Tony Coppoletta
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Likes food. And trains. And cities. Info designer in transit. Made in Chicago. (Personal acct)
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Tony Coppoletta
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· Jul 24
Been meaning to write about this...
I’ve had the privilege to be allowed by my employer to be behind and see to fruition our Pride Train. Every year it’s meant to be a showing of welcoming and inclusion, though started as just a train wrap and mean to run from June 1 thru at least Market Days.
I’ve had the privilege to be allowed by my employer to be behind and see to fruition our Pride Train. Every year it’s meant to be a showing of welcoming and inclusion, though started as just a train wrap and mean to run from June 1 thru at least Market Days.
Am I joyscrolling? I think I am.
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Am I joyscrolling? I think I am.
Transit is freedom. Transit makes Chicago great. It is for everyone and it is beautiful. 32 years ago today I boarded at this spot on the Pulaski Orange Line platform with my legally blind mom to help her learn her new, faster way to work on its first weekday. 'L'ove at first ride.
November 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Transit is freedom. Transit makes Chicago great. It is for everyone and it is beautiful. 32 years ago today I boarded at this spot on the Pulaski Orange Line platform with my legally blind mom to help her learn her new, faster way to work on its first weekday. 'L'ove at first ride.
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Got a gorgeous night shot of a train going overhead at Schiller (which used to have a stop here!) on the Brown Line with, though no longer the outside tracks in use, the four-track infrastructure they originally built from Wilson to Chicago before heading with two tracks into the Loop 'L' in 1900.
October 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Got a gorgeous night shot of a train going overhead at Schiller (which used to have a stop here!) on the Brown Line with, though no longer the outside tracks in use, the four-track infrastructure they originally built from Wilson to Chicago before heading with two tracks into the Loop 'L' in 1900.
I love when one of my favorite people on the Internet—like patron saint level—surprise me by wearing a T-shirt with the logo I'm responsible for making sure we use right! @techconnectify.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I love when one of my favorite people on the Internet—like patron saint level—surprise me by wearing a T-shirt with the logo I'm responsible for making sure we use right! @techconnectify.bsky.social
When you're lucky enough, you find yourself sitting on a pier after a warm and lovely night with family, in silence except the water lapping on the shore, reflecting on your life, your experiences and knowing all those things make you you—a beautiful little spark in this unimaginably large universe.
September 27, 2025 at 5:31 AM
When you're lucky enough, you find yourself sitting on a pier after a warm and lovely night with family, in silence except the water lapping on the shore, reflecting on your life, your experiences and knowing all those things make you you—a beautiful little spark in this unimaginably large universe.
Goodbye Chicago, for a couple days! Going to spend a weekend with family up in crunchy Door County as we do every year. Such a pretty day here, tho.
September 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Goodbye Chicago, for a couple days! Going to spend a weekend with family up in crunchy Door County as we do every year. Such a pretty day here, tho.
I didn't design this but am proud to have sorta art-directed & that we have these as an option for a farecard, adding to our library of inclusiveness, putting Black and brown and trans folks first as part of acknowledging everyone. Thanks to Steve Wallach and our graphics team for bringing it home!
September 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I didn't design this but am proud to have sorta art-directed & that we have these as an option for a farecard, adding to our library of inclusiveness, putting Black and brown and trans folks first as part of acknowledging everyone. Thanks to Steve Wallach and our graphics team for bringing it home!
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This is the playbook, folks.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This is the playbook, folks.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
Long but hopefully fulfilling transit nerd thread incoming:
I want to talk about that I’m super proud of, and which is a culmination of things we’ve done in the past as well as things I’ve seen elsewhere that I wanted to bring home to Chicago: New digital at RPM stations that we hope to expand!
I want to talk about that I’m super proud of, and which is a culmination of things we’ve done in the past as well as things I’ve seen elsewhere that I wanted to bring home to Chicago: New digital at RPM stations that we hope to expand!
September 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Long but hopefully fulfilling transit nerd thread incoming:
I want to talk about that I’m super proud of, and which is a culmination of things we’ve done in the past as well as things I’ve seen elsewhere that I wanted to bring home to Chicago: New digital at RPM stations that we hope to expand!
I want to talk about that I’m super proud of, and which is a culmination of things we’ve done in the past as well as things I’ve seen elsewhere that I wanted to bring home to Chicago: New digital at RPM stations that we hope to expand!
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Delete your Twitter account. Right now. Seriously. Right now.
Very cool that the richest man in human history purchased a social media platform so that he could more efficiently incite vigilante violence
Elon, fresh off attempting to incite race riots in England is now trying to incite pogroms against trans people.
September 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Delete your Twitter account. Right now. Seriously. Right now.
Tell me you're really from a City of Chicago family without telling me you're from a City of Chicago family.
September 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Tell me you're really from a City of Chicago family without telling me you're from a City of Chicago family.
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Big shout out to my friends Tony, Quinn, Erik and Steve at @chicagocta.bsky.social for the tour around the office and some great conversations about the power of transit to bring people together.
@tonycoppoletta.com @eriktakestransit.bsky.social
@tonycoppoletta.com @eriktakestransit.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Big shout out to my friends Tony, Quinn, Erik and Steve at @chicagocta.bsky.social for the tour around the office and some great conversations about the power of transit to bring people together.
@tonycoppoletta.com @eriktakestransit.bsky.social
@tonycoppoletta.com @eriktakestransit.bsky.social
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If we waited until interracial marriage was popular to protect it, it would’ve been illegal until 2004.
September 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If we waited until interracial marriage was popular to protect it, it would’ve been illegal until 2004.
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"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!"
just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement
it's 95% now
you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement
just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement
it's 95% now
you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement
September 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!"
just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement
it's 95% now
you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement
just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement
it's 95% now
you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement
I thought maybe this was a good time to post about something nice that I'm proud of. A new thing we've started doing at work is "bagging" long-term, out-of-service (but not to be permanently removed) bus stop signs rather than just taking them down.
September 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I thought maybe this was a good time to post about something nice that I'm proud of. A new thing we've started doing at work is "bagging" long-term, out-of-service (but not to be permanently removed) bus stop signs rather than just taking them down.
I reflect upon this lake from Saugatuk and was reminded of the below series of posts. Perhaps nothing is truly forever, and perhaps neither are our problems.
September 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I reflect upon this lake from Saugatuk and was reminded of the below series of posts. Perhaps nothing is truly forever, and perhaps neither are our problems.
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JB Pritzker uses the word "invasion" to describe what Trump has planned for my city, Chicago. And that's exactly what it would be – an autocratic government trying to crush our dissent because we oppose his corruption, cruelty and incompetence. It's what dictators do.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
August 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
JB Pritzker uses the word "invasion" to describe what Trump has planned for my city, Chicago. And that's exactly what it would be – an autocratic government trying to crush our dissent because we oppose his corruption, cruelty and incompetence. It's what dictators do.
I am upset that people are basically coronating Newsom as the opposition inheritor when we've got JB Pritizker out here in Illinois having said, since the election, that, inclusive of trans people, "a happy warrior is still a warrior, and if you come for my people you will have to come through me."
Cis liberals: instead of getting mad at trans people for not liking your favorite transphobic candidate of the moment how about you use that cis privilege to push that candidate to be less transphobic and thus win broader support?
August 31, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I am upset that people are basically coronating Newsom as the opposition inheritor when we've got JB Pritizker out here in Illinois having said, since the election, that, inclusive of trans people, "a happy warrior is still a warrior, and if you come for my people you will have to come through me."
Well, I've been trying for hours to reach someone who can even tell me if they can help me or not at Verizon (VZW). Like, just tell me if I'm wasting my time on hold.
I am travelling and I have no service on my new Google Pixel and it just went out as if I had no functioning sim around 3:30 EDT.
I am travelling and I have no service on my new Google Pixel and it just went out as if I had no functioning sim around 3:30 EDT.
August 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Well, I've been trying for hours to reach someone who can even tell me if they can help me or not at Verizon (VZW). Like, just tell me if I'm wasting my time on hold.
I am travelling and I have no service on my new Google Pixel and it just went out as if I had no functioning sim around 3:30 EDT.
I am travelling and I have no service on my new Google Pixel and it just went out as if I had no functioning sim around 3:30 EDT.
This is pretty cool for checking if where you live in Chicago has lead service lines for your water. If you do, this can help you be informed and perhaps cause to get your water tested to see if it's getting into your taps.
Does my home have lead pipes? Check our map
Enter your address to find out whether any part of your water service line needs replacing and how your neighborhood compares to others.
chicago.suntimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This is pretty cool for checking if where you live in Chicago has lead service lines for your water. If you do, this can help you be informed and perhaps cause to get your water tested to see if it's getting into your taps.
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To Donald Trump and his administration:
If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
August 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
To Donald Trump and his administration:
If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
I think this is absolutely true. I live in a 2-bed/bath high rise in Uptown that is historically affordable because we have tons of apts. That's changing now that Uptown is super hip but I am still fortunate enough to be able to afford this in a decent building in a diverse community.
Wealthy people will always have the nicest housing available.
If you fail to build new housing, you are forcing poor people to compete with wealthier people for that existing stock.
That is not working out for folks.
If you fail to build new housing, you are forcing poor people to compete with wealthier people for that existing stock.
That is not working out for folks.
August 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I think this is absolutely true. I live in a 2-bed/bath high rise in Uptown that is historically affordable because we have tons of apts. That's changing now that Uptown is super hip but I am still fortunate enough to be able to afford this in a decent building in a diverse community.
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Wealthy people will always have the nicest housing available.
If you fail to build new housing, you are forcing poor people to compete with wealthier people for that existing stock.
That is not working out for folks.
If you fail to build new housing, you are forcing poor people to compete with wealthier people for that existing stock.
That is not working out for folks.
August 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Wealthy people will always have the nicest housing available.
If you fail to build new housing, you are forcing poor people to compete with wealthier people for that existing stock.
That is not working out for folks.
If you fail to build new housing, you are forcing poor people to compete with wealthier people for that existing stock.
That is not working out for folks.
Chicago just... sparkles. ✨
August 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Chicago just... sparkles. ✨