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Applications for our summer planning position close in a week!
We’re also now looking for an engineering intern and full time civil engineers.
Come work with me on making a safer, more sustainable Houston.
Holy shit CAHSR now planning on electrifying AV Line by 2039! @calelectricrail.org
01.03.2026 05:20 — 👍 129 🔁 13 💬 6 📌 4So happy to see Zara Larsson join @coachbalto.bsky.social & the Portland Bike Bus!! 🚲
01.03.2026 16:28 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0I think we can tie back all of it back to cars, racism, or usually both in tandem.
28.02.2026 14:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Amtrak is no longer going to seek its ageing superliners with new bi-level cars.
www.trains.com/pro/mechanic...
On my agenda for tomorrow 🫡
This ballot is too damn long 😭
Tuesday's Most Read # 1 - FRA's Controversial Amtrak Shake-Up Leaves Passengers Looking For Clues In Europe link.theoverheadwire.com/t3rm7 The Travel
25.02.2026 00:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
US Fed Railroad Admin is apparently directing Amtrak to split itself into 3 entities:
—Operations
—Rolling stock [& maintenance facilities]
—Infra [mainly Northeast Corridor & stations]
This approach could have major ramifications for Amtrak. I'm personally quite skeptical it will improve outcomes.
My concept for Houston’s first (automated) metro. Dark blue is underground. I think everywhere outside of downtown/eado could be cut/cover
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You think it’s painful to read this chart, imagine how painful it was to make this chart.
21.02.2026 22:27 — 👍 617 🔁 85 💬 14 📌 1
Diving into TSP as a non-expert (I'm no traffic engineer) has been a wonderful journey into discovering how an apparently niche topic is deeply interwined with how we design streets and organize (or fail to) traffic patterns
It seems mostly a tech problem, but it's really a planning and design one
Make sure we flood METRO with positive feedback during the games :)
20.02.2026 15:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
1) Amtrak Mardi Gras Beats 1 year ridership projections in only 6 months🚆
2) Doing so in the reddest of red states
3) Now extend it to Baton Rouge (already connecting bus 🚌), get Pensacola connecting bus 🚌 service going & then extend to Pensacola.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Now who let the northwest garage employee shuttle into GTFS…
20.02.2026 03:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Check out the entertainment-focused shuttle routes here.
All service operate June 7 through July 11 (except airport service modifications that start this weekend).
Houston METRO revealed their World Cup service plan. This plan includes:
-All-day express bus service until midnight, every day
-Increased frequency and spans of service on buses and trains
-New service to Hobby Airport
-Shuttles connecting hotel zones to popular entertainment districts
According to Trains Magazine, Connecticut could remove M8 EMUs from Shore Line East *solely* because of the additional fees Amtrak charges for using electricity on the NEC.
Consider this context RE: MARC & MBTA for not running electric on the NEC...
www.trains.com/pro/passenge...
This is not what it looks like when a state "leads on climate change."
18.02.2026 23:55 — 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Houston’s Silver Line isn’t reported to the FTA as BRT anymore.
20 min headways, no more all-door boarding, or off-board fare payment, and still not TSP. :/
The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires
18.02.2026 03:51 — 👍 8459 🔁 1956 💬 84 📌 39
Crazy. Clearly CT needs to negotiate with partners to ensure electric operation is cheaper than diesel.
Slower/heavier diesel trains are a bad option for EVERYONE
-Slower older trains for riders
-Less available capacity and more wear on the corridor
-Louder more polluting engines for everyone else
I think the intent is for it to be more of a high-capacity, highly-reliable feeder route for the RER and Tram, rather than the *fastest* way to get from A to B.
15.02.2026 21:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Tzen 4 buses, source: https://www.sustainable-bus.com/news/tzen-4-ile-de-france-mobilites-hess-alstom-kiepe/
Tzen 4 station, source: https://www.sustainable-bus.com/news/tzen-4-ile-de-france-mobilites-hess-alstom-kiepe/
The Tzen 4 route; source: https://www.iledefrance-mobilites.fr/en/le-reseau/projets/tzen4
Paris region launched its Tzen 4 bus rapid transit line this week. The 14 km (9 mi), €123 m electrified route serves cities in the southern part of the metropolitan area; it's expected to serve 47,000 daily riders. It uses 24 m (79 ft) buses.
15.02.2026 20:46 — 👍 70 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 2
Yesterday Brest inaugurated it's second tram lines, but also BHNS bus line D, which shares a short segment with the new tram line, something that was unheard of in the first generation of French trams but it's getting more common nowadays.
15.02.2026 14:49 — 👍 52 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0
Today T6 Nord tramway opened in Lyon. The project isn't very big (just 5.5 km) but the timeline is just impressive: the project was launched in 2020, 3 years for planning, design, public consultation, permitting and contracting and less than 3 years for construction.
youtu.be/XiJesxVJXFo?...
Sorry, but this @nytimes.com op-ed on free fares in New York City, by @galvinalmanza.bsky.social, is deeply ignorant of the issues.
It proposes that pretty social justice vibes and some careless citations will change facts of math. Thread: 1/
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...
