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Active Travel Please! @activetraveltt.bsky.social · 1d

We keep making wrong turns in T&T!
Fix public transit and provide safe active travel infrastructure!
Everyone trying to move around a tiny place in their own personal vehicle will never work!
#MobilityIsEquity #PoliticalWill #EndCarDependency
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Govt Eases Used-Car Import Rules, New Taxes On High-End EVs To Generate $40 Million - TTT News

The government has announced plans to ease restrictions on foreign-used vehicle imports, aiming to make car ownership more affordable for citizens. Finance Minister Davendranath Tancoo said the curren...

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Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦 @menorman.bsky.social · 1d

they're all trying to lean on the sidewalk...

Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦 @menorman.bsky.social · 1d

there are 12 metrolink/arrow stations & five Amtrak stations (one is co-located w Metrolink) right now in San Bernardino county

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Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦 @menorman.bsky.social · 1d

yes it should

Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦 @menorman.bsky.social · 2d

density is nice, but density isn't strictly necessary bc it's also possible to improve safety of the existing system w/o actually banning/removing cars. obviously, that would be great, but it's also a distraction.

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Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦 @menorman.bsky.social · 2d

does seem like an odd hill to die on

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Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦 @menorman.bsky.social · 2d

yea, exact same thing i came to point out. sb county does in fact have 16 "pax rail stations," so it should apply out here. not that it would REALLY matter tho since developing almost certainly isn't going to pencil & there are a lot of low-resource communities that would be exempted until 2031.

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Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦 @menorman.bsky.social · 4d

yes, there's a well-known essay from the 1970s and i've seen plenty of academic papers on the topic too

Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦 @menorman.bsky.social · 4d

i would note that the current metrolink system delivers more service now than several of these longer pe lines did in their heyday

Dan Wentzel @danwentzel.bsky.social · 4d

"You want European style trams in Southern California?
Well, where do you want them?"

This map works for me. :)

#transit #LosAngeles

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Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦 @menorman.bsky.social · 4d

actually no, i would prefer european-style regional rail over european-style trams.

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Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦 @menorman.bsky.social · 4d

yea, this honestly isn't that great as a tram network

Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦 @menorman.bsky.social · 4d

the most infuriating/ironic part of this system is that even tho it is ostensibly built for driver efficiency & convenience, it doesn't even actually deliver that.

Active Travel Please! @activetraveltt.bsky.social · 4d

The system was built to maximize drivers’ efficiency, and anything that might slow them down is a glitch.
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How I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman

In the bike-friendly Netherlands, cyclists speed down the road without fearing cars. For an American, the prospect is thrilling—and terrifying.

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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 4d

And a new Missed Connection is born! The new Hennepin Ave bike lane ends about 300 feet away from the Bryant Ave bike bridge.

An example of how a missed connection is a better problem to have than the alternative (no excellent bike infrastructure to have gaps in).

Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 5d

We are linking up the new Hennepin Ave bike lane directly with the Bryant Ave bridge over Lyndale. No turning on to Franklin required.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 4d

Question for the handy folks, is there any decent interior paint that isn't filled with polymers?

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 5d

The Netherlands has basically eliminated the train station part of stations.

This is the main station for Houten (pop. 50k). It's just a bike lane and wide sidewalk under a viaduct.

More details in 🧵

www.google.com/maps/@52.034...

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Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦 @menorman.bsky.social · 5d

if anyone has capacity to help out w my ongoing desire to keep the lights on, it would be greatly appreciated.
#SignalBoost

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Inland Urbanist @inlandurbanist.bsky.social · 5d

Have you gotten a chance to see the latest video? Check this vision of what the #LOSSAN rail corridor could be delivering for the SoCal region and beyond.
youtu.be/4fx_NWD3PBc

LOSSAN Rail Vision

YouTube video by Inland Urbanist

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Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦 @menorman.bsky.social · 5d

places where ppl live/work/play shouldn't have to compete w motor vehs trying to go long distances fast. if there's a need for that type of travel, then it should happen on infrastructure specifically built for it e.g. freeways.

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Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦 @menorman.bsky.social · 5d

is that the official urban arrow pannier? theirs might fit better/properly...

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Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦 @menorman.bsky.social · 5d

that's nice, but this intersection design is also used at intersections w/o signals at all

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 5d

A reminder to all cities that infrastructure type is a choice.

EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 5d

Before (2012) / After (2025) Rue le Vau, Paris 20. The change here is so radical that perceiving the photos as aligned is difficult (see the orange building and the trees on the left). In 2024, this section was converted into a school street with a bike lane running through the greenery.

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Mr. Pottersquash @pottersquash.bsky.social · 5d

I realize this is a fundamental inflection point of the old guard dems and the new. As much as new guard wants to eat the rich, they don't actually have disdain for the rich and wouldn't actually refuse to fix a bus line on the off chance a rich person might use it.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5d

Lower income New Yorkers are more likely to ride the bus s. Also the house he used to live in before he split with Sandra Lee is worth 1.8 million dollars (third link) and had five bedrooms and six bathrooms and at 5,000 sqft meets the historical definition of a mansion

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@ZohranKMamdani
’s “plan” provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while
@ZohranKMamdani
the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦 @menorman.bsky.social · 5d

they're trying to goad another country into a situation where they try to protect their citizens from this sort of nonsense & thus create a "reason" to declare war on that country

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Roroy @roroy.bsky.social · 5d

If I am killed by a driver, the people I love will feel the same anguish regardless of said driver‘s intent. Motonormativity stops us from accurately assessing the material impact of the crime.

Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 5d

I remember talking to a former law enforcement official who told me that judges and juries can be hesitant to impose charges that could send drivers to prison, largely because those judges and juries are drivers too and worry that an "accident" could lead to prison time.

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 5d

gotta love the brainworms that get you to "congestion pricing unfairly targets the working class" and "free bus fare unfairly benefits the capital class"

Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 5d

great post sir, keep saying shit like this

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