Jeremy
Jeremy
Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰

@jeremyzorek

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Rutgers '24, transit enthusiast/advocate, New Yorker now in Jersey, runs @BlessedTrains He/They, train good, car bad. ADHD, Autistic, Ferroequinologist

New Brunswick, NJ/New York, NY
Joined March 2014
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
3 years
Proudly attacked by Ben Dreyfuss
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Reading the reviews on an *ACTUAL* male-male extension cable. Good stuff.
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20,000 people per day vs. 1.2 million people per day.
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The cable is "out of stock" (probably because it's a death cord)
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New Jersey Transit has had this for like half a century lol
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Japan living in 2050🤩
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Some honest to god streetcar suburbs, with intact streetcars
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An Acela passing Princeton Junction in the snow at 150 MPH
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Old Acela passing Princeton Junction at 150 MPH vs the new one passing at 150 MPH
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
2 years
We need high speed rail so nobody ever tweets like this again
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AVIATION THREAD: the US should allow select foreign airlines “cabotage rights” i.e. the right to operate domestic routes in the US. Imagine how great air travel would be if Emirates, Etihad, Singapore, Qatar, etc were allowed to compete here. Take a journey with me...
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Why is this truck so big
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Born too early to explore the universe Born too late to experience the Metro-North Bar Car
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We Used to be a Real Country (Margaritaville Bar Car on Metro North)
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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No part of the DC Metro will run less than every ten minutes starting next week, with much of the system seeing 5-6 minute headways or better. It's easy to say no system in the US can ever achieve service admirable by global standards, but here we are
@wmata
Metro Forward
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More frequent service is coming to Metro beginning Monday, September 11, when the transit agency will roll out its eleventh service increase since last summer. Learn more: #wmata
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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I left out these additional reviews
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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C'mon lol if this was in the US everyone would say it was a policy failure
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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We should nationalize Greyhound and make it part of Amtrak. Think of the network effect power of being able to essentially link the intercity bus network with the intercity rail network and have it all be ticketed as the same network.
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This drawing of the DC Metro from before it opened is *chef's kiss*
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I would kill for the source art for these GE ads (as opposed to the high quality scans I found ~2 years ago). Just beautiful industrial design artwork that I would totally get on a poster
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The uptown 1 train at 1 AM. Tell me again how the subway's a crime-filled nightmare.
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2 years
Median voter in a nutshell
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6 months
Looks like the Hudson Line mudslide yesterday was the result of poor maintenance on a homeowner's lawn
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"Walkable cities are ableist" Shut up, this is a stupid talking point. Any truly good human-scale city has quality accessible options. Walkable doesn't mean literally forcing you to walk everywhere!
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Imagine trying to say the neighborhood on the left is worse
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As someone who grew up with buses, being able to freely travel around the city by myself starting at like age 11 meant that I was much more independent than my suburban peers who needed to be driven, or wait until they got a driver's license. Transit is freedom.
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
1 year
Acela going actually internationally recognized high speed speeds
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2 years
This really explains how Seattle has such high transit ridership with mainly buses
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The cookies of no new housing
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
6 months
Shocking new ways to get from north to south Brooklyn without spending $65 have just been discovered
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@DGisSERIOUS
Danny Gold
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Wow. Revel shutting down in NYC. Only way to get from north to south Brooklyn without spending $65 now is walking.
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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RT to scare techbros
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
8 months
Now let's see that bus service map
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Carmel, IN has had the same Republican mayor for 27 years: James Brainard Under his reign, the population has quadrupled, he replaced all the stoplights with roundabouts, and built a classical downtown out of stone and brick Cue the cope from NYcels and SF hostages
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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I've had this meme since like 2019, now today is finally the day
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
10 months
Guy with two cars, two homes, who admits to insurance fraud and using illegal plate covers claiming that it's unfair the city will charge people to drive into the core of Manhattan because it hurts working class people "just like him" is truly the pinnacle of carbrain in action.
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
3 years
What's this odd trident-shaped structure jutting into the Sandy Hook Bay? Well, it's a good thing you asked, because we're about to take a look at one of the oddest pieces of rail infrastructure in the US.
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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File away under the list of awesome subway entrances
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
3 years
Every single zoomer housing TikTok
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Extremely impressive how this managed to attract the world's biggest losers in the replies
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A goofy manchild toy below actual real electric vehicle infrastructure
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Welcome aboard New York's newest open-gangway subway cars, the R211T!
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Why are Miles and I on the far West Side at almost 2 AM? To take the world's longest Megabus trip from New York to San Antonio. Our morale? I think it's pretty high?
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Hotel in Boston gave my dad this map lol
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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The *what* bridge?
@SDonziger
Steven Donziger
11 months
While the fossil fuel industry reports record profits, millions of humans and other sentient beings are suffocating today from the impact of global warming. Those who blame "wildfires in Canada" are missing the deeper cause. The Brooklyn Bridge today in NYC. Photo: @Phil_Lewis_
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Love to see a 3 train absolutely tearing through 50th Street at 50 MPH, and a 1 train flying in behind it. Experienced operators know they can keep it on full power on the express past the station before the timers approaching Times Square
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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In 2 minutes, 4 trains manage to stop at Grand Central-42 Street on the 7, thanks to efficient operations and modern signalling allowing for very close headways. More people are being moved on trains in 2 minutes than an 8 lane highway can carry in half an hour
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
5 months
Reddest red I've ever seen
@MontgomeryCoMD
Montgomery County MD
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🚌Big news for MoCo commuters! Look out for new red lanes on University Blvd. These dedicated bus lanes mean faster Ride On & Metrobus services, easing your commute. One of the ways @MontCoExec & @MCDOTNow are making public transportation easier!🚦🔴 Info:
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Thank you Uber, for basically matching New Yorkers' subway rides in fees to the MTA 🫡
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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I genuinely am floored by someone trying to blatantly lie like this. They literally slowed down footage of an Acela passing New Brunswick at full speed.
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Sean Duffy
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I had to give a short talk in New Brunswick NJ (Rutgers) today. Left the house at 8:30 - got there at noon. (Septa and NJT) Only 51 miles - average of 20 miles per hour. Shinkansen in Japan would have been 10 minutes. We failed public transit. Actual train speed…
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Is it worth it?
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
2 years
Doing research for a paper and suddenly, the evil FHA street design diagram!
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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I'm always impressed by the skill of train operators here to smoothly bring a 500-foot long train to a perfect stop with one smooth brake application from >40 MPH. Well-trained and experienced employees are such a crucial part of our great transit system
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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I know something that costs less than $23 and provides frequent, 24/7 access to Manhattan below 60th Street
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@RezaC1
Reza Chowdhury
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Manhattan, south of 60th street, is not an amusement park despite having clowns as elected officials. A $23 admission fee is not the same as a distance-based toll road. These comparisons to the toll on the NJ Turnpike are fallacious.
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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I love how radically Andy Byford was able to change the operational culture at NYCT. You now see operators who take the curve out of Grand Central so aggressively that the train visibly leans to the right on a curve superelevated to the left
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Didn't have a chance to post this before TransitCon, but here's train 140 blasting through an hour's worth of fresh snow at New Brunswick!
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Can we just talk about how much of a confusing mess Oslo Line 5 is?
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Return to tradition
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Nice
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Folks we have photos of this
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BOYEEEce carol oates
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@Chaswied that warsaw switchback is one of the dumbest, best things that's ever happened here. two tracks compressing into a shared single track which loops back through itself due to how tight the turn is, and both approaches are blind. IDK how anyone survived the early 20th century
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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@fermunation Amazon really suggesting the best ways to burn down your house
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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My most RETVRN opinion ever is we need to bring back the New Haven Line bar cars
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Racing parallel trains on the subway is a simple pleasure in life that I'll never get tired of
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Happy Pride from Amtrak and the MTA 🏳️‍🌈
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Avelia heading back, this time with a full speed 165 MPH pass
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It blows my mind every time I look at it that Tysons, VA, is a real thing that exists
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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What if we kissed on the SEPTA Valentine's Trolley?
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Amtrak's ridership isn't because stations have parking lots, it's because so many of the trains are daily (or worse!). If every long distance route was three times a day, and every corridor route 6 times a day or more, there'd be way more ridership regardless of land use.
@FuckCarsReddit
FuckCars
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@ThunderWolf08 Every Amtrack station and line is bad. That's the point. Amtrack gets a fraction of the ridership compared to similarly dense European corridors. We should not settle for mediocrity. Building parking lots around train stations is terrible land use.
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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The sky is NJ Transit colored
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
2 years
What a shot! Regional 148 with a P42 in tow pacing Acela 2172 through Metuchen
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
1 year
Every good transit system needs its oddball tiny train
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
11 months
Got to do the Transit Museum's fantastic City Hall Loop tour!
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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This kind of dense, walkable living is illegal to build in most American cities
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
2 years
Just found out about the original concepts for Battery Park City. This is what they took from us.
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
1 year
CBTC in action at Grand Central. Less than a minute between trains
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
2 years
Guys don't worry we can run 15,000 foot long freight trains with one crew member, nothing bad could possibly happen please don't Google Lac-Megantic disaster
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
11 months
The Jones Falls Expressway is such a crime of urban highway construction. There's a beautiful creek under there just covered by an expressway that cuts Baltimore in half
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
1 year
If you are Ubering four bocks to an Olive Garden in Manhattan, god rest your soul
@mattturck
Matt Turck
1 year
I did like Uber better when it was subsidized by VCs lol
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Extremely funny that Pittsburgh keeps managing to get their buses into precarious situations
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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The MTA bringing a battery bus to the EV pavilion at the Auto Show is nothing short of genius (it's not a trolley, but battery bus > battery car, any day of the week)
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He's just a little guy
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Queensboro Plaza is so cool
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
1 year
It blows my mind when suburban residents say stuff like this, as if their existence in a city driving around in a car is what drives local businesses. It doesn't. Go to anywhere in the commercial cores of places like Philly and NYC, and almost everyone's arriving not in a car.
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Brian Rosenwald
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The problem is bus lanes make driving in the city that much more miserable. And the more miserable/expensive you make driving & parking, the less those of us who live in the suburbs will come into the city. And we're essential to the well being of restaurants, shops, etc.
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I love seeing buses where they shouldn't be
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Rumors of my demise were greatly exaggerated
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
1 year
The amount of misinformation about the East Palestine derailment, deliberate or otherwise, is absurd. Nobody is covering it up, and it's nowhere near the scale of disasters like Bhopal or Chernobyl.
@FalconryFinance
UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance
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They Chernobyled Ohio, they are very good at silencing people and blacking out the media, you need to be aware. Pennsylvania, you're fucked too. This will be a finger of God smearing cancer and death across multiple states, visible from space, a biblical blight and horror.
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NYPD with a fascist dogwhistle in the crime stats released today. Note the 14/88 (a Nazi reference) - unnecessary slash makes this a big red flag.
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Folks, it's once again America's best train station
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
2 years
I have literally never worried about gas prices in my life and I plan on keeping it that way
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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It's extremely clear to me that the people saying that Greyhound - and intercity bus travel writ large - are doing just fine right now have never had firsthand experience riding anything more than a short trip, if at all.
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1 year
Haters will say this isn't Houston
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Bath Time
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Love to dig my heels in a year later with the "Anne Frank was a colonizer" take
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2 years
Pushing a beg button before jaywalking is a great pedestrian power move
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2 years
Wake up, it's Trolleybus Thursday
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
2 years
New Haven Union Station vibes are off the charts
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Absolutely insane fearmongering story from Gothamist. What are we doing here?
@WNYC
WNYC 🎙
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New York City's subways are often a convenient and cheap form of getaway for criminals.
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Yesterday at the Free Library of Philadelphia, the librarian brought out this massive report from the Government Documents section, and said "I think you guys might find this interesting." Little did we know it would have incredible plans for rapid transit that never happened!
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Breaking news: tail tracks discovered at Huntington Station
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@pat_hedger
Patrick Hedger
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Anyone supporting this hasn't been here. The current Huntington station backs up into a giant hill with several high rises on top of it. Good. Luck.
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Long live the IND and its engineers, the subway built for speed 🫡
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
8 months
Been a while since I've had some good 125 MPH action
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
3 years
Jolly Trolley in the snow!
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
4 months
So, Amsterdam runs NO public transit on New Year's Eve between 8 PM and 1:30 AM... meanwhile in New York there's a bunch of extra service all night!
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Brooklyn has a density of 36,000 or so people per square mile and 95% of it looks like this. People are really terrible at actually knowing what population density correlates to when it comes to the built environment of a city is like.
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@north0fnorth
north
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if you’re curious what “10000 people per square mile” actually looks like, here’s a neighborhood in Chicago with almost exactly that density (Edison Park). looks nothing like a skyscraper hell to me.
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
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Dinner view in Cold Spring this evening: Lake Shore Limited with a double header and two private cars on the back!
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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
2 years
The 33's hairpin turn
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