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Marcus Nelson

@marcuscnelson

🇭🇹🇺🇸 | Building cities, transit, and change | Find me anywhere @marcuscnelson (he/him)

FL Katılım Şubat 2016
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Marcus Nelson@marcuscnelson·
@humantransit Isn't this one being supplemented/replaced by a bridge to the concourse?
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Jarrett Walker
Jarrett Walker@humantransit·
So many ridiculous airport trains in the US. Here we wait to go to the building visible at the right a few hundred feet away, which we are not allowed to walk to. Sacramento airport, but there are many others.
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Aden Yacobi
Aden Yacobi@Aden_Yacobi·
Everyone who cares about buses and trams needs to read The Transit Priority Atlas
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Marcus Nelson@marcuscnelson·
@Lib_Development @AZinCLE See the same chart but for last year. Within the realm of possibility that with their service reorganization late last year and higher ridership this year they might be close, although fuel costs would be something to watch for.
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Hochul-Reaganites for LIRR PATCOization
Hochul-Reaganites for LIRR PATCOization@Lib_Development·
@AZinCLE Also this was a year and a half ago. If they're spending 282k on trains again this year and they gained 10% revenue twice in a row, they're probably in the green on EBITDA now
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Hochul-Reaganites for LIRR PATCOization@Lib_Development·
Brightline has ~10,000 weekday riders, of whom ~4500 are commuters (short distance riders). And yet it’s clearly a viable business excluding construction debt service. Commuter rail numbers are low, but that’s okay!
RAIL Magazine@RAILMag

Brightline under-reported truth in 3…2…1… The company has not had trouble attracting riders. March was its highest ridership month ever. It’s because it’s saddled with capital debit from building the operation. Debt that is assumed by the government for public passenger rail.

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Marcus Nelson@marcuscnelson·
@PEWilliams_ @TheOmniZaddy I’m not sure these USDOT Private Activity Bonds would have otherwise gone to housing development, as opposed to more highway projects as they largely have been…
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Dennis Kitt
Dennis Kitt@KittDennis·
@the_transit_guy @pitdesi Disagree. The one place private rail works—Japan—has full vertical integration: owning tracks, stations, real estate, development, etc. This enables the TOD they’re so famous for. Separating operations from track ownership also hurts operational reliability, e.g. the UK.
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Amy Hemmeter@AmyHemmeter·
@RaccoonRailroad What's the ETA on getting to ride one of these bad boys?
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Trashed Panda
Trashed Panda@RailroadRaccoon·
The NEW Amtrak Long distance order has been FOIA'd🧵
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Matthew Zeitlin
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin·
reading more about deed theft...seems like an issue where the moderate liberal legal community could throw some philanthropic dollars and manpower (legal clinics etc) is literally just helping working class homeowners do estate planning in the first place
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Kezl 🔜 🟦☁️
Kezl 🔜 🟦☁️@spd_bird·
Transit doesn't succeed when it's a technological novelty- it succeeds when it is plentiful and useful. We need transit that scales to our built environment. x.com/i/status/20481…
Jarrett Walker@humantransit

Never aspire to a "unique" public transit technology. It means everything is more expensive and someday some vendor can shut you down if they quit making parts. The more you use technologies in common use, the more actual public transport you'll be able to provide.

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Marcus Nelson@marcuscnelson·
@peterawolf People might be sleeping on KC because of where you have to build the tracks to get there…
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Peter Wolf
Peter Wolf@peterawolf·
High-speed rail talk around Chicago always revolves around Milwaukee, Ann Arbor/Detroit, St. Louis, etc., but people are sleeping on KC. (Yeah yeah, I know HSR rail stuff is all hopeless boondoggle talk, but it can help focus the mind on better integrating distant metros).
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The Goddamned Penguin
The Goddamned Penguin@who_shot_jgr·
gonna try this long-rumored "PHL" that i've heard my friends talk up so much
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The Goddamned Penguin
The Goddamned Penguin@who_shot_jgr·
moment of personal growth: overcame my pathological need to exclusively fly out of newark. if i'm changing at o'hare anyway why do i need to start at a United hub
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Amtrak
Amtrak@Amtrak·
Amtrak has issued an RFP for a new Long Distance fleet, a key step toward modernizing overnight and cross-country train travel. More comfort. Better reliability. A stronger experience. Learn more: spr.ly/6019B64DaV
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fully fund transit
fully fund transit@crosstown_line·
Philly, DC, SF, Boston, and Chicago - real cities by American standards but not global cities. We should have at least 2-3 NYCs in the east, 2-3 in middle, and 2-3 in the west. Basically what if the US invested massively in electrified rail instead of highways.
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray·
California YIMBY is proud to be sponsoring SB 2074 with @MattHaneySF, a bill that will make it easier to build high-rise residential in the transit-rich downtowns of our state's largest cities. In this thread, a little context. 🧵
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NASA
NASA@NASA·
1972 ➡️2026 Apollo 17 ➡️ Artemis II
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Marcus Nelson@marcuscnelson·
@bobbyfijan Even the Japanese can't manage this level of certainty with new Shinkansen lines, there are too many moving parts for that. One could try and pick a number, but then you'd probably be lying.
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Bobby Fijan
Bobby Fijan@bobbyfijan·
"Yes I understand there are a lot of unknowns, and not all the plans are even done ... so then what IS the number where you know, that if you had in your bank account right now, you know it would be finished by X date? $150, $200, $300?"
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Bobby Fijan
Bobby Fijan@bobbyfijan·
You still can't get someone with authority to say, definitively, "With $126 (or $200) billion dollars, we WILL get this done. Not $1 more." It's qualified by "estimate" "for right now" & "with cost optimization Apparently, you can't pay someone enough to look that ridiculous
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The current estimated cost to connect San Francisco and Los Angeles by high-speed rail is $126 billion, says Anthony Williams, a California High-Speed Rail Authority board member. Can the project succeed without federal funding? cbsn.ws/4sOE4sV

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@humantransit @JacobLeTrashe @ATLAreaWx @Lib_Development @AZinCLE @PEWilliams_ @TheOmniZaddy @KittDennis