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Feds order transit safety plan that’s actually in the new transit bill

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YouTube video by My South Shore Line Monon Corridor Test Train Run

Babe, wake up: the South Shore Line posted a test train timelapse video of the new Monon Corridor, dashing through the snow on the new electrified route set to open in the 1st quarter of 2026! ⚡️🛤️
youtu.be/oPP610icJHI

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Quebec is a special place

Every once in a while at work, someone clears out a cubicle or closet that was being used to store random stuff and a few framed pictures turn up. Found this concept art for Caltrans' F59PHI locomotives from the early 90s

A different coffee chain kept their English name and some people in Quebec decided to bomb it archive.seattletimes.com/archive/2001...

Many people are saying #buildthetunnel, right @starlinechicago.bsky.social?

Munich S-Bahn line diagram (source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Netzplan_S-Bahn_M%C3%BCnchen.svg)

A photo of an onboard strip map of London’s Elizabeth Line

Proposed CrossTowner regional rail line diagram for Chicagoland, showing the CRCL Plan improvements.

Munich.
London.
Chicago.

It’s our turn to #BuildTheTunnel.

🔗 www.yard-social.com/crosstowners

A presenter speaks in front of a 1972 map of the Munich S-Bahn network, which was made possible by a new east-west rail tunnel through the city center, connecting numerous radial suburban lines.

A regional train speeds past a station as an S-Bahn train approaches the platform

A year ago I was getting properly tunnel-pilled in Munich, perhaps the ur-example of how a city can transform itself for the better once they #BuildTheTunnel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_...

Federal Assistance (Federal Transit Administration) The CTA, Metra, Pace, and the RTA are the region's designated recipients of federal operating and capital financial assistance. While the FTA eliminated recurring operating assistance in 1998, emergency financial assistance was provided during the COVID-19 pandemic for eligible operating and capital expenses to prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19, and allow agencies to maintain essential transit services. This assistance was provided through three separate pieces of legislation during 2020-2021: 1. On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act was signed into law, providing $25 billion in assistance to public transit agencies across the country, of which the CTA was allocated $817.5 million. 2. On December 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations (CRRSA) Act was signed into law, providing $14 billion in assistance to public transit agencies across the country, of which the CTA was allocated $361.3 million. 3. On March 11, 2021, the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act was signed into law, providing $30.5 billion in assistance to public transit agencies across the country, of which the CTA was allocated $912.1 million. Additionally, on March 7, 2022, CTA was awarded $118.4 million in ARP Act discretionary funding. The CTA was the only regional service board eligible to apply for these additional funds. In total, the CTA has received $2,230.9 million in relief/reserve funds, which are forecasted to be exhausted in the second half of 2026.

Straight from the horse's mouth (CTA budget book):

Capital costs are very much a different issue but periodic reminder that the CTA does not receive any regular operating funding from the federal government

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Sign the bill, governor

Yeah, that's just an ALPR, not automated enforcement

Get your fallen flags as they fall

The best part is that they're actively working on changing all the line names anyway, so all the line-branded merch will be outdated within potentially months metra.com/newsroom/met...

Operations Specialist Lyft Operations Specialist is where you apply online to the Operations Specialist role.

Lyft is hiring an Operations Specialist to help manage our 1000+ Divvy stations in Chicago. Hands-on, analytical role that supports the GM of Divvy, works closely with CDOT & helps shape how the system grows. Ideal for someone passionate about biking! app.careerpuck.com/job-board/ly...

It’s already on the books, and some suburbs do so maps.app.goo.gl/cSpYGNftgRpo...

You were warned

Reminder that this is tonight at 6p. Signup link: www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-ct...

Anyway, you want to know what would be golden? We need to #BuildTheTunnel

I do not care to admit how long it took me to figure out the “up up up!” song was also the K-pop song that literally everyone talked about all summer long

Eric’s ordeal this morning could’ve been a single train that ran every half hour, which is why we need to #BuildTheTunnel

Eric’s ordeal this morning could’ve been a single train that ran every half hour, which is why we need to #BuildTheTunnel

Did you ask him when he’s signing the transit bill?

Metra made the list this year bsky.app/profile/apta...

Thank you for riding Metra today