light rail tourist

Taiwan Chicken

Teal colored VaultX binder cover with two Fuecoco stickers on bottom left and a TRA EMU900 train sticker on bottom right

Delta A321, A330, A350, 737 trading cards

Top left to bottom right: Skeledirge, 2x Fuecoco, 4x Garchomp, 2x Gible cards

2x Roaring Moon, 6x Salamence cards

New trading cards binder came in today!

Page 1: Delta trading cards
2: The Bite Club (Fuecoco and Gible)
3: Salamence

Fuzhou Metro Binhai Express Line F1 started dynamic testing today for 2025 opening. The Binhai Express is an express metro with passing loops for express local trains. Services will to operate up to 140kph to allow express services to connect Fuzhou Changle Airport and the city center in 30min...

New Delta trading cards arrived, love the extra glitter effect

Duo mobile 2FA code of “444”, with 4 sounding like death in chinese (tetraphobia) and same number repeating having more of a significance

a death threat arrived

I met an international student at my uni from Wuhu. Thry asked me how I knew about that place, and it’s bc of the monorail.

But otoh, I have to explain where Fuzhou/Fujian is to some ppl when talking about my ancestry

Amtrak has announced the Hoosier service between Chicago and Cincinnati starting on June 2, 2025, supplementing the existing Cardinal service. Trains will depart Chicago in the morning and from Cincinnati at midday. Coach fares will start at $30 each way for Chicago-Cincinnati.

Guy named Zach in the Legends ZA nighttime battle tournament thingy saying “I’m going to reach Rank A and abolish all forma of transit in Lumiose - except taxis!”

Elon Musk has entered Lumiose City

Edited Southwest ad saying “Fares are feasible. So fly with ‘em” in yellow text with a blue background

Original Southwest ad saying “Fares aren’t feasible. So fly without ‘em. Two bags fly free.” in yellow text with a blue background.

Fixing a Southwest Airlines ad after recent news

(Original ad on the right)

Westbound 505 Dundas streetcar stopped, with emergency vehicles on its right

Someone just passed out during a fare check on the streetcar that I was on

GO train Milliken station with labels only for Platform 1 (right) and 2 (left).

Just missed an hourly GO train because there’s no signage on which platform goes to Union, and I guessed the wrong side (Platform 1) bc I thought the trains run on the tight. What a fcking joke

cummer.

A little bit of O’Hare plane spotting, featuring Eeveelutions

(for those wondering, I’m flying to Sideways Chicago today)

me, a ‘21 grad :c

Ochanomizu station with red Marunouchi Line train in left crossing a river, blue/white Chuo Line Limited Express E353 in middle, and yellow E231 Chuo-Sobu local train on right.

Going though my Tokyo trip photos from last year, and a bit of sloppy photoshop later…

(Ochanomizu station, Tokyo)

Pokemon Legends ZA player character with faregates and a train in the background, presumably at the start of the game

Paris RER (real)

I like the starter options this time too. Lots of people complaining about there being two Johto options, or that they’re all unpopular (more reason they need spotlight). Hoping for a Water/Dragon Mega Feraligatr 🙏

My croissant boi Mega Salamence returning in Z-A 👀

In its letter, the Clifton Business Association objects to the stop for the Hamilton Avenue Metro Rapid line being placed along Ludlow Avenue between Whitfield and Clifton avenues. Metro plans a stop along Ludlow between Middletown Avenue and Telford Street, which is close to an existing Metro stop in front of the Esquire Theatre. It also is conducting a traffic analysis in the neighborhood. The association lists eight objections. Among them: Ludlow Avenue is too narrow and too busy with many storefronts to handle a large bus station On-street parking “is at a premium” Ludlow Avenue is “an area with many schoolchildren” and bus stations would be “inviting danger with stop-and-go traffic” Ludlow already has bus stops on other routes The rapid transit stops “do not fit in” with the area’s “historical context.”

NIMBYs in Cincinnati's Clifton neighborhood objected to a Hamilton Ave BRT stop in their downtown area. This has to be one of the more comical list of reasons I've seen.

Yes yes, unlike buses, cars "fit in with the area’s historical context" and are not "inviting danger with stop-and-go traffic”.

"Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System" by Wes Marshall, with a broken stop sign on black background, on sale for $4.99 for Kindle edition

"Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives" by Jarrett Walker, with a purple background and transit line on map forming a train on cover, on sale for $4.99 for Kindle Edition on top right.

"Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit" book by Steven Higashide, with an orange cover, on sale for $4.99 for Kindle edition

For those with a Kindle and looking to get transit/urbanism related books, I found out today that these 3 great options are on sale for $5 each:
- Killed by a Traffic Engineer (Wes Marshall)
- Human Transit (Jarrett Walker)
- Better Buses, Better Cities (Steven Higashide)

Special art Roaring Moon Pokemon TCG card, with other past paradox Pokemon in the background

Salamence in steroids came in the mail

Left: Moonbus. Right: Sunflower bus. Both buses operating on 13 Silver Loop

Moonbus Monday, but it’s bunched with Sunflowerbus (both on route 13)

Wild seeing one of my school’s profs mentioned here

Happy Moonbus Monday to all that celebrate!

Cincy’s reaching a high of 65 today

Today’s hourly temperatures, with a high of 16C

It’s Fool’s Spring already?

50 min frequencies on route 5

Newflyer XN60 on route 5

A quirk of the reductions: 5 went from every 25 to 50 mins (schedule still shows as 25 min with cancelled trips instead of 50 mins), but now run bendies??? Guessing Citybus has the assumption that students are “captive ridership” and would ride the bus regardless?

Every other trip on Citybus route 23 cancelled, effectively turning the route into hourly frequencies (aka unusable)

Citybus staffing shortage getting so bad that my local bus route (which dropped from 20 to 30 min frequencies last semester already) now has half of its morning trips cancelled…

If this continues, would be difficult to justify WL’s #6 ranking on @nerd4cities.bsky.social’s video yesterday

Boy dinner (with a side of chopsticks skill issue)

Yes Ik it’s Lunar New Year eve, but my laziness transcends all holidays

Glad that Miles got the same Pizza Head treatment that you gave me. Btw, did you take him inside Jay International Food nearby, for the old flags if not anything else?