Alex Wolford
@thetexanrhino.bsky.social
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Writing about Transportation, Cities, and Sometimes Other Stuff Work on Substack & Medium + @dmagazine.bsky.social Dallas, TX | Columbia, MO https://linktr.ee/TheTexanRhino
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New story about trains and corporate mergers, and why you should never ever stop spending money on the railroads. medium.com/p/c6ab8375d4f0
Who are the Railroads For?
On Mergers, Electrification, and Nationalization
medium.com
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Yeah it’s phenomenal, just wish there was a way to more precisely change the years.
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Missing a bus wouldn't be so bad in this town if they came more than once every NINETY MINUTES.
Reposted by Alex Wolford
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NEW: I wrote about Dallas City Hall. Designed by I.M. Pei, it's an incredible feat of architecture that was meant to embody progressivism and a new start after the JFK assassination. At the end of the month, city leaders could vote to tear it down: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
One of Texas' architectural masterpieces could soon face demolition
The building was designed by foundational architect I.M. Pei.
www.chron.com
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It makes many of the same points you do. Shoot me a DM if you ever want a digital copy
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Are you familiar with this book?
thetexanrhino.bsky.social
So it turns out people were right about this whole Andor being really, really good thing.
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Probably the most underrated rail system worldwide, and it's still undertaking massive projects like HSR and the Dedicated Freight Corridor Project.
From "How Railways Will Fix the Future" by @garethdennis.uk
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Sent out some emails to transit agencies for a project today, but if anyone has any data on station-by-station ridership for the CapMetro Red Line, the DCTA A-Train, or TexRail, feel free to send it over.
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A couple of things usually work for me. I keep a big Google Doc for just jotting down stuff – passages, ideas, whatever – for later use. I'll also sometimes just voice record something if it's too much to get down at one time. As always, "get it down first, make it good later" is solid advice.
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Sorry to hear that. For me it’s always especially bad when that feeling comes just after you had a bunch of stuff on the mind that you know would have been good if it had gotten to paper.
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I essentially agree, and have argued as much before, but I wonder how conscious the Class 1s are of the hole they are digging themselves into.
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From later in the article, what a line:
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Really, really want to know what Keith Creel means by "endgame" here and whether the word on the tip of his tongue is the one I think it is.
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Why do I only ever hear about the good ones after they’re gone?
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At least our suburban trains still run, for now.
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David Berman, Stobe the Hobo
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Would it be wrong to say they're just inverse Deutsche Bahn?
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As the saying goes, Beware the Bull.
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What is the turnaround time on the equipment?
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Okay but that definitely won’t affect any of the outlets I like or potentially want to work for, right?
volts.wtf
NYT: gone. WaPo: gone. LA Times: gone. CBS: gone. CNN: gone. MSNBC: going.

Plus almost all local newspapers & local TV news stations.

Plus almost all of social media.

The information environment is utterly dominated by the right & everything else is downstream of that.
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The Washington Post was the paper of my teen dreams -- whose courage helped convince me to chose a life in journalism. Monday's firing of the Post's moral beacon, Karen Attiah, proved that a newsroom I'd believed in is now dead to me

Why I finally ditched the Post www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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Looking over some old docs at the moment, and Plano really did go all out for DART when they got light rail service back in 2002.