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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 13h

It's tough because you might have to choose between Hello Kitty and One Piece

A Hello Kitty shinkansen train at Okayama

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta put all the new apartments where there are apartments or something that smells bad

Planning

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 2d

At least the parts of the city with spare school capacity and good transit didn't have to change, though

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 3d

Is there no real-time SkyTrain or SeaBus?

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 3d

Balcony railings are starting

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 4d

It looks like the West End from Kits to me

Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 13d

The ambition is less than a mundane small city station like Okayama or a deep suburban transfer station like Kashiwa

There's nothing flashy about these stations, just frequent EMUs stopping at normal platforms and flyovers to avoid conflicts with other services

They even run locals and rapids

Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 13d

What I mean is that Toronto has a solid thru-running central trunk. It has mostly dealt with core freight conflicts. Mostly has a comprehensive regional network to work with. It just needs to hang the wires, buy the EMUs, raise the platforms, add some extra tracks, grade separations and run trains

Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 13d

I think Toronto regional transit planning is really conceptually quite easy! improve the infrastructure, spam more trains, improve the infrastructure, spam more trains. Like there's not huge trade offs or mega projects you just gotta figure out how to do the basic stuff.

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 14d

On a sunny morning bike ride

A woman rides a bike on the sidewalk of a wide street towards a double deck elevated railway

A river, a bunch of buildings, and a small road taken from on a bridge

A shop covered in greenery, a seven eleven and some other buildings along a street

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 15d

More trick than treat

Not a cheap vending machine

A vending machine on a street selling dead tarantulas and similar items

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 15d

On a rainy day bike ride

Two people waiting for meat skewers from a shop selling them facing a street with various organs on display

A bunch of skylines in the background along a bike path covered in netting to prevent golf balls from hitting people

Houses accessed over little bridges over a creek from a street

A walk your bike sign, a woman feeding pigeons, and a bunch of restaurants shown on a sign all under a rail station viaduct

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 16d

I don't see it spelled out here, but it's going that way searcharchives.vancouver.ca/route-map-no...

searcharchives.vancouver.ca

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 16d

Would part of this have been another interurban or something more like the VV&E/Great Northern?

A map showing proposed rail lines on the North Shore and across to Belcarra/Ioco

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 16d

There's an overview map showing some of this in the archives
searcharchives.vancouver.ca/pacific-coas...

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 17d

Food trucks

Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 24d

Shin Yokohama Station from the train

Not exactly the TOD you might expect

A family mart with a parking lot from the train window

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 24d

A view of the lower platform level

Platform 4 branches to Haneda and Kawasaki and trains go both directions

Platform 5 is south of platform 6

The other platforms are upstairs

Platform 6 at left and 4 at right facing north

From platform 6 looking south at platform 5 while a train to platform 6 passes a train stopped at platform 5

Looking up at the branch to Haneda with bike parking underneath

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 24d

A view of the lower platform level

Platform 4 branches to Haneda and Kawasaki and trains go both directions

Platform 5 is south of platform 6

The other platforms are upstairs

Platform 6 looking south at platform 5. A train is stopped at platform 5 while another train passes to stop at platform 6.

Looking up at the branch to Haneda with bike parking under the double level viaduct

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · Sep 9

(The million daily riders and frequent grade crossings are typical features of private radial lines, though)

If you're in the station, they have a cool model of it in the concourse

A wooden model of Keikyu Kamata and the area around it

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · Sep 9

This is compensation for the frequent grade crossings, which are an amazing feature for a line with more than a million daily riders

They're apparently going to extend the Fukotoshin line via the Tamagawa line to this station, so there'll be another (perpendicular) level somewhere deep underground

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is this development, right?

Ad for the development. A Pedestrian -only Community

Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · Aug 24

After coming down that steep trail, a gondola seems like a good idea

I think there's a case for stops at a few recreational areas but I'm not sure Petgill or Murin would make the cut

I think sea to sky and a future brohm ridge would make it

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · Aug 24

There's also a lake to swim in

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · Aug 24

Squamish

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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · Aug 24

The thesis references this 1929 map, which shows the Capilano rail network in much more detail (but doesn't extend quite to its northern extent)

Maybe there are other maps like this that cover Coquitlam, etc., but I haven't found them

digital.library.yale.edu/catalog/1553...

Howe Sound - Burrard Inlet / ǂc [by] Survey Branch, Department of Lands and Greater Vancouver Water District.

digital.library.yale.edu

Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Capilano Timber Company's rail network was a lot more extensive than I had thought, extending to about as far north as Brunswick Mountain and on both sides of the river

That's half way to Squamish

Map from this 1988 master's thesis
open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/c...

The map on page 67 of Kahrer's thesis overlaid on orthophotos.

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