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light rail tourist

@dancvg

3 months

Therapist: Laser-eyed :3 pear train isn't real, it can't hurt you Laser-eyed :3 pear train:

light rail tourist

@dancvg

3 months

Line 5 (purple pear) (3/4)

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@dancvg

10 months

This beauty deserves more than 3x weekly rail service

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@dancvg

2 months

Expanding Illinois for the sake of transit/rail connectivity in this region

light rail tourist

@dancvg

2 months

Really looking forward to graduating from college now, so i can gtfo of this shithole state (they banned bus lanes in their largest city) Can Illinois annex west lafayette pls

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15 days

“Hong Kong is nothing but a concrete jungle” Sorry to disappoint anyone that unironically thinks that, but yes, urban parks exist there

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@dancvg

11 months

Did someone say easy access to mountains?

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11 months

Urban areas with easy access to outdoor recreation+sight amenities are good, actually.

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@dancvg

4 months

The Cincinnati subway (gonna use this as a 🧵for my flight today)

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@dancvg

1 year

Cincinnati Ratio

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1 year

I'm convinced that Pittsburg is Cincinnati's smarter twin.

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light rail tourist

@dancvg

9 months

This entire time, I thought the core thesis of NJB's channel is to educate us on why North American cities sucks, so we have a better idea on how to advocate for better places here. Didn't know his actual point is to have us gtfo of the continent until now, which is just insane

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@dancvg

6 months

Alfred Twu

@alfred_twu

6 months

@dancvg While food sales are a small part of the business, Taiwan Railway does earn more revenue from selling bentos than hauling freight! 🍱🚋

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@dancvg

3 years

@LinusTech how many yt channels do you even have?

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@dancvg

10 months

Xiamen is a city in southeast China, with an island center and suburbs along a "mainland". It's got a lot going for it in transit and urbanism. Its metro has 3 lines w/ 3 more under construction. Line 1's crossing between the island and mainland is gorgeous af (1/4🧵)

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@dancvg

9 months

My first encounter with Amtrak gift cards. You never see this sold in cities where your only train comes 3x a week at 2am

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@dancvg

2 months

Really looking forward to graduating from college now, so i can gtfo of this shithole state (they banned bus lanes in their largest city) Can Illinois annex west lafayette pls

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@dancvg

1 year

@geologisms Wait so after Alan Fisher exposed OBF a year ago, we got 4 of them now?

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@dancvg

5 months

Taipei: Hey Singapore, can we use the same trains as you? Singapore: Sure, just change some things up so it doesn't look obvious Results:

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@dancvg

3 months

Can’t believe transit twitter’s at the point where there’s discourse on the fucking width of a train’s open gangway Anyways, enjoy my only contribution to it, a pic of a non-full width gangway like the NYC ones, also on a Kawasaki train.

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@dancvg

4 years

@fcukeveryname Imagine naming your child “names”

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@dancvg

5 months

Transit Twitter haven't had a bracket poll in a while, so introducing the Great American Blue Lines Tournament. Let's see which US rail line colored blue is the superior one!

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@dancvg

5 months

Stretching the definition of an observation tower a bit, here's the best one

Climate and Transit

@climatetransit

5 months

Honestly we need more observation towers in North America

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@dancvg

10 months

Multi-daily 3C and Indy/Chicago services when? Would actually make it convenient for me to get from home to my college town without a car

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@dancvg

6 months

Similarities between NC's Charlotte-Raleigh and Ohio's 3C corridors: - Connects state's 3 largest metros in a line - Cities it connects has mid local transit and sprawl issues - ~200 miles end to end The difference: NC's has 5 daily RT trains, Ohio's has 0. We need 3C+D rail.

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@dancvg

9 months

Looking at how Minnesota's NLX is planning to have 4 daily roundtrip trains, monthly reminder that this ~300 mile long route radiating out of Chicago serving ~4.6 million people only has 3 roundtrip trains a fucking WEEK

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@dancvg

2 months

IT’S MRT MONDAY AGAIN !!! This time with both Kuala Lumpur MRT lines

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light rail tourist

@dancvg

9 months

He's inspired a whole group of people, including me, into urbanism. But this tone sounds downright hostile towards those that are doing their part here in North America, like that we aren't allowed to participate in urbanism advocacy unless we move to elsewhere.

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light rail tourist

@dancvg

5 months

Cincinnati MetroMoves rail plan

Hayden Clarkin

@the_transit_guy

5 months

If Santa could bring you one wish, what transit project or plan would you like to see built under your tree this Christmas?

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@dancvg

27 days

Found this Shanghai Metro future map in a 2002 planning document yesterday. The thing that stuck out to me the most is the line numbering, and vision of an RER-like trunk system then. Lines had a prefix in the numbering: R for Rapid, M for Metro, L for Light Metro. (1/7)

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light rail tourist

@dancvg

4 months

The following are all light rail according to some definitions out there:

Climate and Transit

@climatetransit

4 months

There’s no definition for light rail. You just gotta eyeball it.

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light rail tourist

@dancvg

10 months

All of the following are light rail according to Chinese railfans

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@dancvg

5 months

Transit twitter over the past 2 weeks in a nutshell

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light rail tourist

@dancvg

8 months

It's Flat Fuck Friday, post your favorite crimes against aerodynamics

Transit Enthusiast Reindeer 🚃🦌

@StandUserLeon

8 months

It's Flat Fuck Friday, post your favourite crimes against aerodynamics

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@dancvg

5 years

@Technothepig @jayavarmen I’m ruining it even more for you

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@dancvg

5 months

This book’s gonna keep me occupied for the next two weeks (also Cincinnati Subway mentioned)

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@dancvg

1 month

@Natcromancer Otoh, I wonder if there any cities that meets 0 of the 3 criteria… Maybe somewhere in Texas or Florida? 🤔

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@dancvg

1 month

Omg there’s congestion charging in grocery stores now The woke mob has taken over

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@dancvg

10 months

A common response from urbanists living in big NA cities (or any city in Europe) I've seen when someone living in a smaller US city with crappy transit and advocating to improve it is "just move to a better city"

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@dancvg

10 months

This cursed HSR train (called Eurotrain) using an ICE 1 locomotive and TGV passenger cars was the initial proposal for the trains to be used on Taiwan's HSR. Let's see why that never became the case (1/6 🧵)

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light rail tourist

@dancvg

6 months

One of these systems that uses Siemens S70/700 LRV has to go forever. Choose wisely

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light rail tourist

@dancvg

6 months

the jungle jims monorail

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@dancvg

4 months

Airport dino (ft. Skyline that replaced a Gold Star)

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light rail tourist

@dancvg

11 months

Reposting here from a discussion about NJB's fanbase in the Midwest Urbanism discord: Place vs Place, Netherlands template:

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light rail tourist

@dancvg

2 months

My favorite pastime is nyooming past cars on a train (Kuala Lumpur airport express btw)

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light rail tourist

@dancvg

27 days

@skytopjf Someone time travel back to 1910 and make sure the #13 city on that list actually finishes the subway they were destined to have then

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@dancvg

1 year

STL’s downtown isn’t even the best part. Midtown and CWE are better. Also STL have metrolink, San Antonio have zero rail transit

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@dancvg

1 year

Introducing the Urbanists' sequel to the Place, Japan meme

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@dancvg

2 months

@JRUrbaneNetwork The HKers I’ve met think Singapore has better transit of the two. The S’poreans I’ve met think HK has better of the two. There’s no end to this

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@dancvg

9 months

Metrolink Monday: nighttime edition

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@dancvg

5 months

Probably the most predictable and least interesting final match of any bracket ever, but here we go:… Match 15: WMATA Blue Line vs CTA Blue Line

DC Blue Line

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@dancvg

7 months

"Sees MBTA Type 10 discourse on my timeline"

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@dancvg

11 days

Real Admiralty (left) vs Delusional Cosplayer (right)

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@dancvg

9 months

"...sending Americans to Strong Towns..." Says the person that milked off Strong Towns' content for a while, and is a reason why their channel has grown so prominent

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@dancvg

5 months

@streetcargood High speed rail (real)

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@dancvg

1 year

@simply_aviation It gets better when you have a triangle of these (Taipei) !

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@dancvg

10 months

@mentallyworld yea, @JoshJunker2 has a collection of photos showing the area around Union Terminal (West End neighborhood) before I-75 bulldozed it. Union Terminal used to be well-integrated into the urban fabric

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@dancvg

4 months

I’ve been told by locals that there’s a major bus bunching moment here (Yishun).

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@dancvg

10 months

Three very similar Midwest corridors in distance and population, but one is significantly different than the other two in quantity and quality of intercity rail service. And it shouldn't be like that; it deserves good rail service too!

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@dancvg

2 months

With the talk of Oklahoma City building a new skyscraper, gentle reminder that their current tallest building is 844 ft tall, taller than the tallest building in Cincinnati (665 ft), Boston. (790), and Pittsburgh (841) but sticks out much more in their skyline

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@dancvg

3 months

Boon Lay MRT station and surroundings, a thread. The station opened in 1990 as part of the East-West Line, which goes to downtown. A second line, the Jurong Region Line, will also have a station here in 2027. (1/7)

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@dancvg

1 year

@aprice1828 St Louis stole the olympics, so Chicago stole the arch

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@dancvg

5 months

Idk why, I find it amusing when New Yorkers try to deinterline other interlined rail systems when they can't even agree how much and what parts of their own subway to deinterline

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@north0fnorth

5 months

good lord

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@dancvg

5 months

Great American Blue Lines Tournament Round 1 Results:

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@dancvg

6 months

@Schmoseph1 @alanthefisher @TurtIeAidan For the specific person we’re thinking about, I don’t think that pushing a “Your city is unsalvageable, just move to the Netherlands” agenda is healthy for the urbanism community either. We need more urbanism advocacy in cities that need them the most, not less.

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@dancvg

10 months

@transitlanta First time using one of those bike racks, i felt so stressed out trying to figure out how to use it because i don't want to delay the bus even more than it has been

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@dancvg

1 month

Find the time till next train screen in this image (hard) (1/3)

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@dancvg

3 months

It’s MRT Monday again! Here’s the line that is too successful for its own good due to its special role and short trainsets, the Circle Line. Long lines on platforms are common during peak hours.

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@dancvg

2 months

@StandUserLeon Meanwhile, my personal school bus:

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@dancvg

3 months

In Fuzhou to celebrate LNY and got a chance to ride their metro. Their LCD screens on the platform and in trains are very informative, both showing you the train car you’re at. Also the map inside shows the time to the remaining stations. (1/3)

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@dancvg

5 years

@fckeveryword This post was made by the knockback gang

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@dancvg

4 months

The Honolulu Skyline rail (real)

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light rail tourist

@dancvg

2 months

Just read the Strong Towns article about the North Dakota governor, and this basically sums up my thoughts on urbanism talk on the conservatives side:

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light rail tourist

@dancvg

9 months

Not sure why there are so many people in Ohio seeing my tweets. The legendary streetcar is in Iowa

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@dancvg

6 years

@it_meirl_bot It’s wrong bc he didn’t mention it creates 3 doors, not a door.

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@dancvg

10 months

Crossrail but🔹🔷bloo 🔷🔹(Hangzhou Metro line 19)

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@dancvg

1 year

Fixing the Ohio-Kentucky border:

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@dancvg

4 months

Bike lane inside mall

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@dancvg

2 months

Timed cross platform transfer privileges denied

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@dancvg

10 months

This is unhealthy, because 1) it's not easy to move to a new city for various reasons 2) That's implying that smaller cities transit systems are hopeless and should forever stay shit, which is the complete opposite of what we want 3) It's fuel for NIMBYs in said city

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@dancvg

10 months

I've heard so many comments that "Chinese cities are overbuilding their metros", and I disagree with that. My take is that they're playing a catch-up game to other cities in the world its size when it comes to rail transit service (1/4)

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@dancvg

10 months

🙃

Inzane

@Kuuix

10 months

@ggwen6936 @mg_sandstorm wait...

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@dancvg

10 months

I got this book from the library today, covering the transit situation for the NA cities with rail and/or BRT. Will give my thoughts for their opinion on specific cities over the coming weeks

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@dancvg

2 months

Singapore’s Changi airport rail connection is no different than the APM setup at a lot of US airports - Forced transfer to/from the airport (albeit a CPI here) - 8 minute frequencies It also doesn’t go to one of the terminals (T4), have to transfer to a bus after this train

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@dancvg

4 months

I like how considerate Singapore is in giving me a taste of home when I’m halfway across the world

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@dancvg

10 months

Also to big city or European urbanists: Please stop talking down every transit or bike lane expansion in those "second tier" US cities with "it's not enough". Improvements take time, and you can't just go from a crappy place to Amsterdam or Tokyo overnight.

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@dancvg

4 years

@Razer MiNecRafT

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@dancvg

24 days

For those that want to walk into a public library and read whatever transit-related book are on the shelves, here are the Dewey Decimal numbers to look for: Urban planning - 307.12 (pic below in Singapore’s central library) Railways - 385, 625.1-625.6 Public transit - 388.4

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@dancvg

1 month

Happy MRT Monday! For today, we have the Las Vegas MRT. Unlike Singapore or KL, the LVMRT uses trains that can hold only 4 people, but everyone gets a seat. It runs at a record 0 minute frequencies, but train bunching is an issue here unfortunately.

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@dancvg

1 month

It’s Flat Fuck Friday, post MAN buses

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@Thunderbird17_

1 month

Happy flat fuck friday for those who celebrate

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light rail tourist

@dancvg

8 months

Chicago has a giant area in close proximity to downtown where no one lives

rust belt city enjoyer

@rustbeltenjoyer

8 months

New York City has so many areas in close proximity to downtown where no one lives.

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@dancvg

2 months

“This is Sixth Avenue. Transfer is available to the 1, 2, 3, F, and M trains. Connection is available to PATH trains”

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@dancvg

1 month

My favorite bus pretending to be a train is the Brisbane Metro

Avery625

@aelb625

1 month

For April Fools', a thread of buses that pretend to be trains: Starting with Japan's Asatō Line. A declining rural population doesn't justify running a normal train in Shikoku, they opted for a bus that doubles as a train. As the rail is elevated, it can serve during tsunamis.

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@dancvg

3 months

Forgot the rest of the stations, but here's Singapore by memory And a slightly more difficult one of another city I've lived in

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@weather_forkast

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Toronto is quite difficult

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@dancvg

2 months

👀 balloons

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@dancvg

1 month

"This is the great country of America, it's where Chinese food was invented" - Steven He

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@weather_forkast

1 month

unironically real

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@dancvg

6 months

This, everyone, is THE Bento Company that runs trains as a side business

JR Urbane Network

@JRUrbaneNetwork

6 months

I was told by the locals this is the only thing the Taiwan Railway Adminstration does properly.

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light rail tourist

@dancvg

5 years

Just realized there’s ZERO 7/11 stores in Cincy... Rip free slurpee for me today 😢 @CincyProblems

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@dancvg

5 months

Since @Nerd4Cities was right on the money for this, CTA Blue Line's reward for winning this bracket is that its continuous platform between Jackson and Washington gets turned into a Cheesecake Factory location. With window seats to watch the trains zoom by while eating of course!

light rail tourist

@dancvg

5 months

Probably the most predictable and least interesting final match of any bracket ever, but here we go:… Match 15: WMATA Blue Line vs CTA Blue Line

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@dancvg

5 years

@AltHistoryHub does that mean “what if nationalst china won” video soontm?

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@dancvg

3 months

Good luck finding me

Transit Enthusiast Reindeer 🚃🦌

@StandUserLeon

3 months

what being chinese does to an mf

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@dancvg

6 months

Something I appreciate on all the Lafayette Citybus buses: dedicated “Stop requested” indicators. This needs to be more common elsewhere, and not just a scroll on the dot matrix screen

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@dancvg

12 days

The MTR East Rail line is probably my favorite MTR line. The line opened in 1910 as part of the Kowloon-Canton Railway (KCR) to Guangzhou. It was double tracked and electrified in the 1980s as an urban rail connection to new developments along the line.

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@dancvg

1 month

I make fun of ITDP’s scorecards of various BRT systems, but if your “BRT” can’t even score 20 points on their basic criteria, it doesn’t deserve to be called a BRT

Climate and Transit

@climatetransit

1 month

A lot of you have zero expectations for BRT

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