A quick note: this is my last post on Twitter/X. I'm moving over to Bluesky, for good. I will not delete the account, but I will stop using it.

I've downloaded my old tweets, and I'm planning to transform some of them in short blogposts on substack. See you there.

RT @NickWhithorn: The train-ferry service between Messina and Calabria has been operating for 125 years. The first train was carried across…

@smlacombe Ça dépend du débit et de combien cela augmente la durée du cycle. En tout cas, ça rends la préemption bus plus compliquée, voire impossible.Par ailleurs, le service des feux ne semble pas utiliser ailleurs la configuration "virage à droite avancé" avec piétons/cyclistes à l'arrêt

@smlacombe Dommage pour les voies du bus qui s'arrêtent à chaque intersection pour permettre le virage à droite, qui sera encore plus problématique à cause de la nouvelle phase verte avancée pour piétons et cyclistes...

@etbadabimbim @SCP_Hughes @createstreets The actual shape of the building was shaped by the "regolamento edilizio (e di igiene)," a separate, often older tool mandating things like setbacks from property line, size of courtyards wrt building height, height in relation to building techniques, etc.

@smo841603557184 Stellina, fatti 'na vita.

@NorthernNerdTO @georgebell Traffic lights with symbols and arrows seem like a pretty intuitive thing even for the most incompetent or distracted driver. Much more than "this is the u-turn / bike/ transit signal" panel...

@georgebell But it's signals with bike symbols...

@georgebell Can we agree that it's silly to have a sign saying "bike signal" below? Nobody else outside of Ontario does this.

@Huly16609302 Their legislature is too busy at micromanaging where cities should or should not build bike lanes to actually care about updating their primitive road code. And the most exotic place Ontarian policy-makers have been is either cottage country in N. Ontario, so they don't know.

@jordigomezsuay I know it. My purpose is a bit différent though.

@NicholasNCE Ça me manque un peu les levés de soleil embrumés de la plaine du Po. Quand je prenais le train tous les matins d'automne et d'hiver entre Bologna et Ferrara, ce paysage bruillardeau c'était l'un des rares plaisirs de se lever aussi tôt chaque matin.

@petoushkoff It's not that difficult. It's because they want 100% low-floor trams.

@nickhasthoughts Honestly, it seems that we have reached the stage where nothing matters. He could dance naked on stage, insult everyone, assault a woman on camera, and that would probably not matter much. The (barely) rational politics we knew is gone. Forever.