Yesterday, the Liberals in #Canada announced they're going ahead with true high-speed rail. (Not just "high-frequency.") This means 300 km/h (186 mph) electric trains from #Toronto to #Quebec City. This corridor is home to 700k students, and half Canada's population. Great news, but... 🚅🧵

Here in #Montreal, we just got 74 cm (30 inches) of snow. This plow driver has the right idea. The municipal snow removal operation should also be a car removal operation!

This is a new low. (Prediction: there will be lower lows.) State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks The department plans to buy armored Tesla vehicles. Elon Musk, who is leading efforts to cut government spending, has won more than $13 billion in government contracts in the past five years.

State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks

The department plans to buy armored Tesla vehicles. Elon Musk, who is leading efforts to cut government spending, has won more than $13 billion in ...

Congestion-relief pricing has been a big success in #NYC. Car traffic is down, transit ridership is up. Another city that could benefit? #Chicago. With its compact core, transit efficiency would jump if cars were limited in the Loop.

Never mind the naysayers: NYC-style congestion pricing would be great for Chicago - Streetsblog Chicago

By practically all accounts, New York City’s congestion pricing initiative, which launched on January 5, is doing precisely what it’s supposed ...

This is rich. Up here in #Quebec , Tesla owners are trying to unload their cars, but, according to Le Journal de Montréal, nobody is buying. So they’re slapping on stickers that read: “I bought before Musk went crazy.” (Thing is: it was *always* obvious Elon was cray-cray.)

What’s not to love? After one month of congestion-relief pricing, one million cars have vanished from streets of #Manhattan. City bus speeds are up, with ridership (weekends) up 21% over last year. https://www.fastcompany.com/91272434/a-million-cars-have-disappeared-what-nyc-is-like-after-one-month-of-congestion-pricing

The Cascades Amtrak service, linking #Portland #Seattle #Vancouver, is breaking ridership records. 985,000 passengers in 2024, up from 745,000 in 2015. More evidence, along with the new Borealis route (#Chicago - Twin Cities) there's huge demand for inter-city rail...

Record ridership for Amtrak Cascades from Vancouver to Seattle | Urbanized

Amtrak Cascades' passenger rail service linking Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland saw all-time record-high ridership in 2024.

On a bullet train, you can cruise comfortably at speeds only attained—for short stretches—by production cars like Bugattis or McLarens as they hit their flat-out maximums. In #China, new CRH450 tops out at 280 mph. #Japan's shinkansen are being tested at 370 mph. 🚅🧵

You can see the exact moment when #Switzerland began to think ramming highways into its cities might be a stupid idea. This is the Autobahnstummel, the "highway stub," for a huge expressway, one of 3 that was supposed to enter heart of Zürich. Killed by popular referendum in 1973. 🇨🇭🚋🧵

Whoa—STOP THE PRESSES! The Federal Railroad Administration has just issued a study calling for increasing long-distance rail routes in the US from 15 to 30. The cost would be a minimum of $45 billion, and would double the existing network. #trains @npub1d43e...zlju Map below. More in the link: https://www.railway.supply/en/15-new-amtrak-routes-proposed-to-transform-u-s-rail-network/