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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

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@grescoe

Author of Straphanger | Words @nytimes @natgeomag @guardian @wsj | Latest book @lostsupper | highspeed.blog | Talks: taras-grescoe.com/contact

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@grescoe
Mar 30
"A passionately argued and important book." —The Guardian In #Straphanger, I travel world looking at best (and worst) in transportation + urbanism. (NEW: Buying here directly funds my writing—and my new project, about the passenger rail revival.) shorturl.at/oJpZu
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Jul 11, 2022
"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."
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@grescoe
Aug 28, 2022
"In a quality city, a person should be able to live their entire life without a car, and not feel deprived."
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@grescoe
Oct 5, 2022
The #Istanbul Metro has outsourced its fare collection, and the new ticket inspectors are very strict.
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@grescoe
Sep 13, 2022
This is stunning! To allow riders to better view autumn leaves, the driver of this Eizan Electric Railway train on the Kurama Line switches off the lights so passengers can better view this "Maple Tunnel" outside #Kyoto. Another reason to love #Japan's rail culture.
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Jun 27, 2021
Siri, show me the most vivid conceivable example of Experimental Archaeology at work x.com/JoaquimCampa/s…
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@grescoe
Aug 30, 2022
1: #Tokyo metro map in 2D. 2: The same map in 3D.
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Jun 20, 2021
Sorry Erich von Däniken—you don’t need aliens to explain the Pyramids and Easter Island…just very determined and ingenious Homo sapiens. x.com/JoaquimCampa/s…
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@grescoe
Aug 31, 2024
1: #Tokyo metro map in 2D. 2: The same map in 3D. 🚇🌐🧵
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@grescoe
Aug 25, 2022
"A jacked-up motorcycle in the middle of the night can easily wake up 10,000 people." More cities in #France install "Méduse" anti-noise radars, which have 4 microphones, camera to automatically ticket vehicles that exceed a certain number of decibels ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loi…
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@grescoe
Mar 21, 2022
I'm fascinated by these. Paternoster Lifts. An open-doored elevator that’s on a loop, moving slowly and continually. Name inspired by a loop of rosary beads. This one is at #Prague City Hall...
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Aug 30, 2022
"Urbanism works when it creates a journey as desirable as the destination."
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@grescoe
Sep 7, 2022
"The Night Sprinter network would be a European grid of night trains that would consist of 40 international long-distance lines. By 2030, it would connect more than 200 cities from #Lisbon to #Helsinki." Part of the "flight-free movement" growing across Europe.
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@grescoe
Jun 3, 2021
"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."