Alan Fisher
@alanthefisher
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Livin in Philly, trying to fix things. I also make the Armchair Urbanist series
Philadelphia /// he/him/dude
Joined December 2018
Amtrak's New High Speed Acela on Film from the launch day Press Train
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Toronto GO train electrification just one week away, just one week away till GO is electrified, only one week guys!
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📣 PostgreSQL developers: Meet Azure HorizonDB the new AI-ready database service with native AI capabilities built in. For enterprise scale, security, and performance without compromise.
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Reminder that Canada has ZERO mainline passenger rail electrified And instead of just putting up the wires they're being sold unproven hydrogen trains, great job!
Calgary to Banff rail proponents submit plan for federal major project status https://t.co/jBeazAT2Fz
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Happy Holidays, time to infodump
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I can't believe we have the only true fully electrified S-bahn style regional rail system in the country and we've barely done anything to improve it
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I cannot stress enough how stupidly high transit usage would be in Philly if it just got a mild amount of guaranteed investment Its impressive with what SEPTA is able to do currently with their shitty situation
@sdrx902 the MFL is 1/3 the length of Seattle's Line 1 with the exact same ridership. So yes it's a shitbox, but it's a damn efficient shitbox. Imagine if the system was actually funded properly
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like good lord why are California leftists specifically so hilariously inept with how performative they are? Leftists in other states aren't nearly this bad ever
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California housing discourse is incredibly funny because you can say something harmless like this, But then in the comments you have leftists being useless nimbys with performative statements, and conservatives being completely braindead about immigrants
To really bring down costs, we need to build more housing – a LOT more. I’m talking about the largest effort in state history to build homes that California families can actually afford. A million homes over 4 years. We can do that.
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Btw we're having Open Houses this Weekend at the Chelten Hills Model Railroad club! 12-4pm Sat/Sunday (8010 Old York Rd, Elkins Park, PA) You're welcome to stop by 🤙
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Since zoomers can't afford to buy a house, they should preemptively get into boomer activities like Model railroading so that you can buy many (model) houses. I'm ahead of the curve
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This is pretty much exactly how I expected this meeting to go, except it's so much funnier than I could have imagined
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amazing what you can get away with if you're hot and charismatic
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Out of all of the bullet points, car culture, sprawl, and suburbanization are very much stoked by the rich ruling class throughout the last 100 years, which all lead to more traffic. Also of course they're a European and commenting this
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Billionaires aren’t the reason why traffic is bad
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Can y'all chill, I just mainly thought its a funny juxtaposition
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>Zohran flies from NYC to DC >marjorie taylor greene takes Amtrak from DC to Atlanta what are we doing here
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Yes I will be scanning many pics and newspaper clippings in this book because there are many that I haven't seen before or are just very cool. Some foamer from the 1940s would be very happy to know that their work is in good hands
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True happiness is only found when someone gifts you a scrapbook from the 1940s full of train pics and news clippings for your birthday
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Even though Cinestill 800t is supposed to be a night time or dark setting film, it's very good in the daytime for glowing/moody shots
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