"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."
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Started a new short-form video series where I take the bus to my favorite Baltimore-area spots and show you how to get there on it. Since TikTok's having an aneurysm today, I'm posting my latest one here, and may just post them here every week, anyway lol
Went on @phriendlyphotog.bsky.social's youtube shorts page and saw this thumbnail and I believe this is a perfect reacion image.
"What is the best way to commute to work or travel between cities?"
Me:
Build METROS, not MAGLEVS!
Our politicians talk far too much about pie in the sky plans for unproven technologies and not enough about the things that could build our cities from the ground up and from within.
WATCH HERE: youtu.be/vXymdf0wBME
Do I know anyone in Montreal? I'll be visiting March 12-15 and would love to meet up with fellow Montreal Urbanists. I'll definitely check of the REM and other interests around the city.
The level of ambition here is really sad. It's such a big site so close to transit. I mocked up a plan in 15 minutes just to illustrate how much space we're talking about. There's even still space in the rear for a large surface lot or parking structure. TJ's footprint is the same.
Check out my new shortform video series I’m doing on Baltimore-area and DMV businesses! Aiming to have a new video out every week on all my platforms!
Follow on here as well as YouTube, Substack, and TikTok!
NEW: Race still very much impacts how we move in Maryland and in Baltimore City specifically. We need to reckon with that as much as we need to remember our past as a state.
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People who don't ride transit should still support it.
Why? Because you can’t build your way out of traffic with more lanes, but you CAN transit your way out of it by giving others a better option.
Fewer cars = faster commutes for all. 🚌💨 www.fastcompany.com/91493803/whe...
NEW: We need a public housing reckoning in America, and it needs to be built on the foundation of park & rides.
Maryland is starting to do that, but at a far slower pace than is needed.
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Great meeting up!
Any Baltimore or Maryland housing folks with an understanding of LIHTCs or HUD TCs in my feed that could answer a few questions for me for a video I'm working on?
Not on-camera or anything, just for background info. I have an email out to HABC, but just haven't heard back, yet.
Wrote my first Substack article that was inspired by a clip from a video by @phriendlyphotog.bsky.social
spdbird.substack.com/p/no-a-heavy...
Feel free to give it a read! Also check out Phriendly Photog's channel here: www.youtube.com/@phriendlyph...
WATCH: youtu.be/nQSvhZZKv3Q
DC can't subsidize its own sprawl the way other U.S. cities and states do, so it relies on Maryland and Virginia taxpayers from dense areas to do it for them.
SEPTA operators pilot the Wilmington/Newark, Trenton, etc. lines themselves.
MARC and Maryland's MTA have an operation agreement with Amtrak through which Amtrak conductors and operators drive the MARC trains on that line. Similarly, Alstom (I believe) is the operator for the MARC Camden Line.
MARC
Very good point that I didn't include, but is vital to making sure the Penn Line runs smoothly!
SEPTA is far more valuable than you've been told, and has far better bones than you'd think.
They have the best thru-running system on the continent, and could turn it into a light-metro system overnight, were the funding and political will there. Let's learn from them!
youtu.be/FCrJqLVJYW0
WMATA is up next in our map making series using @metrodreamin.bsky.social!
youtu.be/-lH1Mi0JWcM
A rail line to Ocean City, MARC trains to Virginia, service to Cumberland and Harrisburg, and so much more in my latest @metrodreamin.bsky.social map video on the YouTube channel!
youtu.be/8IZZG5xsve4
Maryland will spend $62 million for families to receive full SNAP benefits for November baltimorebeat.com/maryland-wil...
What no one seems to care to talk abt amidst this particular govt shutdown blame game is the fact that every DMV-area food bank I've been to in the last 40 days has said 'oh, yea - we prepare every year for there to be a shutdown around Thanksgiving.'
We are a broken country.
I'll be going at the end of the month and the plan is to release a Teachable Travels video on it in the New Year!
I'll also be doing a MTL map video like the one I did on the Baltimore metro subway link using MetroDreamin!
Latest on my Substack - my darkhorse for the most important passenger rail project going on in America today, and how it will greatly benefit Amtrak most:
open.substack.com/pub/phriendl...
With swift frequency, as a matter of fact.
London can teach us a lot about transit, but not just us in Baltimore—us in the entire United States 🇺🇸 Had a blast doing this video and visiting family in the UK.
youtu.be/2TY99n5jtmU
J'adore la langue, mais j'ai besoin plus d'immersion.
Je suis à un niveau avec mon français où je comprends beaucoup, mais je ne peux pas répondre avec la même vitesse ou énergie.
Mon père n'a jamais parlé français avec nous, conversationnellement, donc quand je vais à Montréal, je réapprends, constantement.
We need to stop treating urban and rural America like misbehaving children and spend real money to fix them. And, yes, that means not giving so much to suburbia.
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Urbanists don't talk enough about transit safety - and we need to change that.
The murder of Iryna Zarutska wasn't the 1st murder of a woman on transit by a deranged man, and won't be the last.
We need to fix so many things - and I write about them here:
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