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world TOP #1 producer of high purity anthracite coal
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Montreal’s Biggest REM Expansion Yet! (with Reece Martin)
Montreal’s Biggest REM Expansion Yet! (with Reece Martin)
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
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November 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Montreal’s Biggest REM Expansion Yet! (with Reece Martin)
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Voici une carte interactive fascinante partagée cette semaine à Moteur de recherche par notre collaboratrice Annie Levasseur, prof-chercheure à @etsmtl.bsky.social: les échanges et l'intensité carbone des réseaux électriques en temps réel. app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fif...
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Voici une carte interactive fascinante partagée cette semaine à Moteur de recherche par notre collaboratrice Annie Levasseur, prof-chercheure à @etsmtl.bsky.social: les échanges et l'intensité carbone des réseaux électriques en temps réel. app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fif...
why is air conditioning treated as the pinnacle of vice in so much of europe
Here it's the other way around, we're electrifying heating but the subsidies only go to heat pumps without reversibility capability installed.
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
why is air conditioning treated as the pinnacle of vice in so much of europe
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It's impressive how contemporary projects' budgeting practices in Canada are made of very thin actual analytical estimates based on quantities and unit prices on top of which there is an entire enormous castle of random percentages of percentages of percentages which are suspiciously multiples of 5.
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It's impressive how contemporary projects' budgeting practices in Canada are made of very thin actual analytical estimates based on quantities and unit prices on top of which there is an entire enormous castle of random percentages of percentages of percentages which are suspiciously multiples of 5.
i would like you all to know more about this world
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
i would like you all to know more about this world
apta ridership in 2-3 weeks I can't wait!
November 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
apta ridership in 2-3 weeks I can't wait!
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back of the envelope they are going to be paying $25 in debt service per swipe at the new stations
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
back of the envelope they are going to be paying $25 in debt service per swipe at the new stations
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The difference in the time it takes a streetcar in Amsterdam vs. Toronto to clear an intersection after servicing a nearside stop.
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The difference in the time it takes a streetcar in Amsterdam vs. Toronto to clear an intersection after servicing a nearside stop.
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It seems possible to me that they basically are just repeating, like a broken telephone, a message that is everywhere, mostly due to the deliberate perversion of our normal media channels through far-right propaganda, due to the artificial boosting of their messaging online.
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It seems possible to me that they basically are just repeating, like a broken telephone, a message that is everywhere, mostly due to the deliberate perversion of our normal media channels through far-right propaganda, due to the artificial boosting of their messaging online.
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"STEM" is insufficient for a modern economy. We need to make it "STEAM" by adding Artifice, to ensure a supply of cunningly-wrought golden birds for the Emperor, that sing by an arrangement of valves.
April 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"STEM" is insufficient for a modern economy. We need to make it "STEAM" by adding Artifice, to ensure a supply of cunningly-wrought golden birds for the Emperor, that sing by an arrangement of valves.
I have to wonder how these cars all found their way to Fushun and not the broader China Railway after the civil war.
October 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I have to wonder how these cars all found their way to Fushun and not the broader China Railway after the civil war.
Estimating from recent statements, GO rail ridership likely exceeded Metro-North for the first time in August. It was reported that 2025-08 ridership was 108.5% of 2019 levels, corresponding to about 6 million rail trips, the 2nd in North America. (Yes, including Mexico.)
APTA ridership data is out for Q2 2025, so here's commuter rail + BART!
GO patronage continues to climb and is now semi-consistently greater than that of San Francisco's BART and of New Jersey Transit's commuter rail system. MTA railroads up thanks to congestion pricing.
GO patronage continues to climb and is now semi-consistently greater than that of San Francisco's BART and of New Jersey Transit's commuter rail system. MTA railroads up thanks to congestion pricing.
October 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Estimating from recent statements, GO rail ridership likely exceeded Metro-North for the first time in August. It was reported that 2025-08 ridership was 108.5% of 2019 levels, corresponding to about 6 million rail trips, the 2nd in North America. (Yes, including Mexico.)
i want to read this book so bad. actually, i want to read it and write about it in english. china's only(?) 20th century electric urban commuter railway is such an oddball
October 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
i want to read this book so bad. actually, i want to read it and write about it in english. china's only(?) 20th century electric urban commuter railway is such an oddball
Finally, a sense of scale of the annoyingly long tunnel. I get why the Spadina Subway station was supposed to be called Lowther
October 22, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Finally, a sense of scale of the annoyingly long tunnel. I get why the Spadina Subway station was supposed to be called Lowther
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Cool website by @albertguillaumes.cat
showing station maps of most European and American underground stations (nice colouring of TfL axiomatics).
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
showing station maps of most European and American underground stations (nice colouring of TfL axiomatics).
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
Stations and transfers
A gallery of drawings depicting the topology of metro stations from different European cities.
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
October 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Cool website by @albertguillaumes.cat
showing station maps of most European and American underground stations (nice colouring of TfL axiomatics).
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
showing station maps of most European and American underground stations (nice colouring of TfL axiomatics).
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
The Bullet Train project found a strong backer in Shima Yasujiro, chairman of the Railway Trunk Line Investigatory Committee of the Showa 10s. He was father of Shima Hideo, who's more famous as the father of mainline EMUs and of the Shinkansen trains.
TIL in this great Substack article that earliest plans for Shinkansen was as early as 1939, and the Imperial Government was buying up land for Tokaido during WWII. Then-Japanese Government Railways bought ROW land dirt cheap thanks to the US bombings jrurbanenetwork.substack.com/p/shinkansen...
Shinkansen... We also need. 新幹綫~ 我們也要有。
China and Japan operate an ever complex and frequent HSR system. The environment surrounding the births of their systems can be similar and different at the same time.
jrurbanenetwork.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The Bullet Train project found a strong backer in Shima Yasujiro, chairman of the Railway Trunk Line Investigatory Committee of the Showa 10s. He was father of Shima Hideo, who's more famous as the father of mainline EMUs and of the Shinkansen trains.
wondering whether this was with an operator inside like on the TTC side or on the CTSM side in UTO yard ops
Something had to give for that home run. A price had to be paid to the civic gods.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/egl...
www.thestar.com/news/gta/egl...
Eglinton Crosstown LRT testing stopped — source says two trains collided
The Eglinton Crosstown LRT had begun its final round of testing on Oct. 7, but two trains collided in the Mount Dennis train yard on Thursday, leading to a pause in the test, according to a source.
www.thestar.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
wondering whether this was with an operator inside like on the TTC side or on the CTSM side in UTO yard ops
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The American centrist punditocracy has decided that what the US transit industry needs are endless lectures about the importance of security.
These writers misunderstand the problem, and are making things worse. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
These writers misunderstand the problem, and are making things worse. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Other Reason Americans Don’t Use Mass Transit
People will take buses and trains only if they feel safe while riding them.
www.theatlantic.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The American centrist punditocracy has decided that what the US transit industry needs are endless lectures about the importance of security.
These writers misunderstand the problem, and are making things worse. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
These writers misunderstand the problem, and are making things worse. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Certain political figures are drawn like racist caricatures seemingly at random. Prince Konoe? Kishi? Chiang? yes. Matsuoka? Xie Wendong (a northeastern bandit turned KMT general)? no
October 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Certain political figures are drawn like racist caricatures seemingly at random. Prince Konoe? Kishi? Chiang? yes. Matsuoka? Xie Wendong (a northeastern bandit turned KMT general)? no
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This is an opportunity for Canada to unburden itself from the gigantic American automobile trend. Half of the current surge in traffic congestion is driven by unreasonable vehicle size.
October 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is an opportunity for Canada to unburden itself from the gigantic American automobile trend. Half of the current surge in traffic congestion is driven by unreasonable vehicle size.
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The standard—and not totally incorrect—narrative is that the US basically abandoned transit after WWII, but there was a real revival underway in the 1970s that stalled out by the mid-1980s as the political winds shifted. Things have improved since, but we've never fully recovered that ambition.
UMTA R&D spend from 1972-1989. The amounts in the 1980s appear to be overstated as a lot of those projects were commissioned in the 1970s and were finishing up. Dollars are not adjusted for inflation.
New spend by the late 80s was down to $13m/yr, $3m/yr of which went into 'privatization' =>
New spend by the late 80s was down to $13m/yr, $3m/yr of which went into 'privatization' =>
October 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The standard—and not totally incorrect—narrative is that the US basically abandoned transit after WWII, but there was a real revival underway in the 1970s that stalled out by the mid-1980s as the political winds shifted. Things have improved since, but we've never fully recovered that ambition.
The planners of suburban Toronto are faced with the challenge: how do you fit 5000+ persons/km^2 without challenging the basic fabric of car-oriented suburbanisation? This is how they do it.
October 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The planners of suburban Toronto are faced with the challenge: how do you fit 5000+ persons/km^2 without challenging the basic fabric of car-oriented suburbanisation? This is how they do it.
What a heavenly title
October 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
What a heavenly title
Until 1919 Ontario at least was all in on electric regional railways, on the premise of consolidating the various radials, heavily upgrading them, and linking them with new urban rights of way. If not for surprise political upheaval in the 1919 election such a system could well exist!
October 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Until 1919 Ontario at least was all in on electric regional railways, on the premise of consolidating the various radials, heavily upgrading them, and linking them with new urban rights of way. If not for surprise political upheaval in the 1919 election such a system could well exist!