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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

Wow. @MassDems @MassGov @ProgressiveMass

Caltrain

@Caltrain

3 months

You asked, we listened. We can easily say, we know who won this race! 🤭 Electrification coming Sept. 21st!⚡️

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

Crazy that it’s impossible to walk the 700 feet from EWR train station to the Best Western… I booked it specifically because it looked like a 5 minute walk. Instead you have to take the AirTrain a mile away to parking, then catch a shuttle to the hotel.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

Maybe more United employees would take the train to work if it wasn’t surrounded by barbed wire and parking lots

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

6 months

It’ll still never beat an electric multiple unit’s world record of…*literally never* having to stop for fuel

IRJ

@railjournal

6 months

Stadler's Flirt H2 hydrogen multiple unit has secured a Guinness World Record for the longest distance achieved by a hydrogen fuel cell multiple unit without refuelling.

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Lucas Peilert

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7 months

That is hydrogen is marked as more “environmental” than catenary is completely insane

California Transit Nerd

@riley_gdr

7 months

Quick little @CaltransHQ roast for hydrogen trains By ZE they mean hydrogen most of which isn't green hydrogen I love how much this next slide bends the truth What are we going to run 2-3 of these sets on most service, 250 seats isn't a lot an 90mph top speed sucks

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

The shuttle ride took like 20 minutes, winding through all of this

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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Siemens’ new 7-car trains for Brightline West will have capacity for 450 passengers. Compare that to the new Avelia Liberty (Acela replacement), which will carry just 386 pax in 9 passenger cars + 2 power units. More pax/train = lower operating costs.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

Cool scenes this AM, though.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

Is it possible to do better? Yes…Munich Airport is a great example. They built the largest covered outdoor space in Europe right between the two terminals. You can easily walk to the rail station and hotels. I was here for the Christmas Market a few years ago. It was lovely.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

@Gumdrop844 Hard to see on google earth, but there was barbed wire security fencing blocking the whole thing off

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

If Maura Healey had prioritized investing in our state’s future instead of cutting taxes, we might be looking at a slightly different headline about billions in federal funding for a 2-mile urban rail tunnel…

BeyondDC

@beyonddc

4 months

Feds pledge >$3 billion to extend Caltrain & HSR tracks into SF Transbay/Salesforce Terminal

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

It's pretty remarkable how well Amtrak's Northeast Corridor is performing in COVID ridership recovery compared to local public transportation in the cities it serves. It's also significantly outperforming air travel along the corridor.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

Is it possible to do better? Yes…Munich Airport is a great example. They built the largest covered outdoor space in Europe right between the two terminals. You can easily walk to the rail station and hotels. I was here for the Christmas Market a few years ago. It was lovely.

Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

Crazy that it’s impossible to walk the 700 feet from EWR train station to the Best Western… I booked it specifically because it looked like a 5 minute walk. Instead you have to take the AirTrain a mile away to parking, then catch a shuttle to the hotel.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

2 months

Why does the Amtrak Auto Train require you to arrive *at least* 3 hours prior to departure, but the Euro Tunnel tells drivers to be there just 1 to 2 hours early?

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

@mdasilva1563 Yeah, probably will do that next time

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

1 year

Disappointing to see @Yale banning all micro mobility devices. The same safety objective could surely be met by requiring that devices are UL 2272 compliant.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

@WoodbroChilson My understanding was that the new pedestrian improvements only create new access on the west (Frelinghuysen Ave) side, but I could be wrong

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

5 months

If we started electrifying and ordering EMUs today, Massachusetts could have the best regional transit system in North America by 2030 (all without any new tunnels, new bridges, etc.). It blows my mind that @maura_healey @MassDems @RonMariano aren’t making this a priority.

Caltrain

@Caltrain

5 months

We are one step closer to the finish line! Earlier today our new electric trains were tested in San Francisco. Thank you for everyone’s patience as we prepare for September! ⚡️ Please visit this weekend before departure.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

7 months

@CaStateAuditor needs to look into false statements being made to justify hydrogen

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

6 months

NIMBYs tend to shoot down elevated rapid transit in most places in America today, dramatically driving up cost. Detroit is in a unique position in that people don't seem to mind the People Mover all that much. Excited for expansion!

Detroit People Mover eyes expansion possibilities

People Mover leadership is preparing for a potential reconfiguration.

www.axios.com

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

Only In Boston

@OnlyInBOS

3 months

An accident inside the Ted Williams Tunnel had traffic at a standstill for so long that people were abandoning their rides and running to Logan Airport this evening to catch their flights.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

6 months

The Apple TV Dubai screensaver is the best advertisement for the space efficiency of walkability and rail transit I've ever seen. The road infrastructure in this image maxes out at 35,000 vehicles per hour ...the Dubai Metro can carry **56,000** people per hour.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

Electrify

Only In Boston

@OnlyInBOS

4 months

Boston firefighters are at North Station right now tackling a fire in a commuter rail train engine right now.

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@LucasPeilert

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

5 months

Four decades after peer countries began operating 200mph rail, it’s finally coming to the U.S. Hopefully LA-LV is the first of many—we badly need the zero-emission intercity travel option that HSR represents.

Secretary Pete Buttigieg

@SecretaryPete

5 months

Our high-speed rail future is underway. I look forward to celebrating today's groundbreaking for Brightline West in Las Vegas. We're supporting this pivotal project with billions of dollars from President Biden's infrastructure law.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

2 months

@DavidZipper @jimfarley98 Whoever builds the first <$30k small EV is going to make a lot of money!

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

24 days

When you electrify diesel passenger rail , it's almost like you're creating an *entirely new* rapid transit line that didn't exist before, rather than doing a compliance emissions investment with no impact on operations.

Tristen

@trihawkfalcon

24 days

“San Joaquin, Capital Corridor, and the Surfliner - the cost to electrify those corridors is $7 billion” They’re using that to justify boondoggle hydrogen trains. BART SV alone will be $12.7 billion. Electrification is worth it!

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

7 months

@CaStateAuditor @CaStateAuditor @AmtrakOIG You need to investigate this misconduct. Hydrogen industry lobbyists have successfully pushed @CaltransHQ and the Next Generation Equipment Committee to lie about hydrogen so they can eliminate competition and rip off taxpayers.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

@salingergregor Yeah, hard to see on google earth, but there is. I think it’s because it’s the United employee parking lot

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

The Siemens’ new trains use “distributed traction.” This means there are motors located throughout the entire train set, instead of just at the front and the back. Avelia Liberty uses conventional locomotives and unpowered passenger cars.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

If you want to see transportation in New Jersey built for people, not cars, contact Phil Murphy and tell him not to blow $11b widening a highway. Send that money to NJT instead! 732-605-5455 (text)

NJ Turnpike Authority pushes for massive $11B widening between Newark and Jersey City

The project would expand an 8 mile stretch and replace 29 bridges, including the Newark Bay Bridge. Environmentalists are opposed.

www.northjersey.com

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

Would love to see American meteorologists providing more climate info like this.

Özden Terli

@TerliWetter

5 months

Während Klimaleugner intellektuelle Tiefflüge veranstalten - seit Jahrzehnten - schafft die Natur neue Tatsachen - permanent - und wir schauen zu. Physik gilt für alle und niemand kann sich entziehen. Niemand. #globaleErhitzung #Klimakatastrophe #KlimaschutzISTMenschenrecht

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

7 months

@CaStateAuditor

Cyrus Hall

@cyrusphall

10 months

26 days waiting for a public records request from CalTrans on why they are choosing H2 power for passenger rail services, only to be given a power point presentation that clearly isn't responsive and was likely already public. Anyway, what does it say? @calelectricrail

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

This tends to leave more space for seating, but I’m not sure this is the main reason for the rather striking disparity in seating capacity. Both are wheelchair accessible.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

We’ve somehow come to believe that NSRL is a moonshot impossibility. It’s not: they’re building many similar projects elsewhere, and the Biden administration is funding them in the US. It just takes political leadership & a thoughtful cost approach to make it happen.

@christosilvia

@ChristoSilvia

4 months

@garrett_wollman @LucasPeilert Unfortunately Massachusetts political establishment took the NSRL feasibility study as a "no, it is not feasible", which really wasn't the outcome of the study

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

the gang's all here!

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

Let’s build more electric regional rail in the rust belt. Michigan is a no-brainer, and it’ll be exciting to see if Ohio complements their intercity rail expansion with strong regional services.

Governor Eric Holcomb

@GovHolcomb

4 months

🚄 Big day in #Indiana ! We launched the $650M @southshoreline Double Track Project and starting tomorrow public transit in Northwest Indiana will be transformed, boosting our economy and connectivity. Proud of #Hoosier ’s commitment to progress.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

7 months

@CaStateAuditor @AmtrakOIG @CaltransHQ Email the @CaltransHQ Inspector General and tell them to investigate this fraud Ask.Investigations @dot .ca.gov

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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Is it possible to do better? Yes…Munich Airport is a great example. They built the largest covered outdoor space in Europe right between the two terminals. You can easily walk to the rail station and hotels. I was here for the Christmas Market a few years ago. It was lovely.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

What if ongoing/upcoming station renovations at DC, Baltimore, NY Penn, and Boston included parking for 7,000 bikes?

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

@sam_d_1995 Totally. Increasing the number of available seats on the NEC would be a huge help for bringing fares down to a more reasonable level (and become competitive with driving and flying).

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

1 year

Idea for @united to free up capacity—eliminate: 1) the 15 daily flights to DC 2) the 11 daily flights to BOS 3) the 3 daily flights to PVD 4) the 2 daily flights to PHL Insane to have these running from an airport with HSR. (Also, HSR doesn’t get cancelled when it rains)

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

Under China levels of investment and infrastructure, the highlighted pairs would be under ~4 hour HSR trips.

Ryan Radia

@RyanRadia

3 months

The 100 most traveled U.S. domestic airline city market pairs in 2023, based on origin/destination traffic:

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

7 months

@CaltransHQ @CA_Trans_Agency @Tony_CTDirector @ToksOmishakin @CAgovernor @ENERGY

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

(the rail station has 8 trains an hour)

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

6 months

France is getting it done

Max Ghenis

@MaxGhenis

3 years

It's incredible that French people have about triple the income as the average person on Earth, but produce basically the same carbon emissions. Nuclear is a hell of a power source.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

@marcuscnelson “A severe lack of density” He first talks about it like it’s a problem (which it is of course), but then he treats it like it’s an unquestionable constant. The way you increase density is by building rail transit!

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

5 months

"Both [overhead wire and hydrogen trains] will be quieter, cleaner, and faster than diesel trains." This is just baldly incorrect. Hydrogen trains are slower than diesel. Service will get worse, not better with hydrogen.

Hydrogen trains could revolutionize how Americans get around

Decarbonizing rail transportation is a political problem as much as a technological one.

www.technologyreview.com

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

@Gumdrop844 I think it’s all United employee parking, so they have a secure fence

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

To be fair, it looks like the Avelia cars are shorter, so the overall train lengths are similar.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

Alstom announced a 2+ year delay for battery trains that were supposed to be in service Dec. 2023. This tech is clearly not ready for prime time. Yet the MBTA, Metra, Metrolink, and others are banking on it, instead of just putting up catenary.

Two-year delay for Saxon BEMU fleet

The fleet of 11 Coradia Continental BEMUs ordered by Chemnitz-based transport authority VMS will not enter service until late 2025.

www.railjournal.com

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

@ThunderWolf08 @Caltrain has done such a good job with PR for their new trains, and I think it’s helped to generate interest even beyond railfans. Amtrak should be taking notes

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

@GTCarfree Oh interesting - so EMUs are basically limited to 125?

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

I've worked both on transit and in the AV business, and have been meaning to share a few reasons I'm skeptical that we're likely to see a major scale-up of AVs in the 2020s... This thread will focus on the up-front vehicle cost. 1/

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

Great to see the high-speed rail coalition growing! There are so many communities across the US that would benefit from world-class passenger rail.

Mike Quigley

@RepMikeQuigley

3 months

I visited Miami’s Brightline station to catch a glimpse into the possible future of transportation in the United States. High-speed rail holds massive potential for the entire nation. In Chicago, we could connect millions of people across the Midwest. Check it out 🔽🚄

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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Even if it’s not generated from natural gas (which is the only cost effective method today), hydrogen is just an inefficient use of energy. We need our energy system to get cleaner *and* more efficient.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

@marcelemoran ✔️ has 4,000 pages of impact analysis completed ✔️ *is already the law of the State of New York*

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

2 months

Some good birthday @GoBrightline action

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

We need to increase the supply (i.e., # of seats) on the Northeast Corridor so that we can bring these fares down. Electric rail should be cheaper than flying or driving, but it's pretty far off right now.

Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

Siemens’ new 7-car trains for Brightline West will have capacity for 450 passengers. Compare that to the new Avelia Liberty (Acela replacement), which will carry just 386 pax in 9 passenger cars + 2 power units. More pax/train = lower operating costs.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

6 months

Oh, and this test was at 37mph. Overhead electrification technology supports speeds up to 220mph (or ~125mph in regional rail applications)

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

This is the Prague Metro. Coming from the US, it’s cool just to see platform clocks that show seconds. And it’s totally mind blowing that they have a separate timer that counts up, showing riders how long they’ve been waiting.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

@mcycee I agree. They get 740 people on a train that’s the same length. That’s how you compete with the airlines.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

6 months

Red Line Harvard to Park Street travel times: 1912: 8 minutes (at opening) 1955: 9.2 minutes 1977: 9.6 minutes 2024: 14.9 minutes @transitmatters @MBTA

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

6 months

Also excited about BRT corridors part of DDOT’s future vision! These would be a near-term game changer and build momentum for further rapid transit investment.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

6 months

People get nostalgic about American cities’ historic streetcar networks, but realistically, they weren’t much different from today’s buses. Interurbans, on the other hand, are worthy of nostalgia—huge regional electrified transit networks w/ separated rights of way. Good stuff.

Dave Gifford

@DE_Gifford

6 months

Return: Detroit United Railway electric interurbans.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

Excellent news for @MBTA fiscal health. @MassGovernor should move quickly to sure up operations and then get commuter rail electrification and Red-Blue Connector lined up with match funding for federal grant applications.

The Boston Globe

@BostonGlobe

4 months

‘Millionaires tax’ has already generated $1.8 billion this year for Massachusetts, blowing past projections

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Lucas Peilert

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Lucas Peilert

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8 months

@milesintransit1 It’s still the airport of the future to me

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

@alanthefisher @StatisticUrban Marine sulphur has contributed about 0.02°C, but we’re like 0.50°C above where we were 2 years ago

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

7 months

@monicamallon How about we just stop relying on Chevron to dictate everything about our transportation system?

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

@CapitolCorridor board says they’re getting pressure from above on hydrogen trains. I wonder what powerful industry might be pushing this?

Transbay Coalition

@TransbayC

4 months

Now to the board. Director @CaityMapleD5 says this is some of the most engagement they've gotten on a topic. Asks Managing Director to elaborate. He emphasizes that @CaltransHQ and @CA_Trans_Agency is leading the effort and this is driven by @AirResources

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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@SenroMonogatari Yeah it’s true, Acela fares are 2x - 5x those anywhere else in the world. They should be aiming to bring down fares and make electric rail the cheapest way to travel (like it is in other countries). Best way to do that is to increase supply as much as possible!

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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Instead, we’ve decided to wait and see if battery technology pans out, burning another decade. We don’t have another decade. Young people are fleeing in droves, and if Mass pols keep playing games, we’ll be on track for Cleveland-/St. Louis-level population loss by midcentury.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

@RepDeluzio Thank for doing this! I’m a Pittsburgh native who lives in the Northeast, and I’d love to be able to more easily take the train to visit my family. Rooting for you and @sethmoulton to make this happen!

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

1 year

@CityOfBoston Is this a joke? This is literally the opposite of what you should be doing. 100% should have focused on Bluebikes and the T as the transport options for this weekend.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

Youngstown before urban highways: among the wealthiest American cities Youngstown after urban highways: among the poorest American cities

Some Blue Wolf

@ThunderWolf08

4 months

If you ever feel useless, just remember there's a ring highway around downtown Youngstown Ohio, a city of 60k

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

5 months

The benefits almost seem too good to be true: - reduce emissions - reduce wealth inequality - reduce road congestion - reduce road deaths - reduce housing costs - reenergize suburban downtowns + downtown Boston - … All with 150-year-old, proven technology!

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

@marcelemoran 17% is huge. The negative externalities from congestion are non-linear wrt to traffic

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

4 months

It seems this crazy streetcar alignment has been the primary option since at least the 1990s (yes the project is that old). 1/

Will - Papal Supremacy Arc

@MassJumbo

4 months

Am I dumb or is there a reason they can’t just do this instead? Shorter and faster. I’m guessing they’re using tunnel boring anyway so this seems like it would be cheaper too?

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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California, the U.S. leader in EV sales, just put out a new transport emissions reduction strategy. It calls for VMT reduction of 25% by 2030. EVs are not enough...we need to be placing big bets on public transit (both capital and ops) and active transport (e-bikes, cycle lanes)

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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Cruise is spending $2.4B/yr to reinvent human-driven ride hail. And this is where they are today: 1) $200k per vehicle (vs. ~$10k typical Uber vehicle) 2) 1.5 ops staff per vehicle (vs. 1 driver per Uber, obviously) 3) likely huge insurance $$ after recent gruesome accident

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

1 year

It’s like Christmas for transportation nerds

GBH

@GBH

1 year

Over 30 years and $21 billion dollars later, how do we even begin to make sense of The Big Dig? We’re talking about it on #TheBigDig , a brand new #podcast from @gbhnews and @prx . Episodes 1 and 2 premiere today everywhere you get your podcasts.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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@garrett_wollman Totally - electrification had already been studied and had some momentum when Healey came in. She could’ve laid the groundwork for a federal grant like this by funding electric trains to run on the Providence and Fairmount lines.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

3 months

@holz_bau My biggest problem with “give up on NA” is that it treats car-free living like a lifestyle choice. It’s disrespectful to millions of Americans forced to walk on the shoulder of an 8-lane stroad or wait for an >hourly bus without a shelter just to get to work.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

5 months

Even at exorbitant prices and with 1950s levels of service, Amtrak is selling out many Northeast Corridor trains. It’s time to dramatically expand capacity so we can start to shift millions more car trips to safe, sustainable electric rail.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

7 months

If you’re serious about safety, it’s hard to beat one of these

Jerimiah Lee Lancaster

@JerimiahLee

7 months

When we had our third child I bought a Yukon. It’s very safe and built like a tank. We always had sedans and crossovers which have no chance against large trucks. The lives of my children are too important to risk to another driver.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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@MassJumbo There’s no reason Massachusetts couldn’t become a “best of both worlds” combination of Switzerland and the Netherlands if it wanted. Not many places in the US have that opportunity and it’s frustrating to see it squandered.

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Lucas Peilert

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@Colorado_N8tive @GreatDenTransit So are highway expansion projects (which public private partnerships also wouldn’t touch) not worth doing?

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Lucas Peilert

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@lex_nyc @sam_d_1995 @Yale

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

5 months

Let’s keep the ball rolling

Secretary Pete Buttigieg

@SecretaryPete

5 months

On behalf of the Biden administration, it was my great honor to help break ground on what's expected to be the first operating high-speed rail line in American history!

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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Let's not forget where this all started. Build us some good trains @KamalaHarris 🙏

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

1 year

@lex_nyc @sam_d_1995 @Yale Congrats on having gone to law school, but what is your point? Yale definitely hasn’t banned students who live on campus from “own[ing] cars.” They clearly offer + advertise parking for students living on campus.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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The original AirTrain plan -- from 1995, when descoping discussions began.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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@DE_Gifford Quad tracked subway + dedicated tram lanes is a tremendous amount of transportation capacity

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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We’ve somehow come to believe that NSRL is a moonshot impossibility. It’s not: they’re building many similar projects elsewhere, and the Biden administration is funding them in the US. It just takes political leadership & a thoughtful cost approach to make it happen.

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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Very exciting to see that Google is now sharing important information on the sustainability advantages of rail travel! @googlepubpolicy @Google

Christof Spieler

@christofspieler

8 months

I hadn’t seen the “take the train” Google feature before…

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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You need rail transit for a building like this—adequate highway and parking lot capacity for a building of this size would be a complete disaster. Ironically, our cities that *are* investing in transit don’t seem to be willing to consider the density we need.

Chad Griffiths

@ChadGriffiths

6 months

* checks calendar Nope, not April 1. The city with the highest skyscraper in the US will not be New York. Not Chicago. Not Los Angeles. Not Hosuton. This 1,907' tall skyscraper will be in Oklahoma City. Developer has secured $1.5B in financing and now hoping for a building

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Lucas Peilert

@LucasPeilert

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Awesome. The Alewife Garage is a relic of another time. The areas around Porter, Davis, Harvard, and Central have some of the highest rents in the country, and hopefully this would put a dent in Cambridge’s housing shortage.

Jonathan Berk

@berkie1

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The MBTA is seeking a development partner to turn the aging parking garage at Alewife Station, at the end of the MBTA's Red Line, into a transit-oriented development. 📍Cambridge, MA 🚇🏠

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