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Nice place to get a hot dog.

That's also the case for the Toronto College store, there's just more showroom space since the building is huge.

The NSTs recently ordered will probably arrive by rail to Greenwood and in the future when the Obico yard is built that will also be able to take deliveries.

Thinking about Toronto's trains: every delivery to Davisville or Greenwood (i.e. every train from 1954 to 2001) was by rail, but the TRs, which arrived at Wilson, weren't. Streetcars have always arrived by rail to Hillcrest, and Line 5 LRVs by rail to EMSF.

There is an urban Ikea in Toronto with a characteristically different form. The interior area is about twice as large as the Rivoli store.

None of Taiwan's neighbours are very far away.

It really set a precedent worldwide. Before the interstate system national motorway networks were mostly the preserve of defunct hypermodernist fascist regimes

The decades of stagnant/declining electricity demand in most of the west and Japan really wiped out the institutional momentum and capacity to do these megaprojects based expansion, the only places that can do it still are those where demand has consistently increased (china and korea)

I didn't expect it but I think it will be useful for me. now I just need one of the Chinese map app providers to have Google-level 3d imagery and all can be happy.

Finally Korea will get high-quality Google Maps.

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«It's said the land the UN headquarters sits on is more valuable than the whole 23 wards.."

yepyep. i was imagining the RRs having a lot of disparate lines across the Hackensack that meet the loop instead of joining at Secaucus/hoboken. and maybe the footprint of fdr dr on the east side too

the terminals of countless New Jersey railroads meeting the loop that everyone uses to get across the river... !grand central and !penn stations joining in on the north side for downtown access...

PATH if it was good

And $200+ for a utilities layout..

here you go. not aware of what caused the uplift last year

This, continual procurement, is the one reform to US federal vehicle procurement I want.

We need structures that allow continual fleet renewal at 1/x lifespan, not bulk purchases every 30 years that inherently have big issues.

This is a big part why Chinese tower blocks are able to generate so much middle class floorspace

Minimum connection times (minimum time to change between transit services) calculated from OpenStreetMap

Percentage of connections which are convenient (no more than 10 minutes waiting after reaching connecting stop). Presented for GTFS RealTime data on April 5, 2023 for GO Train station connections in the GTHA Transit network.

Percentage of connections which are convenient (no more than 10 minutes waiting after reaching connecting stop). Presented based on GTFS schedules for January 9, 2024

The convenience of transfers between GO Train services and connecting buses presented by route and direction at Bramalea GO Station using realtime data.

My research article “Quantitative Method for Assessing the Quality of Intermodal/Interagency Connections and Service Integration at Suburban Rail Stations” has been published in the @trb.org Transportation Research Record. This is based on my MASc @uoft.me on coordination between transit services.

Back in 2019 the ratio of ridership by mode BVG/TTC was something like
bus 0.93
metro 0.71
tram 0.51

id expect bus and metro to close over time but tramway gap to remain large.

the ratio for railways was super lopsided though

sure, later. to give an idea, it would be around the bottom hovering around 50% ish. it would also be the smallest of all orgs depicted

I just think that regional operational integration has to happen at some point. The middle suburbs are integrated so poorly without it

Thinking about the different rates of population growth. I think per capita is unrealistic but absolute terms totally possible in the coming decades

How is commuter rail in the US and Canada faring?

It depends! In terms of ridership recovery, Toronto, Boston, and the LIRR lead, while Chicago and Los Angeles lag far behind.

Caltrain modernisation has brought the system far ahead of it's region's metro, BART.

North American commuter rail ridership through 2025 shows a couple of upwards trends:

-LIRR benefitting from expanded City Ticket, congestion pricing, ESA.

-GO improved off peak service.

-Caltrain reinvigoration

There existed some perception that they were more Russian than German for a while but my impression is that that's died down. I'm not German though so this is all kind of conjectural

It's said that "everything is computer" but in rail the corresponding thing is "everything is systems" now.

The German diaspora across central and eastern Europe, who returned in large numbers in the immediate aftermath of German reunification.

The discussion about "modular" construction would be a lot more lucid if we viewed it as an extreme on the prefabrication spectrum. There's lots of prefab already viable (like this!) – and we can make it more viable!

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