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We were sardines without the sunflower oil on the Green Line from downtown Minneapolis.

The many intervening stops were packed with eager sign-carrying protesters, lining the platforms all the way to St. Paul.

But we had no more room so they had to wait for later trains.

We reticent Minnesotans were happy to be disgorged at the Capitol/Rice Street Station.

Anyone in the Portland area who uses #TriMet care to Test Flight my app? It’s a re-write of the currently shipping version of PDX Transit however it is now 100% SwiftUI and uses Swift Data and Swift Concurrency — includes App Shortcuts, Widgets, & a SwiftUI version of PDX Transit for Apple Watch. Also has fun things like on device translations for service alerts and look around in Maps. Unlike the previous version, it has an iPad optimized layout too.
#pdxtransit #portland #publictransit

In the Star, @GraphicMatt on risks to Eglinton Crosstown success:

“Together, these two failures — poor route management and bad or non-existent transit priority — could easily spell disaster for the Eglinton LRT once it starts service. I hope I’m wrong. Especially because better management and signal priority on the surface section of the Eglinton line would likely translate to better management of other surface routes.”

Yikes. @shawnmicallef.bsky.social shares rumour the TTC’s terrible ex-CEO Rick Leary could be the new CEO of Metrolinx.

He’ll do whatever Queen’s Park tells him to do, including starve the agency. So much for expanded regional transit and on-time performance?

#TTC #Metrolinx #TOPoli #Transit #PublicTransit

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Bluesky Social · Shawn Micallef (@shawnmicallef.bsky.social)Heard a rumour (*rumour*) Ontario thinking of Leary for metrolinx head. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

All the talk that 10 min head ways on LRT Line 1 in #ottawa as fine and normal and no big deal as other cities do this. And I’d hazard that like the other cities, leadership don’t ever take transit in off peak hours. Oh, some people don’t feel safe taking public transit? Canceled busses and waiting in the cold forever should make that better. Off peak is bullshit #ontario #onpoli #publictransit