Uday Schultz
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This is insane. ICE raided an apartment building in South Shore (a 90%+ Black neighborhood) at 10pm, using chainsaws to gain access and throwing flash bangs.
According to witnesses they just handcuffed everyone, with people who weren’t arrested being held for over five hours.
According to witnesses they just handcuffed everyone, with people who weren’t arrested being held for over five hours.
“‘I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other…He said, “f*** them kids.”’
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’They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van.’” abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
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’They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van.’” abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
abc7chicago.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
This is insane. ICE raided an apartment building in South Shore (a 90%+ Black neighborhood) at 10pm, using chainsaws to gain access and throwing flash bangs.
According to witnesses they just handcuffed everyone, with people who weren’t arrested being held for over five hours.
According to witnesses they just handcuffed everyone, with people who weren’t arrested being held for over five hours.
hello from the central valley
October 1, 2025 at 3:27 AM
hello from the central valley
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I created stringline diagrams for the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit schedule, following up on discussions about why SMART can't run a 30 minute Takt. It's currently running a 32-minute Takt after opening the Novato Downtown and Petaluma North infill stations.
September 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I created stringline diagrams for the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit schedule, following up on discussions about why SMART can't run a 30 minute Takt. It's currently running a 32-minute Takt after opening the Novato Downtown and Petaluma North infill stations.
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New story about trains and corporate mergers, and why you should never ever stop spending money on the railroads. medium.com/p/c6ab8375d4f0
Who are the Railroads For?
On Mergers, Electrification, and Nationalization
medium.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
New story about trains and corporate mergers, and why you should never ever stop spending money on the railroads. medium.com/p/c6ab8375d4f0
Tangential to Stephen's point, but we really need to bring back the art of the high-profile government-sponsored market research report. At the height of Progressive scientific management fever dream-ism, this sort of thing would become a 1,000 page report called "The Grocery Question" or something
Went to my neighborhood NYC co-op/chair grocery store (nothing special, C-Town) after a few months of almost exclusively going to Wegman’s, and holy crap, everything is like 25-125% more expensive
August 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Tangential to Stephen's point, but we really need to bring back the art of the high-profile government-sponsored market research report. At the height of Progressive scientific management fever dream-ism, this sort of thing would become a 1,000 page report called "The Grocery Question" or something
A lot has happened to PATH in the past 25 years -- 9/11, major construction work, COVID, etc. But consistent across all of these events have been ensuing reductions in off-pk service levels: since 2005, the number of PATH trips crossing the Hudson on Saturdays has fallen by *50%*
July 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A lot has happened to PATH in the past 25 years -- 9/11, major construction work, COVID, etc. But consistent across all of these events have been ensuing reductions in off-pk service levels: since 2005, the number of PATH trips crossing the Hudson on Saturdays has fallen by *50%*
You really begin to see the divergence between the US and everywhere else when you compare this map (18% double track, 1950) to Italy, where about 26% of the network was double track in 1956.
July 26, 2025 at 2:57 AM
You really begin to see the divergence between the US and everywhere else when you compare this map (18% double track, 1950) to Italy, where about 26% of the network was double track in 1956.
At a high level, this is a good thing. Railroads suffer massively from the friction inherent to carrier handoffs. Mergers can mitigate that, potentially opening new markets and allowing more effective competition w already continent-spanning trucking companies.
Exclusive: Union Pacific is in talks to acquire its smaller rival Norfolk Southern in what would be a megamerger in the railroad industry.
Railroad Operator Union Pacific Exploring Deal for Norfolk Southern
Two companies are holding preliminary deal talks.
on.wsj.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
At a high level, this is a good thing. Railroads suffer massively from the friction inherent to carrier handoffs. Mergers can mitigate that, potentially opening new markets and allowing more effective competition w already continent-spanning trucking companies.
A few months ago, I paid a visit to Boston and spent some quality time with the MBTA’s bus service. After spending a while digging through T’s (excellent) open data, I had some Thoughts to share about the experience—and bus operations in general.
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/h...
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/h...
How a Bus Route Falls Apart
All opinions in this post are solely my own, and do not represent the positions of my employer or any organizations of which I am part. About two months ago, I found myself waiting for a 77 bus in …
homesignalblog.wordpress.com
June 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
A few months ago, I paid a visit to Boston and spent some quality time with the MBTA’s bus service. After spending a while digging through T’s (excellent) open data, I had some Thoughts to share about the experience—and bus operations in general.
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/h...
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/h...
Going to publish a much longer look at bus operations soon, but it is just _incredible_ how significant the trip-level effects on performance are, even on fairly frequent routes. Two examples from the MBTA's network:
June 6, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Going to publish a much longer look at bus operations soon, but it is just _incredible_ how significant the trip-level effects on performance are, even on fairly frequent routes. Two examples from the MBTA's network:
For my money, one of the greatest gaps in benchmarking practice surrounds the *tactics* of service management — how different systems respond to incidents, gaps, congestion and so on. Gaining that knowledge just got a good bit easier, thanks to this incredible new tool:
A little thing I've been working on recently: real-time stringlines for the London Underground, using data from the Trackernet API: trackernet-stringlines.choochoo.systems
Trackernet Stringlines
Graphical Service Analysis for the London Underground
trackernet-stringlines.choochoo.systems
June 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
For my money, one of the greatest gaps in benchmarking practice surrounds the *tactics* of service management — how different systems respond to incidents, gaps, congestion and so on. Gaining that knowledge just got a good bit easier, thanks to this incredible new tool:
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No only there will be zero accountability.
There will be zero lessons learned from the errors of this project because we will never know what went wrong.
So we will start from zero and make the same mistakes again and again and again...
There will be zero lessons learned from the errors of this project because we will never know what went wrong.
So we will start from zero and make the same mistakes again and again and again...
The worst part about a P3 is that it means no one has to actually tell the public how badly things have gone off the rails. More oversight and more frequent updates are crucial to keeping projects on track and management accountable -- www.thestar.com/news/gta/met...
Metrolinx quietly drops Deutsche Bahn, Aecon from multibillion-dollar GO expansion project
Deutsche Bahn, the German national rail company, and construction firm Aecon had been contracted out to operate and maintain GO transit in Ontario starting this year.
www.thestar.com
May 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
No only there will be zero accountability.
There will be zero lessons learned from the errors of this project because we will never know what went wrong.
So we will start from zero and make the same mistakes again and again and again...
There will be zero lessons learned from the errors of this project because we will never know what went wrong.
So we will start from zero and make the same mistakes again and again and again...
Continuing my series of posts on the railroad industry's immense challenges managing complexity and market alignment, I have (finally) finished some thoughts on the trajectory of railroading's growth engine: intermodal
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/w...
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/w...
Why Railroading’s Growth Engine Might Be Stalling
Over the past year, American railroads seem to have discovered the value in growth. After over a decade of Wall St-fueled cost-cutting and service reductions, regulatory and financial pressures aro…
homesignalblog.wordpress.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Continuing my series of posts on the railroad industry's immense challenges managing complexity and market alignment, I have (finally) finished some thoughts on the trajectory of railroading's growth engine: intermodal
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/w...
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/w...
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“Mommy, no. Mommy.”
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“Mommy, no. Mommy.”
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
This is an excellent post, well worth your time to read.
When contrasting this history to the US, it's hard to overstate the deleterious impacts of fragmentation on investment. Marco's emphasis on the importance of nationalization is critical!
When contrasting this history to the US, it's hard to overstate the deleterious impacts of fragmentation on investment. Marco's emphasis on the importance of nationalization is critical!
Here is my latest long post on Substack about the Long Modernization of the Italian Railways.
I tried to capture how the railways in Italy (and elsewhere) remained relevant to today's world and what this history teaches us.
I hope you'll enjoy it.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
I tried to capture how the railways in Italy (and elsewhere) remained relevant to today's world and what this history teaches us.
I hope you'll enjoy it.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
The Long Modernization of the Italian Railways
Why High-Speed Rail is not the only modern rail.
open.substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is an excellent post, well worth your time to read.
When contrasting this history to the US, it's hard to overstate the deleterious impacts of fragmentation on investment. Marco's emphasis on the importance of nationalization is critical!
When contrasting this history to the US, it's hard to overstate the deleterious impacts of fragmentation on investment. Marco's emphasis on the importance of nationalization is critical!
Theoretically, dispatching buses to a timetable w/ accurate running times should yield similar levels of service consistency on most routes as pure headway management (so long as timepoints are well-placed). But I feel like I'm missing something--anyone have reading recs?
March 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Theoretically, dispatching buses to a timetable w/ accurate running times should yield similar levels of service consistency on most routes as pure headway management (so long as timepoints are well-placed). But I feel like I'm missing something--anyone have reading recs?
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Consider this. 6 people in plainclothes approach you, and begin to cover their faces. At least one appears armed. As they grab your phone and backpack, they do not prove who they are. They say they're going to take you, but they're not saying why.
What would you call that?
What would you call that?
NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine
“I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.
zeteo.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Consider this. 6 people in plainclothes approach you, and begin to cover their faces. At least one appears armed. As they grab your phone and backpack, they do not prove who they are. They say they're going to take you, but they're not saying why.
What would you call that?
What would you call that?
read the quote. then read the date at top. then ponder the nature of railroad management and investment markets.
March 21, 2025 at 2:55 AM
read the quote. then read the date at top. then ponder the nature of railroad management and investment markets.
The whole case for the expansion is predicated on two incorrect suppositions about traffic trends
- Truck traffic growing due to port expansion [it hasn't]
- Car volumes growing due to development [they're flat vs 2010, when JC/Bayonne were 15% smaller]
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2023/07/08/d...
- Truck traffic growing due to port expansion [it hasn't]
- Car volumes growing due to development [they're flat vs 2010, when JC/Bayonne were 15% smaller]
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2023/07/08/d...
March 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The whole case for the expansion is predicated on two incorrect suppositions about traffic trends
- Truck traffic growing due to port expansion [it hasn't]
- Car volumes growing due to development [they're flat vs 2010, when JC/Bayonne were 15% smaller]
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2023/07/08/d...
- Truck traffic growing due to port expansion [it hasn't]
- Car volumes growing due to development [they're flat vs 2010, when JC/Bayonne were 15% smaller]
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2023/07/08/d...
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Here is my latest long post on Substack about the Long Modernization of the Italian Railways.
I tried to capture how the railways in Italy (and elsewhere) remained relevant to today's world and what this history teaches us.
I hope you'll enjoy it.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
I tried to capture how the railways in Italy (and elsewhere) remained relevant to today's world and what this history teaches us.
I hope you'll enjoy it.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
The Long Modernization of the Italian Railways
Why High-Speed Rail is not the only modern rail.
open.substack.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Here is my latest long post on Substack about the Long Modernization of the Italian Railways.
I tried to capture how the railways in Italy (and elsewhere) remained relevant to today's world and what this history teaches us.
I hope you'll enjoy it.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
I tried to capture how the railways in Italy (and elsewhere) remained relevant to today's world and what this history teaches us.
I hope you'll enjoy it.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
It's a lost nuance in transit's financial history, but these observations on the relationship between off-peak demand and overall profitability remain extremely relevant to system design discussions today:
February 3, 2025 at 3:06 AM
It's a lost nuance in transit's financial history, but these observations on the relationship between off-peak demand and overall profitability remain extremely relevant to system design discussions today:
well this is quite the anecdote
January 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
well this is quite the anecdote
scenes from the chemical coast
December 31, 2024 at 1:09 AM
scenes from the chemical coast