San Antonians for Rail Transit
@railforsatx.bsky.social
San Antonians for Rail Transit (SART) is a group dedicated to promoting efficient, reliable rail transportation for Central and South Texas.
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Did you know that the Amtrak Texas Eagle has to BACK UP to get out of the San Antonio Amtrak station? It’s true, and it adds 15 minutes to an hour to every trip that goes through San Antonio. Why is this?
No better example of pent-up demand for regional passenger rail than the success of Amtrak's Mardi Gras service.
On top of the 3+-month Mardi Gras ridership numbers at 46,000 (442 average riders/day, or about 110 per one-way trip; a 64% occupancy rate), Amtrak and the city of Mobile are moving forward with plans for a permanent platform canopy to open by the end of 2026. (Tents are in place currently)
Coming soon to Mobile – permanent Amtrak platform and covering
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Amtrak’s Mardi Gras Service is off to a booming start, but some passengers have complained about a lack of covering in sweltering heat or pouring rain. That changes next year.
www.fox10tv.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
No better example of pent-up demand for regional passenger rail than the success of Amtrak's Mardi Gras service.
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Another light rail extension in Seattle opens today.
The Federal Way Link Light Rail extension opens Dec. 6. Here's what you need to know
The extension will bring Washington's largest transit network that much closer to connecting Seattle and Tacoma.
www.king5.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Another light rail extension in Seattle opens today.
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It would take 2 hours and 20 minutes to travel between Boston and Washington, D.C. at this speed.
This country is so behind, it's laughable.
This country is so behind, it's laughable.
December 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It would take 2 hours and 20 minutes to travel between Boston and Washington, D.C. at this speed.
This country is so behind, it's laughable.
This country is so behind, it's laughable.
Join us for SART's Holiday Party this Saturday, December 13 from 4 to 6 at Sojourn Trading Co.*, 244 W. Houston St. Please bring two non-perishable items to donate to Salud food bank.
*It's a bar.
*It's a bar.
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Join us for SART's Holiday Party this Saturday, December 13 from 4 to 6 at Sojourn Trading Co.*, 244 W. Houston St. Please bring two non-perishable items to donate to Salud food bank.
*It's a bar.
*It's a bar.
Congratulations to SART co-chair Jesse Harasta on his appointment to the commission! www.ksat.com/news/local/2...
San Antonio City Council names 11 members of newly formed pedestrian and transportation safety commission
Membership appointments for a newly formed pedestrian and transportation safety commission made up of transportation advocates and practitioners from across the spectrum was approved by San Antonio Ci...
www.ksat.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Congratulations to SART co-chair Jesse Harasta on his appointment to the commission! www.ksat.com/news/local/2...
A fascinating interactive look at what could be. www.cnn.com/interactive/...
What if the United States had high-speed rail?
High-speed rail is a proven alternative to gridlocked highways and overcrowded airports. CNN has reimagined a faster, more connected future for US commuters.
www.cnn.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
A fascinating interactive look at what could be. www.cnn.com/interactive/...
Special SATURDAY social December 6 at 4 pm. Location TBA.
December 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Special SATURDAY social December 6 at 4 pm. Location TBA.
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Better public transport, better places for pedestrians and better cycle ways/ cycle friendly junctions all go together.
So, a new metro network in Paris could also see more people cycling.
A better bus service in #Oxford could see more people cycling.
Let's get joined up!
So, a new metro network in Paris could also see more people cycling.
A better bus service in #Oxford could see more people cycling.
Let's get joined up!
Perhaps the smartest #ClimateAction investment in cities is in public transit. While others make excuses, Paris is building a WHOLE NEW METRO NETWORK CONNECTING SUBURBS.
“…the Grand Paris Express, a new 200km system with 4 new lines & 68 new stations.”
#ActionStartsHere
@mayors4climate.bsky.social
“…the Grand Paris Express, a new 200km system with 4 new lines & 68 new stations.”
#ActionStartsHere
@mayors4climate.bsky.social
Paris is getting a whole new Metro network. And it’s huge | CNN
The Grand Paris Express will add four lines, 68 stations and 200 kilometers of track to the French capital’s 120-year-old Metro system, providing vital suburban links – just not quite in time for the ...
www.cnn.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Better public transport, better places for pedestrians and better cycle ways/ cycle friendly junctions all go together.
So, a new metro network in Paris could also see more people cycling.
A better bus service in #Oxford could see more people cycling.
Let's get joined up!
So, a new metro network in Paris could also see more people cycling.
A better bus service in #Oxford could see more people cycling.
Let's get joined up!
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Austin light rail is one step closer!
"The rating, the strongest overall grade FTA assigned for the 2026 fiscal year, signals that federal staff view the project as financially and technically viable."
"The rating, the strongest overall grade FTA assigned for the 2026 fiscal year, signals that federal staff view the project as financially and technically viable."
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Austin light rail is one step closer!
"The rating, the strongest overall grade FTA assigned for the 2026 fiscal year, signals that federal staff view the project as financially and technically viable."
"The rating, the strongest overall grade FTA assigned for the 2026 fiscal year, signals that federal staff view the project as financially and technically viable."
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Don't miss your chance to hear from our #TCamp26 keynote speaker Jarrett Walker! @humantransit.bsky.social
Learn more about Jarrett and grab your tickets today 👇
t4america.org/transportati...
Learn more about Jarrett and grab your tickets today 👇
t4america.org/transportati...
TransportationCamp DC
Join us on Saturday, January 10, 2026, at Catholic University's Pryzbyla Center for another year of TransportationCamp DC.
t4america.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Don't miss your chance to hear from our #TCamp26 keynote speaker Jarrett Walker! @humantransit.bsky.social
Learn more about Jarrett and grab your tickets today 👇
t4america.org/transportati...
Learn more about Jarrett and grab your tickets today 👇
t4america.org/transportati...
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“Several states poised to benefit from Big Sky Passenger Rail,” highlights multi-state support, local and Tribal resolutions, heritage tourism and FRA Corridor ID planning along the former North Coast Hiawatha route.
www.themunicipal.com/2025/11/seve...
www.themunicipal.com/2025/11/seve...
Several states posed to benefit from Big Sky Passenger Rail - The Municipal
The Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority was established in 2020 when 12 counties in Montana passed a joint resolution.
www.themunicipal.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“Several states poised to benefit from Big Sky Passenger Rail,” highlights multi-state support, local and Tribal resolutions, heritage tourism and FRA Corridor ID planning along the former North Coast Hiawatha route.
www.themunicipal.com/2025/11/seve...
www.themunicipal.com/2025/11/seve...
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Our brand new fourth episode walks you through the wild consequences, for better and for worse, of the peculiar U.S. insistence on private ownership of the critical national infrastructure called railroads.
Click here to listen on your favorite platform: solutionaryrail.org/podcastepiso...
Click here to listen on your favorite platform: solutionaryrail.org/podcastepiso...
December 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Our brand new fourth episode walks you through the wild consequences, for better and for worse, of the peculiar U.S. insistence on private ownership of the critical national infrastructure called railroads.
Click here to listen on your favorite platform: solutionaryrail.org/podcastepiso...
Click here to listen on your favorite platform: solutionaryrail.org/podcastepiso...
This is an arms race we can get behind.
(And "Melburnians"? Good to know.)
(And "Melburnians"? Good to know.)
I dislike parochialism. It's a reminder of the dark old days of insular Australia that we're thankfully out-growing.
But if we have to argue amongst ourselves, then at least "my train is better than your train" is something I could hand-wave
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
But if we have to argue amongst ourselves, then at least "my train is better than your train" is something I could hand-wave
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Sorry Melbourne, Sydney’s metro system beats your new CBD rail tunnel
Melburnians flocked to the opening of their $15 billion Metro Tunnel. We joined them for a ride to see how it compares to Sydney’s expanding metro network.
www.smh.com.au
November 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This is an arms race we can get behind.
(And "Melburnians"? Good to know.)
(And "Melburnians"? Good to know.)
We've seen what can be. Now let's watch and learn how to get there.
US public transit advocates: Don't just envy Europe. Start by envying Canada.
Great piece on Montreal's remarkably cheap new rapid transit system.
macleans.ca/society/mont...
Great piece on Montreal's remarkably cheap new rapid transit system.
macleans.ca/society/mont...
Montreal's New Rail Line Is the Future - Macleans.ca
Canada has forgotten how to build fast, cheap transit. A new megaproject has the fix.
macleans.ca
November 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We've seen what can be. Now let's watch and learn how to get there.
Join the authors Dec. 9 at the Central Library, 600 Soledad St., for an exhibition and discussion of their research. The exhibition opens at 4 p.m., followed by a panel from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...
San Antonio can avoid sprawl by linking affordable housing to rapid transit
VIA's long-term rapid transit corridor plan could support more than 250,000 new housing units.
www.expressnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Join the authors Dec. 9 at the Central Library, 600 Soledad St., for an exhibition and discussion of their research. The exhibition opens at 4 p.m., followed by a panel from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...
I am so stoked about this. I could moan about some details, and how an enduring service must run multiple times a day, but simply having an operator prepared to run this in such a hostile car-centric environment is such a step up from having nothing for over two decades—I’m thrilled. We need this!
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Perhaps the smartest #ClimateAction investment in cities is in public transit. While others make excuses, Paris is building a WHOLE NEW METRO NETWORK CONNECTING SUBURBS.
“…the Grand Paris Express, a new 200km system with 4 new lines & 68 new stations.”
#ActionStartsHere
@mayors4climate.bsky.social
“…the Grand Paris Express, a new 200km system with 4 new lines & 68 new stations.”
#ActionStartsHere
@mayors4climate.bsky.social
Paris is getting a whole new Metro network. And it’s huge | CNN
The Grand Paris Express will add four lines, 68 stations and 200 kilometers of track to the French capital’s 120-year-old Metro system, providing vital suburban links – just not quite in time for the ...
www.cnn.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Perhaps the smartest #ClimateAction investment in cities is in public transit. While others make excuses, Paris is building a WHOLE NEW METRO NETWORK CONNECTING SUBURBS.
“…the Grand Paris Express, a new 200km system with 4 new lines & 68 new stations.”
#ActionStartsHere
@mayors4climate.bsky.social
“…the Grand Paris Express, a new 200km system with 4 new lines & 68 new stations.”
#ActionStartsHere
@mayors4climate.bsky.social
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Now Uzbekistan is pulling ahead of the U.S. with high-speed rail. They are taking delivery of 6 high-speed train sets from Korea in addition to what you see in the picture:
www.railjournal.com/regions/asia...
www.railjournal.com/regions/asia...
Uzbekistan prepares major fleet orders
Details of a major rolling stock purchasing programme have been presented to the president of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
www.railjournal.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Now Uzbekistan is pulling ahead of the U.S. with high-speed rail. They are taking delivery of 6 high-speed train sets from Korea in addition to what you see in the picture:
www.railjournal.com/regions/asia...
www.railjournal.com/regions/asia...
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Iowa will be seeing high Amtrak ridership this holiday weekend.
who13.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Iowa will be seeing high Amtrak ridership this holiday weekend.
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Smart cities are transforming transportation, reducing emissions and public costs while adding more choice and improving quality of life. COMMON SENSE!
Smart infrastructure for public transit, walking & biking is a GREAT INVESTMENT. Fund it accordingly. #ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
Smart infrastructure for public transit, walking & biking is a GREAT INVESTMENT. Fund it accordingly. #ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Smart cities are transforming transportation, reducing emissions and public costs while adding more choice and improving quality of life. COMMON SENSE!
Smart infrastructure for public transit, walking & biking is a GREAT INVESTMENT. Fund it accordingly. #ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
Smart infrastructure for public transit, walking & biking is a GREAT INVESTMENT. Fund it accordingly. #ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
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The planner Jarrett Walker (@humantransit.bsky.social) talks about planning transportation networks with the goal of freedom (which apparently planners call "access"). He writes about public transit, but I think the approach works for any transportation network.
humantransit.org/basics-acces...
humantransit.org/basics-acces...
Basics: Access, or the Wall Around Your Life — Human Transit
What if we planned public transit with the goal of freedom? Well, it’s hard to improve things that you can’t measure, but now it’s becoming possible to measure freedom, or as we call it in transport ...
humantransit.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The planner Jarrett Walker (@humantransit.bsky.social) talks about planning transportation networks with the goal of freedom (which apparently planners call "access"). He writes about public transit, but I think the approach works for any transportation network.
humantransit.org/basics-acces...
humantransit.org/basics-acces...
SART supports buses as part of a transit solution, but this pic is just too good to not share.
In Oslo, four articulated buses trapped themselves in a roundabout yesterday.
"I don't know what I'm most impressed with: That they managed to get into the situation, or that they got out of it."
"I don't know what I'm most impressed with: That they managed to get into the situation, or that they got out of it."
– Vet ikke hva jeg er mest imponert over: At de klarte å komme seg inn i situasjonen, eller at de kom seg ut av den
Mandag kveld bød på komiske scener fra Alexander Kiellands plass.
www.ao.no
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
SART supports buses as part of a transit solution, but this pic is just too good to not share.
Robust intra- and Intercity rail are part of transforming cities to drive the fight against the #climatecrisis.
As nations KEEP FAILING on #ClimateAction, cities must DOUBLE their efforts & actions on #ClimateChange mitigation though the SIGNIFICANT power of land-use and transportation decisions, which are within the power of cities and are TRANSFORMATIVE in addressing the #ClimateCrisis.
Further & faster.
Further & faster.
Another COP. Another disappointment.
November 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Robust intra- and Intercity rail are part of transforming cities to drive the fight against the #climatecrisis.
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Americans love rail—and they deserve a rail network on par with our international counterparts.
That starts with investments from Congress.
That starts with investments from Congress.
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Americans love rail—and they deserve a rail network on par with our international counterparts.
That starts with investments from Congress.
That starts with investments from Congress.
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TODAY is the last day to tell TxDOT: "I want statewide mass transit in Texas!"
TxDOT's transit plan is a huge deal and it needs YOUR support. If you do one thing today, do this: 👉 Take the survey! 👈
Survey link: www.surveymonkey.com/r/F6RQFQN
TxDOT's transit plan is a huge deal and it needs YOUR support. If you do one thing today, do this: 👉 Take the survey! 👈
Survey link: www.surveymonkey.com/r/F6RQFQN
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
TODAY is the last day to tell TxDOT: "I want statewide mass transit in Texas!"
TxDOT's transit plan is a huge deal and it needs YOUR support. If you do one thing today, do this: 👉 Take the survey! 👈
Survey link: www.surveymonkey.com/r/F6RQFQN
TxDOT's transit plan is a huge deal and it needs YOUR support. If you do one thing today, do this: 👉 Take the survey! 👈
Survey link: www.surveymonkey.com/r/F6RQFQN