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Everything about trains and trams (and subways) and tracks (rail and bicycle tracks) all across the world.
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HS1 Ltd is expanding the capacity at St Pancras... 🤔 I have known for AGES this is in planning (and was leaked some documents about it, also ages ago). I can't tell if this story is some new plan, or re-hashing the old ones. In any case it's welcome! #CrossChannelRail www.ft.com/content/ff71...
London St Pancras revamp aims to cut Eurostar waiting time to 15 minutes
Planned £100mn overhaul of train station will seek to end ‘holding pen’ experience for passengers
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
HS1 Ltd is expanding the capacity at St Pancras... 🤔 I have known for AGES this is in planning (and was leaked some documents about it, also ages ago). I can't tell if this story is some new plan, or re-hashing the old ones. In any case it's welcome! #CrossChannelRail www.ft.com/content/ff71...
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In this week's edition of The Fight — our last for 2025! — @jael.bsky.social delivers her predictions for the fights to come:
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The 5 Fights to Watch in 2026
Spoiler: A lot of them are about data centers.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
In this week's edition of The Fight — our last for 2025! — @jael.bsky.social delivers her predictions for the fights to come:
heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
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China's current rate of Wind-Water-Solar (WWS) installations puts it on a trajectory to transition to 100% WWS
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Projections of when each of 150 countries May eliminate air pollution and carbon emissions from all energy
Whether the world addresses global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity in a timely manner depends largely on country transition rates to clean, renewable energy. Yet, no study has examined t...
pubs.rsc.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
China's current rate of Wind-Water-Solar (WWS) installations puts it on a trajectory to transition to 100% WWS
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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In this in-depth piece on the global oil glut the concept of oil demand destruction gets one paragraph way down in the piece.
"Demand growth, which has been increasingly hard to predict, also remains a key variable that could either swell or curb the glut"
That variable deserves more attention.
"Demand growth, which has been increasingly hard to predict, also remains a key variable that could either swell or curb the glut"
That variable deserves more attention.
There’s a record 1.4 billion barrels of crude currently on the world’s oceans, pushing down benchmark prices and sending gasoline under $3 a gallon at the pump in the US. Read more: bloom.bg/4aVWIZE
📷: Justin Hamel/Bloomberg
📷: Justin Hamel/Bloomberg
December 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
In this in-depth piece on the global oil glut the concept of oil demand destruction gets one paragraph way down in the piece.
"Demand growth, which has been increasingly hard to predict, also remains a key variable that could either swell or curb the glut"
That variable deserves more attention.
"Demand growth, which has been increasingly hard to predict, also remains a key variable that could either swell or curb the glut"
That variable deserves more attention.
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To all the car furries in my life, I offer you this video. See the light! I lived in Victoria for 6 years car-free and it set the bar for what good living feels like. So much bicycling. So cheap and good-feeling. The key is it has to feel safe and fun. Not scary.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKMD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKMD...
How to Build a Bike City...FAST
YouTube video by Nic Laporte
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
To all the car furries in my life, I offer you this video. See the light! I lived in Victoria for 6 years car-free and it set the bar for what good living feels like. So much bicycling. So cheap and good-feeling. The key is it has to feel safe and fun. Not scary.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKMD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKMD...
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Justin has some comments in this new piece from @insideclimatenews.org on an LNG facility in Peru.
“The idea that LNG is presented as a ‘non-polluting fuel’ in the documents is total madness and obviously completely untrue,” said Mikulka
“The idea that LNG is presented as a ‘non-polluting fuel’ in the documents is total madness and obviously completely untrue,” said Mikulka
U.S. Company Releasing Unauthorized Emissions From Peru LNG Terminal - Inside Climate News
Hunt Oil Co. has burned off an estimated 55.5 million cubic meters of unused gas from the export facility.
insideclimatenews.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Justin has some comments in this new piece from @insideclimatenews.org on an LNG facility in Peru.
“The idea that LNG is presented as a ‘non-polluting fuel’ in the documents is total madness and obviously completely untrue,” said Mikulka
“The idea that LNG is presented as a ‘non-polluting fuel’ in the documents is total madness and obviously completely untrue,” said Mikulka
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Revealed: how Toyota uses retro-style games and prizes to urge US workers to lobby politicians #Climate
Revealed: how Toyota uses retro-style games and prizes to urge US workers to lobby politicians
Games such as Dragon Quest used to mobilize workers to back corporate goals including relaxing environmental rules
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Revealed: how Toyota uses retro-style games and prizes to urge US workers to lobby politicians #Climate
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Your 'doom quote' for today:
"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society would choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing."
www.bloomsbury.com/us/field-not...
"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society would choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing."
www.bloomsbury.com/us/field-not...
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer-updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irrep…
www.bloomsbury.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Your 'doom quote' for today:
"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society would choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing."
www.bloomsbury.com/us/field-not...
"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society would choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing."
www.bloomsbury.com/us/field-not...
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New security effort by @chicagocta.bsky.social beefs up police presence. chicago.suntimes.com/transportati...
Under CTA 'security surge plan,’ more officers to be on trains, platforms and buses
The CTA announced the program will begin Friday, the same day the Federal Transit Administration demanded the agency implement a security plan or face a claw back of federal funding.
chicago.suntimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
New security effort by @chicagocta.bsky.social beefs up police presence. chicago.suntimes.com/transportati...
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Semaphores at Hastings. 7 October 2018. #railway #photography
December 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Semaphores at Hastings. 7 October 2018. #railway #photography
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If you’re keen on delivering community energy and overseeing two solid existing projects this post could be for you
📢 Westmill Wind and Solar Co-operatives are seeking a Chief Executive Officer. This is a unique opportunity to lead two successful co-operatives with substantial resources and ambitious plans. Closing date: 12th January, 5pm.
Apply via the Energy4All website: energy4all.co.uk/job-vacancies/
Apply via the Energy4All website: energy4all.co.uk/job-vacancies/
December 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
If you’re keen on delivering community energy and overseeing two solid existing projects this post could be for you
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European skiers be like. A situation so dire that even the Daily Express reported it - and led with climate change! www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...
a man in a suit and tie stands in a room
ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands in a room
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December 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
European skiers be like. A situation so dire that even the Daily Express reported it - and led with climate change! www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...
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This looks... well... peculiar. Maybe it works?
Zoomable map: signal.eu.org/osm/#locs=49...
#CrossBorderRail
Zoomable map: signal.eu.org/osm/#locs=49...
#CrossBorderRail
December 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This looks... well... peculiar. Maybe it works?
Zoomable map: signal.eu.org/osm/#locs=49...
#CrossBorderRail
Zoomable map: signal.eu.org/osm/#locs=49...
#CrossBorderRail
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![Donald Trump:
"I think [Greta Thunberg] needs to go to anger management”
Greta Thunberg
"I think the world needs more angry young women”
Photo: Reuters/Lucas Jackson
Shared by Greenpeace UK on Instagram](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3gczycymg3cd7u5ovmtyu7xi/bafkreibzir7firvrkwh2efhu3txc4ahd4mb5bjqm5pmlsymksxz7lavpyu@jpeg)
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LTNs: what the latest evidence tells us: that people living in LTNs reduced the distance they drove by around 6% more than those living outside them. Quieter streets make local journeys feel safer and more appealing on foot or by bike.
findingspress.org/article/7547...
findingspress.org/article/7547...
December 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
LTNs: what the latest evidence tells us: that people living in LTNs reduced the distance they drove by around 6% more than those living outside them. Quieter streets make local journeys feel safer and more appealing on foot or by bike.
findingspress.org/article/7547...
findingspress.org/article/7547...
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Renovations by #FondazioneFS of a vintage DMU/ALn 772 have revealed scars of its early life in Italy.
Bullet holes have been revealed in the side of the 1936 built vehicle.
Bringing vehicles back to life means recognising & preserving history for generations of today and tomorrow.
Bullet holes have been revealed in the side of the 1936 built vehicle.
Bringing vehicles back to life means recognising & preserving history for generations of today and tomorrow.
December 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Renovations by #FondazioneFS of a vintage DMU/ALn 772 have revealed scars of its early life in Italy.
Bullet holes have been revealed in the side of the 1936 built vehicle.
Bringing vehicles back to life means recognising & preserving history for generations of today and tomorrow.
Bullet holes have been revealed in the side of the 1936 built vehicle.
Bringing vehicles back to life means recognising & preserving history for generations of today and tomorrow.
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WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
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If access to Temple Mills gets mired in legal process, or someone other than Virgin wants to rival Eurostar on #CrossChannelRail, then a new maintenance depot is going to be needed
But WHERE?
I have had a go at answering that!
crosschannelrail.eu/if-you-were-...
But WHERE?
I have had a go at answering that!
crosschannelrail.eu/if-you-were-...
If you were to build a depot for Channel Tunnel passenger trains, where would you build it?
When it was announced that Virgin Trains was successful in being allocated maintenance depot capacity at Temple Mills in east London, there was a sort of reaction "we'll that will mean that Virgin wil...
crosschannelrail.eu
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
If access to Temple Mills gets mired in legal process, or someone other than Virgin wants to rival Eurostar on #CrossChannelRail, then a new maintenance depot is going to be needed
But WHERE?
I have had a go at answering that!
crosschannelrail.eu/if-you-were-...
But WHERE?
I have had a go at answering that!
crosschannelrail.eu/if-you-were-...
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Departure from Worcester Shrub Hill. 4 August 2019. #railway #photography
December 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Departure from Worcester Shrub Hill. 4 August 2019. #railway #photography
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I hate go full YIMBY here but look at the land this solar farm is due to be built on top of. Look at this scarred brown farming deathzone
I'm def pro-community here but you don't get to just lie
www.google.com.au/maps/place/O...
I'm def pro-community here but you don't get to just lie
www.google.com.au/maps/place/O...
December 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I hate go full YIMBY here but look at the land this solar farm is due to be built on top of. Look at this scarred brown farming deathzone
I'm def pro-community here but you don't get to just lie
www.google.com.au/maps/place/O...
I'm def pro-community here but you don't get to just lie
www.google.com.au/maps/place/O...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses the Dutch parliament in The Hague, calling for accountability, justice, and the use of frozen Russian assets to end Moscow’s war. He warns against false peace deals and urges Europe to uphold rules-based order and security guarantees.
FULL SPEECH: Zelenskiy Names Putin a “Career Criminal” in Stunning Netherlands Parliament | AC1B
YouTube video by DRM News
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December 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses the Dutch parliament in The Hague, calling for accountability, justice, and the use of frozen Russian assets to end Moscow’s war. He warns against false peace deals and urges Europe to uphold rules-based order and security guarantees.
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Proposal to amend the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission strengthens the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
The Commission proposed measures to close loopholes to prevent circumvention and strengthen the efficacy of EU\'s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism\'s (CBAM), in response to feedback received from in...
ec.europa.eu
December 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Proposal to amend the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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BBC News - Rail link between London and Edinburgh extended to Glasgow
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rail link between London and Edinburgh extended to Glasgow
Lumo has extended its service to and from London King's Cross to Glasgow Queen Street.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
BBC News - Rail link between London and Edinburgh extended to Glasgow
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Keeping Up With "The Car-Trashians"
My cousins neighbors like parking their cars everywhere but on the structure actually designed and constructed for that purpose. The neighbors have named them The Car-Trashians. They are completely oblivious to the stares comments and derision. #MAGAIsADisease
My cousins neighbors like parking their cars everywhere but on the structure actually designed and constructed for that purpose. The neighbors have named them The Car-Trashians. They are completely oblivious to the stares comments and derision. #MAGAIsADisease
November 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Keeping Up With "The Car-Trashians"
My cousins neighbors like parking their cars everywhere but on the structure actually designed and constructed for that purpose. The neighbors have named them The Car-Trashians. They are completely oblivious to the stares comments and derision. #MAGAIsADisease
My cousins neighbors like parking their cars everywhere but on the structure actually designed and constructed for that purpose. The neighbors have named them The Car-Trashians. They are completely oblivious to the stares comments and derision. #MAGAIsADisease
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“The phenomenon is known as induced demand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.” #InducedTraffic
It’s an American Obsession. It’s Based on a Total Lie. We Have to Stop Before It’s Too Late.
The truth about what's happening on America's roads—and how we can stop it.
slate.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
“The phenomenon is known as induced demand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.” #InducedTraffic