Curator, Northwestern University Transportation Library. All scanned images are from NUTL’s collections, unless otherwise indicated. Banner photo is from a promotional packet for the L-1011.
I push transit to its limits, while attempting to be entertaining.
Amateur photographer, voice actor, and scribbler.
Volunteer railroader, professional machinist.
Big cat in diesel hat.
May contain adult content, sarcasm
Male, single, bi, 1985
Chicago area.
INTP-A
t.me/GD_Kalmbach
www.youtube.com/c/SynchroScore
University of Chicago grad
Contract work for the United Nations
Contributor at the Human Rights Campaign, Trevor Project, and the Chicago Board of Elections
Views are my own | Not my employer
Breaking news since 1847.
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Just posting my photos of old signals in the modern world. I put more detailed descriptions in the alt text.
I'm JG. I'm from NP. In Chicago. On a bike. He/Him/His.
Recovering political data analyst. My YouTube channel is @votingtrends. American-Slovak citizen.🇸🇰
Full-time university student turned full-time railway enthusiast!
https://www.youtube.com/@NickBadley
Q, Kay, & Ellis’s dad, Tasha’s husband, and Swing Left Director of Organizing. Ohio State, Environment Ohio, Obama 2012, Enroll America, and Civic Nation alum. swingleft.org
Father of Lark, Birch and Rose. Author of Chorus of the Union. Contributing Editor, Chicago magazine
We advocate for walking, rolling, bicycling and public transit to create healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities in the Chicago region. Join us! www.activetrans.org
Chicagoan Urbanist trying to improve the Salt Lake suburbs one bike lane or bus route at the time. Village of Addison and the CTA Purple Line's biggest critic.
They’re passing a new law. Its called Ride Your Bike.
Chicago
Transportation planner | Bureaucrat working on Divvy bikeshare & all things micromobility | Alabama native | Posts are my own ofc
Harebrained is a Chicago design company that makes underwear, shirts, trivia games and anything else we fancy.
www.harebraineddesign.com
A celebration of transit maps and diagrams from around the world. Visit the blog at transitmap.net. 🔁 Reposts appreciated!
Transit map prints sold at: transitmap.net/store
Transit mappers starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/32jXV41
Iowa City's home for 47,000 used/rare books, puzzles, games, and two famous cats. 😷 Masks required - 12-6 Central, Mon-Sat - https://www.thehauntedbookshop.com
I make chill scale modeling videos
+ Build custom model railroads for clients
https://lnk.bio/InterurbanEra
A movement harnessing nonviolent noncooperation to prevent climate collapse and build a better, more humane and sustainable civilization.
Trains are like dragons: massive, majestic, mystical and capable of quickly taking you on an exotic adventure.
https://linktr.ee/jrurbanenetwork
Metro Transit is a leading transportation resource for the Twin Cities, offering an integrated network of buses, light rail and commuter trains, microtransit, as well as resources for those who carpool. https://www.metrotransit.org
Nothing makes me happier than places that have less cars. I make videos about that 👇
https://linktr.ee/carfreekeith
📍Chicago via the Quad Cities, w/ a few years in New Orleans too
he/him
(He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
If I had more time, I would have edited you a shorter video.
Transport Filmmaker : bit.ly/2TBWFsX
#BicyclesRecycle - helping make the world a happier, healthier place to live. With bikes. And #cycling.
Some things in life deserve a second chance. A #bicycle is one that does.
(Bikes are still considered one of the best inventions, ever.)
unofficial fan 🤖 publishing updates about the Chicago transit system. now including the el, cta bus, and metra
for more details, visit https://www.transitchicago.com/alerts/
Petition to Demand A World-Class Chicago Transit System: https://www.change.org/Chicago2100
Advocating for a better tomorrow, one street at a time
Telling the stories of New York’s public transportation and the people who make it possible.
nytransitmuseum.org
We advocate for housing abundance and sustainable, inclusive cities in Illinois.
🏙️ https://abundanthousingillinois.org
One nature photo every single day since July 1st 2022
1300+ consecutive days and counting
Years 1 and 2 in book form
Sharing colour, calm and perspective
No negativity
Geo tech consultant for conservation/ecology. PostGIS, Mapbox, Typescript, React, NestJs, QGIS, DuckDb, AWS/GCP, D3, Angular. Sr Software Engineer
@zevross
Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
Michigander working toward a mode shift in the mitten. OU '19, WSU '22. Views and local transit adventures are my own 🚌 He/him
Blog too: coreyrowe.me
I like collating data,
and getting thoughts in the brain.
All for Public data, Aotearoa New Zealand, and informed communities. #openData #NewZealand #Aotearoa #rstats. He/him.
He tangata tiriti ahau
Sammy (she/her) Chicago-based architecture worker, cyclist, pedestrian, transit rider.
It's what I do.
I make maps, and I grow things.
Climate Smart Coordinator
Senior Planner
Columbia County, NY
- Sustainable Community Planning
- Spatial Analysis
- Less Politics
- More Geo
Chicagoan whose favorite question is, I wonder…
#knowledgemanagement #onlinecommunity #design #learning #digitalworkplace #cmgr #chicago
24 she/her 🏳️⚧️ ✶✶✶✶ pfp by @bbqsamwich.bsky.social
Geographer at UBC; https://blogs.ubc.ca/peck/
transit is the heartbeat of a city 🏙️
✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ || ✈️ 🚴🚊 || he/him || 💙
Chicago. Investigative journalist. Jokes in-between terrors. Co-founder @UnraveledPress.com. Got a tip? Signal is @sheld.01. Email:steve@unraveledpress.com
Official account of Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.
Mentally I’m on the beach
Lib, laugh, love - the sequel
Progress, positivity, point plotting, piano performance, political parties, panel programmes, particular Pennsylvanian pop princess, public ptransit
Report bike lane obstructions with our mobile app from anywhere in the USA & Canada.
BikeLaneUprising.com
Chicago, local government, YIMBY, queer, Texan, Longhorn
🧦🏳️🌈🚰 🤠
he/him
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ It's definitely mostly about the floors. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Active transportation 🚲🚶🚇 • Climate and land use 🌳🌆 • Chicago politics 🌬️ • Dad x2 • Tweets and opinions my own • he/him
Academic admin. Husband & dad. One-time applicant for Chicago Alderman. Love books, history, movies, & architecture. Trying to ween myself off of being Too Online.
Chicagoan (Portage Park), bungalow owner, recovering gamedev (Jaleco, Mindscape, Midway), data engineer, bike/transit advocate(ish) (former NW MBAC), aspiring historian/baker/woodworker, White Sox fan (heavy sigh), music nerd, just zis guy, you know? ✶✶✶✶
Librarian, creative technologist, nonsense enthusiast
📍 Dharug country (Sydney, Australia)
Blog/Shrine to the 2000s internet hannahshelley.neocities.org
Absurd compliment bot https://bsky.app/profile/absurdcompliments.bsky.social
Chicagolander
Transit planner 🚉
World traveler ✈️
Husband 🏳️🌈 and dog dad
Lover of Shark Week 🦈 and chocolate chip cookies 🍪
A European party for the People and the Planet.
Our members: Bloco de Esquerda, Enhedslisten, La France Insoumise, Podemos, Razem, Sinistra Italiana, Socialistische Partij, Vänsterpartiet, Vasemmistoliitto, EH Bildu, Sosialistisk Venstreparti.
Fighting for workers’ rights, climate justice, feminism, peace & human rights. Another Europe is possible!
Bot showing random, recently georeferenced historical maps from https://latest.allmaps.org
Background data: https://openstreetmap.org
Maintainers: @bertspaan.nl @bdon.org
Sokoły is a Polish-American Political and Community organization in Chicago, Il. We believe in Democracy, Socialism, Anti-Imperialism, and Social Justice. 🔗⬇️
https://linktr.ee/sokoly_chi
they 23 chicago
piemadd.com
i program and i work on trains
🎙 Host & Head of UK Content at @tldrnews.bsky.social
📍 Based in London | 🇬🇧 | He/Him
✉️ Email: ben@tldrnews.co.uk
Founder and CEO of TLDR News
The Official Home of TLDR News
Researcher on urban planning and public transportation.
https://marcochitti.substack.com/
the once and future city planner // YIMBY // AICP // kentuckian in california // #BBN // author of hit broadway musical arbitrary lines
Emily
Chicago, IL
she/her
emidly.08 on Signal
chicago common brick lying in a tallgrass prairie | he/they
Chicagoan for sustainability, cultural diversity, & queer rights. She/her/hers 🚲🐶🌳🌻🌈🌊🍻🚉🏕️♻️
You spent the first five years trying to get with the plan and the next five years trying to be with your friends again.
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Expert in Illinois counties. Acting State Symbologist (self-appointed). Libraries, Lincoln, nature, architecture, transit. Book my library programs & get my newsletter at johnkokoris.com!
Academic advisor and instructor at the University of Illinois. Former City of Champaign Zoning Administrator. Various roles APA-IL. Bikes, buses, trains, and walking.
Working for Chicago’s bars, breweries, restaurants, and music venues morning, noon, and night.
Also Chicago’s leading source of state and local government procedure jokes.
Madison, WI. - Professional destroyer of software. Sewer Socialist. Queer geek. Wannabe polyglot. Car avoider/Walker/Cyclist/Transit Enthusiast. 🦩🍻 same handle on Fedi @urbanists.social and (formerly) Xitter...
chicagoan, architect, cyclist, urbanist
Chicago
Red/purple line enthusiast
Progressive
Occasional map maker
he/him
The Regional Transportation Authority is the unit of local government charged with regional financial & budgetary oversight for CTA, Metra, and Pace.
Ideal city: ⚛️ nuclear-powered, 🏙️ dense housing, 💰 affordable, 🚇 transit. Aka Chicago.
Posting about those things here, and trying to make them better IRL.
AKA ninjadude752
Opinions are my own, and do not represent any group.
Go hawks!
President of Northern Illinois Urban Activists
https://linktr.ee/northilurbanactivists
Transit researcher in Berlin. Lived in Tel Aviv, Singapore, the Riviera, New York, Providence, Vancouver, Stockholm, Paris. https://pedestrianobservations.com/ http://patreon.com/alonlevy alon@pedestrianobservations.com @alon@mastodon.social
Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him
"We know this world is good enough because it has to be."
Even a crooked regime wants an honest accountant.
Certified urban planner. Letter "B" love: Books, Bikes, Beer, Bowling, Bocce. Malort.
Historian of Poland and CEE in the world based in Warsaw, Poland. Might be the odd political skeet here and there. Private views
Polish football views from the capital city Warsaw with a bit of Reading FC. Czasami piszę po polsku 🇵🇱
Chicago. Transportation law, policy, and technology mostly. Senior Advisor, Metropolitan Planning Council. Views my own. One ticket, one timetable, one network....
Old Red Balls himself. Can’t bat, bowl or catch. Occasional IPad cricket artist. Proud Whinging Pom and member of Fender’s Tailenders
https://linktr.ee/WG_RumblePants #cricket
I like trains. Opinions mine. he/him
blog: https://homesignalblog.wordpress.com/
Chicago, zoning, transportation, maps
volunteer for Drake: https://www.mobilize.us/drakefor10/
my blog: http://stevencanplan.com
my business: http://chicagocityscape.com
cofounder of @chi.streetsblog.org
big fan of women and trains
she/it
Chicago
