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Quad Cities, Illinois
Joined January 2018
Want this design to become the next state flag? Voting just opened! Will link in replies.
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Hi guys what do you think about my United States high speed rail proposal
you can immediately tell where an american urbanist is from by their high speed rail / intercity rail crayons. like oh yeah 1 new route for texas and 19 new routes for davenport, iowa.
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A thread of these videos and providing an answer 🧵.
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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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The zoomers yearn for public transit
Zoomers are weird man. Why don’t you drive? Why don’t you want to?.
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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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@CrinitusDraconi actually they're all leading to the quad cities in this case but the "all roads lead to rome" thing was the idea.
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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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The only reason democrats and republicans push the rural-urban divide is because they’re afraid of both camps coming together against the ultimate common enemy: the suburbs
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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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Why are people reacting to this like this is a serious suggestion the point of this map is that all rail leads to the quad cities it’s not supposed to be practical at all 😭.
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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.
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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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BREAKING: New York City Mayor Eric Adams indicted on federal charges - NYT.
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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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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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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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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
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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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BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued an executive order for the removal of homeless encampments in the state.
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made this map a year ago i'm glad i finally get to use it again.
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