Nathan

Local lawmakers need to begin work on a congestion pricing zone and VMT tax for AVs, these things are going to choke our streets and tank transit ridership if we aren't careful.

Notably the plan envisions a 47 minute trip between Baltimore Penn and Washington Union vs the current 58 minute schedule, 11 minutes or nearly 20% faster than current schedules.

Baltimore being #3 and BWI being #6 really speaks volumes for the necessity of the MARC Growth and Transformation Plan, faster and more frequent electrified service will be a game changer.

La Constitución de 1812 Bridge - Wikipedia

A decade ago Cadiz, Spain built a cable-stayed bridge with nearly identical vertical and horizontal clearances to the new Key Bridge for 500mn euros.
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Five billion dollars for a fairly unremarkable 4 lane cable-stayed highway bridge. It's not just transit projects, this country is incapable of building any modern infrastructure.

Ridiculous and cowardly move. The risks of *not* aggressively pursuing redistricting are so much higher than the "risk" of legal challenges against it, as more and more republican states redraw their maps.

Attention: for all you housing lovers along the Northeast Corridor - Baltimore’s City Council just passed single-stair reform AND repealed residential parking minimums AND reduced setback requirements one-after-another this evening

The 31 Av bike boulevard in Astoria, this city is genuinely incredible

The 14th Street busway at Union Square in New York, this could be Baltimore Street if we were brave enough.

The Rockaways

Still just through the website, the steam version is apparently going to cost $40 instead of $30 as well

The northeast is the single greatest region in the world, I left home at 6:45 AM and 5 hours later I am in Flushing Queens after taking a high speed train and an express subway line

Good morning from the Amtrak NextGen Acela, my first ride on the new trainsets.

The southern branch to Dundalk gets slightly higher ridership at its unique stations, but carries significantly more riders overall for some reason, I just run both lines at 10 minute headways for a 5 minute combined trunk.

Some of the more bizarre alignment choices of the 1960s transit planners become very apparent on a geographically accurate map, such as the western line on Edmondson Avenue in Catonsville, and the northeastern line via Sinclair Ln and Cedonia Ave, largely avoiding the Belair Rd corridor.

Sketched out the 1968 Baltimore Region Rapid Transit System plan in Subway Builder. The game simulates about 122,000 daily riders on the system's five lines and 62 stations.

It took two buses and 45 minutes to get from the light rail at Pratt and Howard to Eastern and Patterson Park Avenue. This sucks.

Trying to take transit in Baltimore City on a Saturday evening is so painful, Navy and 65 don't show, nothing is tracking.

Sorry, didn't see this until now, but why not just use the BWI rail station? The airport runs shuttle buses every 10 mins or so to the rail station and all regionals stop there.

The specifications outlined in the RFP seem to closely match the dimensions of the Siemens S700, which is in-use on about a dozen streetcar and light rail systems across the United States.

MDOT MTA's request for proposals for new 70% low floor LRVs for the Central Light Rail line is out. The base order includes 52 LRVs, with options for up to 50 additional LRVs for the Baltimore Red Line project.

The Metro Transit Green Line through the University of Minnesota campus comes to mind

MTA Maryland fall service changes: service enhancements on five routes and additional trips on four additional routes.

In spite of a tough state budget year, today's MTA Maryland service changes modestly expand transit service in the Baltimore region. This is in stark constrast to the 20% SEPTA service cuts which went into effect in Philadelphia today. The public transit death spiral is an avoidable policy choice.

This route averages like 1200 daily riders, on a weekday this would be weird, it's unheard of on a Saturday.

MDOT MTA LFS-A on the 70

Nova LFS articulated on the 70?

A Flock AI automated license plate reader on Maryland Route 2

Really am not liking the proliferation of privately operated automated license plate readers. It'd be one thing if they were county operated and integrated into automated traffic enforcement, but they're owned and maintained by an AI surveillance firm, seems rife for abuse.

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is

Champion Bus CTS RE - CPTDB Wiki

Looks like it's a Champion Bus CTS RE
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Shoreline North 185th Station on the Seattle 1 Line

Tukwila International Blvd station

Low floor does not necessarily mean pedestrians cross the tracks at grade. Many of Sound Transit's side platform stations have fencing preventing this.

Recently rebuilt within the past few years, these locomotives will likely outlive the MPIs that are almost 40 years younger.