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@grescoe

Jan 27

50 years ago, a transport revolution started in
#Zürich.

#Switzerland rejected urban freeways. Zurich decided not to build a metro, opting for an S-Bahn commuter train network.

And they gave *absolute* priority to trams over cars in center of Zurich. The result?
🇨🇭🚋🧵

Some of the highest mode share for transit and intercity rail in the world.

The Zurich tram network doesn't really on high tech vehicles—for years it operated with trams from the 1970s. They just kept on refitting them.

In cities like #Toronto and #Philadelphia, streetcars aren't given special priority. They become some of the slowest things on the streets. Lumbering ads for transit inefficiency.

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@grescoe

Oct 10, 2024

Hey, nobody says you can't make commuting fun, as well as easy!

In the #Netherlands, you can cycle to #Utrecht Overvecht station, drop your bike off, then ride the slide down to the platform. Multi-modal travel, Dutch-style.

🛝🧵

Here's another "transfer accelerator": a slide next to an escalator to the turnstiles of the #Budapest metro.

(My kids have been begging me to try this at our subway station for years.)

Here's the pop-up version. All ages allowed!

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@grescoe

Sep 26, 2024

#Disney World has better transit than most US cities. Its 12-train-set monorail + 325 buses would make it the nation's 16th most ridden transit system.

People drive to a place where, for once, they don't have to drive everywhere.
Turns out that's exactly what Walt intended 🚝🧵

As a child, Disney lived in Marceline, Missouri. It became his idea of Anytown, America: park with a Civil War gazebo, bustling and walkable Main Street, the Santa Fe depot. Most of all: trains, lots of trains.

After Fantasia bombed at the box-office, Disney became depressed, and retreated to his backyard in the Holmby Hills part of Los Angeles, where he built "Mickey Mouse Park," whose centerpiece was an oversized model railroad.

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@grescoe

Aug 31, 2024

1: #Tokyo metro map in 2D.
2: The same map in 3D.

🚇🌐🧵

1. Pittsburgh streetcar map in 2D.
2. Pittsburgh streetcar map in 3D.

(#2 is a 1910 model, submitted to Mayor's office, showing the actual elevation of streetcar lines in #Pittsburgh, that city of inclines.)

transitmap.net/relief-map-pit…

1. Map of Los Angeles streetcar/interurban lines.
2. Relief map of same LA lines (1920).

(Transit relief maps are as rare as they are wonderful.)

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@grescoe

Aug 12, 2024

This is a map of western part of the network of just one Canadian passenger railway in 1955.

You could really go a lot of places by train then.

And fast: 71 hours, 10 minutes from #Montreal to #Vancouver. (It's 94 hours, if you're lucky, from Toronto to Vancouver today.)
🛤️🧵

There were two express trains across the country that year: The Canadian (CP) and the Super Continental, run by Canadian National Railways, the "People's Road."

Your freedom of movement was impressive, especially if you lived in eastern Canada. From Montreal, you could go to Chicago via Detroit; you could ride from Quebec City to Boston; Atlantic Canada was served by a very dense network of tracks.

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@grescoe

Aug 6, 2024

Great-grandfather: allowed to walk 6 miles on his own Grandfather: could walk 1 mile
Mother: could walk a half mile
Son: could walk 300 yards (to end of street).
What happened? *Cars* happened.

A flood of traffic shrunk the geography of play and free-roaming.

🧵

(Thanks to Shrinking geography of childhood in UK, thnx to @timrgill and @drwilliambird for the research and graphics.)

What's the solution? One way forward—play streets.

The UK once had 700 of them; closed to traffic, but open to kids.

@timrgill @drwilliambird A century ago, Play Streets were common in NYC, closed to cars by order of the police.

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