Alan Fisher
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Livin in Philly, trying to fix things. I also make the Armchair Urbanist series For Mutuals to follow: @nmbr1class1h8er
Joined December 2018
In the Newest Armchair Urbanist we need to talk about how bad Google Maps has gotten for Transit in general.
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Your mind is limited because you're not a Philly Sports Fan
Seeing a lot of commies saying things like āpublic transportationā. Let me know when I can grill and crack a cold one with the boys on a train or bus pal.
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JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO.JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO.JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO.JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO.I SWEAR BRO JUST ONE MORE, I SWEAR.
Traffic takes so much of your life. @boringcompany tunnels will solve horrendous images like this and give that time back.
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Can everyone post the funniest "Fell for it" wojak images that you've seen below.
US Treasury Secretary Bessent: Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American dream.
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You have to be genuinely stupid if you can't think of one reason why you'd take a train instead of flying
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If only there was an option to go from JFK to lower Manhattan for about $10 that's faster than driving. .
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Americans refuse to accept that Philadelphia exists
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Dumbass boomer generation built the stupidest, most inefficient society ever and now they're complaining that they have high taxes. Wow holy shit, who would have thought that this kind of development was a bad idea
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90% of the "European food fixed me" or "European food made me loose 10lbs" posts is literally just people from car dependent suburbs enjoying walkable cities and not noticing.
The americans are all posting their Euro Summer Tiktoks and once again talking about how the food in Europe is so much better/fixes their IBS/allergies etc xbut I just realised that for all their raving about food quality they're never like "we need regulations at home".
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Holy Shit, Minnesota is about to singlehandedly lift the US's average standard of living.
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Brain chemistry altered, never seeing single seats on transit the same
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We really should give Amtrak a chunk of FEMA money so they can run 30 car consist evacuation trains. Because this is embarrassing that people can only use highways.
Evacuation traffic suddenly shot up after #HurricaneMilton reaches Category 5. #Tampa #TampaBay #florida. @jpetramala
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I don't care how late this goddamn train is, because more people should be experiencing landscapes on Amtrak
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This is a eco litmus test, which vehicle is better for the environment?
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Which state national guard will be the first to shoot some feds? I'm betting on Minnesota.
BREAKING: Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan arrested by the FBI for obstructing ICE arrest
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This kills the Building.
Tree lined streets are great, but buildings faced with greenery are often just as good!
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Its honestly sad that most Americans will never experience the fun of their home team winning a game and riding the train back home with fans (or to an afterparty). Instead they have to drunkenly navigate their way home in a car, alone, stuck in traffic.
Dodgers fans are stuck in traffic but at least they are going home happy š
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Truly a lost technology
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every person in these two pictures would all fit on a singular commuter train.
Can someone just tell me where everyone is going on a Sunday at 11AMā¦ they certainly arenāt commuting to workā¦ wait is everyone going apple picking today #7News
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God, American's are stupid fuckers when it comes to trains and history
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Alot of people commenting or quote tweeting that they're broke. No! Actually the opposite! They have a whole dedicated chartered train for only the team!.Usually with some special cars too (see my comment below).
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LA Council approves motion to ban sale or rental of RVs for housing
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I really wonder how much longer people are gonna put up with this before people move back to the midwest and northeast.
Today is officially the hottest day in Las Vegas history at 120Ā°. š„šØ. Three degrees higher than the previous record.
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most leftists really don't understand how dumb/insane the median voter is and it shows.
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It's really crazy that this is actively happening to the Great Salt Lake and Utah just seems fine with letting irresponsible farmers get away with it too.
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People are so mad at this post lol. Tailgating is literally creating a temporary walkable community in a parking lot. It's trunk or treat for adults.
Tailgating is all cope for not having pedestrianized streets, good bars and public parks near American stadiums and arenas.
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wow actually LA looks like a real city with transit, it only took for them to burn down a highway.
Thanks to our regulars and newbies for riding with us today!. All the info you need to ride during the DTLA 10 freeway closure is here: š· this afternoonās commute
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Some guy just accidentally did the most effective eco terrorism to the Philly region that I've ever seen lol.
LIVE: Chopper 6 is over the partial collapse of Interstate 95 in the Tacony section of Philadelphia
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The more you find out about urban planning and sustainable infrastructure you realize that the train loving dorks were right all along.
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I truly think it'll be some treatler that dome's him when their Amazon slop product increases 400% in price and lacks 2 day shipping.
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@jaketropolis mandatory financial literacy gulags so I can stop hearing people like her complain about the economy.
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You think that a new transit line that would carry over a million people a year would be good? Well these 20 wealthy home owners say otherwise.
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People have to understand that shit like this happens because Private Railroad companies own and operate basically all of the rail infrastructure in North America and they do not give a shit about maintenance and infrastructure upkeep.
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Tailgating is all cope for not having pedestrianized streets, good bars and public parks near American stadiums and arenas.
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OHHHH YEAH, PRESERVE THE DREAM BABYYYYYY
āNew Urbanistsā Want To Bulldoze The Suburban American Dream.
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Just build a four track railway and you've doubled the capacity of any of these roads
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WANNN WANNN my shithole city is improving!!!! But because I'm a culture war reactionary idiot, that's bad!!!!!!.
"Racist roads"; or the story of how Pete Buttigieg took a final wrecking ball to my hometown. Syracuse is divided into four quadrants by I-81 and I-690. Or at least it WAS. Under Biden, libtards began tearing down the I-81 viaduct in the city's south, opening the door to crime.
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West Coast Cities: NOoOooo that lot size is too small, you can't upzone that!! It'll be terrible for the neighborhood!!!1!. Philadelphia: 6 stories on a 12ft wide plot? Ok.
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I can't wait to ship the homeless guy from San Francisco to a crumbling house in Detroit.
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>complains about Amtrak delays.>has never actually ridden a train. If these are the people coding the LLMs, no wonder why they're garbage compared to the Chinese models
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This is the America that the average conservative is scared of
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The Venn diagram of these two types of people comes disturbingly close to being a circle
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just made this based after my "JUST ONE MORE LANE" tweet
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We Used to be a Real Country.(Margaritaville Bar Car on Metro North)
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Yeah but the difference is that Central Park is actually surrounded by meaningful housing density, not 2 story stucco buildings larping as rowhomes.
Everyone in the world knows Central Park, and yet Golden Gate park is actually 20% larger.
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Putting all the small business owners in a jar and shaking it while screaming, ."IF YOU BUILD HOUSING NEXT TO YOUR BUSINESS MORE PEOPLE WILL LIVE NEARBY TO PATRONIZE IT".
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@Bbburner19 Even if those numbers were even remotely correct. You're forgetting:.-tire manufacturing and micro plastics.-parking and car infrastructure is insanely carbon intensive.-cars promote urban sprawl which makes everything more carbon intensive.-lithium mining and sunken resources.
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Finally, someone brings up the real issues with nation wide High Speed Rail
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Its strange to me that even 10 years ago this didn't seem to happen as much. Are parents more scared now to let their kids ride school buses?.
This is the traffic to drop-off students at a middle school in Metro Vancouver. New video about this issue tomorrow.
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Very Few things scream "I don't live in a real city" more than being impressed by a guy in a suit taking the bus.
Just saw a man wearing a whole suit. Nice watch, hair, shoes, looked sharp. I would guess heās an executive or a business owner. Except he was standing at a bus stop. I realized heās prob got a job interview. So I stopped and asked him if he wanted a ride. He said āNope, my.
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>"Amtrak needs to fix its subpar services".>Cancels project that would make Amtrak's service not subpar. Wow, incredible, we just can't stop winning.
Today, @USDOT & @USDOTFRA announced weāre saving taxpayers over $60 MILLION. FRA & Amtrak are in agreement that underwriting the Texas Central Railway project is a waste of taxpayer funds & a distraction from Amtrakās core mission of improving its existing subpar services.
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Thinking about how there's a dinky town of 16k pop in the middle of Oklahoma that has a real streetcar because the mayor used states funds to fix their sewer system with an ISTEA grant.And because it's a transit grant this streetcar has to be in daily service every day
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Lame People: "We Can't have High Speed Rail in the US because you'd need insanely big infrastructure that's impossible to build across mountains!". Our Highway system:.
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Ski resort town "urbanism" be like
Said it before but worth repeating. Vail has some of the best urbanism in the US
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Minnesota in 2050 lmao. Give this man more things to check off, start force feeding him urbanism talking points
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Reasons why its expensive:.- Amtrak currently doesn't have enough rolling stock to meet demand.- You are getting 3 course meals, free coffee, snacks and waters the entire trip.- Amtrak has to largely subsidize the long distance routes, sleepers are a bonus. cont. .
i looked at taking an Amtrak to a festival in pennsylvania in a few months. all the trips are like 28+ hours long which would be fine if i could take a sleeper roomette. however, itās nearly $900 each way. $1800 to sleep. insane.
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I wish I was as easily impressed as Tesla fanboys. You can practically jingle keys in front of them and they'll go nuts. That thing is literally a Ford Transit with goofy ah lights on it and zero ground clearance.
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Honestly if our politicians gave a shit Boeing would have been nationalized or broken up by now.
Boeing CEO David Calhoun is being raked over the coals by the Senate right now. He's making $32.8 million this year. Josh Hawley asks him "What is it you get paid to do exactly?". The CEO struggles to answer.
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Fuck white picket fences and driveways, this is the American dream I want to publicly romanticize instead
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European intercity train seats vs the least padded Amtrak seat
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San Francisco Residents are so funny when they try to grasp for straws to fix housing. This whole section of the city is shitty 2ish story detached stucco housing. Literally build anything more dense here!!
The US Mint in SF takes up so much space and sits near a ton of transit. It currently produces collectible coins for coin nerds, and doesnāt actually produce coins for circulation. Maybe this isnāt the best use of space? Should be moved imo and replaced with mixed use housing.
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I swear that the democrats have the worst PR team of all time, because the republicans would act like they where gods giving a small gift to the peasants if they ever did something similar.
BREAKING: The Biden administration is ending bank overdraft fees as we know them. Under a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule, overdraft fees at large banks will be strictly regulated and capped as low as $3. Low-income Americans will save billions.
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Your property taxes are going up because the suburban sprawl ponzi scheme is now running dry!.And the funniest part is you idiot fuckers could solve it by building dense housing, but no you'll block that too because you hate anyone that doesn't live in a single family home.
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I hate the leftists/eco people that see something full of plants and immediately think its a good thing/eco friendly.
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Also Amtrak is the fastest way between Philly and NYC, its not even close with driving. Anyone with a brain takes the train.
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>growing population.>Number 1 or 2 spot for education.>You can literally ride transit from the top to the bottom of the state on the same system.>Community colleges free for anyone making under $65k.>$15 state minimum wage. Haters will hate, but it's New Jersey.
Of course, this begs the question of what the most "underratedly well run state" would be. Probably Michigan?.
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Because we systematically killed off last mile Freight Rail delivery.
šš¼Why are we letting gigormous industrial sized shipping trucks drive in our downtown streets ?! These shipping containers have no place in our neighborhoods. š¤·š»āāļø This is Richmond and Spadina at lunchtime.
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The reason why the Class 1 Railroads might electrify in the United States, is because Mexico is forcing them too. Of course only the stupidest/funniest way that this would happen might happen.
This is wild: Mexican president AndrĆ©s Manuel LĆ³pez Obrador says that he will require freight rail in Mexico to have electrified passenger service:
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I'm fine with flex posts protecting a bike lane as long as 1 out of 20 of them is randomly a solid bollard that looks identical.
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Absolutely hilarious that this "negative" video has actually convinced me that the Gondola is a good idea and that California has some of the most insufferable victim-mentality NIMBYs of all time.
A billionaire in L.A. is trying to build an aerial gondola over one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city so he can develop the parking lots at Dodger Stadium into a retail entertainment complex. Not only will one our most historic parks get consumed by the project, but
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What people from outside of NJ/tristate area don't understand, is that we shouldn't be building anything else in the meadowlands. The meadowlands is there for runoff and flood control, housing (and other buildings) should not be built there.
The fact that the area around MetLife stadium doesnāt look like Wembley park in London is a gigantic policy failure. Wembley is btw how you should do stadium developments
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Regarding the Norfolk Southern derailment. To anyone who had any knowledge of the rail industry prior to this whole event, this disaster was basically expected. The US rail industry basically relies on the fact that most Americans are willfully ignorant of their operations. 1/š§µ.
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Joe Biden could Nationalize the freight Railroads and no one could stop him now.
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here's what a plant filled street can actually look like, and there's no gimmicks like ivy or green roofs.
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Highway costs go practically unnoticed but the second the train is too expensive then everyone gives a shit.
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thinking about the time that we just decided to build three brand new metro systems for cities
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@shaun_vids This is easily your dumbest take of all time. Yeah sure like a republican would do anything different. If anything, they'd bomb Gaza faster.
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I keep thinking about how much more powerful the US would have been if we invested in better infrastructure like railroads or cities in the 50s-70s instead of highways and the suburbs.
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Every time I see people dooming over North America I just assume its because they've never seen the parts of it that look like this.
Some honest to god streetcar suburbs, with intact streetcars
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@ReggBrown25 yeah that will hurt the building overtime and cause water intrusion. But that's also an older style of masonry that will hold up slightly better to the vines.
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do I need to ratio you dumb asshats again?. 'Uh, yeah bro bro, this time that extra lane is different!'.
Traffic is the horrible in Los Angeles. Almost feels like half your life your in a car just getting from one place to the next. Canāt wait for the @boringcompany to solve this issue.
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I will judge the urban planning of your city entirely on the ability to walk to a bar close by.
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This building will probably have massive water intrusion problems within 5 years. I do not understand the comically goofy fascination of putting plants on a building. .
One River North.šDenver, CO. A 16 story, 187-unit apartment building with a 10 story canyon in the middle.
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Out of all of the infrastructure projects in the world, the electrification of the Indian Railway system does not get enough praise. This is easily one of the most impressive undertakings in the 21st century and it was done in roughly 10ish years
Indiaās mainline railway network is almost entirely electrified, with over 90% of the ENTIRE NETWORK (!) electrified, of which 45% was done in the last five years. Hereās a bit of background: š§µ
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There are around 450-ish people commuting in this picture, only 80 of them are using the highway
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The Boomers that claim to have liked NYC better in the 1980s over the present are generally some of the most insane people with gaslighting nostalgia vision.
When you think your city is too far gone to be saved, remember that this was the East Village in the 1980s. Itās never too late.
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Unironically a hilarious thing that should happen
You can green light and give unlimited funding to any megaproject in the world. What are you doing first?.
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