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Cap'n Transit<p>RT <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/euro_projects" class="u-url mention">@<span>euro_projects</span></a></span> When I was in Toronto, I was surprised to see streetcar shutdowns for renovations/upgrades.</p><p>In European cities, they install temporary switches overnight, which allow trams to keep running normally. Funnily enough, they are called &quot;Californian points&quot; in some European languages.</p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/tramstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tramstodon</span></a></p>
Cap'n Transit<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.plus/@swope" class="u-url mention">@<span>swope</span></a></span> I haven&#39;t been keeping up with it, but a keyword is &quot;freight tram&quot;. Here&#39;s a post from 2018:</p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/tramstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tramstodon</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/FreightTram" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreightTram</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.eurogunzel.com/2018/09/freight-trams-of-europe/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eurogunzel.com/2018/09/freight</span><span class="invisible">-trams-of-europe/</span></a></p>
Cap'n Transit<p>Welcome to Mastodon, transit advocates who&#39;ve just joined! If you make an intro post that describes why you care about more transit or less cars, I&#39;ll try to boost it!</p><p>Also, you can follow hashtags! Here are a few good ones:<br /><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/transit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>transit</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/tramstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tramstodon</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/amtrak" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>amtrak</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/FuckCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FuckCars</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/urbanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>urbanism</span></a></p>
JohnnyBGoode<p>Today I learned about the Vila Jardin Santa Cecilia monorail tram in Rio de Janeiro (“bondinho monotrilho”), an internal transit system for a gated community on extremely steep hills. </p><p><a href="http://www.tramz.com/br/rj/vj/vj.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">tramz.com/br/rj/vj/vj.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/tramstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tramstodon</span></a></p>
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