Alan Fisher

Justifying a $700k salary while your business is in the red and your employees are striking is some serious out of touch grifting

This paint job radiates such incredible boomer energy that I'd expect the horn to just be a very loud "I just wanna grill for God's sake" yell

Hell yeah

Btw tonight I'll be hosting a casual Chicago meetup at the Emporium Arcade bar in Logan Square at 7pm

There will be plenty of urbanist and transit dorks here to hangout with

alan holding a vinyl record of railroad sounds

searching for the perfect record with @alanthefisher.bsky.social

Yes but I'm now on 49 atm

Hmm, I wonder where I am headed today

Moynihan train hall in NYC

Something something no seats

Memphis has basically built a modern system but with heritage cars. Portland and Seattle are great but they have routine transit funding

There should be more push back on projects that fail to expand or deliver, and other cities should get the benefits when one city miss-uses or in this case failed to build out their system.

The streetcars could go to:
- St Louis
- Memphis
- NOLA

Federal Dollars went into the creation of the DC Streetcar. If it shuts down the Rolling stock should be a transfered to a city that actually needs it, like Memphis

Memphis already runs a pantograph compatible system, but have had issues with their old museum fleet

Huh, marked for the next time I visit

Lol where is this?

Nope! This is actually rolling stock related 🚄

The new Acela is a much needed upgrade to the old and aging fleet, and the increased capacity of the new fleet can also hopefully alleviate some of the insane demand of the northeast corridor. The new trains are great, but...

YouTube video by Alan Fisher Amtrak’s New High Speed Train is Great, But…

Amtrak's next gen Acela brings increased Capacity, Higher Speeds, and Updated Interiors; but there's one trend that is haunting the North American Rail industry and unless it's reversed we're all in for a worse ride. I talk about it in today's video:
youtu.be/jktlZ8706Bc

The Philly Inquirer has stayed surprising on point through the last few years

The Norfolk Southern Café

Really loving the right-wingers that spew violent rhetoric 24/7 suddenly saying that it's bad, or that making fun of Kirk (who also did these things), is bad.

Don't be an incredibly shitty person and people won't celebrate your death. It's that easy.

Wow, are you saying that immediately folding and giving up doesn't work? I'm hearing this for the first time

Lmfao what kremlin shaped rock did you craw out from?
Hopefully you're getting paid for this otherwise you're just an idiot

I will make fun of them until they improve the 2 intercity trains a day between Sydney and Melbourne.... embrasassing

possibly, but also now the dems can drag out the budget negotiations to hurt rural districts more, which will force republicans to accept more of their stipulations

possibly this helps budget negotiations because it takes away the Republicans leverage of using SEPTA as a ticking timebomb, so that the Dems can get a better budget done eventually

I might have to make an apology video for Hochul since it seems she's done a 180 on everything including congestion pricing.

Now if only she was more aggressive on the NY housing plan

If this asshole Lawyer actually gave a shit about SEPTA he'd be yelling at the Republicans instead of working with them.
Absolutely a money chasing snake

Free range rolling stock

End time we'll be going for 2-3 hours

6pm we'll roughly be there, and it's casual. Otherwise I'll be around for future events

This has super casual, and I'll be hosting more meetups in the near future in other places too