@jahorne.bsky.social
🏙️🚶🏾♂️🚍🚏🚇🚲💪🏾🏳️🌈 (He/Him) Queer Urbanist - Transit Professional - Transit Nerd - Community Connector Interests: Cities, Cycling, Walking, Architecture, Museums, Performing Arts, Trains, Buses, People All views are mine. https://www.instagram.com/jahorne
"Cities have always been shaped by power. The question for our generation of planners and designers is how we will use ours. Are you on the contributing path to a more honest and just practice of city-making?"
emergingnewurbanists.substack.com/p/urban-plan...
MARC Penn Line schedules will change on Monday, March 16 due to updates to Amtrak’s schedule. Please note many trains will depart earlier than their prior scheduled times. Visit mta.maryland.gov/Penn_March16... to view the full list of changes and download the updated schedule.
Baltimore has more character, grit and soul than DC! I said what I said. 🫳🏾🎤
@metrolosangeles.bsky.social wants you to do what?!?!
Ride the D!
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Available for purchase here: shop.metro.net/collections/...
That's part of the MARC Growth and Transformation Plan! www.mta.maryland.gov/marc-growth-...
Needs to get funded though!
Thank you!
As I like to say, we should drop the term "commuter rail" and start using "regional rail" in the U.S.
Exciting to see VRE thinking about a future where the emphasis is on running more service all day, in both directions and on weekends.
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We were on the Culture Study Podcast with @annehelen.bsky.social to talk about LIFE AFTER CARS. This was one of the best conversations we've had about the book and the movement so far. What a delight! Please give it a listen and let us know what you think.
Thrilled to share that I’ve been selected for the 2026 @enotrans.bsky.social Mid-Manager Leadership Program! I’m honored to join this year's cohort of rising transportation leaders from around the country and can't wait to bring these insights back to my work at @mta.maryland.gov! Let's go!
Metrorail is among the greatest cosmopolitan infrastructure projects in modern U.S. history. It was envisioned during a time of ambition and civic optimism... I fear we couldn't built it today but I hope that changes in my life time. Here's to 50 more years of Metrorail and then some!
I'll never forget the first time I rode the DC Metro. I was a young kid visiting with my parents from nearby Baltimore. To say I was completely transfixed and memorized would be an understatement. I still feel something special every time I ride it till this day. washingtonian.com/2026/03/11/d...
I hope I live to see the ushering in of the next Great Society Metro Era in the United States! Who knows maybe I'll be part of making it happen.
That original movement gave us BART, MARTA and DC Metrorail... planned at the same time but executed later Baltimore, Miami and LA.
Great evening for a bike ride! 🚲
The tension between ambition and delivery is common in transit. Projects evolve as designs refine and budgets shift. But when voters approve plans based on headline numbers, a reduced scope can cause skepticism or confusion.
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Baltimore.
“The idea here is with each service change, we pick a cohort of operators, and we show them the data, and we say, ‘Hey, you’re not operating to our standard, but you had no idea. Here’s how we can improve,’” Helta said.
www.masstransitmag.com/technology/n...
Happy International Women’s Day to the women breaking barriers and building the future. We see you, we celebrate you, and we’re rooting for you.
Love this! Cities are inherently for people, not cars. Yet, we allocate so much precious space to the automobile. There's a reason why cities with the best quality of life around the world have fewer cars. More room for greenspace, more housing and less noise.
Credit: @urbancyclinginstitute.org
March 4th was Marching Arts Day celebrating music on the move! I would not be who I am today with out the valuable life lessons my participation in Marching Band, Drum Corps and Indoor Drumline taught me. Discipline, Absolute Excellence, Perseverance, Team Dynamics, Audience Connection and Grit.
Applications for our spring 2026 Transportation 101 workshop series are open through April 8.
The free 7-week course runs on consecutive Wed. evenings from April 29 - June 10.
Learn more about our workshop series here: cmtalliance.org/transportati... & apply today: forms.gle/hytpwzLbxDvD....
You can now scan the @mta.maryland.gov CharmPass on Metro! Our team completed this work in house, saving time and $$, to deliver this improvement for our riders now while we work on the longer term fare system replacement.
The @mta.maryland.gov team is ready to get you to the stadium this afternoon! Our railcar team has been working hard & we're running every available railcar & have multiple two-car trains on Light Rail. Take the train for just $2 & skip parking & traffic hassles!
Almost every transit vehicle currently in service throughout the Baltimore Region according to the Pantograph App!
Pantograph is the best way explore a transit system in real time.
Now tracking over 30,000 vehicles on 4,500 routes from 135 agencies in 14 regions.
pantographapp.com
Seek Together A Word At Peace ✌🏾
“The consensus has emerged in the last several years that a dramatic increase in housing stock is necessary, whereas that was much more up for debate a decade ago,” Gianaris said... “That new consensus would seem to inure to the benefit of a proposal like this.”
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Go from "Why don't they fix it?" To being a positive change agent that fighting for better transportation in Baltimore. Learn to be an EFFECTIVE advocate with @cmtalliance.bsky.social's FREE Transportation 101 Workshop. 7 - week session, dinner included!
Apply by April 8: forms.gle/hytpwzLbxDvD...
Heated Rivalry Trivia night!
"Amtrak will start accepting grant applications for community development work in West Baltimore this month, easing fears that $50 million for local projects may have been on the chopping block."
www.thebanner.com/community/tr...
"On Tuesday, Liman, who Trump appointed to the federal bench in 2019, came down squarely on the side of the Hochul and the MTA's power to keep the toll."
nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/03/b...
Project delay is costly...
"A prolonged court fight over funding for the Hudson Tunnel project could add over $1 billion to the final cost of the rail tunnels between New York and New Jersey, NJ.com reports."
www.trains.com/pro/passenge...