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Here's a story I researched for Traveller back in the Biden era last year, has taken a while to be published - introducing travellers to LA's surprisingly useful Metro rail network. Includes a reference to Roger Rabbit!
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America’s notoriously car-mad, clogged city can now be explored by train theage.com.au/traveller/inspir

First "walking" test of a light rail car on the I-90 floating bridge. It _may_ be the first train on tracks across _any_ floating bridge, but that's just something I heard not something I know.

There will be a _lot_ more tests, and no doubt more rounds of changes and adjustments and all that, BUT

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Then there is Ford's baby subway, the Ontario Line. It will be:
- Incompatible with all other lines the #TTC operates (can't: build junctions later for interlining, can't share rolling stock)
- Smaller than Subways (Ford's logic: narrower tunnels means more distance for the same budget and more is better, never mind projected usage being higher than capacity!)

Billions wasted to satisfy our own Trump.

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Watching this video makes me lament for #Toronto and #Ontario and the damage done to it by Rob and Doug Ford.

As originally designed the Eglinton LRT would have spread throughout Scarborough and Etobicoke.

Instead Ford is wasting $3.5bn to bury the west end of the line, money that could've been used to build dozens of kilometres of on-street dedicated LRT lanes.

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youtube.com/watch?v=bNTg9EX7MLw

#TOPoli#ONPoli#TTC

HEY #SEATTLE

The old Bus Tunnel station rail lines need serious work and are gonna be semi-closed for like TEN DAYS IN APRIL, which sounds like a spy novel but is mostly just a pain in the ass:

soundtransit.org/ride-with-us/

April 14 to April 23, they'll be letting like two trains an hour go through between stations and that's it. Outside the work zone will be normal.

Put it in your calendars!

www.soundtransit.org1 Line service disruption | Sound TransitGet information on Link service disruptions. Details are subject to change without notice.

"Weekends don’t necessarily come with less ridership demand. Weekend ridership on the 1 Line has been outpacing weekday ridership in many cases over the past few months, as Link becomes an essential way to access entertainment and sporting events. Nonetheless, Sound Transit has continued its practice of scheduling its most disruptive maintenance work on weekends."

This is absurd. I pretty much only take the Light Rail on weekends, and that's when all the service disruptions occur. Sound Transt should at least do some of them on weekdays.

#LightRail #SoundTransit #Seattle

www.theurbanist.org/2025/01/02/biden-infrastructure-law-mostly-funded-road-expansion-leading-to-climate-backsliding/?feed_id=4933&_unique_id=6776f3f8b0340

The Urbanist - Examining urban policy to improve cities and quality of life. · Biden Infrastructure Law Mostly Funded Road Expansion, Leading to Climate Backsliding - The Urbanist# A new report shows most states continue to funnel money toward highway expansion, locking in climate pollution, despite new tools to fund transit and other forms of climate action. This is a losing strategy for both the environment and increasing mobility options.