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@rustbeltenjoyer
Sep 12, 2023 • 2 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Even though it's a surname and not an English word, the Quebec French language laws won't let Starbucks be "Starbucks" because it's not a French surname, so it's "Cafè Starbucks" instead. A photo of the exterior of a Quebec Starbucks called "cafè Starbucks"
Oh, and if you were wondering, Starbucks in France is just "Starbucks" or "Starbucks Coffee". A photo of a Starbucks in Paris, the building is a smart black and the logo just reads Starbucks
A photo of a Starbucks in Paris, is on the bottom floor of a beautiful masonry apartment building facing a street with wide sidewalks and the building reads Starbucks coffee

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Sep 19, 2024
You can go to Toronto and see what American cities would look like today if they had kept their streetcars and weren't gutted with freeways
A photo of Dundas Street in Toronto, it's pretty dense and there are lots of shops and homes
A photo of Michigan avenue which is a very similar looking road in Detroit, but there's a freeway that runs right by it and it's The land is almost completely deserted, very few shops
Toronto really feels like the natural evolution of the traditional American city, it's unique because of what didn't get destroyed.
A photo of some people walking down a pretty dense street in Toronto, with streetcars running down the middle
An old photo of Toledo Ohio with lots of dense shops and people walking, and street cars running in the middle
That city on the right is Toledo Ohio btw. We had no shortage of good urban spaces in this country and we destroyed almost all of them.
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Feb 20, 2024
Today I find myself at East Riverfront Metrolink Station!

I am going to walk clear across St Louis, "tHe mOsT daAnGeRouS CiTy in North America" to prove a point, and get some awesome sandwiches.

I will be posting anything interesting I see along the way down below😎 👇 A selfie of me on the stairs up to East Riverfront, you can see the arch in the background as well as the Eads bridge.
First, obligatory Metrolink train. My beloved Siemens SD400s which are original to the system. These guys are OLD and will probably be among the first to be retired when we get our new trains in a few years!
I love the Eads Bridge but I think it's top deck is wasted in it's current configuration.
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Feb 12, 2024
Did you know St Louis has an ABANDONED BUSWAY?

Operating from 1966 to 2009, the #15 Hodiamont bus served north St Louis and was ahead of it’s time in many ways and could be though of as an early BRT, similar to the services operated on Pittsburgh’s famed busways.

Short 🧵
Photo of a bus on a busway with the headboard set to number 15 hodiamont, and people are waiting to get on
A more modern photo of what looks to be an abandoned alleyway, but there are no driveways or anything else in it. It is a photo of the abandon bus way
As with many US cities, St Louis was never really the same after the great recession of 2008. The #15 Hodiamont bus’s closure in 2009 was just one of the many victims of corporate America’s greed. But even though it’s gone, it’s legacy lives on through it’s unique infrastructure.
The #15 Hodiamont’s busway, as highlighted in magenta on the map, ran from north Delmar to Grand Center, and then on normal streets into downtown.

A busway is the ultimate form of bus lanes; a road dedicated to buses only. This allows for greater speeds and higher capacity. A photo of Google maps with the transit layer, active, you can see in Metrolink, but also in magenta there is another line paralleling metrolink to the north. This is the hodiamont
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Jan 30, 2024
This is a photo of the Sioux City Elevated Railway, the first electric elevated railroad in the world.

New York and Chicago's elevated trains are special because they survived, it's worth remembering there used to be similar systems in countless other cities.

A photo of the Sioux City elevated, there is an elevated track structure that looks very similar to Chicago's, a station structure, and an electric drive van pulling two coaches
A photo of the elevated traction ground level, it looks remarkably similar to what you can find in Chicago today
A photo of one of the terminus stations, it looks very nice, a beautiful ornamented elevated station building with a train waiting at the platform
The Cincinnati Subway is infamous for being rapid transit that was never finished, but I think perhaps the Sioux City elevated should be even more infamous for being rapid transit that was demolished.
That someone once saw a city as small and insignificant as Sioux City deserving of rapid transit speaks speaks volumes regarding how we once viewed our urban areas; as promising and vibrant hubs of activity deserving of investment.
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Jan 1, 2024
I visited Culdesac, which claime to be a template for more sustainable housing in the Phoenix AZ metro area.

It's not perfect, but it is good! It's incredibly easy to live car free or car lite here. There's a small grocery store, a light rail station, and ample bike parking! 🧵


A large pedestrian plaza with trees and shops, and shaded tables
A narrow pedestrian street with tall homes on either side, and a bike parked in the foreground.
Another path with access to homes, all tall and mostly white, one wall is painted blue
A painting of a large bug on a wall with a parking lot on the foreground, some trees, and several tall buildings around.
The homes themselves are pretty standard wooden apartment construction covered in stucco, which isn't the best for "sustainability" and energy consumption in the summer, but they at least appear to be well insulated. Masonry would be preferable here. A photo of a new building being constructed here Right next to an existing one. The new one is very obviously wood, it hasn't had it stucco or windows put in yet.
That being said, density is high. Everything is very tightly packed together and walkways and entryways are well-shaded.

The apartment buildings themselves look nice and are reasonably tall, and some are mixed use with small tenants like a tea shop and a thrift store. Image
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Jul 27, 2023
This Friday, July 31st marks Metrolink's 30th anniversary, I want to discuss the system a bit over the next few days.

Today, tunnels!

Many don't know this, but Metrolink's downtown tunnels are 148yrs old (1875), making them the OLDEST SUBWAY TUNNELS IN THE WORLD! 🧵 Inside 8th/pine station, looking into the tunnels. They have sandstone supports and a brick arch on the ceiling. There are overhead wires on the ceiling to power trains.
The tunnels are called the St Louis freight tunnels, construction started in 1866 and they opened with the Eads Bridge in 1875 to carry rail traffic from the lower deck of the bridge through downtown and to Union Station. another view of 8th and Pine, same as the last image but looking the other direction, down the length of the platforms and into the tunnels.
They were built cut and cover, and are of sandstone and brick arch construction.

These tunnels are absurdly old but still in good working order, a testament to the resilience of WEL:L MAINTAINED rail infrastructure.
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