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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 Profile picture
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Sep 4, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Design your transit, service, and emergency vehicles to fit your city—not the other way around.
Tiny buses serve narrow streets of #Rome's centro storico. #Roma
Small fire trucks serve narrow streets of #Tokyo.
Alley bus in #Chongqing
A small fire truck being tested in #DC.
A primer on right-sizing vehicles: how they do it on the streets of #Tokyo

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May 16
I’ve been in #Dublin for a few days. Yesterday I posted about how the re-design of their bus system has led to a 20% increase in ridership in 2023. Part of that is the new high-frequency “spines”… ☘️🚍🧵
Though the high-frequency network, designed by @humantransit and his team, is being rolled out in phases. A more immediate factor is the fare system… Image
@humantransit …with a Leap card, fares cost about €2, which gives you 90 minutes of travel on buses, trams, DART commuter rail within the Short Hop zone which covers most of central Dublin.
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Apr 13
Hey, I finally scored!

First time on a new Siemens Venture train, leaving from #Quebec City, destination #Ottawa.

First impression… 🚅🧵
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…it’s astonishingly spacious inside. But feels a bit more like a plane than a good ol’ @VIA_Rail train. (Mostly b/c of the jetliner-style seats).
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Second impression: how can I be on a European-style train à grande vitesse while I’m still in Canada? (I mean, a couple of days in #Québec is disorienting enough. It always feels like waking up in St-Malo.)
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Oct 5, 2022
The #Istanbul Metro has outsourced its fare collection, and the new ticket inspectors are very strict.
#Istanbul tried to use canine inspectors for a while, but they kept on getting distracted. Especially by the view of the Blue Mosque from the city ferries.

Cats stay focused.
Love of cats runs deep among Istanbullus.

There are cat-feeding stations in the metro, and cat hotels all over the city. (For real, photos from my last visit.) ImageImageImage
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 Profile picture
Oct 3, 2022
It's weird to live in a world where @elonmusk, that swaggering, maleficient nebbish, is perceived as a force for good.

I tell my boys that it's like Gotham City: some "civic leaders" are actually Super-Villains in disguise.

After the banquet, they continue wrecking the world.
#SlavaUkraini
#DeleteTesla
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Sep 19, 2022
Most of Europe has a serious fossil-fuel addiction problem.
#France is heavy on nuclear.
#Spain + #Portugal—lots of oil.
Coal in the east.
But check out #Denmark (the only place where renewables predominate) and the other Scandinavian countries (hydro).
Similar map for provinces of #Canada, where I live. The West and #Quebec have a lot of water...and thus hydroelectricity.

Not trying to make an invidious comparison here. Canada of course *produces* massive amounts of fossil fuels.

Source: electricvehicles.bchydro.com/about/what-doe…
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Sep 19, 2022
By 1920, the network of interurbans in the US was so dense that a determined commuter could hop interlinked streetcars from Waterville, Maine, to Sheboygan, Wisconsin—a journey of 1,000 miles—exclusively by electric trolley.
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The tracks, and often the wires, extended deep into forest and farmland, making the railroads de facto intercity highways; after nightfall in the countryside, farmers would signal drivers to stop by burning a rag next to the track.
Streetcars and interurbans became the dominant mode of urban transportation in North America, carrying 11 billion passengers a year by the end of the First World War.
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