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Jan 28

Live now, talking about HS2 an the announcement that it will not serve Euston, only Old Oak Common.

I study and write about trains, especially how they compare in different places. I live in Berlin, but have lived in a bunch of other cities (Tel Aviv, Singapore, French Riviera, New York, Providen...

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Jan 27

The LIRR-high speed rail compatibility vlog is up:

LIRR-High Speed Rail Compatibility

The LIRR barely shares route with intercity trains, but it does share Penn Station with them. This video goes over how the trains can fit together - and how ...

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Jan 27

Ped Observations: Free Public Transport, Fare Integration, and Capacity

Free Public Transport, Fare Integration, and Capacity

There’s an ongoing debate about free public transport that I’m going to get into later, but, for now, I want to zoom in on one aspect of the 9€ ticket, and how it impacted public transp…

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Jan 26

Ped Observations: Our Construction Costs Report pedestrianobservations.com/2023/01/25/our The finalized release date is Monday February 6th.

Our Construction Costs Report

This is awkward. I was hoping to already release the Transit Costs Project report, but we ran into difficulties after we released and then immediately unreleased; we sent the report to the MTA for …

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Ped Observations: Push and Pull Factors and Measuring Modal Shift pedestrianobservations.com/2023/01/24/pus cc

@mattyglesias

Push and Pull Factors and Measuring Modal Shift

There’s a longstanding debate among activists and academics about what the best way of effecting modal shift from cars to public transport is. Pull factors concern making public transport bet…

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And all of it is, fundamentally, about unease with emigration. You've heard there's anti-Semitism in New York so you stay in Anatevka. /end

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People trade rumors of bad moderation on some small instances while Twitter permabans anti-fascist journalists en masse.

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Everything is downstream of this obstinate unwillingness to move. Stayers complain about clunky apps while Twitter kills third-party apps.

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(Racism in Europe and the US is pretty similar, but not completely, and the differences deeply bother people on the other side both ways.)

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Mastodon is a European space. It has its own standards of (say) anti-racism, based on European activism to that end. It bothers Americans.

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But it's not really homophobia. It's part of it, but it's also a no-emigration-ever mentality, which sometimes manifests itself in nativism.

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I thought people stay here mostly because they don't mind that most of this site is a "lol pronouns in bio" troll zone.

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Not a full thread. But: think who from former Transit Twitter has switched. It's mostly the immigrants; think why. And we're happy there.

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Jan 24

Replying to @dmtrubman and @samth

I promise I will thread about this #onhere later, but Mastodon is a European space and that explains a lot of US cultural whiplash about it.

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Jan 24

(This is more directed at big accounts that use expressions like "hall monitors." But the rest of you should still move. And tag your pics.)

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Jan 16

The #1 reason people are still here and not on Fedi is that you believe murdering queers is good, but love of inaccessibility is there too.

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Jan 23

Ped Observations: Paris-Berlin Trains, But no Infrastructure

Paris-Berlin Trains, But no Infrastructure

Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Macron and Scholz announced new train service between Paris and Berlin to debut next year, as intercity rail demand in Europe is steadily rising and people want t…

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Jan 21

Live now, talking about the LIRR in the context of intercity rail compatibility.

I study and write about trains, especially how they compare in different places. I live in Berlin, but have lived in a bunch of other cities (Tel Aviv, Singapore, French Riviera, New York, Providen...

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Jan 19

Ped Observations: Bad Public Transit in the Third World

Bad Public Transit in the Third World

There’s sometimes a stereotype that in poor countries with low car ownership, alternatives to the car are flourishing. I saw a post on Mastodon making this premise, and pointed out already in…

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Jan 17

Live now, talking about commuter rail improvements (including tunnel crayon) in selected European cities:

I study and write about trains, especially how they compare in different places. I live in Berlin, but have lived in a bunch of other cities (Tel Aviv, Singapore, French Riviera, New York, Providen...

Jan 17

Video from last week about #CrossBorderRail is up. Come on Twitch at 19:00 to see me crayon European S-Bahns.

More on Cross-Border Rail in Europe

This video goes over some of the problems of international trains in Europe, and why they are slow to fix. The EU follows the American model in which the fed...

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Jan 16

The #1 reason people are still here and not on Fedi is that you believe murdering queers is good, but love of inaccessibility is there too.

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Jan 16

Delurking briefly to remind everyone who auto-cross-posts to Mastodon to alt-text your fucking pics.

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Jan 12

Ped Observations: High Costs are not About Precarity pedestrianobservations.com/2023/01/12/hig cc

@a320lga

High Costs are not About Precarity

I’ve seen people who I think highly of argue that high construction costs in the United States are an artifact of precarity. The argument goes that the political support for public transporta…

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Jan 10

I'm streaming on twitch.tv/alon_levy about #CrossBorderRail in a few minutes, come watch.

I study and write about trains, especially how they compare in different places. I live in Berlin, but have lived in a bunch of other cities (Tel Aviv, Singapore, French Riviera, New York, Providen...

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Jan 8

Ped Observations: Edge Cities With and Without Historic Cores

Edge Cities With and Without Historic Cores

An edge city is a dense, auto-oriented job center arising from nearby suburban areas, usually without top-down planning. The office parks of Silicon Valley are one such example: the area had a surp…

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Jan 7

Also, live now on Twitch:

I study and write about trains, especially how they compare in different places. I live in Berlin, but have lived in a bunch of other cities (Tel Aviv, Singapore, French Riviera, New York, Providen...

Jan 7

Meanwhile, here's the video from Tuesday:

Northeast Corridor: High-Speed Rail and Regional Rail

This video goes over how intercity and regional trains can interface on the Northeast Corridor, away from metro New York (New Haven-Trenton). There are some ...

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Jan 7

Stream today is going to be a brainstorm for short videos I am going to make later, and will probably not be recorded.

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Jan 5

*checks my mentions* Wow, my days of not using Twitter are coming to a middle. You guys want to talk transit costs/rider, come to Mastodon.

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Jan 3

Come watch me talk about Northeast Corridor integration between high- and low-speed trains:

I study and write about trains, especially how they compare in different places. I live in Berlin, but have lived in a bunch of other cities (Tel Aviv, Singapore, French Riviera, New York, Providen...

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Jan 3

I'm going to go back to streaming about low-high speed rail integration in the Northeast today (at 19:00 as usual), mostly Philly and DC.

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Jan 2

Most likely my last map update here; on Mastodon there are detailed image descriptions (hence the slight delay).

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Real-Time WW3 from 2036

@Ww3Real

Jan 2

Battle lines as of 2036-01-01:

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Real-Time WW3 from 2036 (@ww3real@mastodon.social)

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Go follow mastodon.social/@ww3real - I'm mirroring

@Ww3Real

until I upload 2035 Q4 to AO3 and will likely fully move then.

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275 Posts, 0 Following, 61 Followers · Real-time WW3, on Mastodon. Fiction, obviously.

Dec 31, 2022

Live now, doing some work on Northeast Corridor HSR and how it connects to low-speed regional trains.

I study and write about trains, especially how they compare in different places. I live in Berlin, but have lived in a bunch of other cities (Tel Aviv, Singapore, French Riviera, New York, Providen...

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Dec 31, 2022

Strim today (at 19:00) will be about NEC high- and low-speed rail connections.

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Dec 31, 2022

Tuesday's vlog about the New Left's failure on transport: youtube.com/watch?v=x8vZBR "To peds, city center; to cars, the world."

The Failure of New Left Urbanism and Transport Planning

The New Left political culture of freeway revolts, local activism, veneration of urban small business, and focus on consumption rather than production has le...

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Dec 30, 2022

Ped Observations: The Four Quadrants of Cities for Transit Revival

The Four Quadrants of Cities for Transit Revival

Cities that wish to improve their public transportation access and usage are in a bind. Unless they’re already very transit-oriented, they have not only an entrenched economic elite that driv…

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Twitter: exit. Because you have no voice to change it, and Musk does not deserve your loyalty. -...

Dec 28, 2022

Summary post by

@jonworth

about why he's off Twitter permanently and you should be too. DM me for Mastodon invite :).

jonworth.eu

I’m not going to get into a discussion about whether what Musk is doing to Twitter is by accident or by design. All I know is that Twitter is, at the time of writing, a network I no longer want to be...

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Dec 27, 2022

Come watch me talk about New Left planning and its failures!

I study and write about trains, especially how they compare in different places. I live in Berlin, but have lived in a bunch of other cities (Tel Aviv, Singapore, French Riviera, New York, Providen...

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Dec 27, 2022

Topic in 1.5 hours is going to be the failure of the New Left in transport and urbanism: "to peds, city center; to cars, the world."

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