Marc Ebuña
@marcebuna.info
🇵🇭🇺🇸🏳️🌈 Transit wonk from Queens/LI working on digital passenger info systems
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Marc Ebuña
@marcebuna.info
· Nov 14
Any interest in a #transittech feed and/or starter pack to make sure the signal is stronger for real people doing real work to make transit ops and rider info better and overpowers the noise of gadgetbahns?
So apparently there's a decent amount of interest!
✋ if you work in this space and would like to be added to a starter pack
Would love to continue raising awareness of these careers and key needs in transit
✋ if you work in this space and would like to be added to a starter pack
Would love to continue raising awareness of these careers and key needs in transit
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My Streetcar Stop Consolidation Concept:
- Remove stops without an opposing stop and/or closer than 300m
- Maintain a general maximum spacing of 500m on streets and 600m along ROWs
- Move stops where turns occur to farside for TSP effectiveness
- Consolidate stops for services in the same direction
- Remove stops without an opposing stop and/or closer than 300m
- Maintain a general maximum spacing of 500m on streets and 600m along ROWs
- Move stops where turns occur to farside for TSP effectiveness
- Consolidate stops for services in the same direction
January 18, 2026 at 6:44 AM
My Streetcar Stop Consolidation Concept:
- Remove stops without an opposing stop and/or closer than 300m
- Maintain a general maximum spacing of 500m on streets and 600m along ROWs
- Move stops where turns occur to farside for TSP effectiveness
- Consolidate stops for services in the same direction
- Remove stops without an opposing stop and/or closer than 300m
- Maintain a general maximum spacing of 500m on streets and 600m along ROWs
- Move stops where turns occur to farside for TSP effectiveness
- Consolidate stops for services in the same direction
Can someone explain to me why this blew up?
I both love and hate that jetBlue is time and price competitive against Amtrak between DC and Boston
Wearing my Acela hat to rep my favorite public corporation to console myself (as I sit in an EvenMore Space seat I got for free thanks to Mosaic status 🫣)
Wearing my Acela hat to rep my favorite public corporation to console myself (as I sit in an EvenMore Space seat I got for free thanks to Mosaic status 🫣)
January 11, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Can someone explain to me why this blew up?
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Transportation Camp DC 2026 is off to a great start! Keynote speaker @humantransit.bsky.social!
January 10, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Transportation Camp DC 2026 is off to a great start! Keynote speaker @humantransit.bsky.social!
I both love and hate that jetBlue is time and price competitive against Amtrak between DC and Boston
Wearing my Acela hat to rep my favorite public corporation to console myself (as I sit in an EvenMore Space seat I got for free thanks to Mosaic status 🫣)
Wearing my Acela hat to rep my favorite public corporation to console myself (as I sit in an EvenMore Space seat I got for free thanks to Mosaic status 🫣)
January 9, 2026 at 10:19 PM
I both love and hate that jetBlue is time and price competitive against Amtrak between DC and Boston
Wearing my Acela hat to rep my favorite public corporation to console myself (as I sit in an EvenMore Space seat I got for free thanks to Mosaic status 🫣)
Wearing my Acela hat to rep my favorite public corporation to console myself (as I sit in an EvenMore Space seat I got for free thanks to Mosaic status 🫣)
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Thanks to a series YIMBY reforms—and high-quality administration—in San Diego, the city has been in the midst of a building boom, even as construction has plummeted elsewhere. The result? Rents are down six months in a row. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/12/17/s...
San Diego rents have fallen for 6 months. Should you ask your landlord for a deal?
San Diego rents are down 0.3% year-over-year to an average $2,520 per month.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Thanks to a series YIMBY reforms—and high-quality administration—in San Diego, the city has been in the midst of a building boom, even as construction has plummeted elsewhere. The result? Rents are down six months in a row. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/12/17/s...
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This is the MARTA bus stop sign. The TP indicates a Time Point for the bus operator to know this stop is an official Time Point in the schedule that they are measured against for on time performance or OTP. I've not seen this at another transit agency.
December 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This is the MARTA bus stop sign. The TP indicates a Time Point for the bus operator to know this stop is an official Time Point in the schedule that they are measured against for on time performance or OTP. I've not seen this at another transit agency.
My middle brother is now ADHD hobby deep into cars and I'm just sitting here watching a YouTube video of someone excitedly doing a Subaru engine build from scratch
Just imaging if we had this for bus engine rebuilds
Just imaging if we had this for bus engine rebuilds
December 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
My middle brother is now ADHD hobby deep into cars and I'm just sitting here watching a YouTube video of someone excitedly doing a Subaru engine build from scratch
Just imaging if we had this for bus engine rebuilds
Just imaging if we had this for bus engine rebuilds
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Another opportunity with my team! We're looking for summer interns for this coming summer. I can guarantee the work will be cool--there's a TON to do. www.governmentjobs.com/careers/mbta...
Policy & Strategic Planning (PSP) Intern (Graduate Students)
The Policy & Strategic Planning (PSP) Intern will be part of a team that develops new policy for the MBTA while also planning for the organization’s future needs. The team comprises five divisions: Tr...
www.governmentjobs.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Another opportunity with my team! We're looking for summer interns for this coming summer. I can guarantee the work will be cool--there's a TON to do. www.governmentjobs.com/careers/mbta...
This is a New Flyer Xcelsior. Count the things in these pictures that are different from a bus in your city...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This is a New Flyer Xcelsior. Count the things in these pictures that are different from a bus in your city...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The WMATA subreddit loves to dump on DC Metro's conversion to single letter bullets for being too 'New York' — these still represent the abbreviation of the color of the line (R for Red instead of RD)
They'd lose their shit if they reassigned them arbitrary letters like what LA Metro did
They'd lose their shit if they reassigned them arbitrary letters like what LA Metro did
December 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The WMATA subreddit loves to dump on DC Metro's conversion to single letter bullets for being too 'New York' — these still represent the abbreviation of the color of the line (R for Red instead of RD)
They'd lose their shit if they reassigned them arbitrary letters like what LA Metro did
They'd lose their shit if they reassigned them arbitrary letters like what LA Metro did
Hooo boy does LA's J line (Silver) have more of that awful highway median experience in droves. At least it also has such a great view of the skyline coming into DTLA
December 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Hooo boy does LA's J line (Silver) have more of that awful highway median experience in droves. At least it also has such a great view of the skyline coming into DTLA
The only good experience of median-running transit is getting to whizz past traffic
December 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The only good experience of median-running transit is getting to whizz past traffic
@metrolosangeles.bsky.social hey heads up: your Venhub inventory the app for LAX/Metro Transit Center is missing these ornaments and plushies
I wanted to buy some but I can't even select them
I wanted to buy some but I can't even select them
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
@metrolosangeles.bsky.social hey heads up: your Venhub inventory the app for LAX/Metro Transit Center is missing these ornaments and plushies
I wanted to buy some but I can't even select them
I wanted to buy some but I can't even select them
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I think it is actually fine for big apartment buildings to look like big apartment buildings, rather than fifteen different smaller buildings with implausibly similar floor heights smushed together.
(As a Brutalism Enjoyer, I understand that my architectural taste falls far outside the mainstream.)
(As a Brutalism Enjoyer, I understand that my architectural taste falls far outside the mainstream.)
Very happy to hear that 60 new homes are coming to Westfield NJ, and, without wanting to be a hater at all, new homes are good, what the hell is going on with this architecture?? www.nj.com/union/2025/1...
December 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I think it is actually fine for big apartment buildings to look like big apartment buildings, rather than fifteen different smaller buildings with implausibly similar floor heights smushed together.
(As a Brutalism Enjoyer, I understand that my architectural taste falls far outside the mainstream.)
(As a Brutalism Enjoyer, I understand that my architectural taste falls far outside the mainstream.)
Very much 'we spared no expense' vibes from the new shelters at the NJ Transit bus terminal in Hoboken
These are Landscape Forms' Connect 2.0 shelters designed by Designworks, the same BMW Group division that did the styling of the new BART trains
These are Landscape Forms' Connect 2.0 shelters designed by Designworks, the same BMW Group division that did the styling of the new BART trains
November 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Very much 'we spared no expense' vibes from the new shelters at the NJ Transit bus terminal in Hoboken
These are Landscape Forms' Connect 2.0 shelters designed by Designworks, the same BMW Group division that did the styling of the new BART trains
These are Landscape Forms' Connect 2.0 shelters designed by Designworks, the same BMW Group division that did the styling of the new BART trains
@outfrontmediausa.bsky.social @mtalirr.bsky.social the OFM ad panels in car 7571 are all oriented in the wrong direction and showing content like this
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
@outfrontmediausa.bsky.social @mtalirr.bsky.social the OFM ad panels in car 7571 are all oriented in the wrong direction and showing content like this
Spotted the LIRR Holiday Lights train laying over at Jamaica!
This is the first time the LIRR is doing this www.mta.info/press-releas...
This is the first time the LIRR is doing this www.mta.info/press-releas...
November 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Spotted the LIRR Holiday Lights train laying over at Jamaica!
This is the first time the LIRR is doing this www.mta.info/press-releas...
This is the first time the LIRR is doing this www.mta.info/press-releas...
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MBTA, Keolis complete rail replacement on Fairmount Line in advance of battery-electric multiple unit (BEMU) operations, although the procurement process just began last January | Trains Magazine - www.trains.com/pro/maintena...
MBTA, Keolis complete rail replacement on Fairmount Line - Trains
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has completed over 28 miles of rail on its Fairmount Line, part of work in preparation for the eventual launch of battery-electric train service...
www.trains.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
MBTA, Keolis complete rail replacement on Fairmount Line in advance of battery-electric multiple unit (BEMU) operations, although the procurement process just began last January | Trains Magazine - www.trains.com/pro/maintena...
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Zohran adding YIMBYs to his transition team is resulting in some absolutely incredible Left NIMBY crashouts over on Twitter. This is my favorite.
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Zohran adding YIMBYs to his transition team is resulting in some absolutely incredible Left NIMBY crashouts over on Twitter. This is my favorite.
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WE WANT TRAINS!
The public is sending a message: Amtrak is setting ridership records, carrying 34.5 million passengers in fiscal year 2024-25, while ticket revenue is $2.764 billion.
www.trains.com/pro/passenge...
The public is sending a message: Amtrak is setting ridership records, carrying 34.5 million passengers in fiscal year 2024-25, while ticket revenue is $2.764 billion.
www.trains.com/pro/passenge...
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
WE WANT TRAINS!
The public is sending a message: Amtrak is setting ridership records, carrying 34.5 million passengers in fiscal year 2024-25, while ticket revenue is $2.764 billion.
www.trains.com/pro/passenge...
The public is sending a message: Amtrak is setting ridership records, carrying 34.5 million passengers in fiscal year 2024-25, while ticket revenue is $2.764 billion.
www.trains.com/pro/passenge...
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a few pictures from the second day of celebrations for the extension of the rem. cdpq infra built 50 km of rapid transit in less than 8 years and at a cost of 128 million dollars per km. and there’s more to come!
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
a few pictures from the second day of celebrations for the extension of the rem. cdpq infra built 50 km of rapid transit in less than 8 years and at a cost of 128 million dollars per km. and there’s more to come!
Ran into [REDACTED] on le REM
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Ran into [REDACTED] on le REM
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The Québec pension fund, Caisse de Dépôts, did it again: they soft opened the Deux-Montagnes branch of REM, an automated train, yesterday.
November 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The Québec pension fund, Caisse de Dépôts, did it again: they soft opened the Deux-Montagnes branch of REM, an automated train, yesterday.
Also worth noting how REM has elegantly they're able to declutter overhead cable runs by consolidating everything into neat utility conduits combined with lighting
This is easy when you're doing greenfield construction and major station rebuild projects but I feel like you can also plan this
This is easy when you're doing greenfield construction and major station rebuild projects but I feel like you can also plan this
November 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Also worth noting how REM has elegantly they're able to declutter overhead cable runs by consolidating everything into neat utility conduits combined with lighting
This is easy when you're doing greenfield construction and major station rebuild projects but I feel like you can also plan this
This is easy when you're doing greenfield construction and major station rebuild projects but I feel like you can also plan this
I'm just noticing all the REM stations actually don't have central HVAC — they're fully enclosed but costs seem to be kept simple with fans for circulation, radiant heaters for warmth, and louvers and louvered windows for passive circulation
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I'm just noticing all the REM stations actually don't have central HVAC — they're fully enclosed but costs seem to be kept simple with fans for circulation, radiant heaters for warmth, and louvers and louvered windows for passive circulation