A British guy in Montréal living life. A casual advocate for better and safer cities. Mass transit fan. Software engineer by day. He/him.
Montréal, Québec
Joined January 2021
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Christopher Addison retweeted
Yes it's totally a good thing that you can get a majority with a 4% lead and 29% of the vote...
I love FPtP
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Color = Electrified railroad
Black = Unelectrified railroad
Gee I wonder which countries' rail system will better survive an oil crisis
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Wow, farmers mobilizing for some utter bullshit to undermine development, Canada really is a European country.
🚨 BREAKING: Farmers are rising up against the Liberals $90 Billion high-speed train, Alto project!
The Carney government is seizing their land here in Rigaud, Quebec and many are not happy. Follow my posts for live updates on the ground today.
Full report to follow.
Christopher Addison retweeted
Lol, lmfao
Build the railway
🚨 BREAKING: Farmers are rising up against the Liberals $90 Billion high-speed train, Alto project!
The Carney government is seizing their land here in Rigaud, Quebec and many are not happy. Follow my posts for live updates on the ground today.
Full report to follow.
Christopher Addison retweeted
This is real, and it's offensive horseshit. Battery trains have a minor, a very minor role to play as a transition technology, but in the foothills of a seismic energy crisis, swapping one form of energy dependency for another is crap politics and worse planning.
Have you seen this? facebook.com/share/1LNM6gAmh… @transportgovuk only seems to have posted it on Facebook... Wonder why. @NoelDolphin
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US public transit advocates: Don't just envy Europe. Start by envying Canada.
Find the Canadian city most comparable to yours and see what the Canadians do in a similar situation, with similar land use and economic history.
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Don't care, build it
Toronto-Quebec high-speed rail project could cost more than $150-billion, internal document shows, @curryb reports theglobeandmail.com/politics…
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
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What politician will run on one of the richest cities in the world not accepting this crap? Do Torontonians not deserve better than a . . . fence? How will we compete as a city when we can't install the equivalent of an elevator door?
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Brutal lack of context from @robertbenzie on @FrontBurnerCBC recently saying "maybe in Canada we don't have the tradition of rail travel you have in Europe or even in China." Come on. These were rail routes in 1955. Politicians (especially Mulroney and Chretien) destroyed it.
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Albany could literally be the hub of HSR lines that connect NYC, Boston, Montreal, Toronto and further west to Cleveland, Cincy, Chicago.
Seems like a total economic no-brainer for upstate.
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The Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973. The median Baby Boomer was 18. It was passed from pressure by Silent Gen voters, by Geatest Gen legislators.
The ~doubling of the National Parks system occurred in the 60-70s. Again, same situation.
The Baby Boomers keep being credited for things they ~enjoyed~ the benefits of. Not things they caused to occur. Or paid for.
The defining legacy of their control of Congress has been a chronic underproduction of housing, mass financialization, an inexorable rise in inequality, and the most dysfunctional legislative sessions in American history.
everyone talks about these people as if they’re selfish and like, yes, probably. but that’s not how they think of themselves! they think they are DEFENDING what is cool and special. you have to remember when shitting on baby boomers that these are *literally* the same people who doubled the parks system, fought for endangered species, etc. while I personally do not think we should treat the marina Safeway the same as the Bolinas Lagoon, the bolinas lagoon is really special and basically exists today because of exactly these people doing exactly these things
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High speed rail from Montreal to Toronto really is not a huge lift. We have lots of potential corridors, clear routes into the cities, and obvious demand and potential demand with significantly expanding urban rail systems and densifying downtowns - its painfully obvious.
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Also ignoring that it was built for less than adding 5 stations to the blue line - it is more than 10x longer and adds 5x more stations to the network - and these are full metro stations.
Christopher Addison retweeted
Honored to be a part of @build_beaut latest video about transit construction costs!
Sharath puts it best: “We keep treating cost blowouts as inevitabilities instead of looking to the rest of the world out of misguided notions of exceptionalism.”
Watch now! Link below. – at Bresso, Lombardia
Christopher Addison retweeted
le REM déborde pis le monde traite ça comme un échec. un train aux 4 minutes qui est plein, c’est la preuve qu’il fallait le construire il y a 20 ans. la file sur le quai, c’est trente ans de demande refoulée qui sort en même temps
