Need some positive news? Around the world, a passenger rail renaissance is well under way. I document the train-love, as well as the latest in sustainable urban transport, in my weekly newsletter HIGH SPEED. 🚅🧵

Not to worry: Straphanger is alive and well! I'll continue to post about transit, bicycles, and alternatives to car-based urbanism under the "Straphanger" tag. https://t.co/D8pLDqWEyV

Canada’s gridlocked cities are global stragglers at building efficient, effective mass transit. A new Montreal megaproject has the solution we need.

Compare this to #Amsterdam, where 7% of space is allocated for micromobility, and large parts of #Berlin, where 8% is set aside. The authors conclude Montreal could *double* the space allocated to bike lanes (still just 3%) with no impact on automobile traffic flow.

...and they still don't get to work on time.

Need some positive news? Around the world, a passenger rail renaissance is well under way. I document the train-love, as well as the latest in sustainable urban transport, in my weekly newsletter HIGH SPEED. 🚅🧵

Tout ce qui brille n’est pas or, a constaté notre chroniqueur Taras Grescoe en se rendant en Floride pour vérifier si ce train de passagers du XXIe siècle tenait bel et bien ses promesses.

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High-speed rail, which has already transformed Europe + Asia, is coming to North America. But the newsletter's about more than bullet trains, shinkansens + TGVs. I'll be posting dispatches about the latest in sleeper trains, budget services, + regional and inter-city rail

Welcome to HIGH SPEED! Today I'm launching the newsletter of the global passenger rail renaissance. 🚅🧵

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I've got a #longread in the @globeandmail today about #Florida's Brightline, and the promise of privately-run, for-profit passenger trains in North America. Spoiler: Not all "high-speed" rail is created equal... #trains https://t.co/zbphSBapXe

I've got a #longread in the @globeandmail today about #Florida's Brightline, and the promise of privately-run, for-profit passenger trains in North America. Spoiler: Not all "high-speed" rail is created equal... #trains https://t.co/zbphSBapXe

Now I need to have a shower...

Also, what are you still doing on X? I post here once in a blue moon out of courtesy, but, honestly, it's like being in the Chernobyl Zone of Exclusion. The real action is over here: https://t.co/5XGfWlFroy

And in this one, I dig deeper into the lost history of the interurbans that took people deep into the countryside, and sometimes between cities... https://t.co/QH81jApvmB

You can read more in this week's HIGH SPEED newsletter. (Blast from the past, in more ways than one) https://t.co/IqpMc8cPNJ

The cable cars of SF may be the most steampunk form of transit to have survived into the 21st century. "Kout for the coive!"

They still run in #Philadelphia, San Francisco, and on the Mattapan, the old "High Speed" Line outside #Boston.

(The video above shows a vintage 1932 trolley from Scranton, the "Electric City" of Pennsylvania.) Some years back, I sought out still-running cable cars and trolleys from Kennebunkport to San Diego. I loved the PCC, the streamlined Cadillac of electric streetcars...