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Ameen DaCosta

@horusthelocal

Columbia University Civil Engineering 2023 🦁 UC Berkeley Transportation Engineering + City Planning 2025 🐻 BART Speedrun Record Holder! Future head of the MTA πŸš‡

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Caltrain: Riding America's Newest Electrified Railroad
Caltrain: Riding America's Newest Electrified Railroad Thanks so much to everyone who attended the very spontaneous meetup!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/milesintransitTwitter: https://twitter.com/milesintransi...

Back in February I held an impromptu meetup where we rode America's newest electrified railroad: Caltrain! youtu.be/y9qjAa9Z9YA

25.06.2025 21:01 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

It’s official! Huge thank you to @bart.gov for all of their support throughout this journey, I’m so happy our record will be hanging in the board room for everyone to see!

24.06.2025 20:18 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s perfect! Thank you so much for all of our collaborations over the past year, and I look forward to seeing it hanging in the board room in person next time I visit!

24.06.2025 20:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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8 hours on BART? I tried the latest transit trend, and it almost broke me Why are so many transit fans attempting the Bay Area Rapid Transit speedrun? I tried it and it nearly broke me.

A casual introduction for the non-enthusiast, a pretty fun read!

Oh and @horusthelocal.bsky.social was interviewed for the piece! What a homie! Let’s ride some trains together again soon! πŸ«‘πŸš†πŸƒ

23.03.2025 19:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Huge congratulations! Glad you got so much out of the experience, it really is a fun way to spend a day (especially if you’re getting paid to do so!)

21.03.2025 03:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Best of luck, you got this! Can’t wait to hear about your experience! Just don’t forget everything we spoke about yesterday ;)

20.03.2025 17:20 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Absolute insanity to see it all on the map together. It was so nice meeting you today!

10.02.2025 09:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Bay Area transit community CAME THROUGH tonight! So great seeing you all!!

10.02.2025 05:24 πŸ‘ 135 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

Congratulations!!! Now please get some sleep :)

08.02.2025 03:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It was so nice to see you again Jay! Good luck on the rest of you and @milesintransit.bsky.social’s challenge!

07.02.2025 09:20 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

!!!!!

31.12.2024 08:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So…I was invited to speak on the official BART Podcast! Thank you so much @bart.gov and @aliciatrost.bsky.social for hosting me at the BART HQ, and allowing me, Enzo, and Adam to speak about the idea, planning, and challenges of Speedrunning, along with sharing our love for transit!

31.12.2024 04:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi everyone! Ameen/Horus_The_Local here! Decided to finally make an account since so many people have shifted over, so please feel free to follow to see occasional transit, sports, and other random things that I find interesting! I'm slowly finding everyone to refollow so lmk if I've missed you!

31.12.2024 04:38 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0