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Welcome to my profile! Here you’ll find
- Urbanism
- Planes and Trains
- Illinois posting
- Leftist takes
- Furry content
Enjoy your stay!
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"if there was no electoral college only the most populated states would matter in an election" doesn't sound so bad when you realize the only states that matter now are Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania
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interesting fact: when the house was first established each representative represented a little more than 30,000 people. here's what that would look like today.
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so close! he's actually in prison for killing a guy.
Raise your hand ✋ if you think Derek Chauvin is in prison bc of the color of his skin
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Hi! As someone who’s lived here all my life so far, allow me to fill you in on this place a little bit, since I’m guessing most of the country still doesn’t even really know who we are 🧵
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@carsausage71
No hate to you guys but it really shouldn’t be up to just 3 swing states as to who becomes president
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“Stop moving here! Our state is full!”
*looks inside*
*this is the state*
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The “inland empire” is the fakest metro of all time. You will never convince me this isn’t suburban LA
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No 2 photos better showcase the spirit of America than this one and the Waffle House solar eclipse photo
My uncle Ted took this photo in Memphis last night.
It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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With that in mind, let’s of course start with the iconic red/orange buses. In Rock Bottom we learn that the fare to ride one is 50 cents. We also learn that these buses serve to connect not only bikini bottom but also rock bottom as well
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“The rust belt is too far gone! Cities like Detroit, Cleveland, and St Louis won’t ever recover from their glory days!”
This type of outlook is defeatist and the wrong one to have. To see why, let’s look at New York City 🧵
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Rosemont Illinois is the funniest city ever - why is this even incorporated, it's more freeway than anything else
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Now let’s talk trains. In the episode “yours, mine, and mine”, we’re shown that bikini bottom has a subway system
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Welcome to day 5 of Latin American Urbanism week! Yesterday, I talked about Buenos Aires, and today I’m going to talk about Santiago. (1/11)
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The choice is clear this November
What's at stake for our climate in this November's elections?
Absolutely everything.
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Bikini Bottom’s population is never really shown to be consistent throughout the show, however, in the episode whobob whatpants we get a sign indicating the town has a little over 500 residents, so that’s what I’ll go with here.
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What’s interesting to note is that the subway stations are not labeled by what street they are on, instead just indicating they are a subway station. In fact, the two stations we’re shown are both just called “Bikini Bottom station”, despite being two different stations
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Got bored and decided to go down a rabbit hole of figuring out how good public transit is in the simpsons, and my findings are surprisingly interesting🧵
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Muting this but here’s the alt version the comments are looking for
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the teenagers yearn for public transit
Teenagers not wanting to get their driver’s licenses
It’s apparently common & happening across the country
I got my license the day I was eligible
It meant I had the freedom to go where I wanted
Why are today’s teenagers less enthusiastic?
Smartphones?
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Aside from the one that drops SpongeBob and Patrick off, we’re only shown the buses heading to bikini bottom from that point on in the episode, indicating that the buses are a regional network that serve to connect nearby towns to bikini bottom
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That’s about all I can find on Bikini Bottom public transit; for a town of 500, it’s served insanely well having buses, intercity trains, and two subway systems.
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Aside from that, we’re never really shown this particular subway again. I did find this image, but I can’t pinpoint the episode. What’s interesting to note about it though is that this might be a map of the system, though it’s hard to make out stations and such.
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That subway is not the only trains bikini bottom is shown to have. In “Mustard O’ Mine”, we’re also shown another train set, which requires a metro card to use
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I tried finding information on what “Ballymun” is but couldn’t find anything aside from people connecting it to a city with that name in Ireland. Perhaps it’s the name of the street they’re on? And if that’s the case, why isn’t the station called Ballymun station?
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These trains exist to serve Bikini Bottom’s mines. What’s interesting to note about these ones is that while these require a metro card to use, the bikini bottom subway is never shown to have any type of card system, possibly indicating that the bikini bottom subway is free.
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Bikini Bottom also has intercity connections as well, as shown in the episode “Bassward”, we know bikini bottom is at least connected to “Jetsome City”.
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Looking forward to the Oklahoma City hole!
Oklahoma City Planning Commission votes to approve plans for tallest building in America, sending proposal to the City Council for final review
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@transit_simp
For the Bikini Bottom buses, here's a map of the system and list of lines, as seen at Nickelodeon Universe at the American Dream Meadowlands mall.
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> be airbus
> decide “let’s create a 2 floor plane”
> creates the largest passenger plane ever
> complete financial flop, half of them only get sold to one airline
> planes already start getting scrapped
> stops making them after 16 years
> refuses to elaborate
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Illinoisans, it’s time to free St Louis from the wrath of the Missouri regime.
Kansas City 🤝 St Louis
Wanting to break out of Missouri
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If only there was an island within New York City that is filled with low density housing that you could densify to help ease the weight off of Manhattan
BREAKING: The average Manhattan rent just hit a new record of $5,588 a month
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Perhaps this is a bit of a stretch but the train itself kinda reminds me of Acela, which would be very neat if that’s what it’s based on. (Bikini Bottom is on the northeast corridor confirmed?)
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Bikini Bottom is not only served by these trains, however; as in “Mystery with a Twistery”, we’re shown that Bikini Bottom is still served by steam trains as well
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i've always wanted to ratio project 2025 with an image of the quad cities metro electric bus
Have you heard about Project 2025?
There are a lot of lies going around...
Get the truth here.
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Here’s how the 2020 election would look like with such that adjusted electoral college
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Manhattan is in a severe housing crisis yet for some reason leaves this large patch of prime real estate completely devoid of development
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In terms of food; we have our own style of pizza! Known as “quad city style pizza”, characteristics of QC style pizza include malt in the crust, toppings placed under the cheese, tomato sauce being made with red chili flakes, and the pizza itself being cut into strips.
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The alien from the galactic federation waiting to confront the person who leaked their existence
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I would add more, but I’m post limited. Thanks for reading about my region! I hope you got something out of this thread and it wasn’t just a time waster 😅
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Why is this high school I went to for a basketball game claiming St. Louis as Illinois territory
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This is, in fact, not all they’ve built so far. If you did a little bit of research you’d know that.
You’ve got to be kidding me. This is all they’ve built so far?!
Prop 1 passed in 2008…
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You may have noticed that big island in the middle of it all. That island is none other than arsenal island; it’s essentially a military manufacturing center, creating artillery, gun mounts, recoil mechanisms, small arms, aircraft weapons sub-systems, grenade launchers
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Another QC staple is whitey’s ice cream; voted best ice cream in the nation in 2014. They’re known for their shakes and malts, which I highly recommend if you ever visit
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Davenport is by far the largest of the five, with 102,000 people. Davenport is by far the most “alive” of all the 5 cities; with downtown being quite popular on weekends and during the summer; and they’re planning to make it more pedestrian friendly in the next few years
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The first post is true; though it’s really 5 downtowns within a semi-close radius of each other. Some are more like a real downtown than others, though. (I’ll dive more into each city individually further into the post)
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San Francisco is in a severe housing crisis yet for some reason won’t even consider filling in the bay. If the Dutch do it why can’t they
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Imagine how sick summer would be if we had this
Imagine how sick Summer would be if we had this
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And other stuff. The island employees about 6,000 people, and surprisingly about 200 residents live on the island as well
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The 5 cities that make up our region (yes it’s 5, not 4, despite the name) each encompass about 250,000 people, and the overall metro area encompasses about 400,000.
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Moline is the second biggest city in the region, with 43,000 people. Moline is the American headquarters for Kone Elevators, as well as the Global headquarters for John Deere.
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made this map a year ago i'm glad i finally get to use it again
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You’re so right, just look at the Las Vegas tunnel; things are going great!
Traffic is the horrible in Los Angeles. Almost feels like half your life your in a car just getting from one place to the next. Can’t wait for the
@boringcompany
to solve this issue.
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Rock Island is the 4th biggest city in the region with 37,000 residents; and if you’re a rail fan, that name might ring a bell, since Rock Island was the namesake for the Rock Island railroad.
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In terms of transit, the region is split between 3 transit agencies (I know, I think it’s ridiculous too). They are; metrolink, citibus, and Bettendorf transit
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And we have a winner. Illinois wins the U.S state and Canadian province bracket!
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…take the train! You’re so true United!
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you do realize they've done way more than just this right or do we have to just keep complaining about this project
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Rock Island actually still has its old train station still standing; though nowadays it’s used as a wedding hall
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East Moline is the 5th and smallest city of the region with 21,000 residents. East Moline was actually one of the original 4; Bettendorf just outgrew it. You can tell because its downtown is bigger than Bettendorf’’s.
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Investment in Detroit has massively gone up since the 2010’s, with parts of the city seeing massive amounts of new housing construction. Here are some before and after photos showcasing that.
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All in all, by American standards, Springfield has fantastic coverage with public transit for a city of its size; yet seems to be held back by low ridership (on trains, the buses seem to be quite popular) and rundown trains. But the infrastructure is great!
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New York City today is arguably doing the best it has been - it grew by 629,000 residents between 2010 and 2020, more than any other US city, a number greater than the gains the next four largest cities (LA, Chicago, Houston, and Phoenix) combined got over the same time period.
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Between 1970 and 1980, New York City lost more than 820,000 people in a 10 year span. The economic decline was apparent in certain parts of the city, and crime heavily increased during this time period as well.
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Atlantic City is not a real place bruh. Imagine living in this house
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We’re also due for an Amtrak extension. Moline actually built its station and a hotel for it years ago; though Iowa Interstate railroad, which owns the track rights to the route Amtrak wants to use, has been holding Amtrak hostage for years demanding a ridiculous price to use…
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New York had reached its lowest point, yet was able to overcome it. No city is ever “too far gone” to start its road to recovery, and interestingly, there are certain parallels you can make between a city like Detroit and New York post 1980
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…their 55 miles of track. Moline has called upon the federal government to step in, and that’s probably what’ll need to happen for the route to finally launch.
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@crazyboy4826
Big Boatmobile Companies and their propaganda has made him feel the need for a boat
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Bettendorf is the third biggest city in the region with 39,000 residents. It’s the most suburban in character by far of the principal 5; with a tiny downtown and the rest of the city looking like this
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Bettendorf is the fastest growing city by far of all the principal 5, growing 17% between 2010 and 2020; so maybe they’ll be forced to densify eventually if they run out of room to continue growing. We’ll have to wait and see.
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Oh, we also have a water taxi! Owned by metrolink; it serves 4 stops along the Mississippi (it could serve more if there wasn’t lock and dam 15 in the way)
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@ThunderWolf08
I’m sorry but I will not concede to any part of New York State being apart of the Midwest
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In terms of our transit history, we used to have a vast street car network that sadly completely vanished by the end of world war 2.
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Look at any light map and the answer becomes clear
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If you have any questions please feel free to ask in the comments! I love answering questions about here.
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@aelb625
yes! thank you! i was trying to find something like this for the thread but i couldnt
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There are massive improvements all around, and I believe a Detroit comeback is imminent if not already underway. These trends are also being felt in other cities across the rust belt region.
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While Springfield’s population is technically never truly defined, there is this welcome sign giving the population to be 30,720, so that’s what I’m going to go off here.
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The reason this is important to talk about is because New York isn’t like this today. New York eventually balanced its budget, people started moving back after investment returned, and crime plummeted over the decades after.
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