Jerome Alexander Horne
@jahorne
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🏙️🚶🏾♂️🚍🚏🚇🚲💪🏾🏳️🌈 (He/Him) Follow me on Bluesky: https://t.co/fxkpppFq9C All views are mine.
Baltimore, MD
Joined December 2012
Amtrak, which was recognized as one of the best employers for diversity in 2023, will no longer devote resources to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, a company spokesman has confirmed.
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Somehow this young man is 30 years old today! Time sure does fly! Happy Birthday to my brother Ben Horne! I'm so incredibly proud of the amazing man he has become and excited for what the future holds for him.
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The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will launch South Coast Rail operations — serving a group of southeastern Massachusetts communities that have been without passenger rail for 65 years — on March 24, 2025, the agency announced today.
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Justin Vonashek will become president of the Metro-North Railroad, succeeding Catherine Rinaldi, who will retire after almost seven years in the position.
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Very sad to hear this. I just listened to a recent podcast episode he was on. A big loss for the urbanism community. Donald changed the conversation around parking in our cities.
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We love to see it! Music in a train station. A Peabody Conservatory (Johns Hopkins School of Music) string quartet + piano performs at Baltimore Penn Station for the evening rush hour. 🎵🚉
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No transit planner or agency wakes up and says "I want to make the lives of people who depend on us worse today." This piece by @humantransit explains the difference between planned and random service cuts while offering insight on how to deal with them.
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Excited for this year's NACTO Conference! I'll be attending.
Member registration for the 2025 Designing Cities Conference is open! Staff from NACTO member agencies can register for an early bird rate of $750 until February 19. Non-members can register beginning on February 19. Register now:
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@yourcousintito The MTA is not a city agency but a state run administration and the mayor has no real power over the MTA. It's a state funding issue.
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RT @QuintonLucasKC: Passenger rail through our community is not just our past, but also our future. Honored to visit with @Amtrak today to…
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This is a level of nuance that I was looking for. Sheer population size isn't the complete picture and neither is overall population density. However median density as defined in this article seems to hit the sweet spot.
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@PhilSustainable With over 1.5 million people in the city proper and a population density of over 11,000 per square mile, Philly is a large city!
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Transit Tangents episode on the @PurpleLineMD has dropped! Learn more about the suburban orbital light rail project just outside of DC.
Washington DC's Next Rail Project Coming Soon: The Purple Line 🚈 While this project has been delayed and is well over budget, it will have a huge impact on DC suburbs for the better! We get into all of it this week, out now wherever you watch or listen to podcasts 👀
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“The bottom line is, yes, financial incentives can help people switch their daily habits, from driving for a standard trip to biking,” said Jill Locantore, the head of the Denver Streets Partnership.
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