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Alan Fisher

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Is one of Philadelphia's most Famous roads also one of its most problematic? In this Armchair Urbanist lets talk about the Problems with the Ben Franklin Parkway, and why we shouldn't always directly copy European Urban designs.

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Alan Fisher

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2 years

JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO I SWEAR BRO JUST ONE MORE, I SWEAR

Tesla Owners Silicon Valley

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2 years

Traffic takes so much of your life. @boringcompany tunnels will solve horrendous images like this and give that time back.

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

If only there was an option to go from JFK to lower Manhattan for about $10 that's faster than driving....

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

Americans refuse to accept that Philadelphia exists

FuckCars

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1 year

This could be America.

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Alan Fisher

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11 months

Holy Shit, Minnesota is about to singlehandedly lift the US's average standard of living

Governor Tim Walz

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11 months

Done ✅

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Alan Fisher

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20 days

I don't care how late this goddamn train is, because more people should be experiencing landscapes on Amtrak

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

This is a eco litmus test, which vehicle is better for the environment?

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

This kills the Building

Coby

@Cobylefko

1 year

Tree lined streets are great, but buildings faced with greenery are often just as good!

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

Truly a lost technology

Monica Mallon

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1 year

Types of zero emissions bus

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

God, American's are stupid fuckers when it comes to trains and history

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1 year

Shut the fuck up about European trains already

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ABC7 Eyewitness News

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8 months

LA Council approves motion to ban sale or rental of RVs for housing

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Shaun (shaunvids on bsky)

@shaun_vids

1 year

seeking opinions for potential video: if i say 'positive masculinity,' what do you think of?

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Alan Fisher

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8 months

me tonight well drinking wine

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

5 months

wow actually LA looks like a real city with transit, it only took for them to burn down a highway

Metro Los Angeles

@metrolosangeles

6 months

Thanks to our regulars and newbies for riding with us today! All the info you need to ride during the DTLA 10 freeway closure is here: 📷 this afternoon’s commute

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Alan Fisher

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2 years

The more you find out about urban planning and sustainable infrastructure you realize that the train loving dorks were right all along.

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

11 months

Some guy just accidentally did the most effective eco terrorism to the Philly region that I've ever seen lol

Action News on 6abc

@6abc

11 months

LIVE: Chopper 6 is over the partial collapse of Interstate 95 in the Tacony section of Philadelphia

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

2 years

You think that a new transit line that would carry over a million people a year would be good? Well these 20 wealthy home owners say otherwise

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Alan Fisher

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8 months

An interaction with a friend currently staying in LA

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

1 year

People have to understand that shit like this happens because Private Railroad companies own and operate basically all of the rail infrastructure in North America and they do not give a shit about maintenance and infrastructure upkeep.

MC Squared

@mcsquared34

1 year

34,000 passengers a day ride across this bridge in Chicago

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

2 years

My politics are whatever this is

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

2 years

Just build a four track railway and you've doubled the capacity of any of these roads

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

2 years

West Coast Cities: NOoOooo that lot size is too small, you can't upzone that!! It'll be terrible for the neighborhood!!!1! Philadelphia: 6 stories on a 12ft wide plot? Ok.

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

I can't wait to ship the homeless guy from San Francisco to a crumbling house in Detroit

Gritty is the Way

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Alan Fisher

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23 days

This is the America that the average conservative is scared of

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

The Venn diagram of these two types of people comes disturbingly close to being a circle

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Alan Fisher

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2 years

just made this based after my "JUST ONE MORE LANE" tweet

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Alan Fisher

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2 months

We Used to be a Real Country (Margaritaville Bar Car on Metro North)

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

9 months

Yeah but the difference is that Central Park is actually surrounded by meaningful housing density, not 2 story stucco buildings larping as rowhomes

Yuri Sagalov

@yuris

9 months

Everyone in the world knows Central Park, and yet Golden Gate park is actually 20% larger.

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

1 year

@Bbburner19 Even if those numbers were even remotely correct. You're forgetting: -tire manufacturing and micro plastics -parking and car infrastructure is insanely carbon intensive -cars promote urban sprawl which makes everything more carbon intensive -lithium mining and sunken resources

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Alan Fisher

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3 months

Finally, someone brings up the real issues with nation wide High Speed Rail

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

1 year

Its strange to me that even 10 years ago this didn't seem to happen as much. Are parents more scared now to let their kids ride school buses?

About Here

@aboutherevideos

1 year

This is the traffic to drop-off students at a middle school in Metro Vancouver. New video about this issue tomorrow.

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Alan Fisher

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16 days

Very Few things scream "I don't live in a real city" more than being impressed by a guy in a suit taking the bus

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@MikeDizzll

17 days

Just saw a man wearing a whole suit. Nice watch, hair, shoes, looked sharp. I would guess he’s an executive or a business owner. Except he was standing at a bus stop. I realized he’s prob got a job interview. So I stopped and asked him if he wanted a ride. He said “Nope, my…

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

11 months

Lame People: "We Can't have High Speed Rail in the US because you'd need insanely big infrastructure that's impossible to build across mountains!" Our Highway system:

Christof Spieler

@christofspieler

11 months

they didn't stop to think if they should, etc.

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

6 months

Ski resort town "urbanism" be like

Tyler Burke

@infillcowboy

6 months

Said it before but worth repeating Vail has some of the best urbanism in the US

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

11 months

Minnesota in 2050 lmao. Give this man more things to check off, start force feeding him urbanism talking points

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

2 months

Reasons why its expensive: - Amtrak currently doesn't have enough rolling stock to meet demand - You are getting 3 course meals, free coffee, snacks and waters the entire trip - Amtrak has to largely subsidize the long distance routes, sleepers are a bonus cont...

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2 months

i looked at taking an Amtrak to a festival in pennsylvania in a few months. all the trips are like 28+ hours long which would be fine if i could take a sleeper roomette. however, it’s nearly $900 each way. $1800 to sleep. insane.

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10 months

Fuck white picket fences and driveways, this is the American dream I want to publicly romanticize instead

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Alan Fisher

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11 months

European intercity train seats vs the least padded Amtrak seat

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Alan Fisher

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9 months

San Francisco Residents are so funny when they try to grasp for straws to fix housing. This whole section of the city is shitty 2ish story detached stucco housing. Literally build anything more dense here!!

Daniel Owens

@Daniel___Owens

9 months

The US Mint in SF takes up so much space and sits near a ton of transit. It currently produces collectible coins for coin nerds, and doesn’t actually produce coins for circulation. Maybe this isn’t the best use of space? Should be moved imo and replaced with mixed use housing.

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Alan Fisher

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3 months

I swear that the democrats have the worst PR team of all time, because the republicans would act like they where gods giving a small gift to the peasants if they ever did something similar.

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

3 months

BREAKING: The Biden administration is ending bank overdraft fees as we know them. Under a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule, overdraft fees at large banks will be strictly regulated and capped as low as $3. Low-income Americans will save billions.

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

I hate the leftists/eco people that see something full of plants and immediately think its a good thing/eco friendly

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

@ClaireEby the eternal Architect vs Civil Engineer battle

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Alan Fisher

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2 months

Because we systematically killed off last mile Freight Rail delivery

Ali = Alison Stewart 🚲😎

@AlisonVStewart

2 months

👇🏼Why are we letting gigormous industrial sized shipping trucks drive in our downtown streets ?! These shipping containers have no place in our neighborhoods. 🤷🏻‍♀️ This is Richmond and Spadina at lunchtime.

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Alan Fisher

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6 months

The reason why the Class 1 Railroads might electrify in the United States, is because Mexico is forcing them too. Of course only the stupidest/funniest way that this would happen might happen.

Oakley 🛤️

@otree38

6 months

This is wild: Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador says that he will require freight rail in Mexico to have electrified passenger service:

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

I'm fine with flex posts protecting a bike lane as long as 1 out of 20 of them is randomly a solid bollard that looks identical

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Alan Fisher

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2 months

Absolutely hilarious that this "negative" video has actually convinced me that the Gondola is a good idea and that California has some of the most insufferable victim-mentality NIMBYs of all time

eric kelly

@eric_kelly

2 months

A billionaire in L.A. is trying to build an aerial gondola over one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city so he can develop the parking lots at Dodger Stadium into a retail entertainment complex. Not only will one our most historic parks get consumed by the project, but…

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Alan Fisher

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3 months

What people from outside of NJ/tristate area don't understand, is that we shouldn't be building anything else in the meadowlands. The meadowlands is there for runoff and flood control, housing (and other buildings) should not be built there.

Infrastructure explained

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3 months

The fact that the area around MetLife stadium doesn’t look like Wembley park in London is a gigantic policy failure Wembley is btw how you should do stadium developments

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

Regarding the Norfolk Southern derailment. To anyone who had any knowledge of the rail industry prior to this whole event, this disaster was basically expected. The US rail industry basically relies on the fact that most Americans are willfully ignorant of their operations. 1/🧵

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

here's what a plant filled street can actually look like, and there's no gimmicks like ivy or green roofs

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1 year

Enjoying the rain on Van Pelt Street

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1 year

Highway costs go practically unnoticed but the second the train is too expensive then everyone gives a shit.

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Alan Fisher

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2 years

thinking about the time that we just decided to build three brand new metro systems for cities

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Alan Fisher

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6 months

@shaun_vids This is easily your dumbest take of all time. Yeah sure like a republican would do anything different. If anything, they'd bomb Gaza faster.

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

8 months

Every time I see people dooming over North America I just assume its because they've never seen the parts of it that look like this

Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰

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8 months

Some honest to god streetcar suburbs, with intact streetcars

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Alan Fisher

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2 years

I keep thinking about how much more powerful the US would have been if we invested in better infrastructure like railroads or cities in the 50s-70s instead of highways and the suburbs.

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

@ReggBrown25 yeah that will hurt the building overtime and cause water intrusion. But that's also an older style of masonry that will hold up slightly better to the vines

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8 months

do I need to ratio you dumb asshats again? 'Uh, yeah bro bro, this time that extra lane is different!'

Tesla Owners Silicon Valley

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9 months

Traffic is the horrible in Los Angeles. Almost feels like half your life your in a car just getting from one place to the next. Can’t wait for the @boringcompany to solve this issue.

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Alan Fisher

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2 years

I will judge the urban planning of your city entirely on the ability to walk to a bar close by.

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Alan Fisher

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2 years

There are around 450-ish people commuting in this picture, only 80 of them are using the highway

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Alan Fisher

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5 months

This building will probably have massive water intrusion problems within 5 years. I do not understand the comically goofy fascination of putting plants on a building...

Tesho Akindele

@Tesho13

5 months

One River North 📍Denver, CO A 16 story, 187-unit apartment building with a 10 story canyon in the middle.

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Alan Fisher

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4 months

Out of all of the infrastructure projects in the world, the electrification of the Indian Railway system does not get enough praise. This is easily one of the most impressive undertakings in the 21st century and it was done in roughly 10ish years

Varun Vishwanath

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India’s mainline railway network is almost entirely electrified, with over 90% of the ENTIRE NETWORK (!) electrified, of which 45% was done in the last five years. Here’s a bit of background: 🧵

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Alan Fisher

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2 years

Truly baffling how people can't make friends in wonderful, harmonious, community building places like these....

Scott Galloway

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2 years

1 in 7 men and 1 in 10 women in the US don't have a single friend. #AdriftBook

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Alan Fisher

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4 months

Huh?

Casey Handmer, PhD

@CJHandmer

4 months

If trains were first invented today, they would never be built. No rail-less nations are building rail networks. No, China doesn't count because they're the Paragon of poor economic choices.

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

plants do not belong on buildings, it is haram

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Alan Fisher

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9 months

I've come to the opinion that we should not even tell the public about some projects, we should just build it and then let them figure out eventually. Because literally nothing good comes from doing this. Just people about to die bitching about about their property values

Westside For Everyone

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9 months

This meeting is a shitshow. People yelling at the councilwoman. Karen Bass just called for it to end.

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Alan Fisher

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10 months

The NYC congestion pricing is so funny to me, cause I guarantee that in 5-10years most people in NY will wonder why we didn't do it sooner.

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

Thinking about The Great Societies bill again

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Alan Fisher

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8 months

When you see the infrastructure like this in continental Europe you can really see how far behind America has fallen

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Alan Fisher

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4 months

This is honestly a huge deal. A ton of people are going to be exposed to rail travel for the first time just seeing that its even an option. (Which hopefully drives some people to do more research on the topic)

Christof Spieler

@christofspieler

4 months

I hadn’t seen the “take the train” Google feature before…

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

7 days

Alot of people commenting or quote tweeting that they're broke. No! Actually the opposite! They have a whole dedicated chartered train for only the team! Usually with some special cars too (see my comment below)

Philadelphia 76ers

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playoff season. 🚂

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

2 months

Hmm, I wonder why Boston has insanely high rents... **checks the comments under this** Oh. Lmao.

Only In Boston

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2 months

A Massachusetts developer submitted a proposal to tear down the IHOP on Soliders Field Road for two residential buildings that will be 100% affordable.

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Alan Fisher

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8 months

me when taking pictures of trains becomes illegal

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Alan Fisher

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A goofy manchild toy below actual real electric vehicle infrastructure

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

Oh, a car free suburban nieghborhood in the United States? Impossible.

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Daniel

@growing_daniel

4 months

America already has a 500 mph high speed rail system linking the country and it doesn’t even take up any land and bugs way fewer people with noise ITS CALLED A FREAKING AIRPLANE

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Alan Fisher

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5 months

Can someone sell this "revolutionary" ***In-Motion Charging*** infrastructure to some dumbass tech bros and politicians, thanks

Sawyer Merritt

@SawyerMerritt

5 months

NEWS: Detroit has installed the first wireless-charging public roadway in the U.S. It stretches a quarter mile. i t only activates when a car with a receiver passes over the coils. Testing will begin in 2024 with a Ford E-Transit electric commercial van.

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Alan Fisher

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My friend just sent me this photo from where he’s staying in suburban Croatia Says it's safe, reliable, and beautiful. Even these little scenic trams are a great way to get around. In America this would be unthinkable. What is the sickness that has infected our democracy?

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Alan Fisher

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Happy #pride from Philly, here to come out as a NJ Transit rider 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

5 months

Amtrak/Rail Corridors that have been chosen for funding so far: - The North Carolina S-Line - NYC to Scranton - Cleveland to Cincinnati - Cleveland to Toledo - Chicago to Pittsburgh - Brightline West - Daily Cardinal Service Hopefully the FRA will announce all later this week

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Alan Fisher

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8 months

New Yorkers will literally explode if they have to wait more than 10mins for a train

Erik Bottcher

@ebottcher

9 months

News Flash: NYC’s public transit from airports is a disgrace. Arrive late to JFK? Cough up at least $80 for an Uber or spend your evening waiting on deserted train platforms. NYC, we can do so much better!

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Alan Fisher

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9 months

Car Drivers when they can't break the law every 5mins to save 6 seconds of commute time

Jehiah

@jehiah

9 months

Had a really bad experience on the way home from Summer Streets with a driver making an illegal turn on Columbus Ave. It takes just one moment to wipe out a day of good riding. I stopped in harms way to block this driver from hitting my kids riding behind me.

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

@shestopalov_v electric cars are marginally better than gas cars, but building our infrastructure around cars in general is bad

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Alan Fisher

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2 months

If only there was a more efficient and safer way to transport a ton of cargo over Donner pass...

Coco Ferrara

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Donner Pass in Northern California

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Alan Fisher

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5 months

The full Amtrak corridor ID and funding report has been released. I'll be working all of tomorrow to get a video together about it

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Alan Fisher

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3 months

The most amount of money invested into transit since LBJ

Tired Peasant ☭

@HorrorGorl

3 months

What has Joe Biden done for you? Absolutely nothing

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

When one of the largest and most manly looking men drives a compact sedan as his daily driver, any argument for needing an SUV goes out the window.

Bozi Tatarevic

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1 year

Fascinated by the fact that John Cena daily drives a Civic Type R.

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

I love plants as much as the next person and we should be saving them by preventing suburban sprawl and promoting density in cities. Along with this, we should be maintaining our urban buildings so that they need less resources (i.e. no ivy)

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Alan Fisher

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2 months

Its understated how important it was for the US to have finished the Great Society Metros in the 70s. These systems are invaluable today and its all because we had a president that had insane enough energy to promote them, enough to put a metro car on the white house lawn

Metro Forward

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Happy Birthday Metro! In the mid 1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson gave the push that led to the creation of Metro. By Feb 20, 1967, WMATA was officially born! LBJ even got a sneak peek at our first train car prototype. Now that's what you call presidential approval! 🚇✨ #wmata

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

9 months

Damn that Amtrak expansion plan looking real tasty when air travel is becoming less and less reliable. Weather definitely doesn't affect trains the same way it can hinder aircraft

(((Matthew Lewis))) progressive federalism SOS

@mateosfo

9 months

This just in from a friend stuck in Vegas: “Flights across the US have been canceled today because of excessive heat warning, including my flight from Las Vegas. After multiple delays and an aborted boarding, the pilot said the air conditioner was not cooling the plane …

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Alan Fisher

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How to fix Amtrak, with no bullshit

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

There's no excuse to why we can't have High Speed Rail here in the US

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Alan Fisher

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8 months

>18min long video >Constantly touting NA small towns bad (shows only Canadian sprawl towns) >Zero mention of how many pre-WW2 NA towns are fine I'm not asking for North America praise but I'm just asking for some nuisance

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1 year

Don't move here it's so terrible 😤

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11 months

Top US skylines *best opinion*: 1. NYC 2. Chicago 3. Philadelphia 4. Pittsburgh 5. Miami 6. San Francisco 7. Seattle 8. LA 9. Vegas (unfortunately) 10. Cincinnati

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1 year

I was tempted to put a smoke blenching ALCO as the picture instead but I felt like that would have been too on the nose

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Alan Fisher

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Nothing more American than 2 story tall, stainless steel, shitboxes pulled by an F40 at 80mph

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Alan Fisher

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1 year

No traffic on the highway this morning! such an easy commute

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@alanthefisher

1 year

Ok apparently there's footage of my New Jersey Transit uber service haha

Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

1 year

I wish I took a video, but my NJT bus got lost and while I directed the driver back onto the route and he thanked me by dropped me off Infront of my parents place off route in front of their house. Funniest way to show up to Easter

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

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literally every town on that map had a rail passenger and/or freight station. We just failed to invest in rail vs highways & airports

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

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The suburbs want all of the benefits with none of the work. A good majority of the homeless people and hard drug users originate from the burbs and are forced into cities because suburbs refuse to built more housing and refuse to build any rehab centers to help these citizens.

The New York Times

@nytimes

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Tension between New York City and its surrounding suburbs has grown since the pandemic, as attempts to solve the city’s most pressing problems are putting it in direct conflict with suburban residents and officials who feel that is simply not their job.

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

1 year

The hottest people with personalities that aren't terrible all live in Philadelphia or Chicago.

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Alan Fisher

@alanthefisher

1 year

Picturing @hasanthehun reading theory like this now

hasanabi

@hasanthehun

1 year

@MoistCr1TiKaL 4 companies practically own their own territories and for some reason we can’t hold them accountable despite the billions we have spent building and maintaining the infastructure they now own 🤔

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