 1,000 miles—exclusively by electric trolley.

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[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

Also, what are you still doing on X? I post here once in a blue moon out of courtesy, but, honestly, it's like being in the Chernobyl Zone of Exclusion.

The real action is over here: https://t.co/5XGfWlFroy