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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 1d

Still just through the website, the steam version is apparently going to cost $40 instead of $30 as well

Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 2d

The northeast is the single greatest region in the world, I left home at 6:45 AM and 5 hours later I am in Flushing Queens after taking a high speed train and an express subway line

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning from the Amtrak NextGen Acela, my first ride on the new trainsets.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 2d

The southern branch to Dundalk gets slightly higher ridership at its unique stations, but carries significantly more riders overall for some reason, I just run both lines at 10 minute headways for a 5 minute combined trunk.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 2d

Some of the more bizarre alignment choices of the 1960s transit planners become very apparent on a geographically accurate map, such as the western line on Edmondson Avenue in Catonsville, and the northeastern line via Sinclair Ln and Cedonia Ave, largely avoiding the Belair Rd corridor.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 2d

Sketched out the 1968 Baltimore Region Rapid Transit System plan in Subway Builder. The game simulates about 122,000 daily riders on the system's five lines and 62 stations.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 10d

It took two buses and 45 minutes to get from the light rail at Pratt and Howard to Eastern and Patterson Park Avenue. This sucks.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 10d

Trying to take transit in Baltimore City on a Saturday evening is so painful, Navy and 65 don't show, nothing is tracking.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 17d

Sorry, didn't see this until now, but why not just use the BWI rail station? The airport runs shuttle buses every 10 mins or so to the rail station and all regionals stop there.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 28d

The specifications outlined in the RFP seem to closely match the dimensions of the Siemens S700, which is in-use on about a dozen streetcar and light rail systems across the United States.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · 28d

MDOT MTA's request for proposals for new 70% low floor LRVs for the Central Light Rail line is out. The base order includes 52 LRVs, with options for up to 50 additional LRVs for the Baltimore Red Line project.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · Aug 27

The Metro Transit Green Line through the University of Minnesota campus comes to mind

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · Aug 24

In spite of a tough state budget year, today's MTA Maryland service changes modestly expand transit service in the Baltimore region. This is in stark constrast to the 20% SEPTA service cuts which went into effect in Philadelphia today. The public transit death spiral is an avoidable policy choice.

MTA Maryland fall service changes: service enhancements on five routes and additional trips on four additional routes.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · Aug 23

This route averages like 1200 daily riders, on a weekday this would be weird, it's unheard of on a Saturday.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · Aug 23

Nova LFS articulated on the 70?

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · Aug 12

Really am not liking the proliferation of privately operated automated license plate readers. It'd be one thing if they were county operated and integrated into automated traffic enforcement, but they're owned and maintained by an AI surveillance firm, seems rife for abuse.

A Flock AI automated license plate reader on Maryland Route 2

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · Aug 11

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is

View from a rooftop in NoMa overlooking the Uline Arena and Washington Union Station throat, with the dome of the Capitol in the background

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · Aug 2

Looks like it's a Champion Bus CTS RE
cptdb.ca/wiki/index.p...

Champion Bus CTS RE - CPTDB Wiki

cptdb.ca

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · Aug 1

Low floor does not necessarily mean pedestrians cross the tracks at grade. Many of Sound Transit's side platform stations have fencing preventing this.

Shoreline North 185th Station on the Seattle 1 Line

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · Jul 22

Recently rebuilt within the past few years, these locomotives will likely outlive the MPIs that are almost 40 years younger.

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · Jul 22

A 56 year old GP39H-2, originally built in for the B&O in 1969, still in active service on the MARC Penn Line.

MARC 73, a GP39 at Baltimore Penn Station

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Marcus Nelson @marcuscnelson.bsky.social · Jul 7

That would be neat if it worked particularly well at all. Unfortunately for everyone, most of all Jacksonville, the "Ultimate Urban Circulator" doesn't.

Here's my experience of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority's NAVI "autonomous" shuttle system:
medium.com/@marcuscnels...

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Nathan @kalinsky.bsky.social · Jul 4

Truly incredible how the more I read about this godawful bill the worse it gets, these idiots triggered $500bn/10y in statutory PAYGO cuts to Medicare by blowing up the deficit. Quite literally one of the worst bills of all time.

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Marc Korman @mkorman.bsky.social · Jun 30

@mta.maryland.gov released the MARC Growth and Transportation plan to chart the next 25 years of our state's commuter rail service. You can read the plan here: tinyurl.com/bdf46n75

Here’s what it would mean for the three commuter rail lines, including the Brunswick Line that serves Montgomery Cnty

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🎃 Harm City Slasher 🔪 @sprawlhater.bsky.social · Jun 25

You, a rube: all politics is gender

Me, enlightened: all politics is car

Amber DaSilva @poolontheruf.gg · Jun 25

the data backs this sentiment up!

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