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@VoteHubUS election night mapper. Transit Advocate in Atlanta. A condo in every pot. We need HRs 1, 4, and 3863.🚲🚶🚅🚃🚎🚇 🗳️🇺🇸🌎🧦🏳️🌈 he/him
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Good afternoon. Yesterday, the 2022 US general election was completed with the second round of the Class 3 US Senate election in Georgia. Incumbent Senator
@ReverendWarnock
defeated former UGA running back
@HerschelWalker
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Station 5%
Parking 65%
Solar Farm 30%
someone who is good at land use planning please help me budget this. my high-speed rail is dying
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The disdain in his voice as he says “Mississippi”, right after asking for forgiveness for uttering it 😂
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India’s mainline railway network is almost entirely electrified, with over 90% of the ENTIRE NETWORK (!) electrified, of which 45% was done in the last five years. Here’s a bit of background: 🧵
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Even at our insane costs, a metro for Las Vegas would be very useful and see great ridership levels
On the eve of the
#SuperBowl
, it takes one hour to drive exactly one mile down the Vegas Strip.
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@dobermanboston
@LinkofSunshine
They have standard text and pictogram signs next to the entrances?
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Earlier today,
@GavinNewsom
vetoed a bill that would've capped insulin co-pays at $35 per month in California. The bill received unanimous approval among all present members in the Legislature.
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2020 on the left, 2023 on the right. I ran a regression model that predicts with high confidence that Chicago will be more right-wing than Appalachia by the end of the decade.
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In the end, Nikki Haley won Buckhead with 49.35% against Donald Trump's 47.49%. You can see the anti-Trump sentiment carry into the northern suburbs of Atlanta, a key region of realignment.
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Getting between Albany and Boston by train currently takes 5:20, but a high-speed rail option could cut that down to as little as 1:15, with a new high-speed line cutting across Massachusetts.
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@classicryan17
I don’t really get why they’re trying to reinvent the wheel. Europe and Asia have already figured out what works for train interiors
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Today, Jon
@ossoff
becomes eligible to accede to the presidency of the United States, so I decided to post a map I made last year.
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Instead of giving money to Amtrak to modernize NEC infrastructure, the Federal Railroad Administration seems hellbent on spending ridiculous sums to give Union Station a facelift. This project will cost over 5x the cost of Moynihan Train Hall
Today the Union Station Redevelopment Corp. announced a big step forward for plans to expand & modernize the 117-year old train station. They say a one-year study that charts a path forward is finished. Some parts would radically change, historical parts would be preserved.
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Next week, India reaches 75 years of independence. One of the challenges faced by the most pluralistic country in the world is that of representation. India's lower house, the House of the People, has not been reapportioned in over 50 years.
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In 2019, actor and comedian
@ZelenskyyUa
mounted a real-life run for the presidency of Ukraine. With an anti-establishment and firm anti-corruption platform, he was able to glide to power with a landslide victory in the presidential runoff election.
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Back in 2013, the University of Illinois did a preliminary high-speed rail study of this area. I proposed a routing that would fit their parameters. What do you think?
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@PopulismUpdates
He wasn’t communicating with something; it was someone, and his name is Perry the Platypus
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Today, a supermajority of Americans support legalized same-sex marriage, but it's not long ago that the opposite was true. In 2004, at the height of culture wars surrounding same-sex marriage, Georgia voters overwhelmingly supported amending the state constitution to ban it.
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A Congressional district in Georgia covers about 7% of the state's population. Thanks to two rounds of reapportionment, however, Rep. Lucia K. McBath could end up having represented about 20% of the state at various points.
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From Chicago to Los Angeles, Philadelphia to Boston, everyone’s talking about regional rail, and not a moment too soon. The commuter systems of yesterday need to be recalibrated to serve more than peak commuters to the office.
In April 2024 presentation, LA Metro transportation planner Anthony Loui says Metro’s Rail Integration Study is developing S-Bahn style concept line. Seems to be connecting Metrolink lines via Link Union Station with better service from Burbank to Norwalk.
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@ClayDesert
@lawfulhamster
@Cobylefko
The picture from the original tweet is essentially “zooming in” on the apartment building. The point is that by containing the spatial footprint of anthropogenic development, we maximize the amount of undisturbed natural habitat.
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@MassJumbo
These are very cool very trains, maybe foamers are mad they don’t look like dinosaurs? My only critique is they need to get rid of the wishy-washy “decarbonized” language and just commit to electrification. They should avoid the path of California and Illinois
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@ClayDesert
@lawfulhamster
@Cobylefko
Sterile grass is actually not a natural feature, and I would far prefer a contained urban footprint that puts nature close to everyone than sprawl that requires a 2-hr drive to the nearest state park
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Damn I’d say we’re at 6+
Susan Collins slams TX Supreme Court ruling denying Kate Cox an abortion.
“I thought it was a terrible decision… that may affect her future ability to carry a child, was forced to leave Texas to get a much needed abortion — it’s just inconceivable to me.”
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Pride Month begins tomorrow, and it's important to note the relative recency of support for LGBT rights in the United States. In 2008, the largest state in the union voted to amend its constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
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@MassJumbo
Yeah, this would be a much shorter tunnel, but same idea. The Greenport Branch receives so little service that LIRR should turn it over to Amtrak for HSR
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@yitgordon
@DPW_RichmondVA
Putting the guardrail on the right of the sidewalk instead of the left is a nice touch, that way cars can crush pedestrians before bouncing off it
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In fairness, a lot of the areas earmarked for parking are also designated as potential TOD sites, but parking should not be the default. Especially in the larger towns, TOD should be dense high-rises, not 3-5 story apartment buildings.
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@OregonMapGuy
Except NYC, where they’re both comically corrupt ex-cops who want to genocide the homeless
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MARTA is already at the final design stage on this project and set to break ground next year. If
@andreforatlanta
tries to kill the project at the behest of his wealthy friends, he will have wasted tens of millions of dollars
Mayor Dickens has walked back on Beltline rail, now saying that analysis will decide if the path gets rail or "rubber tires," "small pods" or nothing at all. Similarly, Beltline chief Clyde Higgs says their "position on all things transit" is yet to come.
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@MassJumbo
“One-seat train ride to lower Manhattan is worse for college grads than the Deep South” uh huh
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@readmorethings
@mnolangray
It doesn’t have to be sprawl! The Los Angeles Basin is huge, they could upzone that entire area and get millions of extra units out of it! If they made an effort to build public transit quickly and stopped wasting water on alfalfa, they’d have more than enough resources.
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@DuncanMonserud
@Boenau
This is a complete non sequitur. Intercity trips are about 4% of trips, while trips under two miles are about 50%. You can obviously tell which application a bicycle would be suited for. OP’s argument is that we should be building for a modal shift from the 50%.
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Not to get too deep into the TN Sen discourse, but to dispel the comparisons between GA/TN:
Black Pop: 33/17
White NH: 50/73
College-Ed: 33/29
There’s a reason Tennessee Dems and Georgia Dems have had opposite fortunes in the last decade.
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A new year brings new elections under new lines (just not so soon). Virginia will have legislative elections in ten months, and last November's Congressional elections gave us a snapshot of one way things could go post-reapportionment.
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@birbandriffy
@Redistrict
She will likely be at the top of the ticket in 2022 as the gubernatorial nominee.
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@LoGravityTweets
@Am_Cope
@TetsuoYarbrough
@MikeCerulliCT
Just because not all of them support exactly what you view as “genuine change” (and many of them do, in fact) does not make them even remotely similar to Republicans.
If you’re so dissatisfied, push for proportional electoral reform to make a third party viable.
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Today is the eight-year anniversary of the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage, but it wasn't the first win for LGBT Americans. In 1978, activists and politicians of all stripes, including presidents past, present, and future, came together to ward off a lavender scare.
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#OTD
in 1965, the US House approved a landmark immigration reform bill, which broadly liberalized the process of immigrating to the United States and made it possible for many more people to find their own American Dream.
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Earlier today, the United States brought charges against Rep. George A. Devolder-Santos. However, Mr. Santos is hardly the first gay Republican in Congress to be indicted. That honor goes to former Rep. Aaron Schock, who represented western Illinois for six years.
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As redistricting continues throughout the country, there's been a lot of dialogue about the impact of gerrymandering. One of the worst states in this regard is Wisconsin, so I decided to draw a map with multi-member districts for its state assembly.
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In 2010, the district attorneys for the counties of San Francisco and Los Angeles both ran to be California's top legal officer. Under current boundaries, Kamala Harris won a narrow majority of Congressional seats.
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In 1968, Texas remained in the Democratic column, albeit very narrowly. One place where that slippage was apparent was San Antonio, where the northern part of the city went strongly for the Republican ticket.
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The parking setup does get at the main thing that distinguishes CA HSR from every other high-speed rail program in the world: pitiful quality of public transport at all stations on the initial operating segment.
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In 2006, the Governor of California,
@Schwarzenegger
, was re-elected in a landslide. In the process, he would have won approximately 39 of 52 modern Congressional districts. His centrist campaigning and commitment to bipartisanship gained him favor with voters.
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On Tuesday, in perhaps the most closely followed national election, a final verdict was not returned in the Class 3 US Senate election in Georgia, where the incumbent, Raphael G. Warnock, faced off against former NFL running back Herschel J. Walker.
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House Democrats will crawl (with their remaining limbs) over broken glass to vote for Hakeem Jeffries
7AM: Surgery
2PM: Back at the Capitol, still wearing my slippers and hospital socks
Time to vote for Hakeem Jeffries!
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@_fat_ugly_rat_
Yeah that puts it six points left of the state. That’s practically communist, hence deep-red
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Yesterday, a grand jury in the Atlanta Judicial District approved charges against 19 individuals for unlawful conduct during the 2020 elections. One the co-defendents is Shawn Still, who holds the most competitive Republican-held seat in the Georgia Senate.
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Since then, they’ve progressed towards electrifying all broad gauge mainlines and are set to complete it sometime later this year!
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Not going to say a lot on potential Ossoff vs. Kemp, since it's so far away, but I will say this: Brian Kemp is a popular governor, but Jon Ossoff is a quite popular senator. More than that, he is exceedingly skilled at controlling the narrative.
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@ClayDesert
@lawfulhamster
@Cobylefko
Also, Houston does not have “tree cover”, and the sprawl from the last 20 years destroyed natural prairies and wetlands, making events like Hurricane Harvey much worse.
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@sock_dem
Did that one afternoon with a Jump e-bike, didn’t realize they’d changed the rate from 10¢/min to 30¢/min lol
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@AidantheBoJoDem
Kinda funny that SpongeBob and Patrick are wearing fez, implying they’re either Moroccan or Turkish in this context
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In 2010, Democrats in Georgia's Twelfth Congressional District were asked if they "had enough" of Rep. John Barrow's centrism in the US House of Representatives.
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For reference, these are the two stops in question, essentially forced by bad public policy.
With Brightline West breaking ground, I want to go over why the nation’s first operational HSR (250+ km/h) will include two stops in the relatively unpopulated desert & not quite make it all the way to LA, as it’s a good lesson about building in the US today🧵
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As the zombie presidential primary season continues, the Republican contest in Arizona was yet another landslide for Donald Trump. However, his performance was not even across the state. He dominated rural areas while continuing to slide in suburban voters.
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Depends on who you ask - in 1966, amid a backlash to President Lyndon B. Johnson's civil rights agenda, the South punished Democrats up and down the ticket to send a message. In that process, the Republican gubernatorial nominee, Howard H. "Bo" Callaway, took a narrow plurality.
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Interesting similarity about NY/LA: both are pursuing light rail projects that in the process sabotage opportunities to improve regional rail
Transit wonks say that running a piece of the MTA’s upcoming Brooklyn-Queens light rail on the street could be the death of the project
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My dad passed about 3 weeks ago.
He was 100% going to vote Trump
I was 100% going to abstain.
Now that he has passed I’ll be using my vote to vote for Trump. I still don’t like Trump but I want to give this one to my dad.
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@RedheadZach
I achieved a correlation coefficient magnitude of 1.0, the highest possible value! And I only had to use two data points! That means I’m doing it right!
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I’m sorry, but one does not have to be a resident of New Jersey to understand simple statistics and facts. See the clusters of yellow dots? That’s where some extremely wealthy people like Dr. Oz live, and all together that represents 1/6 NJ commuters
@floppatakes
@sam_d_1995
Sounds like two people who are way too online to understand the dynamics of the two states
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It is unclear why Mr. Newsom supports limiting access to medications, as he evidently suffers from delusions of grandeur.
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Happy new year! With a new mayor of New York taking office today, I thought I'd make a map of an election in the city - specifically, the 1912 presidential election, which was notable for featuring a president from the past, present, and the future.
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I think I may have found the most cursed aerial imagery of the United States
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Live election map for the special election in the Seventh Senate District of Virginia, occasioned by the resignation of the Honorable Jennifer A. Kiggans:
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About 10 years ago, Indian Railways recommitted to electrification, which sat at about 45%. Their investments saw the rate of electrification increase substantially.
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@WandaCFB
@TheStatsRobot
Then they would’ve given $2K in the first year and $10K in the second
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The interactive map is up! Polarized, but not like 1983…
Interactive election map for the Chicago general election, occasioned by the expiration of the term of the Honorable Lori E. Lightfoot:
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@lxeagle17
The irony of it all is we’ve ended up with a left-coded version of privatization, with policymakers being fundamentally disinterested in a functional administrative state and handing off basic functions to “non-profits” like
@Kounkuey
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@sam_d_1995
@MidTNDSA
It helps to think of DSA as Marxist book clubs rather than orgs interested in socialist governance
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I think Richmond should work towards decommissioning its city-center expressways and routing interstate traffic on bypasses. Here’s what I’ve conceptualized that as:
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@DJBranham
“Mr. President, I will vote for your healthcare reform bill if you can get me front-row tickets to a hanging”
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Reminder that India has not changed seat numbers for its states in over 50 years - if and when they conduct reapportionment, some places stand to gain a lot while others will lose a lot
counting begins soon-- 700,000,000+ votes will be counted
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A few hours ago, Atlanta concluded its second round of municipal elections. The most closely watched race was for mayor, where
@andreforatlanta
pulled off a landslide victory against
@mooreforatlanta
, an outcome considered improbable not more than a month ago.
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In the colonial era, railways were built by the British, mainly as a mode to transport resources. Steam locomotives were the technology of the day. Electrification was introduced in 1925, and by independence, 388 route-kilometers (RKM) were electrified.
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@WinterForMT
Not to mention the indigenous woman murdered by the lady with kids named “Aryan” and “Nation”
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@macrotargeting
Americans support disenfranchisement of Republicans ⬇️
Should Republicans have the right to vote?
YES: 21%
NO: 78%
200 LV (in Portland)
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Post-independence, railways served as the lifeline of a rapidly growing nation. Electrification progressed, albeit slowly, and was prioritized on commuter lines and major intercity corridors. Indian Railways incorporated these efforts into their “Five Year Plans”.
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Hot take: “I don’t care how much transit costs to build, just build it” is just as bad as “transit should be fare-free” - both come from an unwillingness to acknowledge that money for transit is not limitless.
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@ClayDesert
@lawfulhamster
@Cobylefko
Using stats from 25+ years ago is not especially relevant when the bulk of environmental destruction in sun belt metros is more recent, and again, tree cover is a poor metric.
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