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Here's a story I researched for Traveller back in the Biden era last year, has taken a while to be published - introducing travellers to LA's surprisingly useful Metro rail network. Includes a reference to Roger Rabbit!
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America’s notoriously car-mad, clogged city can now be explored by train theage.com.au/traveller/inspir

First "walking" test of a light rail car on the I-90 floating bridge. It _may_ be the first train on tracks across _any_ floating bridge, but that's just something I heard not something I know.

There will be a _lot_ more tests, and no doubt more rounds of changes and adjustments and all that, BUT

Continued thread

Then there is Ford's baby subway, the Ontario Line. It will be:
- Incompatible with all other lines the #TTC operates (can't: build junctions later for interlining, can't share rolling stock)
- Smaller than Subways (Ford's logic: narrower tunnels means more distance for the same budget and more is better, never mind projected usage being higher than capacity!)

Billions wasted to satisfy our own Trump.

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Watching this video makes me lament for #Toronto and #Ontario and the damage done to it by Rob and Doug Ford.

As originally designed the Eglinton LRT would have spread throughout Scarborough and Etobicoke.

Instead Ford is wasting $3.5bn to bury the west end of the line, money that could've been used to build dozens of kilometres of on-street dedicated LRT lanes.

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youtube.com/watch?v=bNTg9EX7MLw

#TOPoli#ONPoli#TTC

HEY #SEATTLE

The old Bus Tunnel station rail lines need serious work and are gonna be semi-closed for like TEN DAYS IN APRIL, which sounds like a spy novel but is mostly just a pain in the ass:

soundtransit.org/ride-with-us/

April 14 to April 23, they'll be letting like two trains an hour go through between stations and that's it. Outside the work zone will be normal.

Put it in your calendars!

www.soundtransit.org1 Line service disruption | Sound TransitGet information on Link service disruptions. Details are subject to change without notice.

YES! VICTORY! Public pushback makes a difference!

#MaineTurnpikeAuthority drops controversial #GorhamConnector project

by WGME Staff Thu, March 6th 2025 at 7:56 PM

GORHAM (WGME) – "The Maine Turnpike Authority is now dropping its controversial Gorham connector project.

"The project would have built a new highway from South Portland to Gorham, with the goal of easing heavy road congestion.

"The MTA paused the project last year after receiving backlash from local residents.

"The project would have required the demolition of nearly a dozen homes and confiscation of #farmland."

"'There was a lot of concern, and people wondered if it's the right-sized tool for the job, a lot of people have concerns that, building another highway, there's concerns that it will just fill up,' MTA Director of Communications Erin Courtney said.

The MTA says it's heading back to the drawing board to re-examine traffic conditions and review past mobility studies to find better ways to ease congestion in the area." [Like #LightRail, #RapidTransitBusLines and more #BikeLanes!]

wgme.com/news/local/maine-turn
#Maine #SaveSmilingHillFarm #SmilingHillFarm #InducedSprawl #GorhamConnector #MainersForSmarterTransportation #Maine #MaineNews #GorhamBypass #GorhamSpur #Maine #RapidTransit #SaveTheFarms #ProtectTheForest #InducedDemand #Sprawl #SaveRedBrook #ProtectTheWetlands #BrookTrout #SaveTheForest #Wildlife #HuskyLine #RapidBusTransit

WGME · Maine Turnpike Authority drops controversial Gorham connector projectThe Maine Turnpike Authority is now dropping its controversial Gorham connector project.