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Jedwin Mok
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Fellow @Metrolinx | Producer @fietsprofessor | Creative Director @uxforcities | fmr: Transport Data @cityoftoronto, CompSci @UofT
Jul 8 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
How is it possible to view fast & frequent suburban railways as a weapon of neoliberal austerity?

I’m becoming increasingly jaded towards the NA planning/geography apparatus - an institution which has repeatedly prioritized aesthetics over material gain. 1/
Image Before the RER, Paris’ disproportionately poor suburbs were EXCLUDED from the city. In many ways, the geography of the city was almost feudal in nature:

The wealthy, urban 6-storey Haussmann city center remained far away from the stigmatized, suburban high-rise Banlieues. 2/ Image
Apr 16, 2023 • 47 tweets • 20 min read
How did European cities get their human-centric streets and public spaces? Why could they escape the car-dependent status quo, while North America seemingly can’t?

There's one EASY trick planners and engineers don't want you to know about: Street Experiments. 🧵 1/ Image Often, “good urbanism” in European cities is attributed to historical, cultural, or geographic factors - things out of our control. This assumption is wrong: the built form of a city is a DIRECT result of conscious decisions made by people.
So first, let’s dispel some myths: 2/
Jan 16, 2023 • 18 tweets • 8 min read
Yglesias is absolutely correct:

It is IMPOSSIBLE to grasp the fundamentals of how to improve US transit without visiting a major Canadian city. This all goes back to the "lines on a map" derangement syndrome seen too often in US planning, instead of examining networks, ridership, and service.

Common comparison is Toronto vs Chicago: similar pop but JUST LINE 1 of the TTC carries more riders/day than the ENTIRE Chicago L
Aug 15, 2022 • 22 tweets • 10 min read
After being in Munich for a week, I'm now a firm believer that regional rail is the next truly transformative transport mode for cities, even more so than the highway or metro: 1/ Regional Rail often describes a network of mainline trains that run frequent service throughout a metropolitan region. Networks can be organized in many ways, but the crucial point is that trains start from the periphery and run through the city center onto the other side. 2/