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In this house we believe:
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Streets are for people
Good trains make good cities
Frequency is freedom
Always build more housing
Every trip can be a bike trip
Transit should go everywhere
Trees are everything
The Red Line Podcast
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The Red Line Podcast
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- GIVE THE KIDS WHAT THEY WANT
Are kids not excited to get their drivers permit or license these days? My kid turns 15 today and he could not care less about it. - Am I a joke to you?
00:06WE. ARE. FULL. (Via IG/ emilyylandon) - -Hyperloop (which Elon admitted was a scam designed to kill California High Speed Rail) in bio -Opinion ignoredTrains are incredibly absurdly obsolete technology.
- San Francisco nimbies will kill you and your family to protect a house that looks like this and is ~40 feet from a light rail stop.
- It's official folks! After 50+ years of planning and over ten years of delay-ridden construction, the first segment of Honolulu's new metro line (Skyline) is open! Here are a few fast facts for people who are unfamiliar with the project: 1/4
- Busses too empty? Run more service. Busses too full? Run more service. Too many cars? Run more service. Small farebox recovery? Run more service. Just run more service. It's that simple. Every bus route should run at *least* every fifteen minutes.
- The United States has what is probably the wackiest political economies in the world around building transit, which is why we build such strange transit networks all the time. But Link Light Rail in Seattle? It might take the cake- it's a metro that uses LRVs. Listen below!
- Sprawl kills farms. Period. This is a time-lapse of my hometown, Boise, from 1984 until today. By my count, nearly 40 square *miles* of farmland have been lost since then. We could lose hundreds more if this continues.
00:00 - God willing, the Orellow line will run from Mexico to Vancouver!!! 55 MPH light rail for 1500 miles!
Leslie Lewallen said she opposes light rail in the I-5 Bridge. She claims light rail would increase the amount of drugs coming up from the southern U.S. border. columbian.com/news/2023/nov/… #Election2024 #Clarkwa #Vanwa - Despite what you have heard, Los Angeles hasn't always been the insane sprawling metropolis that it is today. In fact, at one time it may have had the best transit system in the world! Listen to ep. 63: Pacific Electric Blues today! As always, TRLP is available everywhere!
- Urban areas with easy access to outdoor recreation+sight amenities are good, actually.
