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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 11h
These examples are from Oakville, an affluent suburb on the western edge of the Toronto census metropolitan area. Actively sprawling, it's subject to density minimums in greenfield development as well as requirements for new housing creation.
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Doug @doug.city · 22h
The standard—and not totally incorrect—narrative is that the US basically abandoned transit after WWII, but there was a real revival underway in the 1970s that stalled out by the mid-1980s as the political winds shifted. Things have improved since, but we've never fully recovered that ambition.
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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 22h
UMTA R&D spend from 1972-1989. The amounts in the 1980s appear to be overstated as a lot of those projects were commissioned in the 1970s and were finishing up. Dollars are not adjusted for inflation.

New spend by the late 80s was down to $13m/yr, $3m/yr of which went into 'privatization' =>
Tables of new R&D spend between 1985-1989. Spending on research related to train and system design had been entirely zeroed out. Table of R&D spend from 1972-1985. The wind-down begins in 1982.
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 11h
The planners of suburban Toronto are faced with the challenge: how do you fit 5000+ persons/km^2 without challenging the basic fabric of car-oriented suburbanisation? This is how they do it.
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 11h
What a heavenly title
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 1d
Like with its power transmission business Hydro's mandate was to be public service. The agrarians, who won a surprise government in 1919, were not enthusiastic in the way the Tories were, being much more interested in automobiles and roads, and stripped the Hydro railways of bonding authority.
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 1d
Until 1919 Ontario at least was all in on electric regional railways, on the premise of consolidating the various radials, heavily upgrading them, and linking them with new urban rights of way. If not for surprise political upheaval in the 1919 election such a system could well exist!
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 1d
The energy that went into the suburban electrification in Australia in the 20s went into the Hydro radials in Toronto of the 10s. That scheme, which fell through because of the war, was thoroughly based on existing radials even though it envisioned mainline quality.
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 1d
The CNR was public from 1917, so it's kind of a counterexample.
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 1d
A huge part of the weakness of metropolitan railways in America and Canada is owed to the trajectory of the radials and interurbans, which basically choked out the comparable development of steam roads throughout Anglo-canada, the Midwest, the west...
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 1d
The culture of railway suburbs never developed in Toronto. The Belt Line of 1890 was a financial failure, and all subsequent suburban development was of the radials, which were fragile because of their cheapness and disappeared in the 20s-30s.
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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 1d
Like, why did Sydney keep expanding and electrifying its passenger railway network, but Toronto and Montréal didn't? Different economies? Different settlement patterns? Just different climates can explain it?
Can we just blame the proximity of the US again?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway...
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 2d
To be honest it just feels really weird to see Mongolian appear in manga lol
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 2d
Just posts on twitter
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 2d
Also not a fan of the implicit premise in all of the posts that tall buildings are for bug people or something
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 2d
The courtyard urbanism account is such an odd vision of the world. A kind of euroboo posting that I just can't understand
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 3d
Urzhin Garmaev and Jengjuurjab (here pictured) show up and their speech bubbles are in Buryat and Mongolian, I believe
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 3d
You need to be reading the 90s manga about a half-Mongolian urchin who gets adopted by Ishiwara Kanji (???) and endeavours to recover his fragmented past by seeking out Leon Trotsky (?????)
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 3d
i get baffled at the preceding generation where IJA/MNA service was apparently a prerequisite to being of any importance
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 3d
western park chung-hee stanning but just the part where shady cliques of foreign army officers control the country
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 3d
western Lee Kuan Yew fanboys should just cut the crap and stan Park Chung-hee or a sanitized version of Chun Doo-hwan, that's what you're looking for anyway
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 3d
two thing that annoys me about Lee Kuan Yew worship is that nobody who does it seems to care about *modern* singaporean politicians and American right-wingers who do it would never accept LKY's policies of, e.g., massive public housing projects in a country that makes posting racism illegal
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 5d
Relatedly Falling Down had this feeling of After The End for the cold war aerospace industry that was enthralling, too
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 5d
visiting El Segundo all I could think about was white-short-sleeve-shirt-clad engineers out of the crying of lot 49
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 9d
House of Friendship?
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 9d
several fantastic case studies in failure of alternative financing and procurement
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 9d
The foreboding 80s ad run by socialist-aligned railway union Kokuro prophesies:
As in England, as in France... As in Japan.
The 83 deficit lines are wiped from the map with a dramatic effect.
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 9d
Part of the thing is that in this imaginary world the trip is substantially less than an hour with a fleet with uniform characteristics better than today's push-pulls and with more conservative padding.
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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 9d
Controversially I could say that the better way to relieve capacity woes is to move to commuter seating instead of suburban layout, but I suspect the response to this would be "What are we, a bunch of Orientals?"
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