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Christof Spieler
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Huitt-Zollars, Rice University, author “Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit,” Island Press, 2021. (he/him) PE/AICP/LEED AP.
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Union Pacific runs "shuttle" service from the Barbours Cut container terminal at the Port of Houston to its intermodal yard in Dallas (seen here at sunset) in addition to trains to more distant places like Chicago, Denver, and Los Angeles. Think of each of these boxes as a truck that isn't on IH45.

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There's a really long cable between the tug and the barge.

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A-Trains crossing water. (Queens, NY and Lewisville, TX)

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A lot of the cargo between the Hawaiian Islands moves by barge -- I wonder if that's because the Jones Act requires US built ships for that service and we have more shipyards building barges and tugboats than building ships. It definitely looks odd in the open ocean.

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If I try to open the webpage it launches the app. So maybe I need to uninstall.

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The trains to San Jose literally run right under the BART tracks on their way. A transfer station isn’t trivial, but it’s not impossible.

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They are proposing to build lots of stuff but they are not willing to consider new rail alignments or moving existing stations. It seems blatantly obvious that there should be one Sacramento and one Stockton station and a Fremont-area BART station served by all trains.

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The Twitter app on my Mac gives me at least 4 ways to add a photo to a post. The BlueSky app (which is really an iOS app) gives me one that I can find — and it freezes every time I try to use it.

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…and not the bus — it’s thebus.

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Christof Spieler
@christofspieler.bsky.social
Huitt-Zollars, Rice University, author “Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit,” Island Press, 2021. (he/him) PE/AICP/LEED AP.
243 followers29 following31 posts