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Some Blue Wolf

1 month

Welcome to my profile! Here you'll find: -Trams -Trains -Buses -Urbanism -Trains -Leftist takes - Midwest posting - LGBT rights are human rights!

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1 month

Right wingers whenever a disaster happens.

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Conservatives be gearing up like it's a 1v1 on nuke town and they're visiting places like this:

Fredo Fabrucci: The Actual Devil

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1 year

was absolutely howling with laughter when he busts out the fuckin armor, my man is equipping a rainbow six loadout to go get a slice of pizza

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A massive ship hitting a bridge isn't a "shit infrastructure issue" it's a massive ship hitting a bridge issue.

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Blue check discovers an over 100 year technology

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This is the Midwest, no I will not elaborate.

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"Under my leadership, Indiana will remain poorer and have worse infrastructure then our neighbors"

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Under my leadership, Indiana will never become a California, New York, Michigan, or Illinois.

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Some Blue Wolf

@ThunderWolf08

5 months

Today was a historic day for passenger rail investment, more is set to come, but here's a map of today's announcements.

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Mfs be like "Train to nowhere" and it's a metro of 3 million people

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3 months

This would be the most useless track of high speed rail to exist. It literally connects Chicago to nowhere.

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Today marks a historical day for Amtrak and US passenger rail🧵

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Yeah I back the boys in blue 🫡

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2023 is Possibly the greatest year in over 70 years for passenger rail in America 🧵

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@ThunderWolf08

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"it's the best real-estate in the world" and it looks like this.

Chris Koerner

@mhp_guy

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This is the best real estate in the world. 1:1:1 Chipotle to Chick-Fil-A to Crumbl ratio. More HOAs per capita than anywhere on Earth. Only 3.5% property taxes. Only 45 minutes to downtown Dallas. Every house has a privacy fence. Current entry level price: $1.2 million

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FLASH: FRA relases a grant of 6.5bn to Texas Central and Amtrak for the construction of the Dallas to Houston HSR. Will run at a top speed of 220mph and will open by 2028

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"AMERICA CANT BE SAVED" America:

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2 years

@kennedytcooper Always hated it's senator

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Elon bros are next level stupid, instead of taking the 20$ train, they took a 300$ taxi.

Ellie in Space 🚀💫

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Japanese Taxi: We didn’t know you could take the train from the airport to Shinjuku So we told our taxi driver where we wanted to go and he about collapsed and then starting laughing maniacally ! I was worried it meant Shinjuku was a bad spot, but he was shocked how far we…

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"The US is too big for passenger rail" Then why the fuck are we building this?

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@KetuAlbrecht People who portray cities as crime riddled throw red flags, because like:

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11 months

Dude has obviously never heard of duluth >multiple bus lines that run every 15 minutes >affordable >beautiful lakefront >will soon have an intercity rail line to the biggest city in the state And it's a city of 90,000 people, there's no us city that's "too small" for transit

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@g_abe0 Lemme guess, it's Seattle. He points his camera at a homeless encampment and goes "look at this gross thing" and then accomplishes nothing other then a "city bad" circle jerk.

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2 months

Holy fuck this photo goes so hard

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1 year

In 1985, the last train ran to duluth, or so we thought. TODAY, THE NORTHERN LIGHTS EXPRESS HAS BEEN FULLY FUNDED AND IS HEADING TO THE GOVERNORS DESK. WE WON!!!!!

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Idk how you look at this and go "Yeah that's normal"

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"Chicago is really scary"

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This man is the worst Chicago mayor ever!

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California might be goofy sometimes, but theres literally no other US state doing this.

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10 months

I think it's a good thing cities like Duluth, Dayton, Iowa city, Madison, Cheyenne and Greenbay are getting/considering passenger rail

John Arnold

@JohnArnoldFndtn

10 months

If Amtrak were funded by the market, it would spend its entire capital budget in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic, where train travel makes sense. Instead, it's funded by Congress, so creates inane plans like this.

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@RakFucksYourDad Self report 🚨🚨🚨🚨

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9 months

In light of recent events:

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5 months

Used to be able to take a cruise between Duluth and Buffalo

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@_TheFigen "why are kids always on their phones, go play outside" Outside:

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@SenecaSpeaks21 Thank you for your input seneca Scott of OAKLAND CALIFORNIA

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"Midsized American city and Manhattan rents" is not Pittsburgh lmao.

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5 months

The American intercity bus network is about to die and we need to save it🧵

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@ThunderWolf08

28 days

I wonder what else costs billions but doesn't make a profit? (Pic unrelated)

Marc Joffe

@joffemd

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In California, we are asymptotically approaching high-speed rail operations. The solid line represents the Authority's progress while the dotted line represents the prospect of actual revenue service that is just out of reach.

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Shout-out to this style of housing No reason other then it's really fucking cool.

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Is this the beginning of the future of High Speed Rail in the US? 🧵

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"No one will ride trains," but you said "theyll be full of homeless people" but you also said they're "too expensive" but also "they don't make a profit" but neither do highways which you want more of but you're okay with a private company building a train, but you said no one w-

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brendan 🇵🇸

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1 year

Ratio'd by public transport

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4 months

Upstate NYs highway revolt is what the rest of the country needs 🧵

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Breaking: Local boomer scared of cities because of crime, even though he grew up in the city when crime was 20x higher then it is today.

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My most "Retvrn take" is that we should build more housing that looks like this

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Some Blue Wolf

@ThunderWolf08

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Trains are really good when you don’t got a fucking think tank in your ear screaming they suck

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@ThunderWolf08

3 months

Legislative session starts tomorrow. Let's get this done

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@growing_daniel "Doesn't take up any land" Are you sure about that?

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America's newest high speed train is starting construction today!?!? 🧵

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THERE'S A FEDERAL HIGH SPEED RAIL BILL?! 🧵

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@ThunderWolf08

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"The European mind can't comprehend this 10 hour drive" The American mind can't comprehend 10€ high speed trains

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Insane how for like 20 years we built interurban Railways in every nook & crany in this country only to get a rid of 99% of them and never build one ever again.

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@ThunderWolf08

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Deal

Cadence

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Before you make your high speed rail map, please just stop and take a brief look at a map like this before continuing

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@ThunderWolf08

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Houston 2.7 million people Chicago 3 million people. Downtown Houston is half parking, half buildings Downtown Chicago is almost all residential and commercial. Yet people will scream Houston is the better city because "it's gaining population" (in the sprawling parts)

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Imagine living in one of the most transit rich cities in North America and going "Where am I going to park at the stadium??"

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Half of my brain that loves a good rendering - “wow this is sick” The other half that lives in reality - “where the fuck are we going to park?”

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Could these Midwestern cities remove their overbuilt, horrible and un-needed highways? (Yes)🧵

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FLASH: Brightline west, that run between the LA area and Las Vegas at 186mph gets 3billion in federal funding

Vegas-to-LA rail project lands $3B in federal funds

It is expected that President Joe Biden will make an official announcement about the grant award Friday in Las Vegas.

www.reviewjournal.com

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I like how almost every metro area has their own transit mega project they're considering and honestly we should just fund all of them :3

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@ThunderWolf08

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"I can't believe Americans hardly vist other countries" America:

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@ThunderWolf08

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60 years ago we funded like 5 metro systems and built an underwater tunnel, multiple tunnels under the capitol and miraculously built one in Atlanta too. Do it again

rust belt city enjoyer

@rustbeltenjoyer

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It rocks how 120yrs ago a bunch of lounge suit wearing nerds at the Pennsylvanian Railroad hyped up on cocaine cough syrup and double fisting whole bottles of whiskey designed and built the best railroad of all time and then it was never done in North America again.

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@Kicksbuttson One Google search my guy

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"This is an ATTACK on the FREE people and will KILL mobility." and it's just a bus

Tony Katz

@tonykatz

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Indiana should end the Blue Line. Indiana should not allow the continual attack on mobility and prevent bus-only lanes. Let Hoosiers travel the way they want, not the way some city government tells them to travel. And Indiana should never give in to elected bullies who threaten…

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This is so funny to me because these people get so paranoid about feeling unsafe, but will gladly drive on the mega death 15 lane highway we demolished 4 black neighborhoods to build.

alex

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deeply obsessed with white women living out kevin mccallister fantasies

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2017: "We the people of Indianapolis and it's metro vote to increase taxes to build out a BRT network" 2024: "We know you voted for BRT, but we just banned bus lanes so... good luck with that BRT!"

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"Nooo, this is gonna eat up our farmland" "This Is fine!"

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RT to scare techbros

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I'd kill to have an apartment next to elevated subway tracks ngl

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@ThunderWolf08

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My favorite transit in the US are the few cities that clinged to their streetcars until the 70s and 80s and converted them to lightrail

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@ThunderWolf08

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@JohnArnoldFndtn John, please explain to me why cities like Minneapolis and Des Moines or Chicago and Peoria shouldn't be connected by rail

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Assuming the bus takes as long as driving (and no traffic) you're paying $275 vs $20ish to get there in the same time

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Let me explain why this really good and how we can make it happen! 🧵

More Perfect Union

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The Federal Railroad Administration is conducting a study to evaluate restoring daily, long-distance, intercity train service. Their initial proposal would add 15 long-distance routes, serving 61 additional metropolitan areas and creating a true national network.

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@ThunderWolf08

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Shut up about the Midwest, you don't live here

James🗳

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@averyhatestwt Like I’m sorry the reason your affordable midwestern city is affordable is because it sucks in comparison to other cities it’s size

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@ThunderWolf08

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Minnesota might become the first state to fully remove parking minimums statewide!

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So true Amtrak! (Fund the trains)

Amtrak

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it is scientifically impossible to not think about trains once a day

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Oh God, I think Oklahoma City might actually do it lmao

Full funding secured for US tallest skyscraper says developer

Funding has been secured and construction may begin as early as September on an Oklahoma City skyscraper planned to be the tallest in the United States says developer Scot Matteson.

www.dezeen.com

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@ThunderWolf08

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Construction starts on the Brightline West HSR today!!

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@ThunderWolf08

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"Dallas always made more sense then New York or LA" You can't take transit to the world cup in Dallas.

Joe Pompliano

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The 2026 World Cup Final will be held at AT&T Stadium in Dallas, according to @MartinLipton . Dallas always made more sense than NYC or LA — an indoor stadium that seats 100,000 fans, an airport 15 minutes away, and good for most time zones. More details are expected next month.

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@ThunderWolf08

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@kennedytcooper This popped off 😳 support reliable transit

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@ThunderWolf08

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The unbuilt Obama era streetcars 🧵

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@TheRightCant Him insulting loli is just him insulting half his audience. Lol

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Shoutout to small cities that have a lot of potential to be good but no one talks about.

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I thought you didn't care about cities?

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Detroit is good when you don't got a Lil bitch in your ear screaming it fucking sucks

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I love how people look at this and go "Nooo don't do this, where will I drive?" and then never drive there anyways.

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TIL Buffalo spent over 100mil to... Take the dedicated transit mall for its lightrail and convert it to mixed traffic with cars.

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@ThunderWolf08

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North Carolina and Virginia are massively improving passenger rail:🧵

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YOU CAN'T BEAT THE TRAIN

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@ThunderWolf08

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Honolulus HART automated metro system opens today!!

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@ThunderWolf08

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@TrnsShenanigans "I'm a centrist" Meanwhile who they follow:

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Some Blue Wolf

@ThunderWolf08

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Cities doing or considering freeway/highway removals: Syracuse Minneapolis St. Paul Duluth Buffalo Detroit Milwaukee Rochester (NY) Albany Dallas Kansas city Peoria Tulsa Houston Richmond Philadelphia Seattle 🤮 A better future is possible, we need to keep fighting for it.

Rethink 794 in MKE 🌆

@TearDown794

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Here it is, WisDOT's boulevard alternative. Time to make it a reality 🧵

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Some Blue Wolf

@ThunderWolf08

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Just your daily reminder Amtrak ridership is exploding in Multiple states because they actually invest in meaningfully improving service.

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@ThunderWolf08

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“Nowhere in the country has Amtrak seen ridership double in the years after it adds a new train or trains,” They added 1 round trip to the train that serves Norfolk VA and ridership doubled.

Patrick McIlheran

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An independent transportation analyst called the Evers’ administration’s projections “ridiculous.” “Nowhere in the country has Amtrak seen ridership double in the years after it adds a new train or trains,” he said.

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Not every Intercity rail route in North America needs to be High Speed rail🧵

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Every time

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All I'm saying is Amtrak should be buying these little guys for short haul low ridership routes like the Illinois zephyr, Valley flyer, Mardi Gras and Blue Water.

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@ThunderWolf08

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"B-but people don't ride trains in the US" Here's a list of NEW FUNDED, Amtrak routes 🧵

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@ThunderWolf08

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99% of American cities have these insanely over built highway systems. Like does Saginaw really need a i675 loop? Oh but we can constantly expand and resurface these highways, but trams, Intercity trains, metros and regional rail is "too expensive" lmao Tear down the highways