Marco Chitti
@chittimarco.bsky.social
Researcher on urban planning and public transportation.
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Marco Chitti
@chittimarco.bsky.social
· Jun 21
It took quite a while, but the paper about the history of high-speed rail planning in Italy that I co-authored with @beriapaolo.bsky.social is finally out!
It's open source, so you can read it at length (it is pretty long),
But here is a TL;DR: 🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It's open source, so you can read it at length (it is pretty long),
But here is a TL;DR: 🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Interesting analysis of the (Northern) League "two parties in a trenchcoat" dilemma.
Give a follow to @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social for non superficial insights into contemporary Italian politics.
Give a follow to @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social for non superficial insights into contemporary Italian politics.
There are now 2 Leagues, & they won't live peacefully side by side for much longer.
One wants more powers (including of taxation) for northern regions. It is the old guard of the party, such as former Governor of Veneto region Zaia. It has achieved an impressive result in Veneto regional elections
One wants more powers (including of taxation) for northern regions. It is the old guard of the party, such as former Governor of Veneto region Zaia. It has achieved an impressive result in Veneto regional elections
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Interesting analysis of the (Northern) League "two parties in a trenchcoat" dilemma.
Give a follow to @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social for non superficial insights into contemporary Italian politics.
Give a follow to @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social for non superficial insights into contemporary Italian politics.
Reposted by Marco Chitti
I’ve been saying it for years, years I tell you!
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I’ve been saying it for years, years I tell you!
Je suis sur un 92 O (Jean-Talon). On est on peu moins d'une dizaine à descendre à Canora pour prendre le REM, la plupart sont montées aux arrêts dans Parc-Ex.
La rame en direction D-M est pleine (plus de places assis), à 13h un samedi.
Le gens ne realisent pas assez la puissance de l'effet réseau.
La rame en direction D-M est pleine (plus de places assis), à 13h un samedi.
Le gens ne realisent pas assez la puissance de l'effet réseau.
November 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Je suis sur un 92 O (Jean-Talon). On est on peu moins d'une dizaine à descendre à Canora pour prendre le REM, la plupart sont montées aux arrêts dans Parc-Ex.
La rame en direction D-M est pleine (plus de places assis), à 13h un samedi.
Le gens ne realisent pas assez la puissance de l'effet réseau.
La rame en direction D-M est pleine (plus de places assis), à 13h un samedi.
Le gens ne realisent pas assez la puissance de l'effet réseau.
😍🤩🚋🚋
(Via Riva Reno, Bologna, reopening today after the extreme makeover linked to the tramway works)
Pics not mine.
(Via Riva Reno, Bologna, reopening today after the extreme makeover linked to the tramway works)
Pics not mine.
November 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
😍🤩🚋🚋
(Via Riva Reno, Bologna, reopening today after the extreme makeover linked to the tramway works)
Pics not mine.
(Via Riva Reno, Bologna, reopening today after the extreme makeover linked to the tramway works)
Pics not mine.
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Proof number 345,098,098 that the Dutch are just Americans with better transit, bikes, and a Donald Duck accent.
The brand new 't Oor bus terminal in the southern periphery of Almere, built atop a highway bridge. A nice place to catch a bus, I guess.
The brand new 't Oor bus terminal in the southern periphery of Almere, built atop a highway bridge. A nice place to catch a bus, I guess.
November 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Proof number 345,098,098 that the Dutch are just Americans with better transit, bikes, and a Donald Duck accent.
The brand new 't Oor bus terminal in the southern periphery of Almere, built atop a highway bridge. A nice place to catch a bus, I guess.
The brand new 't Oor bus terminal in the southern periphery of Almere, built atop a highway bridge. A nice place to catch a bus, I guess.
Il y a une solution pour conserver tant le stationnement que la piste cyclable: mise en sens unique et réduction à une voie de circulation. Ça faciliterait aussi la gestion des carrefours.
Mais planifier la circulation, ah ben non pas ça, on fait pas ça comme ça icitte!
Mais planifier la circulation, ah ben non pas ça, on fait pas ça comme ça icitte!
Ce matin sur Atateken, j'avais le choix entre la délinquance en roulant sur le piste fermée ou rouler en plein milieu de la voie et compromettre ma sécurité.
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Il y a une solution pour conserver tant le stationnement que la piste cyclable: mise en sens unique et réduction à une voie de circulation. Ça faciliterait aussi la gestion des carrefours.
Mais planifier la circulation, ah ben non pas ça, on fait pas ça comme ça icitte!
Mais planifier la circulation, ah ben non pas ça, on fait pas ça comme ça icitte!
I know it's not a very popular opinion, but I think modernist estates can be a valid form of urbanism, and many of Bologna's 1960s and 1970s PEEPs have aged pretty well.
November 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I know it's not a very popular opinion, but I think modernist estates can be a valid form of urbanism, and many of Bologna's 1960s and 1970s PEEPs have aged pretty well.
English native speakers, what would be the right way of wording this long compound noun?
Transit-and-local-access-only street or transit- and local-access-only street?
Transit-and-local-access-only street or transit- and local-access-only street?
November 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
English native speakers, what would be the right way of wording this long compound noun?
Transit-and-local-access-only street or transit- and local-access-only street?
Transit-and-local-access-only street or transit- and local-access-only street?
Not that we needed it, but today's events confirmed me that the Liberals are like the DC, but not ideologically, rather just because they believe that they are the forever rightful government of this country. They don't believe in anything, but the status quo.
November 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Not that we needed it, but today's events confirmed me that the Liberals are like the DC, but not ideologically, rather just because they believe that they are the forever rightful government of this country. They don't believe in anything, but the status quo.
Was it really worth doubling the cost to bury the buses 3 stories underground, where they might never end up going?
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Was it really worth doubling the cost to bury the buses 3 stories underground, where they might never end up going?
I was cleaning my camera roll and found these pics of my architecture school first-year manual stressing the need of designing for cross-ventilation...
@holz-bau.bsky.social
@holz-bau.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I was cleaning my camera roll and found these pics of my architecture school first-year manual stressing the need of designing for cross-ventilation...
@holz-bau.bsky.social
@holz-bau.bsky.social
This must be the most Rome thing ever.
The national archeological SoPrintendenza fighting with the local special SoVrintendenza about who's going to manage the in-station museums of the soon-to-open MC extension.
(Yes, Roma has a special local archeological protection authority, for reasons)
The national archeological SoPrintendenza fighting with the local special SoVrintendenza about who's going to manage the in-station museums of the soon-to-open MC extension.
(Yes, Roma has a special local archeological protection authority, for reasons)
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This must be the most Rome thing ever.
The national archeological SoPrintendenza fighting with the local special SoVrintendenza about who's going to manage the in-station museums of the soon-to-open MC extension.
(Yes, Roma has a special local archeological protection authority, for reasons)
The national archeological SoPrintendenza fighting with the local special SoVrintendenza about who's going to manage the in-station museums of the soon-to-open MC extension.
(Yes, Roma has a special local archeological protection authority, for reasons)
One must admire the capacity of the anglosphere to set the tone and the priority in urban research.
If you search for low-traffic neighborhoods, you find 100s of articles on the most disparate related topics.
If you search ZTL or limited traffic areas or zones: 🥱
If you search for low-traffic neighborhoods, you find 100s of articles on the most disparate related topics.
If you search ZTL or limited traffic areas or zones: 🥱
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
One must admire the capacity of the anglosphere to set the tone and the priority in urban research.
If you search for low-traffic neighborhoods, you find 100s of articles on the most disparate related topics.
If you search ZTL or limited traffic areas or zones: 🥱
If you search for low-traffic neighborhoods, you find 100s of articles on the most disparate related topics.
If you search ZTL or limited traffic areas or zones: 🥱
The fact that Italy, of all countries, has figured out how to properly do transit, directional, bike and pedestrian traffic light decades before Ontario would not not be funny to me.
The new road code was written in 1991 (and transit signals and directional lights existed even before...)
The new road code was written in 1991 (and transit signals and directional lights existed even before...)
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The fact that Italy, of all countries, has figured out how to properly do transit, directional, bike and pedestrian traffic light decades before Ontario would not not be funny to me.
The new road code was written in 1991 (and transit signals and directional lights existed even before...)
The new road code was written in 1991 (and transit signals and directional lights existed even before...)
"He did not give a date for when the ARTM believes it can resolve the issue."
I think I found the sentence that perfectly encapsulates the ethos of public services in Canada.
montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
I think I found the sentence that perfectly encapsulates the ethos of public services in Canada.
montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
REM users can't buy monthly transit passes at North Shore stations
"You can buy tickets at the station, but our Opus cards don't work," one commuter said.
montrealgazette.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"He did not give a date for when the ARTM believes it can resolve the issue."
I think I found the sentence that perfectly encapsulates the ethos of public services in Canada.
montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
I think I found the sentence that perfectly encapsulates the ethos of public services in Canada.
montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
"Cittadini
(...)
Bologna non deve soffocare
The city administration believes that the only solution is to reduce the use of private vehicles wherever possible. Increased speed and frequency of public transportation, as well as free travel during certain time slots, could make travel easier."
(...)
Bologna non deve soffocare
The city administration believes that the only solution is to reduce the use of private vehicles wherever possible. Increased speed and frequency of public transportation, as well as free travel during certain time slots, could make travel easier."
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"Cittadini
(...)
Bologna non deve soffocare
The city administration believes that the only solution is to reduce the use of private vehicles wherever possible. Increased speed and frequency of public transportation, as well as free travel during certain time slots, could make travel easier."
(...)
Bologna non deve soffocare
The city administration believes that the only solution is to reduce the use of private vehicles wherever possible. Increased speed and frequency of public transportation, as well as free travel during certain time slots, could make travel easier."
Apropos fares, this is TPer Bologna allowing on-board cash single ticket purchase from a coin machine, but trying to discourage you from doing it by any mean.
They really don't like to handle cash, especially coins.
They really don't like to handle cash, especially coins.
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Apropos fares, this is TPer Bologna allowing on-board cash single ticket purchase from a coin machine, but trying to discourage you from doing it by any mean.
They really don't like to handle cash, especially coins.
They really don't like to handle cash, especially coins.
For the first time in maybe 30 years, Italy is going through a phase of apparent political stability, with the two main coalitions essentially stable in polls for the last three years and local elections not moving the needle much
Regional elections went as expected.
Veneto: R
Campania, Apulia: L
Regional elections went as expected.
Veneto: R
Campania, Apulia: L
Italy, 68% of polling stations counted:
Apulia regional presidential election
Decaro (PD-S&D): 64.6%
Lobuono (*~EPP|ECR|PfE): 34.5%
Donno (PCI~LEFT): 0.7%
Mangano (*): 0.2%
➤ europeelects.eu/italy
#Puglia #Regionali2025
Apulia regional presidential election
Decaro (PD-S&D): 64.6%
Lobuono (*~EPP|ECR|PfE): 34.5%
Donno (PCI~LEFT): 0.7%
Mangano (*): 0.2%
➤ europeelects.eu/italy
#Puglia #Regionali2025
November 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
For the first time in maybe 30 years, Italy is going through a phase of apparent political stability, with the two main coalitions essentially stable in polls for the last three years and local elections not moving the needle much
Regional elections went as expected.
Veneto: R
Campania, Apulia: L
Regional elections went as expected.
Veneto: R
Campania, Apulia: L
The right comparison in terms of benefit/cost is not between the REM and the old Deux-Montagnes line, but between the REM and a D-M line modernized to have level platforms, full accessibility, double tracks, grade-separated, with E-Montpetit and McGill stations etc.
Or we could celebrate that the most advanced metro line on the continent just opened and acknowledge that a lot of the money that went into grade separation and accessible station construction would've had to have gone toward the Deux-Montagnes Line anyway, except with higher operating costs.
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The right comparison in terms of benefit/cost is not between the REM and the old Deux-Montagnes line, but between the REM and a D-M line modernized to have level platforms, full accessibility, double tracks, grade-separated, with E-Montpetit and McGill stations etc.
I'm always suspicious of any kind of ranking based on made up metrics, but seeing Bologna in the top 30 makes me even more suspicious.
Don't get me wrong, biking in Bologna is ok, but mostly despite public policies or as a collateral consequence of urban history and traffic management
Don't get me wrong, biking in Bologna is ok, but mostly despite public policies or as a collateral consequence of urban history and traffic management
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I'm always suspicious of any kind of ranking based on made up metrics, but seeing Bologna in the top 30 makes me even more suspicious.
Don't get me wrong, biking in Bologna is ok, but mostly despite public policies or as a collateral consequence of urban history and traffic management
Don't get me wrong, biking in Bologna is ok, but mostly despite public policies or as a collateral consequence of urban history and traffic management
The new standard bus stop poles of Lombardy spotted out in the wild.
They are part of a broader effort to harmonize transit wayfinding across the region between all providers.
They are part of a broader effort to harmonize transit wayfinding across the region between all providers.
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The new standard bus stop poles of Lombardy spotted out in the wild.
They are part of a broader effort to harmonize transit wayfinding across the region between all providers.
They are part of a broader effort to harmonize transit wayfinding across the region between all providers.
Apparently North America has been in the business of building oversized pedestrian safety infrastructure intended to withstand heavy vehicles running at high speed for a while.
3 views of a TTC streetcar passenger safety platform, with protecting beacon and buffer, St. Clair Ave. W., Toronto - Nov. 22, 1928
📸: Alfred Pearson
City of Toronto Archives
#OTD #OnThisDay #1920s #streetcar #transit #torontohistory #toronto #canada #hopkindesign
📸: Alfred Pearson
City of Toronto Archives
#OTD #OnThisDay #1920s #streetcar #transit #torontohistory #toronto #canada #hopkindesign
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Apparently North America has been in the business of building oversized pedestrian safety infrastructure intended to withstand heavy vehicles running at high speed for a while.
Metrolinx: we'll need to do discontinuous electrification at Union Station because we can't touch the heritage canopy
SBB/CFF/FFS: we are raising the existing canopy at the Gare de Lausanne by 1 m and move it laterally by 90 cm to slightly modify the tracks' geometry.
youtu.be/CNuJLQguRgo?...
SBB/CFF/FFS: we are raising the existing canopy at the Gare de Lausanne by 1 m and move it laterally by 90 cm to slightly modify the tracks' geometry.
youtu.be/CNuJLQguRgo?...
Gare de Lausanne; la métamorphose expliquée.
YouTube video by SBB CFF FFS
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Metrolinx: we'll need to do discontinuous electrification at Union Station because we can't touch the heritage canopy
SBB/CFF/FFS: we are raising the existing canopy at the Gare de Lausanne by 1 m and move it laterally by 90 cm to slightly modify the tracks' geometry.
youtu.be/CNuJLQguRgo?...
SBB/CFF/FFS: we are raising the existing canopy at the Gare de Lausanne by 1 m and move it laterally by 90 cm to slightly modify the tracks' geometry.
youtu.be/CNuJLQguRgo?...
The first of 20 new trams for Naples was delivered yesterday.
They are manufactured by the Turkish Bozankaya.
youtube.com/shorts/ahrCq...
They are manufactured by the Turkish Bozankaya.
youtube.com/shorts/ahrCq...
Napoli, arrivato il primo nuovo tram
YouTube video by MadecoNapoli
youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The first of 20 new trams for Naples was delivered yesterday.
They are manufactured by the Turkish Bozankaya.
youtube.com/shorts/ahrCq...
They are manufactured by the Turkish Bozankaya.
youtube.com/shorts/ahrCq...