before and after showing a green field turning a rail station in victoria, australia (2016 -> 2019)

Sorta wild how quickly Australia can build rail lines relative to the rest of the Western world.

(Middle Gorg, VIC, 2016 -> 2019)

talking about the Adriatic railway line as a great example of the "long modernization"

Yesterday, a short 1 km section just north of the city of Ortona was finally double-tracked. It was the only remaining single-track bottleneck between Bologna and Termoli.

They must be glad he's not tarnishing the family name anymore

Google searches for different emotions throughout the day. A fun way of displaying and grouping Google data. Love that the timing of each emotion makes intuitive sense. Source: buff.ly/3xqf6DT

the 'they're all corrupt, nothing matters' attitude is one of the reasons Russia is a godawful place and it's very worrying how much it's spreading in the United States

Is it the owner or the taxi that is mentally ill?

WA transport minister dismisses light rail idea Transport Minister Rita Saffioti has slapped down a suggestion by Labor’s Federal Member for Perth Patrick Gorman to revisit light rail in Perth.

This is the clearest indication yet that light rail is not going to be announced for the 2025 WA state election.

www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

"Mine mine money"
"Money mine money mine"
...

Yes, Trump can get his pliant chairman pick anyway, and he only has to wait like a third of his presidential term

And often the better the rail network is, the more effective it will be at stimulating feeder/connecting bus patronage

He can fire him in 2026 when his current term ends right?

What proportion of Magic 8-ball respondents think the Fed is setting rates too low vs what proportion think they're setting rates too high?

Our imagination of a “single” city is far more powerful than arbitrary boundaries on a map.

The Dutch know that transit shapes that imagination.

Treat your regional/intercity rail like a part of the local transit network, and intercity trips will *feel* like local ones.

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A map showing how many jobs are accessible on transit in 60 minutes to dots representing 500 residents in Metro Vancouver

I played around with r5r last year to estimate the change in accessibility of jobs to residents from building new rapid transit lines

make_gtfs turns your crayon into a GTFS feed
r5r takes agency GTFS feeds and your crayon GTFS feed and calculates trip times between points in the network

A thread

Encouraged to see lots of new followers in the past few days! I'm looking for 3,500 of my closest friends right now

Indeed the Thornlie line physically runs past Beckenham but never stops there, but the map does not depict it going through Beckenham because it is irrelevant to the service and how passengers can use it.

Median voter

I can run through some of my favorites from the archives, sure! Let's start off with this cool "isometric" map from Stuttgart, c. 2000. One of the first to use this style, and to my mind, still the most successful out of all of them.

transitmap.net/stuttgart-is...

Found it, turns out Dunn made a referencing error as he lists it in the August 1966 issue of Railway Transport, when its actually in the July 1966 issue.

Long story short, it would have been a new line between Sydney-Canberra and Melbourne designed for a max speed of 160kph, with an average of 130

Trump's talking about Arnold Palmer and Johnny Carson and Hannibal Lecter and other 1960s-80s guys because he's senile and it's easier to remember stuff that happened 40 years ago than stuff that happened a few months ago

A noticeable influx of Aussie gunzels onto Bluesky this week👍

Funny thing about Italy is that minors over the age of 14 or 16 (there are all of these different levels that I can’t decipher) can obtain a special license which I suspect was mostly intended to allow them to drive mopeds, but which also lets them drive these tiny little cars with limited speeds

A suspended monorail train passing above a city bus (and a cyclist)

Multimodal mobility

It's election day in the ACT! To celebrate here's a fantasy rail map. In this future Canberra, light rail lines have been added on three new corridors, plus a faster heavy rail line connecting more far-flung suburbs.
Is it unrealistic? Probably. But it was fun to make.

One downside of bluesky’s increasing popularity is that there are now so many posts in my feed that I barely get time to look up from my phone while driving

Interesting transit hub configuration at Grange Blanche line D metro station in Lyon, where a counter clock inner bus-only circle act as the main bus terminus for multiple lines, with a direct connection to the metro station below (and the tram lines T2 & T5 at the southern edge of the square).

A tram station with island and side platforms under train station platforms

Two tracks, *eight* platforms:

It's the Toyama central tram station

#onlyinjapan

Bluesky is like if canberra was a social media

welcome to the 100k+ people who have joined Bluesky in the last 12 hours!!! 🦋 🎉