Marcus Nelson

🇭🇹🇺🇸 | Building cities, transit, and change | Find me anywhere @marcuscnelson (he/him)

[Marcus Nelson @marcuscnelson]

It’s pretty hard to summarize the Ultimate Urban Circulator in even two and a half hours. But I’ve given it a shot!

Watch or listen to @wtyppod below!

[Well There's Your Problem Podcast @wtyppod]

new EPISODE about PODS with @marcuscnelson

[Marcus Nelson @marcuscnelson]

@luciascarlet Oh, I’m imagining alright.

[RAIL Magazine @RAILMag]

I would recommend not engaging with anyone arguing the “trains are 200 year-old technology; we have planes and cars” position. (Both of which are more than a century old)
They don’t want a reasonable debate.
We will not persuade them.
We only give them more engagement/audience.

[Marcus Nelson @marcuscnelson]

Don’t forget “innovation…”

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

If the purpose of your transport project is economic development, tourism, “equity”, image, or monumentalism, don’t expect the result to be high ridership.

IF you want ridership, that has to be the guiding purpose from the beginning.

[Marcus Nelson @marcuscnelson]

@AZinCLE @FernandoAg47 @TaupeAvenger Thing is, they wanted trains that could extend the reach of the NEC into Virginia and Pennsylvania and Long Island and Massachusetts and Connecticut and Maine and the Carolinas, and didn’t have the political opportunity to extend track improvements or electrification there.

[Victoria Perrone @VPerroneDem]

@pennslinger I always tell people that Philadelphia is a capital D Democratic City, but not necessarily a progressive one. We have lots of work to do here.

[James Austin Johnson @JAJCenter]

I wrote about how Amtrak makes me feel patriotic for Rolling Stone. Read it now if you like any of those words

[A 🪩🇵🇸🪉 @virgosgroove37]

very very very happy to see my first hometown's failure of a system be used to prevent the same happening to my second hometown. thank u Ivan.

[Phil @Urban_Connector]

Super low density sunbelt cites 🤝🏾 wrongly crying about being “full”

[Marcus Nelson @marcuscnelson]

@Alejandro_SocEU @constans What does "misused" mean?

[Marcus Nelson @marcuscnelson]

More on this here: https://t.co/f5ACW54kx3

[Marcus Nelson @marcuscnelson]

Unfortunately the state of Florida has strongly opposed getting buses out of mixed traffic, and actually removed a portion of the SunRunner’s dedicated transit lanes last year:

[Aden Yacobi @Aden_Yacobi]

@RidePSTA There are some ways SunRunner could improve.

1. it can get rid of its mixed traffic segments which are in the most congested areas. (And after Rays games the lanes are blocked off by cops)
2. TSP is weak. My bus stopped at multiple intersections.

[Aden Yacobi @Aden_Yacobi]

I’m in Clearwater and need to head to St. Pete for a Rays game. I can either take a 45 min Uber each way for around $100 roundtrip before tip or…

[Marcus Nelson @marcuscnelson]

@Aden_Yacobi @abhishekarghya One agency, AC Transit in California, tried this strategy to a big extent in the 2000s with imported Van Hool buses but since decided to return to US procurement.

[Marcus Nelson @marcuscnelson]

@humantransit Isn't this one being supplemented/replaced by a bridge to the concourse?

[Aden Yacobi @Aden_Yacobi]

Everyone who cares about buses and trams needs to read The Transit Priority Atlas

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

When I was born, Georgia’s Senator was an arch segregationist. Now I sit in that seat.

[Marcus Nelson @marcuscnelson]

@JacobLeTrashe @ATLAreaWx Try looking at the right maps.

[Marcus Nelson @marcuscnelson]

@Lib_Development You’d have to install PTC anyway, as the law requires.

[Marcus Nelson @marcuscnelson]

@Lib_Development @AZinCLE See the same chart but for last year. Within the realm of possibility that with their service reorganization late last year and higher ridership this year they might be close, although fuel costs would be something to watch for.

[Marcus Nelson @marcuscnelson]

@PEWilliams_ @TheOmniZaddy I’m not sure these USDOT Private Activity Bonds would have otherwise gone to housing development, as opposed to more highway projects as they largely have been…